Justus Podlinski

Horizon gazing

When was the last time you've seen the horizon? Not a fiery, pink-hued, instagrammable sundowner - but a horizon in its purest form: a sharp, uncompromising line, maybe blue cutting into blue. Sky against surface. A limit you can see, but never reach. My most memorable one is

Fidel Castro - the good, the bad, the ugly

On a hot summer day in 2008, standing in Meckenheim, Germany, I first brushed up against the myth of Fidel Castro - not through a book (uninteresting back then), but via the bold red Che Guevara print on my cousin's olive t-shirt. The bearded face, fierce and almost