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Our features explore the connection between the arts and social change. We amplify voices too often silenced, commissioning and covering stories from communities at the forefront of sustainable and inclusive development to highlight the creative endeavours bettering our world. Our online archive is free and open to all, showcasing a range of features excerpted from our print publications as well as specially curated digital pieces that further these conversations, highlighting creativity’s role in shaping a positive future for all.

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Sylwia Kowalczyk’s Lublin

Czechów Hills // The Lublin Open Air Village Museum // Spokojna 2

A Universal Sense of Place

Considering photography as a colonial practice, Laura Beltrán Villamizar argues for a need to understand the discipline’s complex history and politics to allow for the redistribution of power, and the reclamation of space for diverse storytellers to define themselves.

We photograph, therefore we are

Agency, identity and affirmation form tangible outputs of the work of Rohingyatographer, a beacon of creative expression and resilience in the heart of the world's largest refugee camp

Metamorphoses

A chance encounter with the myths of Ovid led photographer Carlos Anguera to document humans’ deep connection to nature by way of underwater photography in the introspective ‘Metamorphoses’

Mammalian

Kazakhstan born photographer Natalie Karpushenko’s body of work serves as a visceral reminder of our connection to nature and the vital need for positivity and admiration to be interwoven into our fight against the climate crisis

Billy Kenrick’s Music and Photography

"To me, photography is much closer to something like music – the conceptual part often surfaces later on."

Art, Photography
· Equity & Voice

Soft Black

By way of ‘a soft Black gaze,’ director, photographer and designer dayday works to subvert the representation of Black people and other POC within the mainstream media – as Casiano Hamer uncovers

Art, Photography
· Equity & Voice

Celebrating resistance

Utilising Carnival as a lens to discuss Brazil’s wider societal challenges, Maxine Betteridge-Moes explores the work of João Farkas and a tradition which encourages collective creativity whilst highlighting discussions of inequality and oppression.

Limen

Exploring existence within the in-between, photographer Gabriela Silveira captures the liminal moments of life as told to Carmen Haigh

Art, Photography
· Equity & Voice

Rites of Passage

Capturing the liminal moments within our collective rites of passage, photographer Jaz Jagdeo presents a series at once personal and unique yet universally understood