Culture
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.
Written by: Miss Rosen
Striking photos of the Royal Shrovetide football match
The centuries old tradition sees the town of Ashbourne transformed for two days every February.
Written by: Huck
“We are constantly fighting with demons”: Emin Özmen on Turkey’s turbulent decade
The Magnum photographer talks about his new book covering protests, political crises, and human tragedy.
Written by: Isaac Muk
Director Steve McQueen explores life under occupation
Past and present collide in Steve McQueen and Bianca Stigter’s Occupied City, an experimental documentary about Amsterdam under Nazi occupation.
Written by: Shelley Jones
A glimpse inside the world’s most secretive arms fairs
Photojournalist Nikita Teryoshin spent eight years travelling to “defence shows” around the world, capturing the surreal and sickening ways weapons of destruction are bought and sold.
Written by: Isaac Muk
Inside the wild world of online pig racing
The League of Pigs released its first video in 2020 and has since amassed almost 100,000 subscribers and millions of views, but the creator remains elusive.
Written by: Lucy Carter
Inside life on Tijuana’s garbage dumps
Jack Lueders-Booth spent nine summers documenting a community who scratched out a living among trash.
Written by: Isaac Muk
In Photos: One night in an unlicensed boxing club
The one 1994 evening that photographer Bruce Gilden spent in a blue collar boxing club in suburban Kent is the subject of his new photobook.
Written by: Isaac Muk
In Photos: The secret gay language still in use today
A hot soup of influences and cultures, Polari offered queer people protection and freedom to communicate Professor Paul Baker tells us alongside a photo essay by photographer Felix Pilgrim.
Written by: Josh Jones
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.
Written by: Miss Rosen