ATK Portraits, Bangkok

The Khlong Toey slum, south of the expressway and north of the port, is the largest and oldest slum of Bangkok, with up to 1.2 million dwellers. Khlong Toey has always been a stigma of the capital city. During this Covid pandemic, it was only a matter of time before a cluster would emerge. Living…

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PseudoSymphonics for Dystopian Times

In keeping with the state of the country and the world, I’m encouraging myself to access existential angst. I believe that this new four-part composition has the dystopian ambience I need to inhabit lately. Stanley Sagov · PseudoSymphonics for dystopian fans in 2022 Copyright © 2022 Stanley Sagov Stanley SagovStanley Sagov leads an intense dual…

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Spinning Our Wheels

Back in March 2020, our world as we know it turned upside down. As we tried to make sense of the fact that we were stuck in the middle of a pandemic called Covid-19, it felt like we were living in a dystopian novel. As people were getting sick and dying in the thousands, I…

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We Will Still Be Here

Though it has been almost two years since the start of the pandemic, the news regarding COVID-19 is especially discouraging these days. Was it only seven months ago, in June 2021, that daily infections, according to the CDC, were down almost 95 percent from January 2021? By any measure, these were incredibly impressive statistics and…

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New Year’s Eve 2021

This is not what I expected to be posting on New Year’s Eve 2021. In fact, I couldn’t imagine that I’d be posting anything new on The Pandemic Lens on the last day of 2021.       My plan was to stop publishing any new materials once life resumed to normal as we all…

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