The Idea List

"Kids don’t suffer from the limitations we do"

A few years ago, Anne Kjær Riechert began asking children to draw their dreams. It has turned into a surprisingly insightful way to visualize kids' minds and psyche.

6am

The scope of human history doesn’t allow for sleep.

Alone among each other

The work of Spanish photographer Verónica Losantos is influenced by absence. Her pictures show people and places between solitude and intimacy and capture the interplay of these two conditions.

A Friend of the Devil

The story of a musical genius, made at a crossroads one night

The Banality of Color

Why looking at the past in color is such an uncanny experience.

"We don’t have any positive pictures of adulthood"

If growing up is so hard, why should we do it? In her book „Why grow up?“, Susan Neiman ponders our idealized image of childhood and fear of adulthood.

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Photographic Memory

"I chose the Oprah story"