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Tierney Gearon Photography Tierney Gearon Photography - Home - Creator of The Alphabet Book. Photography & Culture. Shirin Neshat. Kenyatabks. Danielle Jenkins. Martine fougeron photographs the most compelling teens ever: her sons. What if your mum was in the jacuzzi with you after prom?

martine fougeron photographs the most compelling teens ever: her sons

Photographer Martine Fougeron photographed her sons in that very moment, along with many others, in her powerful body of work 'Teen Tribe.' Soon to be released as a book with Steidl, Martine's intimate photographs show her sons and their friends eating, bathing, joking, reading, smoking, flirting, and sleeping. Fougeron lives in a part of the Bronx that requires a full page of directions to find, including the line: 'You go downhill under the dreadful Bruckner Boulevard (worst part).' She has lived in a beautiful house in this fringy neighbourhood with her sons Nicolas and Adrien for six years. Along with their previous place in the West Village and a summer spot in the south of France, this is where she's photographed their complex, emotional, swaggering adolescence.

At first she resisted the project, worried that the topic would marginalise her. But she sees positivity in the discomfort around certain pictures. The Painted Veil. I first saw this film a few months after its release.

The Painted Veil

It came up as a recommendation on Netflix, probably because I'd displayed a passion for historical pieces. What arrived on the disc was an historical piece with far more passion than I'd expected and it's a film that has sat with me ever since. It's one of those that I have to avoid when looking for something to watch for a few minutes over a meal because I know I'll sit there to the end.

Sometimes I do, anyway. I've never read the Somerset Maughm novel that it's based upon nor have I seen the two earlier film adaptations. First and foremost, it's the performance of the two leads, Naomi Watts and Edward Norton, that makes the film go. The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use To Change The World. By Films For Action / filmsforaction.org/ Jun 10, 2015 Documentaries have an incredible power to raise awareness and create transformative changes in consciousness both at the personal and global levels.

The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use To Change The World

Over the last 8 years, we've watched hundreds of social change documentaries and cataloged the best of them on the site. There's now so many that we realized we needed to filter this down even further. So what follows is our list of the very best 100 - hand-picked for their quality, insight and potential to inspire positive change. All of the films have been selected because they are either free to watch online, or can be rented online.

Did we miss anything really good? Floristry School - flower arranging, floristry distance learning. When to pick flowers.

Floristry School - flower arranging, floristry distance learning

How to condition them for the longest possible life. The use of preservatives. How to treat woody stems. How to seal the ends of certain stems. Special treatments for camellias, orchids, roses, violets, water lilies and gardenias. Freestyle Floral Designs. Tools Needed. Florist Accessories. The Various Styles of Flower Arranging. Latest Contemporary Floral Designs. The Rules of Balance and Proportion. ياعين ياليل ياعين ياليل. Lana Šlezić Photographer. Gig Guide - The Drunken Poet. A nuns duty painting. e1103d7fa246fc1fa9feb2eeddde6374.jpg (JPEG Image, 1189 × 800 pixels) - Scaled (86%) 05_austin-hitchcock_parlor_IMG_2899.jpg (JPEG Image, 802 × 535 pixels) Kristen and Siya's Enchanted Weddinghopscotchtheglobe.com.

Tafelmusik - Melbourne Recital Centre. Details The Baroque era comes alive.

Tafelmusik - Melbourne Recital Centre

The Baroque era comes alive through this stunning exploration of music, art and drama. Alison Mackay has woven together a magical journey, where audiences can step into the world of Bach and Vivaldi by ‘visiting’ five historic European houses. Exquisitely detailed projected images of salons and paintings, a narrator, and beautiful music from Tafelmusik, the leading international period-instrument orchestra, combine for an unforgettable event.

Please note there will be a Meet the Artists session in the Ground Floor Foyer following the Saturday 21 February performannce at approximately 9pm and a CD Signing in the Ground Floor Foyer following the Tuesday 24 February performannce at approximately 9pm. Presented by Musica Viva HANDEL Music from Theodora and selections from Concerti grossi Opp 3 & 6 VIVALDI Selections from the instrumental Concerti SWEELINCK Engelse Fortuyn PURCELL Fantasia in Three Parts Upon a Ground MARAIS Suite from Alcyone Series Musica Viva. Alma-Tadema_The-Soldier-of-Marathon.jpg (JPEG Image, 665 × 1000 pixels) Ashurbanipal by Damnans on deviantART.