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My Nipples Get Harder Than Your Dick”
“My Nipples Get Harder Than Your Dick” is an ongoing project by non-binary photographer Maria Bolz exploring gender identity, bodily autonomy, and external perception through self-portraiture. Blending vulnerability with humour, Bolz confronts the projections and misunderstandings imposed onto their body, reclaiming the gaze as an act of resistance and self-determination.
Meteor Ghosts
In Meteor Ghosts, photographer Florian Luthi revisits a little-known 1954 UFO case in the Jura, tracing how a children’s story evolved into local folklore and international sensation. Blending archival research, documentary photography, and staged imagery, the project explores the fragile space between testimony and invention across the mist-covered landscapes of the French-Swiss border.
En suspens – regards d'une jeunesse
This collaborative fine-art photography project by Romane Bladou, explores teenage life in rural southern France. Photographed with a large-format camera, it captures the liminal energy of adolescence, the waiting, the ardour, the quiet act of claiming space. A portrait of a territory seen through its youngest inhabitants' eyes.
3 Minutes read
Strawberry Blue
Strawberry Blue is a meditative fine-art photography project by Marinos Tsagkarakis, set in a dreamlike Dutch park. Born from the aftermath of migration, it traces an intimate journey of displacement, identity and wandering slowly transforms into growing new roots.
SEEN – Haircuts4Homeless
Interview with photographer Jack Eames who has spent years documenting Haircuts4Homeless, using his fashion and beauty background to create portraits that humanise people experiencing homelessness.
PLAYING IT KOOL
It’s been over a decade since KIELL SMITH-BYNOE first started appearing regularly on UK TV screens – pulling focus in everything from comedy staples Stath Lets Flats and Ghosts, to cosy whodunnit Death In Paradise and chaotic game show Taskmaster.
7 minutes read
Remains
In Remains, photographer Hamzeh Zahran reflects on returning to Amman with the distance of diaspora, confronting a fractured sense of home.
I Hope Your Family is Safe
Anya Tsaruk’s project “I Hope Your Family Is Safe” is named after a phrase she has heard many times since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine – words meant to comfort, but that feel uncertain and hard to answer. Her work explores what ‘safety’ really means in a country at war.
Los Amigos Invisibles – The Enduring Rhythm
For more than thirty years, Los Amigos Invisibles have crafted a sound where funk, Latin rhythms, disco and house collide with effortless groove. Born in Caracas and embraced worldwide, the band remains a singular bridge between live musicianship and club culture.
7 Minutes read
Rain & Shine
Glossy and shimmery beauty looks return with a dash of imperfection. Is it a nostalgic reminder of times when print media, your inner circle, or cultural knowledge dominated?
A Dream That You Would Never Wake Up
A Dream That You Would Never Wake Up From explores migration as a perpetual crossing between lands, memories and identities. Through collaged photographs, the artist reflects on displacement, ancestral histories and emotional borders.
Gipsy Horses
Photographer Charly García discovered an unexpected cowboy community in Flanders, Belgium – far from the landscapes usually associated with this culture.
Beirut, Recurring Dream
Photographer Tanya Traboulsi explores Beirut as a landscape shaped by memory, exile, and imagination. Blending photographs with archival traces, the work navigates the tension between past and present, reality and fiction.
Avant-Pop Magic
Maddie Ashman is an emerging British avant-pop musician pushing boundaries and maintaining her sense of self, all whilst garnering a dedicated listenership by way of her experimental self-recorded home performances.
The Archeological Bazaar
Photographer Federico Possati examines Italy’s Pianura Padana as a landscape reshaped by industry, consumption, and erasure.
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mother-land
In mother-land, artist Chia Yun Wu reflects on Taiwan’s political isolation through the intimate lens of migration and family separation. Layering personal photographs with evocative landscapes, Wu creates a parallel world shaped by memory, distance, and uncertainty.
Innerland
Innerland is an ongoing series of portraits by Tania Shcheglova, capturing creatives from around the world – those who dare to look into their own souls and connect with the deepest parts of their psyche.
Castle in the Clouds
Photographer Lenny Steinhauer explores the fragile afterlife of a modernist social utopia that still functions today. The Ihme-Zentrum in Hanover is a brutalist structure caught between decay and persistence, revealing how a seemingly hopeless architectural vision is sustained by the people who continue to inhabit and give meaning to it.