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Around The Horn
29 September 2026
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at flooded Bangkok, vanishing Japan, helicopter crash site, Sara Meneses Cuapio, Valentina Sinis, the Hunters Point Shipyard Crane and an external Golden Gate boot disk.
- Reuters has 28 photos of Flooded Bangkok as daily life continues, sometimes playfully, for the residents.
- Vanishing Japan is a new book of images documenting the decline of statement architecture in the country. It focuses on 90 buildings demolished since 2000.
- Associated Press photographer Ethan Swope covered the news helicopter crash in Los Angeles with a drone to capture a Powerful Crash Photograph. "The ability to get above the site allowed us to see the remains of the helicopter and view what was impossible from the ground," he writes. "I made the composition intentionally straight-down. I wanted to focus on just the crash so as to not be distracted by the surroundings."
- Heidi Volpe interviews Sara Meneses Cuapio about her project Calling the Water. "With a background in craft design, art history and social anthropology and photographic training at Centro de la Imagen in Mexico, Sara brings these disciplines together in a practice rooted in place, memory and inherited knowledge," she writes.
- In The Last Butterflies, Marigold Warner interviews Italian photographer Valentina Sinis, who spent two weeks with the Women's Protection Forces, the all-female unit of the Kurdistan Free Life Party. "From the first moment, my aim was to show the connection between the women, the fact that they genuinely believe in what they're doing and how much solidarity there is," Sinis says.
- Julie Zigoris details how the Hunters Point Shipyard Crane became a colossal art installation. "The gantry crane at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard is the most famous San Francisco landmark you never think about=," she writes. "On Oct.9, the crane will become the centerpiece of a 40-minute, multi-sensory light show, one that took several years and multiple grants to realize."
- Howard Oakley explains how to Create an External Boot Disk in Golden Gate. There are three principles to observe, two of which can cause problems.
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