Culture
Celebrating the strength and diversity of faces from around the globe
Embracing difference — Exploring themes of identity and diversity, the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize announces the winning portrait of 2016.
Written by: Millie Morris
We went to a gun show to talk to Trump's supporters
Disunited States: Into Trumpland — In rural America, voters turned out to support Donald Trump in their hoards. We head to the small town of Perry, which is hosting a gun show, to hear voters' thoughts.
Written by: Michael Segalov
The subculture archive preserving the history of British youth
Rebels, riots and revolutionaries — Youth Club are working to building a record of teen style and social history, so that our impact on the nation - and on the world - can’t be ignored.
Written by: Noora Ismail
Martin Parr on the timeless power of photobooks
Seeing the bigger picture — To mark the launch of Magnum Photobook – a 'greatest hits' of visual storytellers – photographer Martin Parr underlines the form's importance in a world of instant images.
Written by: Noora Ismail
The ghostly aftermath of Japan's nuclear disaster
The Fallout — Five years on from Fukushima, its people are still fending for themselves – but photographer Dominic Nahr is making sure they're not forgotten, seeking answers in a cloud of confusion.
Written by: Dominic Nahr
Venice: How a forgotten corner of ‘70s LA gave birth to modern skateboarding
Raising the ghosts of Dogtown — Writer Joe Donnelly’s essay ‘Venice Bohemia: From Abbot Kinney To The Z-Boys’ explores how the crumbling, surfer’s mecca of Venice in the 1970s gave rise to the legendary Z-Boys and skateboarding as we know it. It appears in ‘Los Angeles in the 1970s: Weird Scenes Inside The Gold Mine’, a collection of essays and short stories that attempts to fill a gap in the literature about culture during one of the City of Angels’ most vibrant decades. It also includes the ‘Cruising Van Nuys’ photo essay by Rick McCloskey, featured here.
Written by: Joe Donnelly
Curiosity not propaganda: Ozier Muhammad’s incredible civil rights photography
A chorus of urgent voices — Photojournalist Ozier Muhammad has captured some of the most important political pinch points of our times. But, he explains, he was simply driven by a desire to document the everyday.
Written by: Andrea Kurland (interview)
The Atlanta skate park that fought back against gentrification - and won
Disunited States: Black Blocks — Built in 1996 in time for Atlanta to host the Olympic Games, Black Blocks was a small urban square designed to spruce up the highway, but it quickly became an important spot for Atlanta’s skaters. Gentrification is in full swing in the city, and when the authorities tried to shut it down earlier this year, the community rallied together to save it, explains Andrew Murrell.
Written by: Andrew Murrell
Alex Webb’s street scenes capture life at its most poetic
Where the light leads... — Magnum photographer Alex Webb has absorbed the world, catching cinematic moments that make time stand still. Now he’s ready to focus that intuition on the everyday world he calls home.
Written by: Alex Webb
The NYC street photographer who captured the birth of Trump’s America
Welcome to Trumptown USA — Photographer Richard Sandler captured the chaos and creativity on the streets, before the Big Apple was hollowed out by greedy real estate speculators like Donald Trump.
Written by: Alex King
