Easter comes laden with traditions: Easter egg hunts, egg painting and hot cross buns to name a few. Some more bizarre than others, though; the residents of Haux in France, for example, like to make an omelette large enough to feed 1,000 people every Easter Monday lunch – that’s about 5,000 eggs worth of omelette(…)
Ikea, how we love you. A trip to Ikea is, without a doubt, considered a day out by most of us. Maybe all of us? And the fun doesn’t stop at re-imagining your whole life story in keeping with the model kitchen you’ve meandered your way into. No. It’s just as much about filling your belly on their world famous meatballs, isn’t it?(…)
Style for Soldiers, the inspiring charity set up by English shirtmaker Emma Willis, who provide smart, well-fitting, formal clothing to the numerous soldiers who were injured in Iraq and Afghanistan, teamed up with acclaimed war photographer Giles Duley for a photo shoot that will live long in our memory. So much so we wanted to(…)
This time we get the pleasure of focusing our photographer spotlight on the wonderful Jarek Duk; a man who certainly knows the fashion industry. How did you start in Photography and decide it was the career for you? I’ve been all over the place since I was 19. I left Poland and went to(…)
Photographer: Nick Turpin In the twelfth instalment of our Photographer Spotlight series, we talk to London born Street Photographer Nick Turpin How did you start in Photography and decide it was the career for you? I specialised in photography at art college, initially as an art form, and then increasingly as a documentary tool. I did(…)
Photographer: Carl Bigmore In the eleventh instalment of our Photographer series, we talk to UK Photographer Carl Bigmore 1. How did you start in Photography and decide it was the career for you? I was interested in photography from a relatively young age. My grandfather was a keen amateur photographer and worked in imaging for Kodak.(…)
The next instalment of our Directors Highlight is Greek born director, Yorgas Lanthimos. Yorgas Lanthimos is an award winning director who’s recently released his 6th feature film, the award season contender, The Favourite, starring Olivia Coleman, Emma Stone and Rachel Weiss. The film has been getting rave reviews, one such review has described the film as(…)
If you regularly frequent the fringes of the Dalston-Stoke Newington border you’ll know that it’s constantly chucking out something new. New shops, new cafes, new bars, new creative hubs. But the real intrigue comes from the, more often than not, perfectly formed queue awaiting entry to a subtle, rather inconspicuous door with EartH stamped above it. Well, contrary(…)
Even if you’re a veteran of the game, lighting in a studio setting can be tricksome. If you’re starting out as a studio photographer then the very thought of trying to position a whole bevy of different lights without a clue of where to put them is enough to make you call home and confess(…)
It’s happening. There’s finally a slight nip in the air when heading to work. Conversations are steering away from talk of what rooftop bar to clamber up to, which open air cinema is showing your all time summer classic. Even plans to swing by the ice cold but warmly welcomed Hackney Marshes are ceasing to(…)