"No more explaining where the photos were taken!"

I had meant to do a followup on the studiophoto posts (here and here), by doing something on this website here. But I never got around to it. Partly because the site is too strange. Is it real? Is it an art project? Are the people meant to look so badly pasted into their chosen background? Is it a comment on the dislocation of prisoners? Are the background images supposed to look so incredibly argos-catalogue depressing? Is it a comment on the crushing disappointment built into capitalist dreams? That not even knowing the correct things to fantasise about is the inevitable level to which we're all reduced? That we need to be educated as to what things we should regret we don't have? Are cars and gazebos really the things you wish you were around more when you're in prison? I also never got around to posting on it because the pictures were just too ugly. So here, instead is a random image. I wish I could remember where I found it, but I can't.

Pieces of things

The fifth man

Back when spies were stylish... The man with two pairs of glasses is John Cairncross, known as the 'fifith man' of the Cambridge spy ring in the 1950s, because no one knew who he was until 1990. And he wears his sunglasses over his normal glasses.