Analogue Photo Magazine | Soil and Souls

Soil & Souls

Analogue Photo Magazine

Issue 05 Spring 2025

Soil & Souls

Analogue Photo Magazine invites passionate and dedicated photographers from the Hotchkiss community to share their work. Each issue is central to a specific theme and provides a space where photography and all its intricacies take center stage in its most genuine and artful form. This issue slightly strays from that mission. Instead of collecting submissions from the Hotchkiss community alone, this issue showcases a variety of photographs and narratives from around the world, primarily from our fellow Round Square schools.

For Analogue 5th issue, “Soil & souls” we hope our audience may be inspired by international slices of lives as they flip through each and every page.

Dancer

This picture features a row of female dancers who are performing Intore, which is a traditional Rwandan dance.This dance is deeplyinterloped intothe culture and history. For this picture I focused on the facial expressions of the dancers which were delicate and very emotional creating a contrast between their powerful movements. This revealed a tension between stillandmotion.

Ryu, The Hotchkiss School, ’27

The center of this picture is a pinkhibiscuswhich is behindayellowfence.Thesingularityofthehibiscus drags all the attention but also gives a solemn atmosphere. Captured by the fence, as I got a glimpse of its suffering from outside the fence, the flower expresses its loneliness equally intense as a human. The personification of the hibiscus was the mainfocusofthisimage.

Anordinarymorningwithanextraordinaryview.

During my week of exploring Zhejiang Province in China, I immersed myself in the nature and culture around me, while learning how to use my Lumix.

How minuscule and finite humans are compared to the ancient and sage landscape. But no matter the weather, the toil continues.

Solace can be found in solitude, especially in the vastness of nature.

It was my first time exploring rural China. The tranquility offered a reminder to slow down and process the mundane. (P.S. Those plants are actually tobacco plants!)

On Jeju Sea…

Remy Lee, The Hotchkiss School, ’26

Jeju people live as one with the ocean; the history of the island has been caressed by the waves

During low tide, sea creatures must protect themselves against birds, drying-up, and photographers of indomitable will.

The Sea is home to death, as much as to life.

I found this jawbone at the sea's edge: There, crabs, dogfish, broken by the breakers or tossed

To flap for half an hour and turn to a crust

Continue the beginning. The deeps are cold: In that darkness camaraderie does not hold.

Nothing touches but, clutching, devours. And the jaws, Before they are satisfied or their stretched purpose

Slacken, go down jaws; go gnawn bare. Jaws

Eat and are finished and the jawbone comes to the beach:

This is the sea's achievement; with shells, Vertebrae, claws, carapaces, skulls.

Time in the sea eats its tail, thrives, casts these Indigestibles, the spars of purposes

That failed far from the surface. None grow rich

In the sea. This curved jawbone did not laugh

But gripped, gripped and is now a cenotaph.

- Ted Hughes, Relic

At Hallim Park

This is Dol-hareubang, the basalt statue mascot of Jeju Island

Traditionally, Dol-haeubang were stationed at entry of villages as custodians of the people.

In Flanders Fields…

Nature exists in beautiful patterns—perhaps the what we must do is observe and record.

The Hotchkiss School, Faculty

Ms. Bridget Lawrence-Meigs,

The ground is frozen

And it is incredible

There is still sweet spinach

Slowly growing

Under a blanket of Thin white cloth.

Meanwhile, there is warmth.

Created by 112 feathered beings

Who roost in fluffy rows at night, And squawk with joy

Or apparent surprise

When I arrive with grain and water

Or when an egg appears beneath them.

The sleeping farm Is

Not so silent

Not so peaceful

As the harrier hovers

Dives and dines.

All light is welcome

And beautiful.

A rare hue of pink appears

A warm glow

On the fresh

Coat of shiny crystals

That fell as we slept.

Crack an egg

And think of those downy rows of sleeping hens.

The farm is alive.

Humming.

Wind through the oak tree

Whose leaves forgot to fall, Rustling.

- Ms. Bridget Lawrence-Meigs

’25

William Yee, The Hotchkiss School,

John Coffin, The Hotchkiss School, ’25

“Sheep” Taken at the The Stones of Carnac, an alignment of over 3000 prehistoric granite boulders in the Morbihan department of Brittany.

“Dog” Taken on a farm in the outskirts of Rennes, France.

Crossing the highway from Parc des Gayeulles, a park on the northeast side of Rennes, France, the large expanse of farmland that surrounds Rennes is revealed.

I took this photo from my grandma’s balcony; I really liked the sunset and I was practicing my new zoom lens.

Hudson Dwyer

The Hotchkiss School, ’28

This is an ordinary moment in the daily labor of an elderly Russian woman living in the borderland region of Inner Mongolia. Each day, as she tends to her garden, she engages in a quiet communion with the flowers that bloom around her.

Two friends work joyfully in the fields. The friendship between women, and the bond between females and the land are like the melodies of an ancient paean.

A mystical forest.

A dragonfly rests on a weathered post, surrounded by calm water. Simple moments, simple beauty.

There are no people in this scene. Life, too, begins with “nothing” and ends in “nothing”, in the same way that a theater is empty both before and after a performance.

On the Great Plains of Inner Mongolia, bathed in the morning light, two playmates raise their umbrellas as if to catch the heavens for themselves.

A view of a friend and the picturesque landscape after a trek up the Volcano of Cotopáxi, Ecuador.

A scientist in Mindo rainforest, Ecuador measures the beak of a rare bird, holding its fragile frame firmly between two fingers.

A rare bird in is being held by its feet against the backdrop of the rainforest, posing for a picture.

Within a flower-filled butterfly garden, a blue, white and black butterfly instead chooses the arm of a girl.

The moth, the butterfly’s woodsy cousin, grasps onto a rain jacket.

A

girl stands at the edge of a cliff, surrounded by the moors of the English countryside.

On the beaches of Santa Cruz Island, in the Galápagos, Ecuador, a baby sea lion sleeps on the beach while a boy takes its photo.

A girl takes a walk in the grass of the ruins of an abbey among the English countryside.

Editor-in-Chiefs

Jami Huang ’25

Remy Lee ’26

Editors

Katharine ellis ’26

Ashley Opdyke ’26

Warren Colby ’27

Phuong Nguyen ’27

Club Advisor

Greg Lock