Past Perfect Continuous"In 2006, Igor Posner returned to St. Petersburg, the city where he was born, for the first time in 14 years. Confronted by the shifting resonance of place and memory, the resulting pictures are fundamentally impressionistic, grasped through distances of time. This is a city half seen and half recollected, one version overlaid imperfectly on the other, mapping where the past and the present intersect a fictional city, then, one that is, in a sense,

but theoretically there is no front and no back

and in others

helped to form my vision of the play of children as a kind of rite or performance

Courtney Allen

leaving only light

They're also eerily out-of-time

and Excerpts from Silver Meadows (2013)

and interiors

flora and street ephemera – all rendered in the almost impossibly vibrant hues unique to the famed city – his strolls through the German capital shimmer with a very different palette

published by The Museum of Modern Art in 1938 to accompany an exhibition of photographs by Evans that captured scenes of America in the early 1930s

In her work

Lanthimos makes all his photography