exhibition poster: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Finding_Vivian_Maier.jpg - originally uploaded to Flickr by user Chicagogeek; edited by me; used under the CC-by-SA-2.0 license.
together with A Random Day,
Taffeta, and
TyGently we are presenting cool new make up a guy for wander library make up a guy contest
guy is "Iris L. Fall", photojournalist extraordinaire
she can reach into photo and touch thing
i guess a plain english writing guide is in order:
- there is a war in a city in eastern europe, somewhere
- iris is writing from the past as well as the present and moves between them through the photos
- be sensitive to stillness. be sensitive to space and light. the photograph differs from film in that it is an invitation to imagine what came before, and what after. this should influence the writer's sense of time, how events occur and flow, how characters move in and out of her story
- do not think too carefully about the details of the war. even its true shape is not known to its generals, much less its soldiers. what her images do is give it shape and form.
- reading list ref: Timothy Findley's The Wars (thanks TyGently for the recommendation), Amal el-Mohtar and Matthew Gladstone's This is How You Lose The Time War, Ilya Kaminsky's Deaf Republic, China Mieville's The City and The City, ZA/UM's Disco Elysium, and John Berger's essays on photography (Sontag's valid, but she's a little too jocular for this setting).
photograph aesthetics: basically think black-and-white Pulitzer-winning coverage from revolutions in obscure countries. here's an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Aid_from_the_Padre.jpg
oh and citations at the bottom of the page link to the tales; citation format is Chicago. time frame of the Zrynowycz war is the seventies, whatever she writes about it comes after. try to stick to indie presses and collected essays; maybe the occasional renegade journal; the point is that she's never really gotten a following until near the end of her life when the wave of cult attention reaches a peak in the rest of the world
lastly feel free to butcher the names of the other months; i dont really have a language for this other than vaguely Polish so just do it like The City and The City or Disco Elysium did and play it by ear.
don't worry about the shape of the war.