Information about Donald Jenkins
Donald Jenkins writes, takes photographs and dabbles in web design. He’s also a co-founder of the political social network start-up Policymakr. He currently lives in New York City.
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Donald read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Magdalen College, Oxford, and government at École nationale d’administration. He has worked in merchant banking, the media, public administration and contemporary art. His main subjects of interest and concern are the environment, animal rights, politics and technology. He rides a bicycle and is a vegan.
Articles
I don’t just take pictures, I also write. The full list of topics is on the Articles page, but I mainly write about politics, tech, and culture. In addition to subjects of a strictly personal nature, I’ve also occasionally written about literature and religion.
Politics are hardly a side interest, as can be seen from the articles collected here. I first indulged my taste for politics and current affairs at Oxford at the Oxford Union Society, and then as a student in Paris, where I was President of Conférence Olivaint.
Subjects I’m passionate about include code, good web design, Net neutrality, and avoiding government interference in the Internet. I write a lot about Apple-related stuff, blogging techniques and trends in social networks.
My interests span contemporary art, which has surrounded me ever since my infancy, heraldry, music, especially from Mozart up to the mid-Romantic period, as well as well-sung English choral music from the sixteenth, seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. I have worked in the field of culture and media in various capacities.
Go to the Articles page for a full list, and bear in mind I write irregularly.
Photos
For regular photos go to Instagram. But for more serious photos going back to 2006, head to Flickr. This site also has a dedicated Photos page.
A collection of ducks owned by a New York friend
Masai Mara National Reserve is a large game reserve in Narok County, Kenya. It is globally famous for its exceptional population of lions, leopards and cheetahs, and the annual migration of zebra, Thomson's gazelle, and wildebeest to and from the Serengeti every year from July to October, known as the Great Migration.
Many of my most treasured values are represented in this photograph
The Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume is an arts centre for modern and postmodern photography and media. It is located in the north corner (west side) of the Tuileries Gardens next to the Place de la Concorde in Paris.
The sculpture No Window No Cry, made up of a small music box set into one of the windows of the exhibition gallery next to a “bubble” blown into the glass, plays, when activated, a simplified version of the song “Should I Stay or Should I Go” (The Clash, 1981), a tune which also resonates throughout Le Clash and Tlatelolco Clash, two of the films shown at the exhibition.
The Western Wall is considered holy due to its connection to the Temple Mount. Because of the Temple Mount entry restrictions, the Wall is the holiest place where Jews are permitted to pray, though the holiest site in the Jewish faith lies behind it.
Temple Mount was built during the reign of Herod the Great for an expansion of the temple. The plaza is dominated by three monumental structures from the early Umayyad period.
Zion Gate is one of eight gates in the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. It was built in July 1540, west of the location of the medieval gate.
The atmosphere in West Jerusalem, largely rebuilt during the British Mandate, is completely different from the eastern part of the city.
An unexpected sight on the street sof the Marais district in the Parisian autumn
One of my favoutite places in Paris. The Pritzker jury said the Pompidou "'evolutionised museums, transforming what had once been elite monuments into popular places of social and cultural exchange, woven into the heart of the city.'
This relatively unknown Roman church dates back to the fourth or fifth century, and is devoted to four anonymous saints and martyrs. It includes two courtyards, the fortified Cardinal Palace with the Saint Silvester Chapel, and the monastery, pictured here, with its cosmatesque cloister
This church was built in the honour of the Roman martyr St. Praxedes, on the alleged site of her house, to which, when it was rebuilt by Pope St. Paschal I (the present Santa Prassede), her relics were taken.
A Hipstamatic view of a dark Marais alley at night in the late autumn.
The Galerie Maubert show at Paris photo, the world's largest international art fair dedicated to photography, held in November at the Grand Palais near the Champs-Élysées
Tuléar is one of Madagascar's major cities, located 936 km southwest of national capital Tananarive. Its colonial legacy is still visible in the architecture and the urban landscape