Alexander Coggin
@AlexanderCoggin
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photographer, A TRUE JOY
London
Joined July 2012
Merlin Sheldrake, the author of the best-selling book “Entangled Life,” wants us to appreciate the “ecological connective tissue, the living seam by which much of the world is stitched into relation”: Fungi.
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A vast fungal web braids together life on Earth. Merlin Sheldrake wants to help us see it.
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Section two of Allen Ginsberg's Howl performed by photographic lumps of flesh. You have to see this. Moloch! Moloch! Our data whose body is a prison of light! Moloch! Mind pulsing to life! Moloch! Child of man! Moloch! Profane cathedrals of data burning in the night!
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“Someone told us it was a three-hour wait, but it was nearly nine hours,” said one woman who spent the night in the queue to see the Queen’s coffin. “It was a long trek, but honestly worth it,” she added. “Great woman, wasn’t she?”
newyorker.com
On Monday morning, Hyde Park was like a sombre festival ground as masses gathered to pay their final respects.
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Is there anyone in London taking better photos than @AlexanderCoggin? This one was for the New Yorker
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“We Didn’t Start the Fire” is “Getting Married Today” for straight people
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men act insane bc they aren’t eating sandwiches on steel beams anymore
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Out of the lockdown daily walk comes Neighbourhood Watch, @AlexanderCoggin and @ACharlotteRay's series of photographs exploring the weirdness of the pandemic-induced perspectival shift. See more photos and read an interview with Alexander and Alice here: https://t.co/WMYSFr9mjV
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It’s actually simple: If you can feel pride in things you didn’t personally take part in, then you can feel shame in things you didn’t personally take part in. Some of you are motivated to make this hard, but it’s only hard bc you want the glory of our history but not the burden.
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Year of the Ear: @AlexanderCoggin’s ear portraits celebrate the variety of society > https://t.co/TB3h0p7442
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What's extraordinary about capitalism is that it produces apocalypse and then tries to sell itself as the only reasonable solution to apocalypse.
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my tail is blurry. and my feets. are a tippy tappin
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graphic designers will have creative block because they couldn’t go to Japan this year :’(
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Billionaires need the working class. The working class does not need billionaires.
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