OOTPPL

Changes in colour from one room to another can be handled in various ways. Here, dark, green-touched blues give on to the pale, but related greenish blues of the hallway.

Helen Frik

Suits hung out to dry on the street

Beijing 2007

The "optimist" Max Blecher (Jewish-Romanian, 1909–1938)

Max Blecher was a Romanian writer who produced a series of surrealist, semi-autobiographical novels (including most notably Întâmplări din irealitatea imediată [Adventures in Immediate Unreality] and Inimi cicatrizate [Scarred Hearts]).

At age 19, whilst studying in France, he was diagnosed with Pott's disease, or spinal tuberculosis, which immobilized and eventually killed him nine years later. Photo undated, probably taken around 1930.