Jason Eskenazi – Departure Lounge

Departure Lounge is the third book in Jason Eskenazi’s trilogy on contemporary fairy tales. Unlike the first two books, I bought this one myself rather than receiving it from the Charcoal Book Club, which delivered Black Garden, the second book, in 2019, and a second edition copy of Wonderland in 2020, and I bought it just to have the whole trilogy. The other two are signed, so it’s not a matching set, but like Wonderland my copy of Departure Lounge has greasy handprints on the cardboard cover, so, taken together, they sorta match…

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Jason Eskenazi – ‘Wonderland’

Charcoal Book Club is a wonderful thing… after delivering Jason Eskenazi‘s Black Garden in May, 2019 (reviewed here in February 2020, where I half-lamented being unable and unwilling to cough up the $800+ for a copy of the first volume of his trilogy), they (Charcoal) went and delivered, and in August, 2020 a signed, second edition copy of Wonderland: a Fairytale of the Soviet Monolith arrived on my doorstep. Win!

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Arkansas 2021 – Pinholes (2) & Panoramas (2)a

As with most of the cameras I took to Arkansas in April, 2021, I shot two rolls through the excellent little Minolta Freedom Vista (aka Riva Panorama): one of Lomography Color 400, with which I had great difficulty color correcting, and I don’t know why; the other of FPP Retrochrome 400, which was easy…

First up: the strangely colored Lomo Color 400:

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Arkansas 2021 – Pinholes (2) & Panoramas (1)

Some advice: should you decide to shoot a bunch of slide film on some pinhole cameras in a scenic place, maybe leave the 4×5 and that box of Astia at home…

Maybe.

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