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Benjamin Constant - Empress Theodora (1887)

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Richard Misrach, Hazardous Waste Containment Site, Dow Chemical Corporation, Mississippi River, Plaquemine, LA, 1998-2012

Byzantine Church of Saint Theodora with 17 big trees on its roof. Vastas, Greece. 11th c.

to the other side.

These heartbreaking and incredibly moving images show the affection and love shown during the height of the Aids crisis. Photographer Gideon Mendel’s project The Ward began in 1993 when he spent a number of weeks on the Charles Bell wards in London’s Middlesex Hospital. All the patients on the ward were dying with the knowledge that there was no cure for the disease. During this time antiretroviral medications were not available and patients on the ward faced the prospect of an early death.

But in the meantime, seriously: friends and cousins, back yourselves up.

Orthodox nuns without veil after getting tonsured.

from heavy snow.

All costumes made by Agnieszka Osipa.