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ICONS – Lee Miller
Lee Miller’s sprawling odyssey of a life is a profound achievement. She changed the world as a model, artist and journalist during World War II, leaving a deeper mark on all three disciplines than most people could hope to achieve in a lifetime. We take a look at her tour-de-force career.
Mille-Feuilles
Mille-Feuilles (A Thousand Layers) is a decade-long photographic project exploring bi-national identity, inherited longing, and imagined belonging. Through layered, fragmentary images, it traces memory, migration, and placeless desire, questioning how images can become a refuge when home exists only as absence, fiction, and feeling.
The Grass Needs to Be Cut
The Grass Needs to Be Cut is a photographic project made in northern Portugal by Bruno Pereira Ribeiro, unfolding across seasons and repeated encounters with the tradition of Chegas de Bois. Through bulls, landscapes, and social rituals, the work examines power, place, and community, revealing a nuanced portrait of a region shaped by tradition and environment.
VOYEUR2 – Capturing desire, control and intimacy
Voyeur2 brings together eight photographers whose work interrogates kink and eroticism across multiple genders, sexualities and subcultures. For ZERO.NINE, curator and contributor Matt Ford interviewed Joaquin, a London-based gay portrait photographer who has spent over a decade inside the city’s fetish scene and is also part of the exhibition. He has shaped the visual identity of Fetish Week London and Recon, collaborated with the Tom of Finland Foundation, and contributed to major kink archives and exhibitions.
Archipelago
Archipelago explores the fragile balance between connection and solitude. Through staged scenes featuring friends and family, Yolanda del Amo examines how class, family, and gender shape our identities and relationships. Each photograph becomes an “island”: a quiet, charged space where intimacy and distance coexist, revealing the tensions of living together and apart.
Bat Portraits
Dr. José Martínez-Fonseca’s series Bat Portraits reflects his commitment to documenting wildlife in some of the world’s most understudied regions. Guided by a belief that photography and research can transform fear into understanding, he captures intimate, revealing portraits that highlight bats’ beauty and ecological importance. His images invite us to look closer – and to reconsider animals often misunderstood or overlooked.
Léonard Pongo: Apophenia
Congolese artist Léonard Pongo’s first solo show in the UK, Apophenia, explores ways of knowing a place as rich and complex as the DRC. He interprets the land as a reactive entity in an attempt to show that a living body of knowledge is a valuable as other more sterile ways of knowing a place. It’s a deeply moving act of decolonisation that functions on an almost sensory level. We spoke to him about his work.
Invisible Sun
Invisible Sun is a deeply personal photography book from photographer Amani Willett and Dust Collective. A visual meditation on survival, transformation, and fragility, the project traces the impact of childhood medical traumas and the ways they continue to reverberate through the present.
Sad Songs, New Hope
With The Closest We’ll Get, Irish singer-songwriter Nell Mescal transforms heartbreak into growth, navigating the blurred lines between love and friendship. Recorded live with producer Philip Weinrobe, the EP captures raw emotion and newfound confidence, a cathartic portrait of a young artist stepping fully into her own voice.
No Place Like Home
Inspired by Dorothy’s famous words, No Place Like Home reimagines the idea of home as both comfort and illusion. Set within an imaginary doll’s house, the series explores memory, loss, and identity, where the longing to return collides with the inescapable confines of nostalgia, femininity, and the shifting meaning of belonging.
Gumsucker
Gumsucker by Rory King mourns the vanishing Australian wilderness and the quiet erosion of spirit that follows. Through haunting, tender images of isolation and resilience, King’s work traces the tension between nature and civilization, where loss, memory, and belonging intertwine in a poetic reflection on the fading frontier and its lingering ghosts.
Bobby Soutar – Wicked Wednesday
From Wednesday weirdness and Wicked spectacle to Bridgerton elegance, Emmy-winning costume designer Bobby Soutar has stitched his way through some of the most iconic looks on screen. In our exclusive interview, he reveals how he went from acting to costumes, the chaos behind the seams and why 50s fashion is his dream playground.
Close to Home
In Close to Home, photographer Laura McCluskey turns her lens toward her grandparents’ house on the Isle of Sheppey — a place filled with memory, love, and quiet change. Shot over a decade, the project tenderly explores family, belonging, and the healing power of returning home.
Florida Boys
Florida Boys is a five-year photographic project by Florida-based photographer Josh Aronson that reimagines coming-of-age in the American South. Travelling Florida’s backroads with young men, Aronson stages tender, atmospheric scenes that explore masculinity, belonging and landscape. The images are presented in his exhibition at Baker–Hall (Miami, FL), on view October 18 – November 22, 2025.
ICONS – Thomas Hoepker: Objective Realities
Hoepker was the defining photojournalist of the past century. He took arguably the most prescient photo of 9/11 still in the collective conscience and worked with a clarity that cut through some of the most complex political events of the 20th century. He didn’t see himself as an artist, but had what he believed was a higher duty to the world. How did he manage this?
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From Runway to Rave
The after-show party for Matières Fécales’ latest collection at Paris Fashion Week unfolded deep into the night, a striking extension of the brand’s provocative vision. The queue outside already told us what to expect – this was the place to be. A following unique in the Fashion world, Hannah and Steven create a world, where music, art and fashion collide in the best possible way.
Birds of a Feather
Claire Rosen’s Birds of a Feather is a sumptuous new photobook that captures 120 live birds in vivid portraits staged against ornate, historically inspired backdrops. Blending art history, design, and ornithology, Rosen’s project reflects on humanity’s complicated relationship with nature.
Daniel Avery: Up in the Sky
In this exclusive interview in collaboration with Ibiza Sonica Radio, Daniel Avery takes us deep inside Tremor, his boldest album yet. From raw studio chemistry and fearless collaboration to weaving gritty textures with dreamy melodies, Avery reveals how he shaped a record built for freedom, emotion, and timeless dance-floor energy.