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The lawyer who fled the rat race to live in the Russian wilderness

Escape the everyday — After growing tired of life in the city, Yuri Alekseyev left Moscow for an underground woodland hut. Over the course of four visits, photographer Pavel Volkov documented the former lawyer in his self-made home.

  • Photography
  • Niall Flynn

Iceage: ‘We don’t look back and regret anything’

The great return — Ahead of the release of the post-punk band’s fourth album, we sit down with frontman Elias Bender Rønnenfelt to discuss urgency, getting older and why regrets are a waste of time.

  • Music
  • Niall Flynn

Shooting visual rhymes in the heart of the city

People, places, things — In Rhyming Couplets, photographer Alistair Redding places portraits of people alongside shots of everyday colours, objects and shapes, creating an entanglement between pedestrians and their corresponding urban environment.

  • Photography
  • Niall Flynn

Documenting the plight of the Roma people across Europe

Persona non grata — As part of a long-term project that has seen him visit 10 different countries, photographer Åke Ericson has spent almost a decade photographing different Roma communities across the continent, in a bid to draw attention to the way they are treated.

  • Photography
  • Niall Flynn

A surfer's life-changing road trip from Brazil to California

Wanderlust meets activism — Years after her father and friends travelled across Latin America with just surfboards and a van, Antonia Wallig is reliving that journey with her own gang of four. Only this time, instead of riding waves just for the thrill of it, these surfers are determined to make a positive social impact along the way.

  • Surf
  • Niall Flynn

Striking portraits of London’s identical twins

Two of a kind — For the past three years, Peter Zelewski has been using photography to explore the unique, idiosyncratic relationships between different sets of twins, all while questioning how identical they really are.

  • Photography
  • Niall Flynn

Tracing British football’s vibrant aesthetic history

The beautiful game — Inspired by his father’s extensive archive of Aston Villa programmes, designer Matthew Caldwell decided to begin his own collection of classic matchday memorabilia, building an all-encompassing visual history of British football in the process.

  • Art
  • Niall Flynn

Remembering the life and work of Philip Jones Griffiths

1936 – 2008 — On the ten-year anniversary of his death, a new exhibition brings together two of the Welsh photojournalist’s most significant bodies of work: shots of Britain taking between 1950 - 1970, and his acclaimed coverage of the Vietnam War.

  • Photography
  • Niall Flynn

How Charles Forsman created The End of The F***ing World

Comic book hero — The storyteller behind the acclaimed graphic novel – now a hit Netflix series – talks inspiration, writer’s block and why he always finds himself coming back to narrating the perils of adolescence.

  • Books
  • Niall Flynn

Documenting addiction in a small U.S. neighbourhood

Lost in Philadelphia — In Good Sick, photographer Jordan Baumgarten depicts the effects that opioids have had on a small, Philly neighbourhood, all while exploring his own, polarising relationship with the city he calls home.

  • Photography
  • Niall Flynn

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