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I arrived in Japan in 1992, incredibly anxious about the fact that less than six months earlier I had shaved my head. I felt very butch, much too raw, and totally unprepared to navigate the sophisticated cultural and gender dynamics that I suddenly found myself engulfed by as a young American woman teaching English. Most of my colleagues in the Japanese English Teaching program run by the Ministry of Education had their eyes set on a career in diplomacy or business. Prior to my arrival, I had been tearing down drywall for a housing rehabilitation program, teaching neighborhood kids how...

Reductively labelled a “girl photographer” in the 90s, Nagashima is now a leading voice in feminist photographic discourse. Here, the Japanese photographer discusses her new book of self-portraits, and why she took it upon herself to rewrite history,,, by Marigold Warner

Legendary New York based photographer Ari Marcopoulous sat down with office once again to discuss his new books of polaroids, depicting 90’s skate hotspot, the Brooklyn Banks. 

Amsterdam-born with Greek heritage, Marcopoulos still bleeds New York. Hearing his answers made it clear that the artist only documented what he found genuinely interesting and it simply happened to be something that made him successful. He saw beauty in skate culture, and his raw documentation caught fire as more and more people saw the beauty through his lens. ,,,  by Willa Rudolph

By Holly Black

"Britain’s ubiquitous graffiti-strewn carparks, rundown bus stations, and no-frills pubs might not seem like obvious subjects for artistic scrutiny. But these seemingly innocuous places hold a special kind of magic for Adam Murray and Robert Parkinson, who started documenting them a decade ago in Preston, the northern city where both artists lived and worked at the time. Now, the pair looks over the legacy of their collaborative project with a new book, Preston is my Paris: 2009–2019, presenting a slice of the huge amount of imagery they produced..."