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Essays on place, culture and the spaces in between.

Unfamiliar Familiarity
Place Joel Beighton Place Joel Beighton

Unfamiliar Familiarity

Familiar unfamiliarity is often a feature of travel. A trip to New York turns a lifetime of television and film into reality. Manhattan becomes a walking set of “wasn’t this in…” and “isn’t that where…”. Paris and Rome carry a different kind of recognition, the inherited romanticism of the Seine or the Trevi Fountain, places we feel we already know long before we arrive.

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