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How has the Russia of today changed since the days of the Soviet empire, if at all? Schilt Gallery in Amsterdam is addressing that very question with a group exhibition by photographers whose work spans the period from the last throes of the USSR to...
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What's going on in the Arctic Circle? Not a lot, one might think. A handful of lonely scientists huddled in windswept outposts, testing ice samples for goodness knows what and presumably wishing they'd chosen a different profession. Evgenia...
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A photography competition aiming to draw attention to issues surrounding human rights is being held at the Venice International Film Festival in September. Rena Effendi: Ala Tarasova 68 years old. Ethnically Russian, she fled Sukhumi,...
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Liverpool born and bred, Jane MacNeil is a photographer who understands archetypal Britishness. We last caught up with MacNeil taking pictures of people taking pictures; iPads in bad faux-leather sleeves aloft, watching life through a technology...
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Kazuo Kitai is a Japanese photographer with a difference. While many of his colleagues were concentrating on urban living and/or eroticism, Kitai made the decision early in his career to head into rural Japan, beginning a fascinating 50-year...
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No one does death quite like the Mexicans, and no one documents the country's unique and spooky folk spirituality like Angus Fraser. The UK photographer has scooped the inaugural Bar Tur Photobook Award for his Santa Muerte project, which saw the...
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In the first four months of 2015, around 1600 refugees died making the perilous journey across the Mediterranean sea from Libya to the Italian island of Lampedusa. The continuing human tragedy moved Chudamani Clowes to consider migration,...
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God bless America. Where would we be without their military going around building bases in other countries' backyards, making everyone feel so much safer? Back in 1953, Spain and the USA signed a treaty of economic aid and defence, and the diggers...
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Los Angeles is a city like no other. A sprawling, sun-bleached and dehydrated mass, supine in the California earth under a heavy blanket of heat and exhaust gas, head wreathed in national park forest, body choked and clogged, feet stretching to the...
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The hippie movement was very much of its time. With the aftershocks of the Second World War still reverberating loudly, the counter-culture movement rejected the conventions of the pre-war Western world, turning its back on the notions of capitalism...
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First off it was something I'd seen on newsgroups (ask your dad) for literally decades, then it was something that kids started doing — obsessively — on text messages, before it filtered onto the newly born social networks, soon it was...
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Judy Chicago has been a driving force in American art since the late 1960s, and a show of historic works from across the artist's career is introducing a new generation to the feminist pioneer. Series such as Star Cunts (1969)...
City Notes
Chefs Karina Mejía and Israel Montero combine the tradition of Provençal cuisine with the soul and passion of Mexico in Saint Jacques Bistrot, their new gastronomic spot in the capital city's affluent Polanco neighbourhood. Allowing diners to...
City Notes
Located next door to Hotel Wilmina, which is housed in a former Berlin-Charlottenburg women's prison, Lotta Tagesbar has opened its doors, the café cum deli and bar designed by the same team behind Wilmina and serving an exquisite menu of healthy...
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With an enviable seafront location close to Barcelona and its airport, and having undergone a recent refurbishment, AC Hotel Gavà Mar is a 69-room hotel that is ideal for the business traveller, but also a surprising destination for the discerning...
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With interiors inspired by the Art Deco of Palm Beach County in Miami, and serving delicious ice cream on a newly pedestrianised street just off Barcelona's renowned Passeig de Gràcia, Amiko is not simply a 'heladería', rather it's a sensory...
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Minimalism and elegance, too, are gaining fast as popular choices for serene, sophisticated interiors. Simplicity, clean lines, and curative approaches to decor are all that these two styles are made of, bringing home really calm and clarity within...
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Finding the best Botox experts in Toronto can feel overwhelming, given the many options available. To focus your search, consider professionals with extensive experience and positive client reviews. A key step in identifying top specialists is...
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Wellness Trends for 2025: A series of posts designed to uncover the most progressive concepts in wellness for the year ahead. Number Eight: Restorative Home Design. In the pursuit of wellness, many people are turning their attention homeward....
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Austin’s housing market has seen a significant boom in recent years, with many homeowners looking to boost their property’s value through home improvement projects. In a city where home prices continue to rise, updating key areas of a property,...