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Aeroplane bathrooms are somehow both glamorous and disgusting at the same time. The sexiness of the aeroplane toilet is part of the persistent idea of flying as highly aspirational, with its clichéd connotations of attractive flight attendants, wealth, and exciting destinations. As the locus of the much-lauded Mile High Club, plane bathrooms signify status and erotic adventure. There’s something illicit about the toilets being the only private enclave within the enclosed space of the plane. Perhaps it also has something to do with no longer being earthbound.As liminal non-places lit by clinical, fluorescent light and propelled through the sky at...

Long before buzzy turns in Mare of Easttown and Hacks, or the two Emmy wins that followed, Julianne Nicholson was modeling for friends, waiting tables at downtown New York staples, and navigating a city that still felt rough around the edges. Those early years were immortalized in photographer Kevin Hatt’s 1994 series of the young actor, now released in a Dashwood Books zine, Julianne, which collects the intimate portraits together for the first time.

For CULTURED, Hatt and Nicholson revisit the photographs and the memories they preserve, reflecting on the creative partnership that brought them together, the scene that shaped...

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Takashi Homma made his name photographing street style in 1990s Tokyo, during Japan’s so-called Lost Decade. Since then, he’s continued to chronicle the vagaries of fashion and youth culture while also turning his distinct yet discreet eye toward suburban life, ocean waves, and radioactive mushrooms, becoming a pillar of contemporary Japanese photography. Now sixty-three, he has amassed an oeuvre of more than sixty publications, including zines, essays, exhibition catalogs, and, of course, photobooks, most recently Portrait of J (Dashwood Books/Session Press, 2025), a love letter to the ordinary people of Japan. Marigold Warner sat down with Homma at his office in...