Beckett, Solitude, c. 1932

Lumberjack at the bar on Saturday night learns that man’s best friend is really a cat, Craigville, Minnesota, 1937 - by Russell Lee

Sarajevo

There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

- Victor Hugo

The Dug-Out night club, Beirut (1960)

The Dug-Out was an underground night club in 60s Beirut. The walls had writings from the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-poet of Persia.

An M19 guerrilla watches the outside of the Dominican Republic embassy through the holes of a curtain, during the three-month-long Dominican Republic embassy siege, Bogota, Colombia, 1980.