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Thursday, May 23, 2013

If there is such a thing as ‘Asian Photography’, then Li-Han Lin is living proof of a distinct eastern aesthetic – because I can’t imagine a European photographer capturing German suburbia in any way like this.
Says the Taiwanese-German artist: ‘The title of the exhibition 40723 refers to the postal code of Hilden, a little [...]

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BERLIN UNDERGROUND

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Sometimes living in a city you take the weirdest things for granted, simply because you are so used to them. For instance, I was always a little baffled that Berlin underground stations seemed slightly different one to another, but then again I never gave it much thought just how different they really are – until [...]

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BER

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Berlin independent photography gallery Pavlov’s Dog started a tradition last year of inviting 50 photographers for a themed group show – if you’re familiar with their (small-ish) space, you will know that that is no mean feat in itself. Coming up this Friday is the second installment, this time on a subject we never get [...]

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END OF POSTFUHRAMT

Thursday, March 7, 2013

After years of back and forths and maybes, tomorrow night will after all see the closing party of photography gallery c/o Berlin at the grand Postfuhramt Mitte, the former stables of the royal Prussian postal service, with an evening enlightened by our friends at Jutojo. But while c/o finally found a new and promising home [...]

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LET’S UPCYCLE THE WORLD II

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Berlin’s first concept store for upcycling fashion, the Upcycling Fashion Store, has moved and reopened on March 1 at Anklamerstrasse – find out what’s new!
On the photo: rebuilt sink and board with coat pegs of bicycle brakes by El Reinventor and Sag+Sal bags.
Upcycling Fashion Store
Anklamerstrasse 17, 10115 Berlin
Mon-Fri 11 am – 7 pm, Sat noon [...]

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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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MONTGOMERY MUSIC

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

As an imaginary Fado song for sailors is how our first book artist Robert Montgomery imagined the words for his contribution to the first ever biennial in India – the Kochi Muziris Biennale, which also includes works by two other mono.kultur cover stars, Cyprien Gaillard and Ai Weiwei. Montgomery’s work was installed on the façade [...]

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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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PRISONIA

Friday, September 21, 2012

The wonderful thing about photography is that while the medium might find it hard to reinvent itself, the world is full of unsuspected treasures and secrets that are just waiting to be unveiled by photography and never fail to surprise. Enter David Leventi, who is somewhat of a genius architecture photographer, even topping his amazing [...]

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SYRIAN DRAWINGS

Friday, August 17, 2012

It’s a rare and special thing these days for an illustrator to engage with political subjects, and looking at the amazing George Butler’s drawings from a recent trip to Syria, it makes you wonder why most illustrators even bother with drawing cars and cats when you could actually be doing something, well, amazing. It’s also [...]

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