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The Fence

20/04/201620/04/2016 Simon John Cox

Years later, looking back, only the oldest would remember a time before the fence.

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Cropped photo of a private jet. Image © Melanie Greenwood
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100WC – Horse Air

06/01/201616/01/2016 Simon John Cox

It was only once we were airborne that we learned that our pilot was a horse.

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100WC – Zoom Out

20/05/201505/01/2016 Simon John Cox

A perfect globe, precious and fragile. The only one of its kind. Zoom out: crooked trees with leaves like wax, grasses little more than wires clinging to the ground. Zoom out: a rash of tin roofs overtaken by sand, only dust moving now in empty veins. Zoom out: an iron-hard land, baked and cracked by… Continue reading 100WC – Zoom Out

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Cropped photograph of two railway freight carriages in the desert. Image © Jennifer Pendergast
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100WC – Ed

08/04/201505/01/2016 Simon John Cox

I met Ed on a train. I jumped it outside San Isidro and there he was, bundled in the corner of one of the freight cars. Drink? he asked, like it was nothing, and offered up a bottle wrapped in brown paper. After that we rode the tracks together for a while – Pecos, Sonora,… Continue reading 100WC – Ed

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