Culture
Visions in the smog: Hong Kong shot on film
The Travel Diary — Photographer Elke Numeyer shares her hazy portraits of the island in a new series, capturing a picturesque region that’s riddled with cultural contradictions.
Written by: Elke Numeyer
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.
Written by: Niall Flynn
Photos from this weekend's protest for Gaza in London
#EndTheSiege — With the death toll in Gaza rising as Palestinians continue to demand a right to return to their land, protestors take to the streets of London. Photographer Theo McInnes headed down to join them.
Written by: Theo McInnes
Inside one of America’s most notorious prisons
Welcome to The Farm — Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick’s contemporary photographs of the Louisiana State Penitentiary – otherwise known as ‘The Farm’ – uncover an undeniable truth: slavery in the US has never truly ended.
Written by: Miss Rosen
Challenging the media’s portrayal of Asian women
Through art & photography — A new photography show, opening this week at Brisbane’s Metro Arts, confronts the tired cultural stereotypes surrounding east Asian womanhood.
Written by: Cristiana Bedei
The ultra-runner conquering the world's highest mountains
Huck x The North Face — Fernanda Maciel set a world record when she summited Argentina’s Aconcagua mountain, because she was the first female to ever run the entire way. But for a woman who grew up in a family of fighters, running up mountains is all in a day’s work — and the stuff of dreams.
Written by: Jessica Holland
Retro shots of Myanmar youth culture from the ’70s to ’90s
Totally tubular — In 2013, photographer and archivist Lukas Birk launched the Myanmar Photo Archive – a treasure trove of shots from the famously private Southeast Asian nation.
Written by: Miss Rosen
Giles Duley explores the deadly legacy of landmines in Angola
Scars from a forgotten war — Over its 27-year duration, the Angolan war led to the death of an estimated two million people – making it one of the deadliest of the 20th century. But nearly two decades later, its violent legacy is still haunting the region.
Written by: Giles Duley
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.
Written by: Niall Flynn
Portraits of Berlin’s queer punks and skinheads
The ’90s archives — Throughout the ’90s, photographer Christian Vagt lived in the city’s squats, where he shot the everyday lives of his friends and lovers. ‘We were long-haired, didn’t give a fuck and definitely hated capitalism,’ he remembers.
Written by: Simon Doherty
