Culture
Making waves on the Emerald Isle: Celebrating 50 years of Irish surfing
Capturing three generations — This weekend Donegal in Ireland played host to the Irish Surfing Inter-Counties Championships, marking 50 years of surfing in the country. Photographer Liam Aylott headed along to capture the celebrations.
Written by: Liam Aylott
The exiled Belarusian theatre company taking on society's biggest taboos
The Belarus Free Theatre — Vladimir Shcherban, Nikolai Khalezhin and Natalia Kaliada may be exiled from their home country of Belarus, by the leaders of Europe's last dictatorship, but their underground networks in their home country and abroad have seen the Belarus Free Theatre company blossom, producing work that confronts society's most pressing concerns.
Written by: Sam Williams
Face-to-face with the titans of Norwegian Black Metal
Feel the noise — Magnum photographer Jonas Bendiksen pays tribute to Norway’s Black Metal scene with up-close portraits of the scene’s most incendiary vocalists.
Written by: Alex King
Is live streaming the future for performance art?
#Cam4art — The way we consume and present art is always changing, and now #Cam4art are hoping to drag performance art into the digital age with a new live streaming project.
Written by: Marianna Manson
The stylish self-portraits of Namibia’s last nomadic people
Representation vs. reality — When photographer Kyle Weeks offered his camera to Namibia’s indigenous OvaHimba people, it subverted a long-standing power dynamic to reveal a hidden sense of identity.
Written by: Kyle Weeks
Capturing the true meaning of gender fluidity
All The People — Gender expression takes many forms, what it means to be a man, a woman, or something other for each of us can never truly be the same. All The People, a new photo book and project, explores the experiences of gender non-conforming people from around the globe, defining their identity on their own terms.
Written by: Marianna Manson
The magic and mysticism of modern-day Hinduism
Wind, water, earth and fire — Magnum photographer Abbas explores the worship, rituals and spiritualism of Hinduism, the world's oldest religion, in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bali.
Written by: Alex King
The photographer documenting European skate culture
Lust for life — Skater and photographer Sam Partaix unveils hundreds of photos and some printed decks in a retrospective of his work at by Walski concept store.
Written by: Locke Fitzpatrick
The young filmmaker defying a corrupt movie industry in style
Cinema's lone wolf — Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat has delivered a scathing critique of her home country - and our tendency to run with the pack - with a dreamlike masterpiece.
Written by: Alex King
What it’s like to create album art for the world's greatest hip-hop artists
Pulling out the inserts — You might not know his name, but you'll know his work. Vlad Sepetov is the young visual artist designing some of the most notorious album covers in music.
Written by: Locke Fitzpatrick
