Skinhead subculture has a long and complex history. The subculture drew influence from the earlier Mod style and originally had the music of Jamaican musicians in the 60's as it's soundtrack. Those involved in the subculture had a sense of working class pride and these attributes were often recognised in...
Fabrizio Albertini: Diary of an Italian Borderworker
border-worker [ ˈbôrd|ər ˈwər|kər] noun. Inhabitant of the borderlands between two countries; a worker who, resident in one area, must cross the border daily to reach their place of work. Diary of an Italian Border-worker is a story that wends through the streets as traversed by a border-worker. A passage...
Laurent Baheux: The Family Album of Wild Africa
Within Laurent Baheux lies a burning desire to preserve nature’s primitive spectacle and take action for the protection of animals, which he does by breathing soul and individuality into his subjects. In The Family Album of Wild Africa, he portrays the intimate bond between the mammals of the Dark Continent and...
Bobby Neel Adams: Memento Mori
These Memento Mori photographs are a contemporary take on the Sixteenth century Flemish Vanitas painting movement . The decaying subject matter symbolizes the ephemeral nature of life and the certainty of death. The photographs pay homage to the many species that have been pushed to the margins by the human...
Don McCullin: Retrospective
First published in 2001, this retrospective survey offers both an examination of Don McCullin's photographic career as well as a record of half a century of international conflict. Coinciding with the photographer's eightieth birthday, this expanded edition of Don McCullin serves as fitting homage to a photographer who dedicated his...
Interview with documentary photographer Elena Anosova
Originally hailing from the picturesque region of Baikal, artist Elena Anosova (born in 1983) is currently based in Moscow and Irkutsk. Anosova graduated from the The Rodchenko ArtSchool, Moscow, Russia in 2016. Anosova’s work is centered around lives of women in closed institutions, isolation, social stigmatization. The impulse of research...
Julia Abzaltdinova: Noise in the Park
A park as an open grassy green area, designed for enjoying your leisure time, appeared on the wave of Romanticism in the XVIII century. Opened to public city parks appeared in Europe only at the beginning of the XIX century. Parks were promoting the cult of nature, harmony, quietness, seclusion....
Alena Zhandarova: Puree with a taste of Triangles
I like to try something what I didn't do before, to expand the perception of the world. I fascinate by the opportunity to try myself as a fabler with my own heroes, the chance to transform my inner feeling of the world to visual form, from chaos to cosmos. It...
Alain Schroeder: Living for Death
In Toraja, the rituals associated with death are complex, require extensive planning and are expensive. Therefore, when a person dies, it can take weeks, months even years for the family to organize the funeral. During this time, the deceased is considered to be "sick" and kept at home. Relatives continue...