Demonstration against illegal immigration, Iquique, Chile, January 2022

反对非法移民的示威活动，伊基克，智利，2022年1月

A man sits on a lawn chair holding a pretty pastel parasol against the blazing sun, seemingly oblivious of the apocalyptic plumes of smoke billowing up from the burning tyres, a few feet away, that are scattered across the highway on which he is surreally perched. Impeding access to Iquique, a city in north Chile near the border with Bolivia, where groups agitating against illegal immigration have organised protests, he is an implausible paragon of imperturbable calm. The incongruity of his relaxed posture (which rhymes with the idyllic beach, sparkling sea, and poetic palm tree pattern repeated on his parasol) and the chaos raging around him is reminiscent of several Surrealist paintings from the 20th Century – such as Salvador Dalí's Sewing machine with Umbrella (1941) – that portray the ostensibly innocuous object as absurdly foretokening doom.

烈日下，一名男子坐在一柄色彩明亮的遮阳伞下的草坪椅上，他似乎完全没有注意到正于他几英尺外熊熊燃烧的轮胎，轮胎燃烧所冒出的可怕浓烟已经覆盖了这位男子所在的高速公路。他这样做是为了阻止人们进入智利北部靠近玻利维亚边境的城市伊基克，那里正有反对非法移民的团体组织的抗议活动进行，而他如此的冷静，令人难以置信。男子放松的姿势（就好似在田园诗般的海滩上、旁边有波光粼粼的大海，与他阳伞上有诗意一般的棕榈树图案相衬）和他周围肆虐的混乱情况完全不协调，不禁让人想起20世纪的几幅超现实主义画作——比如Salvador Dalí的Sewing machine with Umbrella（1994）——表面上无害的物体在画笔下变成了荒谬的厄运符号。

Protest in support of Iranian women, Istanbul, Turkey, September 2022

支持伊朗妇女的抗议活动，伊斯坦布尔，土耳其，2022年9月

When Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman, died in a Tehran hospital under suspicious circumstances on 16 September, women around the world began cutting their hair in protest against her treatment by the government of Iran. Amini had been arrested three days earlier by the Islamic Republic's Guidance Patrol – a vice squad enforcing Islamic dress code – for allegedly wearing the hijab incorrectly. While in the custody of the morality police, according to eyewitnesses, Amini suffered terrible physical abuse and fell into a coma. Photos of Nasibe Samsaei, an Iranian woman living in Turkey, cutting off her own ponytail as a display of solidarity and defiance outside the Iranian consulate in Istanbul, went viral. As a statement of intent to control one's own physical presence in this world, the act of cutting one's own hair short has proved perennially powerful.

在9月16日发生了一名22岁的伊朗妇女Mahsa Amini死于德黑兰的一家医院并且死因可疑的事件后，世界各地的妇女都以剪头发这一抗议行为表达伊朗政府对此事的处理方式。此事发生3天前，Amini因涉嫌错误地佩戴了头巾而被伊斯兰共和国的指导巡逻队——一个执行伊斯兰着装规范的刑警队——所逮捕。据目击者称，在被警察拘留期间，Amini遭受了可怕的身体虐待并陷入了昏迷。生活在土耳其的伊朗妇女Nasibe Samsaei在伊斯坦布尔领事馆外以剪掉自己的马尾辫的形式来表达妇女团结及反抗精神的照片在网上疯传。剪短头发这一行为是一种自己对于自己身体享有控制权的声明表达方式，这一方式已被证明具有长期的影响力。

Carina Nebula photographed by the James Webb Space Telescope, July 2022

James Webb太空望远镜拍摄的船底座星云，2022年7月

In July 2022, Nasa released a breathtaking photo of a young star-forming region of the nearby Carina Nebula. Captured by the agency's new James Webb Space Telescope, the image, which resembles the undulations of mountains and valleys, allows us to see for the first time previously invisible areas of star birth. Our instinct to read the distant stellar spectacle in the terrestrial language of landscapes is hardly new and can be glimpsed in the terrene contours of a 15th-Century Aztec map of the cosmos. The elaborate deerskin diagram places the fire god Xiuhtecuhlti at the celestial map's centre, surrounded by cosmic trees flaring out in all four directions, as if the heavens were an undiscovered forest of sublime symmetry waiting for us to wander and explore.

2022年7月，美国国家航空航天局发布了一张船底座星云附近年轻恒星形成区摄人心魄的照片。照片由该机构的新型James Webb太空望远镜所拍摄，从图片上看起来像是山脉和山谷的起伏，这也是人们第一次观察到恒星诞生区。人类用陆地语言中的景观来描述遥远的恒星奇观的本能并不是什么新鲜事，这一点在15世纪阿兹特克的宇宙地图上的地球轮廓就能品味到。精致的鹿皮图上，火神Xiuhtecuhlti位于天象图的中心，宇宙树的枝丫向着地图的四个方向延伸开去，仿佛宇宙就是一片未被发现的、对称的森林，等待着我们漫步探索。

Wildfire destroys a home in California, US, July 2022

被野火摧毁的房屋，加利福尼亚州，美国，2022年7月

While increasingly familiar, the sight of flames consuming homes during the summer's wildfire season in California never ceases to horrify. For nearly three weeks from the end of July, the so-called Oak Fire in the state's Mariposa county destroyed almost 200 buildings. An image captured of the flames ravaging the interior of a home was ferociously affecting. Silhouettes of a family's dining room table and chairs flicker devilishly against a tsunami of heat that, moments later, vapourised the space into memory. There is no aesthetic parallel possible for such appalling destruction.

虽然已经越来越习惯加州的夏日野火季，但是火焰吞没房屋的景象一直都让人感到恐惧。从7月底开始的近三周的时间里，该州马里波萨县被称为“橡树大火”的火灾摧毁了近200栋建筑。这张火焰肆虐于房屋内部的照片令人印象深刻。一家人的餐厅桌椅的轮廓在热浪的冲击下闪烁着，而片刻之后，这股热浪摧毁了这个场景，让这一切都成为了蒸发的记忆。无法用画笔描述出这种可怖的毁灭景象。

Prince George watches the state hearse, UK, September 2022

乔治王子注视着女王柩车，英国，2022年9月

Few photographs that documented the outpouring of grief that followed the death of Queen Elizabeth on 8 September were as memorable as this eerie image of Prince George, watching the state hearse carrying his great grandmother. Captured from a television broadcast, the photograph manages to merge a poignant portrait of the Prince, who is second in line to the throne, and the mournful crowds that lined the road, suspending the past, present, and future in a single affecting frame. That ability to fuse lucent layers of materiality and emotion recalls a remarkable series of urban-reflection paintings by the Northern Irish artist Colin Davidson, for whom Queen Elizabeth sat in 2016.

在9月8日伊丽莎白女王去世后，没有几张照片能像这张一样让人难忘，照片中的乔治王子注视着载着曾祖母的国家柩车。这张照片是从一档电视广播节目中拍摄到的，照片中同时拍摄到了第二顺位王子的令人心酸的形象和道路两旁悲伤的人群，这景象融合在了一起，将过去、现在和未来组合到了一个单一的画面中。这种融合物质和情感层次的能力让人想到了北爱尔兰艺术家Colin Davidson的一系列引人注目的城市倒影画，并且在2016年他也为伊丽莎白女王作了一副肖像画。

Lionel Messi and the Argentinian football team celebrate winning the Men's World Cup, Qatar, December 2022

莱昂内尔·梅西和阿根廷足球队庆祝他们的男子世界杯冠军，卡塔尔，2022年12月

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