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Fashion

‘I do not see a stereotypical sexual object’: FKA twigs on her CK ad ban

The musician responded to her banned Calvin Klein campaign on Instagram

Fashion

Jan 11, 2024

Emma Elizabeth Davidson

Art & Photography

10 compelling photo books to look out for in 2024

From the history of Black women photographers in Britain to discontent German teens and liberating nudes in an Eden-like garden, we take a look through some of next year’s diverse and hotly-anticipated photo books…

Art & Photography

Jan 02, 2024

Lydia Figes

Beauty

Protesters outside Peckham Hair and Cosmetics

Why the Peckham beauty shop protests matter

In an industry that survives on the Black Pound, we must take a stand against beauty shops that engage in anti-Blackness and racist violence

Beauty

Sep 14, 2023

Halima Jibril

Art & Photography

Inside Barcelona’s Voodoo Club: the underground party centring Black joy

These photographs document the club, which was created as a safe haven for the city’s Black and POC community

Art & Photography

Feb 08, 2023

Aaraf Adam

Art & Photography

The Atlanta collective challenging the art world’s white gaze

DREAM is a new project by Atlanta-based art collective Jusu Studios, a community of creatives celebrating the boundless, self-defining power of the Black experience

Art & Photography

Feb 01, 2023

Gilda Bruno

Art & Photography

Watch: Jade O’Belle’s film Birthright unearths the power of ritual

The artist’s mesmerising short film explores heritage, ancestry, fem-identity and ritual

Art & Photography

Jan 25, 2023

Elodie Saint-Louis

Art & Photography

What Matters Most: Photographs of Black Life (2023)

These found photos capture fleeting moments of Black American life

What Matters Most gathers together hundreds of displaced portraits of Black families from Zun Lee’s vast archive of unclaimed photographs

Art & Photography

Jan 13, 2023

Emily Dinsdale

Art & Photography

Gabriella Angotti-Jones, I Just Wanna Surf (2022)

The zine centring and celebrating Black women surfers

I Just Wanna Surf offers a joyful vision of POC women and non-binary surfers growing up on the beaches of California

Art & Photography

Oct 14, 2022

Emily Dinsdale

Art & Photography

Watch the trailer for Jade O’Belle’s mesmerising film Birthright

The short film explores selfhood, bodies, power and rituals as the artist reclaims their Yoruba heritage

Art & Photography

Sep 23, 2022

Emily Dinsdale

Art & Photography

Johny Pitts’ photos capture the beauty of Black British culture

In his rich and evocative images, the Sheffield-born photographer explores ‘how complicated this country is’

Art & Photography

Sep 07, 2022

Emily Dinsdale

Art & Photography

Alberta Whittle, Lagareh, “The Last Born” (2022)

Why artist Alberta Whittle is imploring us to ‘invest in love’

The artist reveals the motivation behind the new exhibition representing Scotland at this year’s Venice Biennale

Art & Photography

Apr 26, 2022

Emily Dinsdale

Art & Photography

Island Gals: vibrant photos of South Africa’s women skateboarders

Karabo Mooki’s portraits depict the all-women skateboard culture emerging in Johannesburg

Art & Photography

Apr 13, 2022

Emily Dinsdale

Art & Photography

Hilton Als on bringing Toni Morrison’s groundbreaking work to life visually

Having created a visual narrative of her work for Toni Morrison’s Black Book, the Pulitzer winner talks fan letters, the ‘Black global village’, and feeling bored by the language around race

Art & Photography

Feb 08, 2022

Amah-Rose McKnight-Abrams

Art & Photography

Nadine Ijewere is the photographer reframing exclusory notions of beauty

A new monograph, Nadine Ijewere: Our Own Selves, traces the career of the groundbreaking British fashion photographer whose distinctive, dazzling work celebrates diversity

Art & Photography

Oct 12, 2021

Emily Dinsdale

Art & Photography