Growth and Culture is a conference project of Ricardo Valentim. It stems from the homonymous book of Margaret Mead and Frances Cooke Macgregor, with photographs taken by Gregory Bateson. In this essay, the authors present a study made on Bali’s society, by using 4.000 pictures out of the 25.000 taken between 1936 and 1939 in the spot…
Three stories set in Berlin merge on the eve of a visit by Pope John Paul II. Hanna is homeless, and when she finds 100 marks, she is overjoyed. She plans to spend a night with her boyfriend in a hotel room with a bath. But things prove to be more complex than she imagined. Jochen is a farmer in the city overnight. He meets a young prostitute, whom…