We invited five young creatives based in New York to speak with us about their work and and the best music scenes in NYC. Finishing off with a photograph that encapsulates the city, read on to find out what they had to say: AXL VALENTINE Introduce yourself: Eddy Mondely AKA AXL VALENTINE. What’s your… Read more »
Words by Jess Ralph Chris Killip is hailed as one of the most influential and pioneering British photographers of the latter half of the 20th century. Now, two years after his death from lung cancer in October 2020, The Photographers Gallery, Soho, is staging a major retrospective of his work, put together by photographer Ken Grant and curator… Read more »
We featured the work of Rene Matić back in 2019 (read here). So, their new two-month long show, Upon This Rock, (at the South London Gallery) was in our diary for a visit as soon as it was announced. Matić is a Peterborough born and bred artist whose work has a satisfyingly recurrent theme of the… Read more »
Alma’s world is one of colour, motion, eccentricity, and fun. Drawing on themes such as gender performance, identity, and escapism, the London-based photographer blends multiple photography and production techniques to create larger than life works that feel like the modern-day love child of pop art and surrealism. Tell us a bit about yourself – where… Read more »
All photography by Jessie-Rose SaiakuNana is a Japanese contemporary artist, currently based in London. She has been holding solo exhibitions in Tokyo since 2015, and in 2018, she was awarded the TARO Award at the 21st Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art. In 2021, SaiakuNana opened a gallery in Shoreditch exhibiting her original artworks. Situated… Read more »
The idea of printing onto fabric, has been around some 1800 years when silk printing was developed in China. It was only in the 1960s, through the technological advance of screen printing, that it was possible to print economically onto T Shirts, and remember that the T Shirt itself had only been around since the… Read more »
As a brand informed by subculture and music, it is the subcultures of past that inspire us to serve the cultures of today. The late 70s served as the catalyst of a movement that has inspired generations since. The punk scene, evolving out of the underground garage rock scene of the early-to-mid 70s, was a… Read more »
Based within the creative London scene, Sodoma Xia uses her work to explore her self-identity. As a multi-disciplinary artist, Sodoma chooses to use both fashion photography, styling, fashion design, and digital arts to inform her style. She is heavily influenced by the club and dance scene, which has driven her artistic style. For our ‘New… Read more »
Being a self-taught artist, at what age did you stumble across photography and start to realise that it was something you connected with as an art form? I remember when I was a kid, I loved going through the family photo albums and I have vivid memories of looking through filmstrips and opening envelopes containing… Read more »
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