Myra Hindley by Marcus Harvey

The Travellers

An exhibition of thirty postmortem portraits by photographer Elizabeth Heyert. Shot in a Harlem funeral parlor, Heyert’s nearly life-size color photographs evolved from her fascination with the practice of some members of the Harlem community, people with traditional ties to their church and to their Southern roots, of elaborately dressing corpses for burial. No matter the circumstances of their life, or death, the departed are, in one undertaker’s words, “going to the party”—jubilantly dressed in satin dresses, white suits, tuxedos, and magnificent hats, for their journey to paradise.

http://www.houkgallery.com/heyert-travellers/heyert.html

After 35 years in the United States Foreign Service, Charles O. Cecil retired to devote himself to photography and writing. He first became interested in gum arabic while serving as ambassador to Niger, where local businessmen are working to increase gum-arabic exports. Here's a great story on the histroy and importance of gummi arabicum.

http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200502/gum.arabic.htm

Tunguska

On June 30th, 1908, something exploded 8 km above the Stony Tunguska river. About 2150 square kilometres of Siberian taiga were devastated and 80 millions trees were overthrown. Check out http://www-th.bo.infn.it/tunguska/