
November 11--Armistice, Remembrance or Veterans Day, depending on where you live--was the 86th anniversary of the end of World War I, the "War to End All Wars." Panorama-blogger Mickael Therer invited several guest photographers from around the world to send in their commemorations, composed in 360 degrees. The resulting panoramas are antidotes (however briefly felt) to the anxiety and anger I feel looking at contemporary images of the Iraq war. The memorials are quiet; cities are rebuilt; landscapes regrow, not unaltered; daily life, in all its mundane glory, accomodates remembering the dead.