Isaac Muk
Vibrant, rebellious portraits of young Cubans
A new photobook captures the young people redefining Cuban identity amidst increased economic and political turbulence on the Caribbean island.
Written by: Isaac Muk
How one photographer documented her own, ever-changing image
In her new photobook ‘A women I once knew’, Rosalind Fox Solomon charts the process of getting older through a series of stark self portraits taken over the course of decades.
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Uplifting, intimate portraits of young British Chinese men
Naomi Wong’s 後生仔 (‘young man’) highlights some of the daily conflicts that many British Chinese men face while navigating life in the UK.
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In photos: Ghana’s complex e-waste industry
A new exhibition explores the country’s huge, unregulated industry, which can be hazardous to workers’ health and the local enviroment, yet provides economic opportunity to many.
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An unnerving portrait of the USA’s fractured society
A new photobook explores America’s increasing inequality, division and toxic culture wars in a historic election year.
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“Music can save you for a day”: Touché Amoré on social media and subcultures
To celebrate a new album and reflect on a decade and a half of being themselves, frontman Jeremy Bolm chats about opening up via lyrics, subcultures in the internet age, and the hardcore re-revival.
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A glimpse of life for women in Afghanistan under Taliban rule
‘NO WOMAN’S LAND’ has been awarded the prestigious 14th Carmignac Photojournalism Award and will be exhibited at the Réfectoire des Cordelieres in Paris this autumn.
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In Photos: A decade growing up in pre-gentrification Lower East Side
A new photobook provides an up-close-and-personal look at the life of a Puerto Rican family, documenting them growing up as the world changed around them.
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An eerie window into Chernobyl’s exclusion zone
A new photobook documents the communities of workers, stalkers, nomads and more that occupy the skeletal remains of Pripyat, Ukraine.
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Exploring Cyprus’s unseen underbelly through art
The Cyprus Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale interrogates the country’s position as an antenna island, looking at the realities for residents past and present.
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“Authenticity is a lie”: St. Vincent on rebellion and subversive art in the information era
In a new newsletter series spotlighting our favourite artists and renegades, Isaac Muk chats to St. Vincent about subversion and songs.
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Exploring my parents’ radical, revolutionary past
Photographer Alice Proujansky’s debut monograph explores the radical history of the United States through the images and memories of her unique family.
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