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These photos document the evolution of ageing tattoos
Ripe Gallery / 21 images An age-old debate around tattoo culture centres on how ink will look as we age. Online, it’s common to see speculation about what today’s tattoos might become: cybersigil backpieces that will bleed out, delicate fine-line scripts turning illegible, and ironic motifs that might fall flat with future generations’ humour. Easing…
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Meet the young creatives VCARB is getting into F1
VCARB – Creator Platform Gallery / 13 images Throughout this year, young creatives from around the world have been getting involved with Formula One like never before, stepping into the paddock and seeing the sport from a completely new angle. VCARB’s Creator Platform has made this possible, giving photographers, filmmakers, DJs and stylists the chance…
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The designer making clothes with wool from gay sheep
Michael Schmidt x Grindr – I Wool Survive Gallery / 26 images A couple of hours outside Berlin, near Cologne, there’s a farm where 35 gay sheep live in quiet, improbable peace. It reads like the opening line of a queer fairytale, and in some ways, it is. Across most of the wool industry, rams…
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Animalia: An eerie feminist sci-fi about aliens invading Morocco
In Animalia, a pregnant woman, Itto (Oumaïma Barid), is fleeing what appears to be an alien invasion. There aren’t any green Martians or flying spaceships. Instead, a cluster of thunderstorm clouds forms ominous, green-tinged shapes that encroach on a rocky road in rural Morocco. Staring at the environmental phenomenon, Imma briefly enters a parallel dimension that’s…
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This zine shines a light on the shadows of Brighton’s teenagers
Chus and Greg, Brighteens Gallery / 29 images In an age of hyper-online spaces, teenagers are often framed as a generation adrift, their subcultures said to have flattened beyond recognition by social media. Brighteens, the zine documenting youth in Brighton, instead shows how youth culture has reshaped itself. For two summers, photographers Chus and Greg…
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Heron Preston: ‘Almost losing your brand, you start to hate everything’
Heron Preston – Foundation: Blue Line Edit Gallery / 22 images It’s inside a ground-level studio in Brooklyn where Heron Preston makes all the magic happen. In fact, it’s his first real studio since founding his brand in 2017. On bright days, he bikes or walks, as it’s only a short drift from home. “I’m…
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Everyone’s a critic now. Should they be?
Not long ago, critics’ opinions had the power to shape culture. They were serious figures – cut-throat and often unashamedly pretentious – personified in the body of ‘gonzo’ style journalists like Lester Bangs, the politically-defiant Ellen Willis, or the harsh, formidable Anton Ego (the antagonist from Disney’s Ratatouille). Critics could shut down a restaurant or…
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The 20 best albums of 2025, ranked
20. DAVE, THE BOY WHO PLAYED THE HARP Expectations were high for Dave’s fourth studio LP: he is widely regarded as one of the most talented rappers the UK has ever produced, and it had been four years since anyone had last heard from him. But he didn’t play it safe. Centred around an extended…
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Hunting for aliens on Mars should be a ‘top priority’, say scientists
In case you hadn’t heard, humans are scheduled to set foot on the surface of Mars as early as the 2030s, if space agencies like NASA – in collaboration with private companies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX – have their way. But what will we actually do there? Why do we want to go in the first place?…
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Inside the playful worlds of Tokyo’s young creatives
Interior worlds of Tokyo’s creative gyaru Gallery / 10 images “Tokyo is so often romanticised through the streets, the neon, the chaos, the energy – but we rarely see the rooms people go home to,” says photographer Alexandra Waespi. Her new project, The Interior Worlds of Tokyo’s Creative Gyaru, takes us away from the city’s…