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July 2025

Good hair days
I don’t know anyone who doesn’t want different hair: curlier/straighter; fuller/sleeker; platinum blonde/ravenswing black.
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Terry J. Allen
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Dog days
Top/left: Black dog owning the street in southern France; Below/right: white dog by a clay water container rural Laos.
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Terry J. Allen
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So articulate for a ...
113 years later, plus ça change
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Terry J. Allen
5
Industrial beauty
A winery in southern France; a scrap metal yard in Brooklyn.
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Terry J. Allen
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June 2025

Consistency is not always a virtue
Top photo by Dorothea Lange. In 1942, the US government commissioned the War Relocation Authority (WRA) to oversee the roundup and incarceration of…
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Terry J. Allen
5
Eyes on the job
Left/top: MTA employee in a sales/info booth at West 4th St.
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Terry J. Allen
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Bernie reacts to news of US attack
Righteous anger
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Terry J. Allen
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Pax Americana/Peace of the Grave
Again
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Terry J. Allen
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Trumpiness on Parade
Top: Trump merch for sale (irony is free) at a Vermont country fair. Below: Fitting right in at Trump Tower, NYC.
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Terry J. Allen
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The fire this time: Gaza/America
Top: In the wake of an Israeli airstrike, five-year-old Hanin al-Wadie runs through Fahmi al-Jarjawi School in Gaza City, seeking to escape the flames.
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The Sacklers will see you now
From the waiting room
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