England
Pictures of really, really rich people getting drunk
The last hurrah — Throughout the ’80s, photographer Dafydd Jones captured the well-heeled hedonists of England’s upper classes. ‘It was another world going on behind closed doors,’ he remembers.
Written by: Miss Rosen
The rise and fall of Sheffield’s brutalist post-war utopia
Streets in the sky — At the end of the ’80s, social experiment Hyde Park – one of the largest high-rise tower blocks in Europe – faced demolition. Photographer Bill Stephenson was there to watch it happen.
Written by: Hannah Clugston
Capturing the street style of London’s young Muslim women
The New Mods — In a new collaboration with Getty Creative, photographer Nina Manandhar captures a day in the life of a group of young women in West London during Ramadan.
Written by: Niloufar Haidari
How hard is it to be a freelance writer outside of London?
The Great Divide — In The Great Divide, we examine the ever-changing relationship between the North and South of England. Here, Sheffield-based journalist Daniel Dylan Wray shares his experiences as a writer stuck on the outside of the London bubble.
Written by: Daniel Dylan Wray
Braving the cold with Hampstead’s women swimmers
Remember winter? — Shot over two successive winters, Alice Zoo’s Swimmers series documents the women who swim at Hampstead Heath Ladies Pond year-round, in water temperatures as low as -1 Celsius.
Written by: Eva Clifford
In the ring with the amateur wrestlers of Essex
Go hard or go home — For his latest project, photographer Steven Holmes enters the world of Dropkixx – an inclusive amateur wrestling academy uniting the local community.
Written by: Tobin Carey-Williams
How to build an entire music empire from scratch
Tips from Stolen Body Records — After feeling constricted by life in his old 9-5, Alex Studer risked it all to launch Stolen Body Records. Now, what started as a DIY company has grown into a Bristolian institution.
Written by: Nathan McLaren-Stewart
An intimate look at ’70s life in the West Midlands
Shots of suburbia — From car salesmen and butchers to Santa Claus in Tesco: photographer John Myer’s captures the everyday of people in a middle-class commuter town.
Written by: Miss Rosen
Meet the wild climbers of the North York Moors
A dangerous game — For over a decade, Franco Cookson has been roving the treacherous crags and cliffs of the UK national park – pushing himself, and trad climbing, into dangerous new realms.
Written by: Rachael Healy
How skaters are reclaiming the world’s forgotten spaces
Take back the city — There’s been a resurgence of DIY skate spots opening across the globe, with young skaters taking back the wastelands that the public has left behind. We visit one space hidden under the M32, in Bristol, to find out why.
Written by: Robbie Warin
