You Are Masters Of The Fish And Birds And All The Animals
Images from American photographer Shane Rocheleau’s eponymous book form a portrait of the psyche of white heteronormative masculinity and its visceral manifestations in the United States – accompanied with an artist Q&A
Chromosome Y
Tommaso Montino’s photographic series captures young men on the cusp of adulthood as they grapple with their masculinity and the surrounding dreams, softness, and violence of their cities
Identity Academy
In this short story, Meirav Seifert tells the chilling tale of a school that erases individuality. With photography by Ashlyn Vickery
Teahouse
Kirill Hwan’s ‘Teahouse’ series presents a photographic ethnography of a village teahouse in China’s Zhejiang province
Passing Parade
In this photographic series, Henry Hu focuses on the stolen moments in between
Tea
Thom Atkinson’s ‘Tea’ series looks at the quiet rituals of tea drinking and examines the micro-theatre surrounding the British cup of tea.
Childhood, revisited
In this visual art series, Mariam AlZayani attempts to “clone” herself in an attempt to interrogate and manipulate her childhood and memory via creativity
Flesh Love All
This issue’s cover star, Flesh Love All is a photo series by Japanese photographer Hal, where he vacuum seals families and couples in their home environment
The Fire
Looking at the ‘sickness’ that occurs in the environment, Louise Coghill’s photo series documents a fire ravaging a 25-year-old family home
Kintsugi
Taken from her titular photo book “Kintsugi”, Polish artist Martyna Benedyka’s poetic black and white photographs are a reflection on self-repair
How does it feel?
This issue’s cover star, Aurélie Guichard’s black and white photography series is a soft reflection on the past year
Binocular Rivalry
A series of haunting landscape photographs taken in West Bengal, India, as part of Arindam Manna’s graduate thesis
Thinking about Thinking
Dubai-based barista Dennis Reynoso uses his camera to create connections between contemplative passersby and himself
Chaosmos
Turkish artist Emel Karakozak explores the fictions of human bodies in flux through this haunting series of images, somewhere between lonely and free.
Al Satwa
Venezuelan photographer Andrea Salerno Jácome shares a photo essay on the Satwa neighborhood in her current base Dubai, accompanied with both Spanish and English versions of a reflection on being a migrant in this ‘temporary city’
The Anatomy of Perception | تشريح الإدراك الفكري
Process: A Mentee’s Experience in Warehouse421 x Gulf Photo Plus Artistic Development Program
Artist Fatema Al Fardan reflects on her experience as a participant in an Abu Dhabi-based artistic development program, providing an in depth account of her building a photography exhibit in the midst of a pandemic
Building Bridges with My Body
TW: eating disorder. Mary Senier wields and manipulates poetic form like a body in this poem on wanting to become anew
Reclamation of the Exposition
Nigerian-British photographer Tayo Adekunle's images explore the commodification, fetishization, and sexualisation of the black female body – specifically through the human displays in ethnographic expositions in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Old Love
Dutch photographer Annabel Oosteweeghel creates stories of intimacy between six older couples, whom she photographed in original 1960s houses, as a nod to and revival of the sexual freedoms from that era