Photographer Louis Quail was 12-years-old when he first learned that his older brother, Justin, had schizophrenia. While the latter was 20 – a young man – when he was first diagnosed, Louis was still only a kid; it was impossible for him to digest the extent of what he was being told. Today, he’s the… Read more »
Documentary filmmaker Bobbi Jo Hart has always been drawn untold stories. In the past, she has cast her lens over a series of impressive, influential women in the fields of sport and music. This year, she turned her attention to Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo (the ‘Trocks’) – an all-gay ballet formed in the aftermath… Read more »
For the past 15 years, Matt Johnson has been somewhat silent. As the frontman and only constant member of seminal English post-punk band The The, the 56-year-old has always cut a uniquely mercurial figure. When he stepped away from making music over a decade ago, it was somehow both entirely unexpected and, frankly, totally in-keeping… Read more »
In Wellard, a new photo book currently seeking funding on Kickstarter, Tim Palman turns his lens to the dreamy, deserted suburbs of Australia. The 21-year-old photographer has been living on the fringes of Perth for the last year, moving with his family to one of the region’s ubiquitous ‘private estates.’ These strange estates, which are all… Read more »
Benedict Redgrove’s series on the UK’s Dirt Track Racing community, which was commissioned as the lead cover story for SPACES IN BETWEEN, situates the sport as a place where cultures collide. The look and feel of the scene settles “somewhere between B-boy and old school greaser.” “Ben photographs fighter planes and rocket ships for living but he’s is… Read more »
Almost every picture created by Eddie and Charlie Proudfoot is an individual portrait with the face blanked out. They won’t say why. In fact, there are a number of things that the artist siblings choose not to disclose. They won’t be drawn on their upbringing, nor the individual spells in foster care, psychiatric hospitals and… Read more »
Deliver Us is a disturbing new documentary on the reformed practice of exorcisms, following Sicily’s most in-demand exorcist – Father Cataldo Migliazzo, an 80-year-old priest based in Palermo. The film revolves around a cast of several characters; from a woman housebound out of fear her demon will make her do depraved acts in public, to… Read more »
“11 minutes to go with Maud Le Car up against Bailey Nagy,” comes the commentary from the judges’ tent. Anglet’s Plage de la Petite Chambre d’Amour is packed full with a home crowd. Photographers line the Rock Groyne, long lenses trained on the surf, whilst the groms suit up and stripe their faces with sun… Read more »
“So what are these artworks? I’ll explain as much as I know. I was trained in the classical way of drawing – to be able to capture a likeness or shape in a realistic way. I wanted to draw and paint like Manet and Caillebotte, so for years I rendered people and things in a… Read more »
Being a young person in the late ’80s wasn’t too dissimilar to being one now; the sociological climate has many parallels. Firstly, the nation’s youth felt that they were facing a future with little prospects, which is also the case now: a recent study commissioned by the Prince’s Trust concluded that young people are fearful… Read more »
The Russian protest artist Petr Pavlensky has been arrested after setting fire to the Banque de France in Paris. The blaze, started during the early hours of Monday morning, was part of a protest performance in response to the “economic system in Europe.” In a statement, Pavlensky – who has been residing in France after… Read more »
Inverness, a village of 800 in the heartland of Quebec, has always been a place of lore in my family history. To make the most of his retirement, my father decided to leave his Montreal suburb apartment and relocate to Inverness. The decision wasn’t completely surprising. The hamlet was somewhat of an idyll in my… Read more »
