Topic: Rituals

Photo by Marcos Brindicci/Reuters

Tango mi amor

While we are in the arms of another and the music sings of time, and chance passing, we are in the eye of the storm

Kapka Kassabova 22 March 2013
Near the "Col de Tende". Piedmont, Italy. Photo by Jean Gaumy/Magnum

One warm line

The life well-lived, the path well-walked, each full of loops and weavings, until a person maps their patch of earth

Nat Case 01 February 2013
Bearing the body: friends and family reach out at a funeral in New Orleans in 1993. Photo by Bob Sacha/Corbis

Mortal remains

The dead are no longer welcome at their own funerals. So how can the living send them on their way?

Thomas Lynch 25 January 2013
Always be properly dressed: a United Airlines flight attendant talks with a passenger, 1968. Photo by Dean Conger/Corbis

Rules of survival

Mid-air is a bad place, where nightmares happen. Only witches and meteorites belong there. Avoid it or be destroyed

AL Kennedy 30 November 2012