After a long and ram­bling post the other day, I’ll keep it short this time — I have a couple of read­ings worth your time. I’m not totally con­vinced by the online magazine. It’s a format in infancy, the kinks haven’t been worked out yet. And yet, this week two online magazines caught my attention:

First up, 7.7, a web­site pro­duced by a col­lect­ive of pho­to­graph­ers and photo-pros from Bar­celona. Of artic­u­lar note is Close to Heaven by Ern­esto Ramirez (report­age num­ber 4).  This is a sur­pris­ingly subtle and intim­ate med­it­a­tion on the flat-top roof. Shot in black and white pan­or­ama format, the series explores the elev­ated sanc­tu­ary of the big-city rooftop. As a side note, to my neigh­bors in Montreal: your mid-night roof-top soc­cer was not equally edifying.

Second, a web mag called 100 Eyes. Pro­duced by pho­to­grapher Andy Levin, 100 Eyes pub­lishes col­lec­tions of pho­to­graphic essays on a topic or theme. This edi­tion is called The Migrants. It is a brood­ing, scath­ing look at one of the defin­ing char­ac­ter­ist­ics of globalization. More people than ever find them­selves stuck and work­ing in a limbo; divorced from their homes, them­selves, and com­munity. Whether a migrant or not, global migra­tion is chan­ging the world we live in. 1000 Eyes: The migrants is a crit­ical depic­tion of the real and per­sonal effects of migra­tion, and, by extension, the dangers of glob­al­iz­a­tion. In por­tray­ing the isol­a­tion of this dislocation, Lorena Ros’ series on Nigerian women is par­tic­u­larly damning.