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All Hail Kahlil (again)

Friday, May 3, 2013

Now that the tired old joke about Kriss Kross is no longer a joke, and the April Fool’s thing about Boards of Canada turned out to be no joke either (not to mention B. Kruger, who wrote down the biggest/truest sentence of the year 2013 in a document entitled “fools.doc”), we don’t want you to [...]

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PUNK & OYSTERS

Friday, April 19, 2013

Last week our mono.kultur #33 with the great Kim Gordon, was successfully launched in Glasgow. Although ‘Washing Machine. Noise Reloaded’ was a night dedicated to Punk, we couldn’t help to spoil our guests with some Oysters and Bloody Mary’s served by our friend Luke Collins. Watching a documentary on Sonic Youth while slurping Oysters! Is [...]

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WHAT ALI WORE

Thursday, March 28, 2013

This is, of course, what Berlin dreams are made of: Australian photographer Zoe Pawton, based in Berlin and also working in a café in hipster district Neukölln, presumably to make ends meet, noticed Ali passing by every morning, looking impeccably stylish at 83 (and being a father of 18 kids), got friendly with him, asked [...]

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Finding Vivian Maier

Monday, March 4, 2013

We mentioned her work before, but apparently the feature-length documentary about Vivian Maier, the incredibly talented nanny who turned out to be one of the originators of street photography, is going to hit cinemas later this year.

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STUDIO OF AI WEIWEI

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Previous interviewee  Ai Weiwei got a studio visit from photographer Jamie Hawkesworth, the honest results are fantastic, from his unhappy slumped expression on the table to the police man loitering around outside his studio. These photographs show great reality to the fact he’s still not allowed to leave China. Jamie was commissioned by AnOther Magazine, [...]

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CODY

Thursday, February 7, 2013

A rather disturbing short portrait of California youth by the brilliant AG Rojas – originally part of a portrait project for Dazed Digital, make sure to watch it until the end, when things take a decidedly awkward turn…

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SOMEWHERE TO DISAPPEAR

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

As winter stretches on, the short days and February weather encourage particularly hermit-like behavior in all of us – at least until spring is here. It seems perfectly appropriate then, that I finally got around to watching Somewhere to Disappear, a short documentary following photographer Alec Soth on his trail to find and document those [...]

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Vacationing documentationing

Saturday, January 19, 2013

If you don’t know what to say, make a picture of it, one might argue. But there lies beauty in conformity, too. That’s what we like to take from this collection of vacation proof. In fact, it’s the smartphone way to document leisure time in the sun, either on the beach or at the pool, [...]

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THIS WILD IDEA

Thursday, December 20, 2012

This year, as any year, really, there has been lots of coverage of that wild beast called the United States of America, place of our fantasies and projections alike for the last century or so. But our fantasies or projections, or Hollywood movies for that matter, don’t necessarily come anywhere close to reality, which is [...]

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THE SHUTTERED SOCIETY

Thursday, November 1, 2012

The Berlinische Galerie stages the world’s first comprehensive exhibition of art photography in the GDR. Twenty years after the Wall, The Shuttered Society identifies traditions and trends while illustrating shifts in visual idiom and theme.
The retrospective thus contributes to the present discourse about photography that has unfolded in recent years with a flurry of exhibitions [...]

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