In this first extract from Exeme, Claudia is on her way back to School for her senior year. After an unfortunate accident, she arrives at The Poplars’ gates in the back of a patrol car. Jack The Cop calls in on his radio, tells the dispatcher he’s going to drop me off at The Poplars. […]
Tag: 2010s
Tooth and Claw
Science outside the classroom: unsentimental lessons in Biology. Here in the countryside the students get to see nature in all its tough, unromantic glory. Images © Kate Carpenter www.katecarpenter.com
The Observer Observed
With my camera, I am used to being the one that watches. And yet, here, I feel as though I am the one being watched. Images © Kate Carpenter www.katecarpenter.com
“There will be rose and rhododendron…”
Spring flowers at the Poplars. So cheerful from a distance; so unearthly up close. Images © Kate Carpenter www.katecarpenter.com
Letters Home #2
Babe, You would not believe what I have had to do to get this to you. First, write it, like, actually scratch on paper with my hands and a sticky black ballpoint because there’s no way you can use the computers here to type anything you don’t want the teachers to see. Hens. We call […]
HISTORY: Gilbey & Sons Photographers, Part 1
Aloysius Gilbey, gentleman scientist, was a contemporary of Edgar Forbs, although he was educated overseas, in Germany. The two men shared an interest in chemistry, although Aloysius was concerned that his friend focused on the esoteric rather than the scientific. Throughout the 1840s they visited one another regularly, sharing their thoughts on the latest papers […]