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Piccadilly Circus in popular culture

The modern buildings, the shops with dazzling window displays and the electronic advertising screens make it difficult to believe that the famous square was built in 1819 to connect Regent Street with the main shopping street: Piccadilly.   Text and photos by Virginia Moreno Molina   People of different nationalities, […]

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Helga Paris

This is how Helga Paris, a photographer in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), came to take the photographs in “Women at work”.   Sean Sheehan   “Whenever I was at the shopping centre, I looked at people, watched them closely, imagined how they come home tired from work, before they […]

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Russia is not the Soviet Union

Many of us have confused our words between Switzerland and Sweden or Lebanon and Libya. Some people, when meaning Russia, end up mentioning the Soviet Union. The problem comes when one truly equates them.   Texto y fotos: Victor de Currea-Lugo*   Now, in the setting of the Ukraine war, […]