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New York Fashion Week’s true soul lives in the streets

The people’s runway — For a week, the city floods with celebrities, influencers and glitzy afterparties, but year-round real self-expression takes place everywhere. Tom ‘TBow’ Bowden took his camera to NYC’s biggest catwalk.

  • Culture
  • Isaac Muk
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Inside the bedrooms of American youth during the ’80s and ’90s

Teenagers in Their Bedrooms — Before the turn of the millennium, photographer Adrienne Salinger noticed that a creative, opinionated cohort were underrepresented in wider conversations – Gen X teens. Pictured in their home sanctuaries, they form a luminous portrait of subcultures and styles of the time.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen
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© Merlin Daleman

Merlin Daleman’s stark portrait of time-trapped Britain

Mutiny — Created in the wake of the Brexit referendum, the photographer’s debut book is a years-long photographic survey of economic inequality, and of towns and cities left behind as London continues to develop.

  • Culture
  • Isaac Muk
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Vibrations and victories at the World Worm Charming Championships

The magic below — Every year, the small town of Nantwich in Cheshire turns the quiet art of coaxing worms from the earth into an internationally known sport, as competitors shake, stomp, and strum their way to glory.

  • Sport
  • Ella Glossop
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How Santa Monica Blvd inspired queer classic film Hustler White

Baal — Rick Castro’s new exhibition explores his journey from photographing male sex workers in LA to creating one of the most shocking LGBTQ+ films of all time.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen
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Psychedelic scenes of America’s Wild West

Frontier — As the artist behind the myth-building Marlboro ads of the ’80s and ’90s, Jim Krantz has spent decades crafting Hollywood worthy cinematic photographs. His new photobook explores his work in shaping the rugged individualism of cowboy imagery.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen
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Heartwarming, harmonious portraits of Istanbul’s street cats

City Cats of Istanbul — Türkiye’s largest metropolis has a symbiotic relationship between humans and felines that dates back millennia. Marcel Heijnen’s new book explores the interaction between space, society and strays.

  • Culture
  • Isaac Muk
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As Washington DC rapidly gentrifies, street dancers refuse to be pushed out

Song of Sons — Go-go and Beat Ya Feet are ingrained into the US capital’s fabric, but as its Black population gets displaced, their presence is increasingly under threat. Nate Langston Palmer’s ongoing project immortalises the culture.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen
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The fun, flares and frenzy on ‘Gallagher Hill’ when Oasis came home

Unmistakably Northern — With tickets for the Manchester Britpop legends’ reunion tour being difficult and expensive to secure, thousands of fans gathered on a hill in Heaton Park to catch a glimpse regardless. Now, its party atmosphere is immortalised in photographer Gabriel Purcell’s new zine.

  • Music
  • Isaac Muk
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© Jessie Cowan

In photos: California’s youth squaring up to an uncertain future

Desperate, Scared, But Social — Amid a tumultuous year in the Golden State, the 2025 California Biennial focuses on those coming of age into an intensifying climate crisis, and widening division and inequality.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen

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