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Given the times we are living in, it's worth revisiting 'Übergang' (2005-2008), a powerful photographic series on abandoned checkpoints across Europe by Polish photographer Josef Schulz josefschulz.de/html/transitIn

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Will we see these in Ireland? I hope not.

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Aren’t they the saddest little buildings? Perfect caricatures of the minds that conceived them, needed them.

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Another good photographic study of history is ‘Soviet Bus Stops’ by Christopher Herwig. Interesting ties between socialism and bus stop creativity.

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Soviet-era bus stops as photographed by Christopher Herwig medium.com/vantage/the-cr

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My humble contribution: Portuguese border post from the Salazar era at Valença do Minho, across the Minho river from Tui in Spain.

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And a palimpsest of a border marker. Czech-Polish border. P is for Poland, but D is for Deutschland. This used to be the Czechoslovak-German border in the mountains of Krkonoše (Czech), Karkonosze (Polish), Riesengebirge (German).

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snaps of some of the distant cousins

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*Polish* photographer?

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By "Given the times we are living in" are you referring to the imminent collapse of the European Union, or the fact these would now make highly desirable detached homes.