Utterly interesting

Tiny, secret, and intensely personal, lovers’ eye miniatures were exchanged between Georgian lovers as private tokens of affection. Cropped to a single gaze, they reveal how romance found coded forms in an age of restraint.

In 1953, newlyweds René Groebli and Rita Dürmüller wandered Paris with a camera. Their honeymoon photographs captured love, movement, and everyday life in a city recovering from war, creating one of the most intimate photographic records of post war Paris.

Before smartphones and social media, Homer Sykes quietly photographed everyday Britain. Weddings, village events, and ordinary gatherings from 1968 to 1983 now form The Way We Were, an unforced record of how people lived and met.