"when you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes.
but when you photograph people in black-and-white, you photograph their souls."
- ted grant

a carefully curated selection of rare vintage photos, with feeling, by mezzaluna.me.

header photo credits: brassai, getty images, esther bubley, inge morath, luis castaneda.
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2016 is almost over. the conversation around the coffee machine in my office these days has really evolved into the talking about each year seems to go by faster as we get older. psychologists have put some interesting theories, but i have always assumed that it’s because when you’re young everything is new, so you experience it like the first time, because it is. over time, those experiences pile up and become the routine, so you don’t acknowledge them much. eventually, they just…pass you by.

that’s how my year 2016 seemed like. so short, it flew by. i put money down on a new condo. major construction delay. six months, still not in. one delay has screwed up my whole year plans. all i have been doing is waiting……waiting some more……and more……waiting. waiting is boring. one time, i caught myself trying to press the microwave buttons to the tune of the mario theme song because i was so bored.

no best-of this year since i haven’t posted much (so sorry about that). buuut! here’s my most popular posts of all time, if anyone’s interested. (click photo for link.) also, previously 2015 | 20142013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010THANK YOU to each and every one of you for sticking around and supporting me. hope you have a wonderful time whenever, wherever, and however you will be celebrating. whatever happened is over. time to make new experiences!

see you in 2017. :)

— luna