TOM CLARK: The other way around (Der Untergang des Abendlandes)

Thursday, 6 July 2017

The other way around (Der Untergang des Abendlandes)

#China A man uses his phone on the observation floor of a high-rise commercial building in Hong Kong. Photo @AntAFP #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 6 July 2017

Oswald Spengler: Der Untergang des Abendlandes (The Decline of the West), first edition cover: C.H. Beck Verlag, München, 1922: image by Perceval, 2005

#realDonaldTrump and First Lady Melania Trump arrive Warsaw, Poland: image via Stephen Crowley @Stcrow, 5 July 2017

#realDonaldTrumpm President Andrzej Duda of Poland and President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović of Croatia during ThreeSeasInitiative in Warsaw: image via Stephen Crowley @Stcrow, 6July 2017

And the distance between the black stadium and the white building is ...?

An Iraqi Special Forces sniper watches Islamic State positions as Iraqi forces continue their advance in the Old City of Mosul: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 6 July 2017

UN: 20,000 civilians trapped in ISIL-held Mosul areas: image via Al Jazeera News @AJENews, 6 July 2017

#Mosul white flag...: image via Nino Fezza @nfcinereporter, 6 July 2017

#Cambodia A Cambodian woman sleeps at the residential complex known as White Building in Phnom Penh. Photo Tang Chhin Sothy #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 6 July 2017

#Iraq An Iraqi woman, carrying an infant, walks by the destroyed Al-Nuri Mosque as she flees from the Old City of Mosul. Photo Ahmad Al-Rubaye: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 6 July 2017

#Iraq A member of Iraq's Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) advances in the Old City of Mosul during #MosulOffensive. Photo Fadel Senna #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 6 July 2017

Welcome to hell

'Welcome to hell': Thousands of protesters pour into Hamburg, Germany, aiming to disrupt the G20 summit: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 6 July 2017

Police fired water cannons and pepper spray after black-clad #G20 demonstrators threw bottles and other objects: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 6 July 2017

Police use water cannon at G20 protest: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 6 July 2017

A couple kisses in front of a water cannon during clashes between police and anti-#G20 protesters Photo @KPfaffenbach: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 6 July 2017

Very bloody scenes in #Caracas. #Maduro forces stormed the Parliament and attacked the opposition lawmakers. #Venezuela: image via WorldOnAlert @worldonalert 6 July 2017

Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu walks with India's PM Narendra Modi on Olga Beach: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 6 July 2017

There's nothing like going to the beach with friends!: image via Benjamin Netanyahu #netanyahu, 6 July 2017

Israel Diaries... : image via Sowmiya Ashok @sowmiyaashok, 4 July 2017

A civil engineering marvel: image via Ravichandar @ravichandar, 3 July 2017

SYRIA - A Syrian man walks in Aleppo's Kallase industrial neighbourhood. Photo @JOSEPHEID1: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 6 July 2017

SYRIA - A Syrian boy carries a bag filled with bread while on his way home in the Kallaseh district of Aleppo. Photo @JOSEPHEID1:image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 6 July 2017 6 July 2017

6 months after the end of the siege of East #Aleppo, 200K people have returned to the formerly rebel-controlled area. Photo @JOSEPHEID1: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 6 July 2017

At play in the fields of the lords of the air above the black stadium

Photo of the destruction after an airstrike in #Raqqa city: image via Raqqa_SL @Raqqa_SL, 4 July 2017

Monitoring group: US-led coalition air strikes 'killed 224' civilians in Raqqa including 38 children since June: image via Al Jazeera News @AJENews, 6 July 2017

Photos show the destruction in "Baddo" and "Taws'aia" neighborhoods near "The Black Stadium" in #Raqqa city after several airstrikes.: image via Mazen Hassoun @HassounMazen, 5 July 2017

#Raqqa battle is pure horror for the children. Photo shows wounded girl after #US airstrikes: image via WorldOnAlert @worldonalert, 3 July 2017

Convoy of coalition vehicles holding military equipment and vehicles passed Qamishli city going toward #Raqqa: image via Massoud Mohammed @M1Massoud, 6 July 2017

No. of displacements from #Raqqa, #Syria tracked by @CCCMCluster since May 1st has reached 120,878 individuals @coalition: image via Thomas White @ThomasWhiteNRC, 4 July 2017

When explosive weapons were used in populated areas in 2016, 92% of the casualties were civilians: image via AOAV @AOAV, 5 July 2017

The other way around

popularartsandculture | by Nils Jorgensen

popularartsandculture [London]: photo by Nils Jorgensen Street Photography, sometime in 2017

#China A man uses his phone on the observation floor of a high-rise commercial building in Hong Kong. Photo @AntAFP #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 6 July 2017

First you take the 30,000 foot view of things.

Then you get closer.

Then a bit closer.

Then another bit.
Everything flattens.

Then things start to whirl... you back off.

Further.

A bit further.

30,000... 60,000 ...
Then same again

The other way around.

The other way around: photo by Julie Hrudova, 1 July 2017

2017-06-19: photo by torsak panjasuparak, 19 June 2017

[Untitled]: photo by giorgos kasapidis, 22 September 2013

Tai Chung, Lady [Hong Kong]: photo by Edas Wong, 16 June 2017

New York: photo by Thomas Szanto, 30 October 2016

DSC05735: photo by Francesco Luppola, 15 June 2017

metro train going by ... in the mood for another one;) [Moscow]: photo by Alex Naunou, 11 October 2014

[Untitled]: photo by Alexei Yuriev, 11 June 2017

[Untitled]: photo by Yuro De Iullis, 11 May 2015

DSCF0147: photo by Oksana Novoselskaya, 26 June 2017

Haad Rin. Haad Rin beach on Phengan Island, Thailand.: photo by Tomasz Kulbowski, 11 June 2017

Corporate days III. A man quietly reads over the newspaper. Combination of reds and shades. [Emirates Stadium, London]: photo by Guille Ibanez, 25 May 2017