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The rave exploring New York and New Jersey’s hidden crevices
Nocturnal Creatures Society — Founded in the wake of the pandemic, the underground party uses the Tri-state Area’s dense urban forest as a playground for its community. We spoke to photographer Matteo Cassina, who has been documenting it since its early editions.
Written by: Josh Jones
Naima Green’s intimate, imagined self-portrait of motherhood
Instead, I spin fantasies — After losing her Aunt Dot in 2023, the artist invested in a prosthetic pregnancy belly as a means of experimenting with the look and feel of carrying a child. Her new exhibition dives into her photographic explorations.
Written by: Miss Rosen
adidas’ new campaign spotlights Latine skateboarders
Nuestra Cultura Al Mundo — It focuses on Jenn Soto and Diego Nájera in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, at a time when ICE arrests continue to ramp up across the USA.
Written by: Isaac Muk
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.
Written by: Isaac Muk
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.
Written by: Miss Rosen
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.
Written by: Miss Rosen
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.
Written by: Miss Rosen
Ed Templeton’s new Toy Machine skate deck sets KKK on fire
Burning racism — It comes via his long running skate company and features a cartoon graphic of a klansman alight on a cross, as well as a broken swastika.
Written by: Isaac Muk
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.
Written by: Miss Rosen
Amos Badertscher’s crucial capturing of Baltimore’s queer underground
Images and Stories — A new survey of the photographer’s work presents his archive, which documents and preserves the city’s LGBTQ+ history and the stories of people living on the fringes of its society.
Written by: Miss Rosen
