Guest contributions
Stories, essays and photos by others who wrote for TimeSpaceMatter.
Street photos: Sydney, last year
Street photos of Sydney, Australia, by Robert Neurath. Follow him on Twitter. Check out his previous galleries too.
Italian Street Photos, a gallery
Street photos of the Italian cities Naples, Rome and Catania, by Robert Neurath. Follow him on Twitter. Check out his previous galleries too.
Song&Art: ‘Too many birds’ by Bill Callahan
In the song ‘Too Many Birds’, Bill Callahan paints a beautiful portrait with his words and melody. It gave me a feeling that I found hard to shake. With songs like this it makes me…
Niccolò Ammaniti: You and Me
Sometimes you stumble across an author, whose every word you’d like to devour. At least, I stumbled across one of those, back when I was 19 years old. His name is Niccolò Ammaniti. Frantically, I…
Photos and music: a constant journey
Photography and music. They’re two things that are sometimes only combined after they’re made. In a tacky slideshow perhaps… But Clinton Davey argues that photos are not just images, and music is not just sounds….
Alliances and Monuments
When Facebook has started to celebrate my friendships in weird slideshows causing retina seizures, I opened the bottom drawer to grab an old ugly postcard with singing kittens. Maximum noise out of a little loudspeaker,…
Photo Gallery: Streets of Paris, France
As a tribute to the city of Paris, we present you this gallery of street photos of the city of Paris. Robert Neurath visited the city before the disastrous fire in the Notre Dame in…
The Right to Stay Offline
After Mike Ushakov’s favourite writer Kazuo Ishiguro was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, he read one of his interviews and discovers the freedom of remaining offline.
Photo Gallery: Street photos, New York City
A gallery of original new photos by Robert Neurath, taken in New York City in March 2019.
The Internet and Me (part 3)
Thinking again about those unsolicited catalogues, it reminds me of all the furore over featured ads on Facebook when they were first introduced and how strong the reaction was. It seemed to me that people felt betrayed by what they had been sold as the dream of the internet…
Words in the middle of the world
That books mean love to me was something that was clear from the moment I could read. I read all the books in the library and any books that I brought with me on holiday…
The Internet and Me (part 2)
Of course, everything is context and it has been interesting for me to note from personal experience over recent years that digital doom-mongering and calling for regular detoxing are propounded not necessarily by older generations but by those who have grown up with digital life as a constant…
The Internet and Me (part 1)
Note from the writer: This article was written before the Christchurch, New Zealand shootings. I felt more than ambiguous about it being published for fear of it coming across as crass and insensitive and therefore…
A room to roam
Where do we stay when our mind rambles? Our digital identity forgets about borders. Permanent access to everywhere, not just places we like to see, any time we want. We can go further than a…
Photo Gallery: Venice, flooded
TimeSpaceMatter is not just a medium of words, but also of imagery. We will feature regular photo series of traveling photographer Robert Neurath. Photos of Venice, flooded by Robert Neurath. Follow him on Twitter.