Moroccan based Israeli designer Artsi Ifrach and Moroccan-Belgian photographer Mous Lamrabat are the creative minds behind Artsimous; the collective with a knack for probing at stereotyped constructs surrounding beauty and fashion. With an air of the avant-garde hanging over their often almost Afro-futurist depictions of a modern and progressive Morocco the creative duo’s projects can…
“The idea of the project was to record the moments when [this] generation behaves absolutely freely and liberated. This is a very short and specific period of time when a person can be what they feel like and behave absolutely liberated without fear of being condemned. Such moments of independence and frankness became the object…
Hailing from the south side of Chicago, creative director and photographer Ibrahem Hasan currently resides in Brooklyn, NY. He only stepped in behind the lens 2-3 years ago, and most recently worked as a senior creative director for Nike. He describes his images as “a blend of fantasy and documentary” and further elaborates that it…
The space where water meets land or water becomes land is an interesting area —a linear abyss for contemplation. For some, this is the point where their relationship to the land is severed while that relationship is reinforced for others. For photographer Andile Bhala, that area is a point of anchorage, a point from which…
Who are we? How do we fit in? And how do we relate to those around us are questions of self that do not always pose linear or even easy to come to answers. The complexities of life and individual experience within a rich ancestral tapestry often result in feeling ungrounded or at times having…
Often, we underestimate our potential impact on the story of how history unfolds across time. Not only do we underestimate our potential impact, but we are also taught to ‘stay in our lanes’. And so teachers teach, artists art and scientists science. Isabel Okoro; the Nigerian-born-Canada-based photographer cum neuroscience and psychology student at the University of…
It takes one astronomical unit—that’s 499 seconds or 8.317 minutes—for the light from the Sun to hit the Earth, for it to warm our skin and for it to trigger, within a landscape of sensitive folds, a congregation of 35 billion to delight. Golden rays transmogrify into golden hues, gold tones of the deepest, most…
Cape Town based analogue photographer Sandra Nagel has quickly gained attention within the coastal creative scene all while staying true to themes she holds close to her heart. Nagel’s work isn’t just about aesthetic. Her projects are meant to challenge you; meant to disrupt outdated schools of thought, thus in a way start conversations without…
Born and raised in Ghana, photographer Nana Yaw Oduro started practising photography as a personal passion. His photography is dripping with a strong mood deriving from an expression of ideas and feelings through distinctive and stylistic use of colour. He explains to me: “The idea usually comes from emotions and poetry. Very Personal. Then the…
As the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse becomes more apparent, cultural producers are forced to confront a terrifying present. Many retreat towards the pessimistic comfort of apocalyptic visions. But others are focused on bearing witness to the present, with the desperate hope of building a liveable future. The searingly powerful new book and…
#BlackDragMagic is a collaborative project by drag artist and activist Belinda Qaqamba Ka-Fassie and photographer Lee-Ann Olwage. This project tells the stories of black queer, gender nonconforming and trans people who were born and raised in the townships of Cape Town. “I met Belinda while working on another body of work titled The Queens of…
Photographer, Tatenda Chidora embraces form through the figure. Limbs and bodies expound into shape, line and colour. Chidora has not always embraced colour, his earlier work was peppered with the simplicity and minimalism of the monochrome palette. With his later work, we are confronted with the same principles of clarity and lucidity that has carried…
