The latest issue of Australian Science Illustrated—issue 121, February—brings a great deal of interesting material. It is not a journal as serious as Science; it is, rather, a popular-science magazine. It seems aimed at a broad, family readership. Still, its articles are intelligent and very well written. It publishes features on science in general and technology, with a clear preference for content on outer space, medicine, archaeology, and nature.

Salgado is indispensable to twentieth-century photography. His unmistakable images of vast crowds working—fighting to survive the world’s violence—remain permanently fresh in the memory of those of us who love the medium. So do his extraordinary photographs of the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan, along with the work he produced while covering the conflicts in Rwanda and the Balkans, among many others...

We have previously discussed how a photograph — or an image — can rearticulate the public perception of reality. How it can encapsulate experience, much like a verb does, rendering it transferable, exposable, and legible in a specific way.
Any story is a continuum, difficult to apprehend in its full extension and multidimensionality...