✍️ LTE: In Support of Tara Gregory, Shawn Brandt, & Sarah McLaughlin
Dear Editor and fellow Reading residents,
I’m writing today in support of Tara Gregory for Select Board and in support of Shawn Brandt and Sarah McLaughlin for School Committee in the upcoming March 5 town election. What these three candidates have in common is respect for fellow board members and their constituents. It is so important that town leaders can work collaboratively with each other…
A photograph fulfils my deep need to stop things disappearing. In photography I have tried to create order out of chaos, to find stability in flux and beauty in the most unlikely places.
- Dorothy Bohm
Dorothy Bohm was one of the last doyennes of post-war British photography; in a career spanning eight decades, she befriended photographers from Bill Brandt to Martin Parr, helped to develop the Photographers’ Gallery in London and created a large body of humanistic work characterised by a peripatetic lifestyle and an empathetic eye for women and children at work and play.
Her photographs - often full of joy and serenity - belied a life scarred by tragedy. As a Jewish teenager, born in Königsberg, in East Prussia, during the 1930s, she had grown up in the shadow of the Nazi threat. Eventually, for safety, she was sent to join her brother in Britain. However her family were separated by the war. She did not see her parents or younger sister again for two decades: they were taken by the Soviets and her father incarcerated in a harsh labour camp in Siberia.
At the end of the war, Dorothy opened a portrait studio in Manchester. But she soon outgrew the sterility of such photographs. By the late 1950s she rejected studio portraiture for so-called ‘street photography.’ With her husband Louis Bohm (a fellow émigré from Nazi Europe, whom she met when they were both students in Manchester) she travelled widely, and her work of this period provides fascinating insights into the changing face of post-war Europe, as well as the USA, the USSR and Israel.
It was here she found her true place in the art of photography. Her photographs captured everyday interludes often of the working classes: women at fruit and flower stalls in Switzerland and Belgium, resting shoppers in Cordoba, street market browsers on Petticoat Lane Market in London and concierges on a break in the Marais. The men in her pictures were largely benign figures: racing punters at Goodwood, poor struggling painters in Montmartre in the 1950s.
She is known for her black and white photography but she only truly turned to colour polaroid photos in the 1980s. But what remained central was the human figure in its natural setting is still the primary focus of her work and she continues to use photography in its purest, un-manipulated form, her approach had become more painterly and allusive, with an ever greater interest in spatial and other forms of ambiguity.
She had her first solo show in 1969 at the ICA, where her exhibition, “People at Peace”, was juxtaposed with “The Destruction Business”, a selection of Don McCullin’s war photography. Her first photobook, A World Observed, was published the following year.
Her photographic output decreased during the 1970s as she helped to build the reputation of the Photographers’ Gallery, which opened in 1971 in a former Lyons Tea Room in Covent Garden. As an associate director for 15 years, she worked on exhibitions of veteran snappers and emerging talents such as Sarah Moon and Colin Jones. She photographed well into her 90s, often around her neighbourhood in Hampstead, continuing to capture quiet, dignified moments. A photograph, she said, “makes transience less painful”.
In her later years, Dorothy Bohm reflected that England had been her salvation. “It’s the best country, I can tell you that, and I’ve lived in a number of them,” she noted, “Why? Because of the people.” Photography for her, as she would confess in countless interviews, was essentially a coping mechanism for loss, “I am temperamentally suited to being a photographer. You can only make a picture of something that exists, right? And for me that was quite important. I wanted to capture time. My background completely disappeared.”
I've seen quite a few live shows and I have thoughts on all of them, but instead of sharing them, I'm just going to rank them from my favorite to least favorite:
La Bayadere: Viktoria Tereshkina and Kimin Kim
Giselle: Svetlana Zakharova and David Hallberg
La Bayadere: Ekaterina Kondaurova and Timur Askerov
Raymonda: Ekaterina Kondaurova and Danila Korsuntsev
Don Quixote: Marianela Nunez and Carlos Acosta
Le Corsaire: Ekaterina Kondaurova, Andrey Ermakov, Kimin Kim
Paquita: Viktoria Tereshkina and Timur Askerov
Swan Lake: Devon Teuscher and Marcelo Gomes
Raymonda: Oksana Skorik and Timur Askerov
Giselle: Skylar Brandt and Joo Won An
Don Quixote: Skylar Brandt and Herman Cornejo
Romeo and Juliet: Gillian Murphy and James Whiteside
The Nutcracker: Mariko Sasaki, William Bracewell, Isabella Gasparini, and James Hay
Giselle: Gillian Murphy and Thomas Forester
Swan Lake: Isabella Boylston and Alban Lendorf
Swan Lake: Devon Teuscher and Aran Bell
Giselle: Elizaveta Gogidze and Olekseii Kniazkov
Little Humpbacked Horse: Anastasia Kolegova and Maxim Zyuzin
Sleeping Beauty: Sarah Lane and Herman Cornejo
Paquita: Nadezhda Batoeva and Xander Parish
Harlequinade: Skylar Brandt and Daniil Simkin
Whipped Cream: Sarah Lane and Daniil Simkin
Le Corsaire: Maria Khoreva, Konstantin Zverev, and Kimin Kim
Paquita: Maria Khoreva and Konstantin Zverev
I think I got them all lol. I didn't include non-ballet performances such as Bourne's Swan Lake, Alvin Ailey, and Riverdance.
Aaron Rose Philip | Abbey Mag | Adelayo Adedayo | Adele Oni | Adella Afadi | Adepero Oduye | Adina Porter | Aesha Ash | Afton Williamson | Aïssa Maïga | Aja Naomi King | Ajak Deng | Akiima | Akon Changkou | Alexandra Arboleda | Alfre Woodard | Aliet Sarah | Alisha White | Allison Dean | Alysia Rogers | Amanda Warren | Amandla Jahava | Amber Gray | Amber Riley | Amber Ruffin | Andrea Bordeaux | Anesha Bailey | Angel Haze | Angel Theory | Angelica Joy | Angelica Ross | Angelique Noire | Angely Gaviria | Aniela Gumbs | Ann Ogbomo | Ann Wolfe | Anna Diop | Anne Amari | Antoinette Robertson | Ashleigh Morghan | Ashleigh Murray | Ashley Blaine Featherson | Ashley Romans | Asjha Cooper | Assa Sylla | Aube Jolicoeur | Aude Legastelois | Aunjanue Ellis | Awar Mou | Aweng Chuol | Ayisha Issa | Ayo Edebiri
At some point, I decided to separate the BFCDDSD by alphabet, and since I’m doing a bit of housekeeping today 8/13/23, I’ma go ahead and drop this “A” placeholder.
As of 11/30/23, I am going to try to finally get these situated.
* 𝐀𝐍𝐎𝐍𝐘𝐌𝐎𝐔𝐒 𝐀𝐒𝐊𝐄𝐃 : Can your members reply with their most wanted female charrie and fc????
they absolutely can, but since today is going to be a difficult day to get a large variety of answers from people, i’m going to take a guess that canons most wanted at the minute are going to be andromeda tonks, aurora sinistra, gabrielle delacour, angelina johnson, tracey davis, katie bell and cho chang ! similarly, so you’re not hanging around for very long, the most recent list of most wanted face claims was : zaria, tati gabrielle, summer bishil, erin kellyman, meaghan rath, karla souza, dichen lachman, richa moorjani, jodie comer, khadijha red thunder, jasmin savoy brown, leah lewis, diana silvers, shay mitchell, lucy boynton, ayca aysin turan, nadia hilker, hunter schafer, chloe bridges, zoe love smith, jung wheein, maria pedraza, milly alcock, lauren ridloff, kang seulgi, katheryn winnick, simone ashley, milena tscharntke, gideon adlon, mina el hammani, marlo kelly, christina ricci, emmy raver lampman, kiana madeira, dilraba dilmurat, sofia boutella, beren saat, anna shaffer, ahsen eroglu, mikey madison, alisha boe, lucy liu, reina hardesty, samantha logan, precious mustapha, roseanne park, ritu arya, karen fukuhara, bailee madison, ahn hyejin, tahirah sharif, conor leslie, zion moreno, jessica plummer, taylor russell, madison bailey, barbie ferreira, nathalie emmanuel, vanessa kirby, lyrica okano, hannah john kamen, geraldine viswanathan, jamie chung, neslihan atagul, jurnee smollett, sofia bryant, sarah shahi, hayley law, zazie beetz, priscilla quintana, demet ozdemir, sophie nelisse, lulu antariksa, aisha dee, madeleine madden, salma hayek, adeline rudolph, lesley ann brandt, amber midthunder, greta onieogou, aja naomi king, maggie q, morena baccarin, daisy head, gugu mbatha raw, ursula corbero, natacha karam, brenda song, michelle yeoh, savannah lee smith, hoyeon jung, charithra chandran, amita suman, brianne tju, fan bingbing, sujaya dusgupta, eve best, candice patton, sophie skelton, alba baptista, christian serratos, anna diop, odette annable, danielle rose russell, keke palmer, maya hawke, chandler kinney, antonia gentry, natalia dyer, megan suri, devery jacobs, sofia carson, aslihan malbora, sun yihan, park sooyoung, gemma chan, banita sandhu and alice pagani !
#SLAETALES : independent, selective and mutuals only writing blog for MULTIPLE CANON & ORIGINAL MUSES from the BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER / ANGEL THE SERIES fandom. all characters have been created around both canon and personal headcanons. tortured regularly by hope. this is a sideblog to my hub @theirlives and all follows back (as well as reblogging of open memes) will come from that blog.
i. GSITES. ii. MEMES. iii. BLOGROLL.
mobile - friendly muse list under the cut :
angel/us, main. — fc: david boreanaz
anne steele, main. — fc: emily van camp
buffy summers, main. — fc: sarah michelle gellar
connor angel, main. — fc: matthew daddario
dana, main. — fc: lesley ann brandt
daniel (oz) osborne, main. — fc: seth green
daniel holtz, main. — fc: karl urban
faith lehane, main. — fc: eliza dushku
graham miller, main. — fc: jon bernthal
kate lockley, main. — fc: elisabeth rohm
riley finn, main. — fc: marc blucas
robin wood, main. — fc: db woodside
anya jenkins, secondary. — fc: emma caulfield
charles gunn, secondary. — fc: j. august richards
darla, secondary. — fc: julie benz
dawn summers, secondary. — fc: michelle tratchenberg
glory, secondary. — fc: clare kramer
harmony kendall, secondary. — fc: mercedes mcnab
rupert giles, secondary. — fc: anthony stewart head
spike, secondary. — fc: james marsters
tara maclay, secondary. — fc: amber benson
wesley wyndam-pryce, secondary. — fc: alexis denisof
winifred burkle, secondary. — fc: amy acker
willow rosenberg, secondary. — fc: alyson hannigan
ethan rayne, tertiary. — fc: sebastian roche
jesse mcnally, tertiary. — fc: jacob elordi
the first evil, tertiary. — fc: undetermined
larry blaisdell, tertiary. — fc: barry keoghan
Hello lovely person!! <3 May I please ask for some POC female faceclaims? Who have those bad bitch vibes, strong and alluring, please? Thank you so much for your kindness <3 :)
hi hi! I'm not sure what age range you want so here's a variety for you: emmy raver-lampman, danai gurira, lupita nyong'o, angela bassett, ritu arya, anya chalotra, michelle yeoh, gina torres, ming-na wen, maggie q, dichen lachman, summer bishil, meaghan rath, sarah shahi, nathanlie emmanuel, kylie bunbury, meagan tandy, leslie-ann brandt, gugu n'batha-raw, diane guerrero, candice patton, mame-anna diop, angela sarfyan, katrina law, melissa o’neil, alyssa diaz, adria arjona, vanessa morgan, khadija red thunder, amber midthunder, ciara renee, maisie richardson-sellers, tati gabrielle, jaine lee ortiz, barrett doss, daniella alonso, gemma chan, merle dandridge, janina gavankar, lucy liu, grace park, lana parilla, jenna dewan, elodie yung, oona chaplin, nathalie kelley, chase sui wonders, adeline rudolph, brianne tju, devery jacobs, indira varma, jeanine mason, aja naomi king!