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'Oliver Shou is a talented young self-taught photographer, roofer and traveler from San Francisco, California. Oliver shoots a lot of urban, cityscapes and rooftop photography. He focuses on geometrically fascinating environmental portraits. Shou currently based in Shanghai, from where he shares incredible rooftop photographs on his instagram.' (Photogrist)
📷: Oliver Shou .shou

"Art thou pale for weariness,
Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth,
Wandering companionless,
Among the stars that have a different birth,
And ever changing, like a joyless eye,
That finds no object worth its constancy?"
— P. B. Shelley
📷: unknown (comment if you know a credit)

"Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art." – Charles Bukowski
📷: Marianne Caron

“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.” ― Ernest Hemingway
Oleg Sherstyachenko hanging around