“It is not about scars, but about remembrance and history. It is like a painting: if it was left unfinished and you complete it, then you no longer have the original.” David Chipperfield

Berlin-based photographer Friederike von Rauch uses an analog camera to produce her images of landscapes and buildings. The poetic, lucid photographs in her latest project document the restoration the Neues Museum, centerpiece of the Museum Island in Berlin, which was badly damaged during World War II.

The British architect David Chipperfield was commissioned to transform the ruin back into a functional museum. His plans were controversial, but the spectacular results show that he was right. Starting from a conservational approach, Chipperfield preserved the Neoclassical lines while at the same time creating modern spaces of amazing elegance. FriederikeNew Orleans area of Algiers, claiming to be able to curse people and having an alliance with Neptune.

Rumors of vampires have swirled around New Orleans from the beginning of its history, and many vampire aficionados consider New Orleans a second home. Jacques de saint Germain, a popular vampire character from the novels of Chelsea Yarbro, is said to actually live in New Orleans, having been there for hundreds of years (he is over 4,000 years old).

While there is no question that the “Voodoo Queen of New Orleans” existed in the city and had a profound and powerful effect on its citizens, there are many supernatural occurrences that swirl around her life, including rumors that her life spanned two lifetimes—that of her own and of her ‘daughter’, that she