“There’s something to be said about putting yourself out into the world and waiting to see what comes back. You get to witness sunsets, incredible colours and go through life-altering experiences. My advice to burgeoning photographers is, you’ve just got to do it,” encourages travel and documentary photographer Jordan Banks – whose vibrant portraiture intimately… Read more »
Fine art photographer Julia Fullerton-Batten is fabled for her still life compositions. The German-born and now British-based photographer constructs surrealist scenes by negotiating elaborate sets and using props, costumes and models to create stories. Her photographs, which bear an almost theatrical quality, typically evoke European folklore. Increasingly, however, she has grounded her art within more… Read more »
Looking Sideways Vol. 1, Owen Tozer and Matt Barr’s first book, explores the myths and realities of Californian board sports culture from an outsider’s perspective. Traversing North America’s Golden State, speaking to friends and strangers, they paint a vivid picture of the wider impact that surfing has had on wider culture. Below is an exclusive… Read more »
On a sunny Tuesday afternoon (June 22), an energetic crowd of hundreds of protestors – many carrying placards and waving rainbow flags – flooded into Liverpool City Centre. The demonstration was intended as a show of defiance following a series of violent attacks targeting LGBTQ+ people in the city centre. Among those who showed up… Read more »
While working at The Campus Digest, the Tuskegee Institute student newspaper, in the late 1960s, Chester Higgins visited the studio of photographer P.H. Polk and was struck by his powerful portraits of Black Americans made in the 1930s. “The countenance of the people in Polk’s pictures made me pause,” says Huggins, who hails from the… Read more »
In 2011, Syria was just on the brink of a war that would descend with stunning velocity. What started as peaceful protests against the Syrian government expanded to civil war and an international crisis. President Assad launched some of the first assaults – sending in 250 tanks in one day, cutting the city off, arresting,… Read more »
