The 1970s was a traumatic decade for London. Changes in global trade disrupted all sectors of the economy. As docks and factories closed, so inner city London developed a landscape of dereliction and decay. The IRA bombing campaign brought fear to the capital's streets. The population was shrinking and unemployment...
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Per-Anders Pettersson: Rainbow Transit
In Spring 1994 Per-Anders Pettersson arrived in South Africa to cover the country’s first democratic elections. Nelson Mandela was to become its first black president; he had been free for four years and had toured the world like a rock star. The election itself was of immense significance: from the...
Vintage color: City Life of Hong Kong in 1976
Collection of rare Kodachrome slides taken by an unknown US Navy Commander in Hong Kong in 1976. via m20wc51
Michael Weintrob: Instrumenthead
Instrumenthead is a photographic series created to tell the story of the musicians without showing their faces. You’re invited to be a part of the making of Instrumenthead - a fine art hardcover book that presents musicians in a way you’ve never seen before. “Exhibiting my Instrumenthead portraits has been...
Antonio Zazueta Olmos: The Landscape of Murder
The Landscape of Murder documents all the sites where murders occurred in London between January 1st, 2011 and December 31st, 2012. In total 210 murders were committed over this two year period.Most murders make the news for only a fleeting moment and the landscape in which they occur reverts back...
Luxury Sunbathing captured by Vogue (1940s and 1950s)
Vogue archive capture the classic feminine essence and luxury sunbathing in 1940 and 1950s.
Richard Gilligan: DIY/Underground Skateparks
Irish photographer and skateboarder Richard Gilligan spent four years traveling through Europe and the US to photograph homemade skateparks. The resulting photographs are not your run-of-the-mill action shots filled with miraculous body moves, slashes, twists, and turns. Instead, Gilligan chooses to focus on the sport's "negative space." The out-of-the-way concrete...
Dougie Wallace: Stags, Hens & Bunnies
Blackpool has an unenviable reputation for its stag and hen parties. Every weekend marauding packs of brides and grooms, close friends and family, overflow its streets on a mission to consume dangerous, liver-crushing levels of alcohol. This, their rite of passage acted out on the last night of freedom, before...
Farhad Rahman: Song of a Coast
The sea changes by time. Land lost with reaming past. New story created with a new settlement. Time changes people’s lives beside the sea. Mood of coast, swinging randomly, changing its landscape. Born in a small country like Bangladesh, with 580km of Coastal area beside the Bay of Bengal, it...
Tamas Dezso: HERE, ANYWHERE
The map of Hungary is speckled with capsules of time. During the political transformation twenty years ago, as the country experienced change it simply forgot about certain places – streets, blocks of flats, vacant sites and whole districts became self-defined enclosures, where today a certain out-dated, awkward, longed-to-be-forgotten Eastern Europeanness...