by Antonina Mamzenko | Oct 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
I have written recently about my decision to leave Substack, resurrect my own blog and get back to managing my own newsletter. Today, I’ll go over the choices I made (and why I made them) because I know how useful it can be for others considering similar moves....
by Antonina Mamzenko | Sep 25, 2025 | Uncategorized
Hi friends, These past couple of years have been somewhat of a public unravelling as I’ve been figuring out where I want to go next. I’m no stranger to flying by the seat of my pants, following my nose, and figuring stuff out as I go (and it has worked out pretty well...
by Antonina Mamzenko | Jul 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
My Oddbox is delivered overnight and a few industrious ants get inside. Normally it’s just a couple of them and I manage to unload the contents – a mix of rescued fruit and veg – before taking it into the garden for the ants to escape into the grass. Not...
by Antonina Mamzenko | Jul 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
My grandmother never told me much about her experience of the siege. We learned a lot about it at school – the 900 days, the 1.5 million dead, the heroism of the people, the Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7, the “this side of the street is more dangerous...
by Antonina Mamzenko | Jun 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
In the final chapters of Evgeny Zamyatin’s dystopian novel We, the authorities have finally figured out what was causing the turmoil that has permeated the otherwise perfectly calibrated society of synchronised workers and glass houses. The problem, it...
by Antonina Mamzenko | May 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
I keep thinking that it must feel weird for you to read me writing about gardening all of a sudden. Like, what does it have to do with photography? Probably nothing. Probably everything. I’m still figuring it out. My brain doesn’t work in a linear way. It swirls and...
