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2025This bitter-sweet animation charts a unique kind of grief: the loss of naivety
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2025Photography as a wordless diary: Yasuhiko Iida’s new photobook humanises London
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2017Alexandra Leese on how her dual heritage influences her photography
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2019Dal Park animates the cultural differences between herself and her Korean grandmother
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2011Danny Markey
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2018Kaye Blegvad on the making of Dog Years, her book about surviving depression
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2019“If you feel like an alien in this society, it is probably a strength”: Lois Cohen on her visionary photography
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2015Erik Kessels' very poignant new project borne of his father's stroke
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2012Carson Ellis – a former hot dog vendor and a fantastic artist
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2017Joy Miessi’s self-documentation artworks communicate the feeling of displacement
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2019Rhea Dillon on portraying a “perspective of blackness on a day-to-day level”
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2018India Sleem’s Small Town Country Boy is a rich portrait of race, class and her dad
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2015The Anonymous Sex Journal is back, and this issue is all about wanking
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2019Jiří Makovec’s photographs meander between the personal and the universal
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2015Parts of a Whole Earth: An exploration of the origins of The Last Whole Earth Catalog
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2018Hwashin Choi revisits her lonely childhood through exquisitely detailed drawings
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2016Photographer Roe Ethridge’s images blur the lines between commercial and sentimental
Motion
2025SuprOrdinary explores the creative potential of… hair?
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2019Kelsi Phụng and Fabien Corre on their heartbreaking coming out film
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2019Marion Jdanoff’s book Guerre is a touching portrayal of friendship through illness
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2008Why? - Alopecia
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2022In his new photo series, Devashish Gaur searches his paternal lineage for answers to his present
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2016Paige Jiyoung Moon’s autobiographical paintings are like one long lucid dream
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2020Caroline Irby’s book Someone Else’s Mother acknowledges the story of the Filipina woman who raised her
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2017Kangmin Kim retells his childhood experience of drinking blood in this incredible stop-motion film
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2015Rashida Jones’ reflections on growing up in California, animated by Jack Cunningham
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2021Jessica Gianelli uses photography to connect her own story with the stories of other women
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2017Ewen Spencer’s new editorial for Arena Homme + is a “semi autobiographical” voyage through time
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2018Photographer Fred Lahache captures Morocco through the eyes of his childhood friend
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2017Photographer Marisa Chafetz’s filmic series revisits the beauty of her childhood
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2016Beautiful new photographic collages provide “a way of understanding people, and myself”
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2017Anne Pomel's tender illustrations document her move from Paris to Portland
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