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Spotify creates a series of tapestries for Florence + The Machine album launch

Dance Fever is Florence + The Machine’s first album release in four years, and was created during lockdown. Whereas its title might initially conjure up disco, there’s nothing quite as predictable as that here, and in fact its inspiration comes more from the medieval era, with one track, Choreomania, referring to the 14th century phenomena of people dancing themselves into...

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Why culture needs the female gaze

When we talk about the ‘female gaze’ in photography or otherwise, we are referring to a viewpoint which comes from the life experiences of a person who identifies as female. Those experiences that could have been shaped by how that person has been treated throughout their life, at home and in society, as a direct result of their identity. “Obviously...

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Spike Lee directs Nike 50th anniversary spot

Spike Lee first introduced the fast-talking, Brooklyn-loving character of Mars Blackmon in his acclaimed 1986 movie She’s Gotta Have It. He returns in full effect in the new Nike spot, wearing his distinctive uniform of a Brooklyn cycling cap and giant ‘Mars’ chain and is shown playing chess in a Brooklyn park while declaring how he’s “seen it all” when...

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Trevor Stuurman’s London exhibition is a masterclass in self-portraiture

The exhibition, titled Life Through the Lens, is hosted at Doyle Wham – a newly launched space in London’s Shoreditch, set up as the UK’s first contemporary African photography gallery. It’s Stuurman’s debut solo show outside of his home country of South Africa, and brings together a series of self-portraits alongside images from his Hairitage series documenting African hair culture....

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Trevor Stuurman’s London exhibition is a masterclass in self-portraiture

The exhibition, titled Life Through the Lens, is hosted at Doyle Wham – a newly launched space in London’s Shoreditch, set up as the UK’s first contemporary African photography gallery. It’s Stuurman’s debut solo show outside of his home country of South Africa, and brings together a series of self-portraits alongside images from his Hairitage series documenting African hair culture....

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Trevor Stuurman’s London exhibition is a masterclass in self-portraiture

The exhibition, titled Life Through the Lens, is hosted at Doyle Wham – a newly launched space in London’s Shoreditch, set up as the UK’s first contemporary African photography gallery. It’s Stuurman’s debut solo show outside of his home country of South Africa, and brings together a series of self-portraits alongside images from his Hairitage series documenting African hair culture....

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Trevor Stuurman’s London exhibition is a masterclass in self-portraiture

The exhibition, titled Life Through the Lens, is hosted at Doyle Wham – a newly launched space in London’s Shoreditch, set up as the UK’s first contemporary African photography gallery. It’s Stuurman’s debut solo show outside of his home country of South Africa, and brings together a series of self-portraits alongside images from his Hairitage series documenting African hair culture....

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Trevor Stuurman’s London exhibition is a masterclass in self-portraiture

The exhibition, titled Life Through the Lens, is hosted at Doyle Wham – a newly launched space in London’s Shoreditch, set up as the UK’s first contemporary African photography gallery. It’s Stuurman’s debut solo show outside of his home country of South Africa, and brings together a series of self-portraits alongside images from his Hairitage series documenting African hair culture....