Culture
A gritty portrait of a diverse community in Glasgow
Govanhill Street Level — Photographer Simon Murphy discusses his project which aims to shed new light on the maligned and often misunderstood residents of a vibrant neighbourhood in Scotland.
Written by: Claire Hutchison
Documenting the tradition of Japan’s female pearl divers
The ama — Photographer Stefan Dotter recalls travelling to the city of Toba to capture a community of women who are among the very few keeping an ancient deep-sea diving custom alive.
Written by: Huck
The photographer risking it all to capture Kashmir’s conflict
Danger zone — For the past 10 years, Syed Shahriyar has photographed gun battles across the Indian subcontinent and the funerals of militants and policemen. Despite the danger, he’s determined to document life there for future generations.
Written by: Bea Tridimas
The photographer capturing Covid’s impact on children
School’s out — After hearing about some of the difficulties children were facing in lockdown, Bex Day decided to document subjects all under the age of 13 to explore just how significantly their lives had changed.
Written by: Huck
The poet & #Merky Books winner uplifting a generation
Monika Radojevic in conversation — After co-winning Stormzy’s publishing imprint’s inaugural New Writers’ Prize, the 25-year-old is gearing up for the release of her debut poetry collection – an urgent book about identity, ancestry and history.
Written by: Beatrice Tridimas
Surreal photos of solitude in the American desert
Ghost town — Photographer Fei Alexeli recalls travelling from her hometown in Greece to the Californian desert, where she captured the abandoned buildings and empty towns dotted around the vast landscape.
Written by: Huck
The vigilante group tackling LGBTQ+ hate crime in London
Bender Defenders — With hate crimes on the rise and trust in the institutions tasked with dealing with them swiftly declining, a new street defence movement is coming out to protect queer Londoners from violence.
Written by: Rosie Hewitson
Why we must interrogate the limits of ‘consent culture’
Tomorrow sex will be good again — Writer and academic Katherine Angel discusses her new book, which urges readers to rethink the concept of consent as the be-all and end-all of a ‘good’ sexual encounter, recognising it instead as a slippery notion.
Written by: Daisy Schofield
A photographer’s colourful ode to her grandma in Russia
Obsession of Return — Kseniia Grebennikova describes documenting her larger-than-life grandmother in her secluded hometown of Nevelsk as part of a project that allowed her to embrace childhood nostalgia.
Written by: Huck
Portraits of criminals & victims at the crime scene
Revisiting the past — After experiencing violent crime himself in his hometown of South Africa, the late photographer David Goldblatt set out to understand what leads criminals to that pivotal moment.
Written by: Bea Tridimas