Fabulist!

Square America is a journey into faded beauty - snapshots and fleeting glances at a world both close by, and far, far away.

The vintage photographs are wonderful, but the real genius lies in the curatorship. This is an online exhibition in the best sense of the word. The themes bring out all that is latent in those images - everything blurred and sharp, bright and lost.

Look at how he has grouped them! There are people sleeping, smoking, and at dance lessons - 'a beguiling mixture of awkwardness and grace'. The groups are evocative, lonely, unexpected. We see the half-pauses, the stockinged leg, the moments before a childhood fight. There are photographs of the dead, of the limits of memory, of rising and falling. There is love.

The emotional content grabs you by the shoulders. What of 'On the Beauty of Absence' - an album where most, but not all, the photographs have been torn away? Or 'Defaced', where the faces have been destroyed, obscured, or omitted? Some of these faces have been scrubbed out, a violence on the page.

Alone, they would be powerful. Put together, they are transformed.

This is one man's journey through everything precious about the discarded, and the line he carves through the photos is as beautiful as the photographs themselves.

It is a dream, a story, a yearning and a contemplation. It is a site worth returning to. One to bookmark, and to fall into as often as you can.

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