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Henry Wismayer
@henrywismayer
Hopeless dilettante. Features and essays all over, inc: @NYTimes @washingtonpost @NYTmag @TheAtlantic @WSJ @natgeo @NoemaMag @TIME @aeonmag @FT @Guardian.
Feb 22, 2023 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
I'm heading back to the Algerian Sahara next week.

It's prompted me to revisit @studercinema's disorienting photo series 'Space to Roam'.

The pictures depict a lone astronaut wandering the dunes and sandstone of Tassili N'Ajjer, arguably our closest analogue to Mars. Image The series, which is building towards a book to be published in 2025, is an intriguing concept.

What seems at first to be a gimmick actually serves to accentuate the uncanny beauty of "otherworldly landscapes here on Earth."

Here are a few more from Tassili. ImageImageImage
Dec 1, 2022 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
THE DYING DAYS OF JOURNALISM, DISPATCH #6748689497...

At my desk, 4th coffee of the day, wondering why any of us bother.

Tempted as I am to just go to the pub, I'm instead going to pointlessly follow the professional imperative to write it down.

THREAD 1/ Some context: A couple of months ago I landed a long-form feature with the Sunday magazine of a well-known US newspaper.

It was the biggest commission of my career, and I chucked everything at it: hundreds of hours of research, dozens of interviews... 2/
Apr 23, 2019 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
The other night, after watching ‘Climate Change: The Facts’, the BBC’s terrifying synopsis of what we have done to the planet, and where it is taking us, I went upstairs to my kids’ bedroom and watched them sleeping for a long, long time. 2/ I watched their chests rise and fall, breathing the air we take for granted, perhaps dreaming of the coming weekend, when they would play in the sun we still see as a blessing rather than an enemy. And I thought: When do you tell them that their safe world is falling apart?