Author: greyknock

  • Memories of Reading, 2025

    Memories of Reading, 2025 These are all the books I’ve finished throughout 2025, in mostly chronological order. These are not reviews. There are a lot of quotes I’m still trying to fully understand. But it is December and I should write something to remember what happened, so here we are.…

  • Four Days in Paris, France June 2025 Beginning of graduation trip with family! Hour commute into Paris center each day. Some photos.

  • Four Days in Berlin

    Four Days in Berlin June 2025 Spent a couple days in Berlin. Dream.

  • Belgrade, S

    Belgrade, Serbia June 3rd – 6th, 2025 Third stop on the graduation trip with mom. Many swans, nationalistic banners, books, grilled meat, and a very Balkan time.

  • Summer Camp: Lijiang, Yunnan

    Summer Camp: Lijiang, Yunnan July 2025 During July of 2025, I helped out as a teaching assistant for my father’s anthropology summer camp in Lijiang, Yunnan. Though I was mainly in charge of the students and making sure they had fun, I also partly took on the role of photographer.

  • Project Week: Luxembourg

    In 2025, My friends–Ash, Harry, and Shirley–and I planned and went on a four-day photography trip to Luxembourg on Project Week. Here are my pictures from the trip.

  • United World College Maastricht

    Here is a collection of photographs I took during my final year as a residential student at UWC Maastricht. This was my first time learning how to use a camera. I hoped to capture some of the joy and community that brought me great happiness during my time there and…

  • On Health, Colonialism, and What it Means to Eat

    After all, culture is essentially what survives. The survival strategies that individuals adapted in times of exploitation, the strategies that developed into the celebrated and loved culture of gorengan—it is resistance in the basest form. Behind the culture, there exists a terrible history, but right now, it is what it…

  • Countries of Last Things

    Memories of Europe in video form, documenting my travels through Paris, Berlin, Belgrade, Mostar, Sarajevo, and Istanbul.

  • The Politics of Hygiene

    There is no textbook answer on how to rid ourselves of history. But here I am, with my family of strangers in a foreign land full of memory and wounded pride and indignation and grief, and I find myself content. This, however flawed it may be, is my answer, for…