Miss Rosen
Revisiting London’s East End During the ‘70s and ‘80s
Photographer Bandele ‘Tex’ Ajetunmobi spent five decades crafting an intimate portrait of the East End as seen through the eyes of a consummate insider.
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The “King of Fetish” Revisits the Golden Age of Zines
A new exhibition and catalogue look back at a radical chapter of underground publishing which saw zines become the medium of choice for artists, musicians, filmmakers, and writers.
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Inside the archives of West Africa’s oldest operating photo studio
Photographer J.K. Bruce-Vanderpuije’s extensive body of work is the subject of a new exhibition charting the changing shape of Ghana.
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A gritty portrait of radicals and upstarts in 1980s Hulme
Photographer Richard Davis revisits this electric era from his youth in new book, Hulme (Manchester).
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A 90s tale of sex, drugs and rock & roll in New York
In new book, The Ballad of Speedball Baby, Ali Smith revisits an era that glitters like shards of broken glass scattered on the sidewalk.
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Pride and Privilege: challenging the myths of white America
Photographer Kris Graves’s new monograph, ‘Privileged Mediocrity’ explores the American landscape at the dawn of the 21st century.
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Road Tripping Across 1980s America
After graduating university, photographer Sage Sohier set forth on a series of adventures with nothing but a paper map as her guide.
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A vivid history of LGBTQ+ counterculture in 1980s New York
With the exhibition ‘Drag Show’, curator Paul Baker Prindle revisits this fabled chapter of LGBTQ+ history, celebrating the iconoclasts, radicals, and renegades who forged their own path during the height of the AIDS crisis.
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Young, Gifted and Black: A Portrait of South Africa Today
Meet the “Ama2000s” refashioning the landscape of art, fashion and music in their own image.
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Revisiting FESTAC ‘77, the largest pan-African festival in World history
A new exhibition takes a photographic look at the event which was envisioned as a restoration of power, solidarity and genius after 500 years of subjugation.
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