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We’re going to party like…

…it’s your birthday. Celebrating her 25th birthday tomorrow (27th October 2009), our intern Veerle took to her camera for a comical celebration of sorts. Although we’re pretty sure things should normally happen the other way around (we give YOU a present Veerle, not the other way around), we’re always a happy bunch when our visual […]

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Polaroid perfection

Upon the release of her book Diaries, Greek photographer Chryssa Nikoleri – who photographed a Greek MEP for our September issue‘s piece on the concerns some had on the supposed benefits of Nano technology – sent us some of the polaroids published in the book. With no clear line of thought, the collection of instant […]

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Mind set on Iran…

Sarah, one of our photographers, and her boyfriend Yves, just came back from three weeks travelling around Iran. She took some mesmerising pictures, he ever so kindly scribbled down some words for us: “Let’s get one thing straight. Iran is not a terrorist nation. It must be one of the easiest countries to travel in. […]

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On the way to the office…

It was our new intern Veerle‘s first couple of days at work last week. Coming from Ghent, she has quite a daily commute to get through. In the process of finishing a Masters in Photography at the city’s KASK academy we asked her for a weekly visual diary of her travels…here’s part one.

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10 years of Showstudio – The party

We rediscovered 10 years of old Showstudio projects at the opening party of the exhibition at Somerset House on Monday; there were plenty of highpoints, including Alexander McQueen turning a bridegroom into a bride for Transformer and Julie Verhoven’s erotic interactive wallpaper, and we loved the way they managed to keep the audience-participation tone of […]

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Jpegs by Thomas Ruff

In Bennett Simpson’s opening essay for Ruff’s “jpegs“, the Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles remarks: “Jpegs is about the way photographs have become most widely experienced today, as digital images on the Web, compressed and hyper-functionalized…” Presenting a collection of images found on the web, and enlarged by the […]