Conscientious Photography Magazine

“When the great etch-a-sketch is shaken”, Gregor Hens writes in The City and the World, “and the public streets are erased, this microcosm always remains, the memory of the most familiar paths, of the sun falling at a certain angle on the breakfast...

With the exception of books originally written in German or in English, I have to rely on translation in order to access world literature. As someone who grew up with and in one language but who now lives with and in another, I know that translation involves more than merely replacing words. Even languages such as German and English that, in the larger scheme of things, are f...