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#14 from Elizabethton, TN

#23 from Portland, OR

#22 from Huntington Woods, MI

#21 from Roscoe Village, Chicago, IL

(I also got a dirty one from Australia! You know what I’m talking abut.)

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#10 from Ann Arbor, MI

#27 from Logan Square, Chicago

#26 from Hastings, NE

and #19 from downtown Chicago

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#24 from Albany Park, Chicago, IL

#6 from San Francisco, CA

BYE

(I am still waiting on some photos, and will keep updating when they come in.)

One to stand for thirty-one

A month of creative work.
A single post.
To each day, that day’s demands.

It’s good to be among you.

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#24

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#22

Marianna’s photo for January 31

Finally, one more scene from Marta’s library in Moscow: here she is with a photocopy machine for public use, unheard of in Soviet times. Photocopy machines were seen as serious threats to the Soviet state because information was controlled from the top, and these machines allowed who knows how many people access to who knows what. So to see a photocopy machine in public space, for public use, is a real statement of change.

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Number 3 from Madison, WI

Number 16 from Lincoln, NE

 

 

Number 30

Number 29

Marianna’s photo for January 30

Moscow neighborhood public library, early 1990s. Marta, the library director, is standing by a most unusual collection: telephone books from Russian cities. In Soviet times information was guarded carefully, and telephone numbers were hard to get. Now, in post-Soviet Russia, librarians like Marta were eager to put all the information they could before their users.

Marianna’s photo for January 29

Before I finish the month with Russia, let me throw in one more photo from Haiti. This is a fairly typical example of Port-au-Prince housing in the 1990s. It looks like an earthquake or a hurricane hit this street, but no–this is just the way many people live, even in relatively good times….

Number 28

Number 27

skull #13

indai ink on paper, 9" x 12"

skull #12

india ink on paper, 12" x 9"

Regina K

Marianna’s photo for January 28

In 1992, soon after the collapse of the Soviet Union, I attended a session at a conference held in Moscow. You see the sign for the conference: “The KGB, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow.” At the session an audience of former dissidents, survivors of the Gulag, human rights activists, hurled angry questions and comments at former members of the KGB, the dreaded Soviet secret police. The audience was dressed in jeans and leather jackets. The panelists wore well-cut European suits. Disorienting!