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Melanie Letore

Week 3 – Mountains and seas

I am re-reading Barjavel's "La nuit des temps" (The Ice People) - a 1960s sci-fi novel about a French expedition which discovers the remains of a lost civilisation from 900 000 years ago, buried under hundreds of metres of ice. This book made an impression on me when I read it as a teenager. I had a detached curiosity about…
September 4, 2017
Melanie Letore

Week 2 – back in Geneva

I saw Josée one more time before leaving for home. She was scanning her negatives from her trip to Taiwan earlier this year. I felt very lucky to listen to her reflections on her own work. The following day, I took a flight back home. Having two homes / Avoir deux "chez-soi"   I went on a hike through the gorges…
August 29, 2017
Josee Pedneault

Day 15 – Vieques

Anonymous. Vieques photo archives. The history of Vieques ever since Spanish colonization is a history of struggle and resistance. Located off the coast of Puerto Rico in the Caribbean, Vieques is one of the United States unincorporated territory, a status vague enough as to open the door for colonial-type of abuses. As a matter of fact, in 1945, the US…
August 27, 2017
Josee Pedneault

Day 14 – Home made micro self published collective book

Mohammed and Rago undertook a partial translation of the book "From Dictatorship to Democracy" in Amharic and Arabic. A second meeting of the workshop « Other Libraries » took place at the CCA with a wonderful group of international participants, mostly coming from East Africa and the Middle East, who are currently seeking asylum in the UK. We were using flatbed scanners…
August 26, 2017
Josee Pedneault

Day 13 – Mailboat / Bateau-postal

Being isolated, the St. Kildan islanders developed a unique way to get messages to the mainland. They would craft a small boat-shape device inside which they could place a letter. The boat was sealed using lead-based paste, and attached to a buoy made out of a sheep stomach or other floating device. They would launch the apparatus into the sea,…
August 25, 2017