References, interesting quotes, diary moments, and thoughts along the way
The oddness of normality in Odessa
You can never be quite sure in Odessa what might be round the next corner. It is a city where the extraordinary seems quite normal, so that you start not to notice it. Something passes by that you barely glance at, but afterwards you do a double-take: 'Did that just happen?'
Echo from summer, at the Hydropark, Kherson, Ukraine
This boy was running about as fast (it felt like) as the motor boat. I thought he'd blacked out my frame when I pressed the shutter, but, no the photo was taken a fraction of a moment earlier. The difference between having a photo, and having a blurry blob of a waster frame.
