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Kirby Meets Kirby

Monday, August 27 marks 100 years since the birth of Marvel universe co-creator Jack Kirby. Coincidentally, August 2017 also marks 25 years since Nintendo released Kirby’s Dream Land in the US. Naturally, I couldn’t help but imagine what would happen if the two met…

Relics of the Cold War by Martin Roemers

The Cold War is over — yet signs of it still exist. For forty years the Iron Curtain divided the countries of Europe into East and West. The arms race was unleashed, nuclear fallout shelters were constructed, and everyone braced for the worst. Martin Roemers has spent ten years in search of the traces of this period, traveling through the countries of former enemies on both sides of the line. He explored and documented underground tunnels, abandoned system control centers, former barracks, rotting tanks, and destroyed monuments. His photographs, which are presented here with essays by H.J.A. Hofland and Nadine Barth, are a stark and moving document of this era of hostility, deterrence politics, and the arms race — and also serve as an appeal for future peace.

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