Month: September 2026
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Le Fondateur: Da Empoli’s Return from Analysis to Fiction
Giuliano da Empoli’s new novel Le Fondateur explores surveillance, tech power, and institutional control. Releasing October 2026 from Gallimard. Essential reading.
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Julia Margaret Cameron: 5 Radical Portraits of Genius
Julia Margaret Cameron took up photography at 48 and made the most daring portraits of the Victorian era. See 5 key works, her soft-focus style and legacy.
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Gustave Le Gray: The Photographer Who Mastered Light and Paper
Gustave Le Gray (1820–1884) made photography an art: waxed-paper negatives, the 1851 Mission héliographique and seascapes printed from two negatives.
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William Henry Fox Talbot: The Genius Who Invented Photography
William Henry Fox Talbot invented the negative/positive process behind modern photography. Inside his calotype breakthrough, The Pencil of Nature, and his landmark images.
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Stephen Bayley on What Makes Design Last
Design critic Stephen Bayley on the everyday objects that outlast decades, and where AI-generated design still falls short.
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Five Things Worth Remembering
Five things worth remembering: on respect, small things, quiet, care, and slowing down.