The writing and photographs here were written and photographed shortly after my arrival in Lviv, just before midnight which is during the imposed citywide curfew. Shared here is...
Simon King's Posts
30 October, 2021
The Field of Flags – by Simon King
The Field of Flags was a temporary monument, an installation along the National Mall during the 59th Presidential Inauguration in January 2021. Although it was heavily off limit...
24 October, 2021
The Hyde Park South Carriage Drive Manège – by Simon King
Early this year, in February, I stepped out of travel quarantine and into a cold, mostly empty city, and spent a lot of my time searching for a space to allocate my time. I need...
25 June, 2021
The Retirement of the RNLI Leonard Kent – by Simon King
I was walking down the shoreline in Margate with Amanda and David, complaining to them after a passing seagull had offended my favourite summer scarf, when David pointed out tow...
Curating for a publication will always leave gems by the wayside for one reason or another. I recently went through this process for a piece that was actually quite difficult to...
In December 2020 I found myself spending my first "Pandemic Christmas" in Bulgaria out of necessity to meet a few criteria necessary to travel onwards (via Istanbul) to the USA....
I've heard from many of my friends that the C19 pandemic lockdowns for them represented a process of reconnection in some way. Some took the time to get back into reading, other...
I recently spent about eight hours in Istanbul during a stopover between my flights from Bulgaria to my onward travel to the United States. I made it into the terminal at just a...