Field Notes · Ilse Varga

Slow photographs from the edges of the map.

I walk, I look, I write a little. This is where the film rolls and the notebook pages end up — mostly coastlines, empty stations and towns that close at six.

Latest · September

Three days on an island with one bus

The timetable fits on a postcard. I missed the bus twice, and both times the walk was better than the ride would have been.

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August

Harbour light at half past nine

Late summer evenings, and the colour that only lasts eleven minutes.

June

A station with no trains

The platform clock still runs. Nobody seems to know who winds it.

April

Notes on a borrowed camera

Twelve frames, one roll, and a light leak I've grown fond of.

Nothing here is urgent. That's rather the point. — from the notebook, winter