Truly effective communication transcends mere words. It’s how you choose to communicate, with whom you communicate, and the trust that underpins it all. Married climbing partners Jesse and Molly Dufton have this down to a fine art, enabling them to c

Hearing Yoruba or pidgin used to be something third-culture kids might only hear at home or over the phone. Fast forward to Afrobeats’ global spread and its rise in prominence in pop is as fast as the ‘millennial whoop’ was in the 2010s in the UK and

THE CURRENT STATE OF MEDIA journalism could perhaps be summed up by an off-the-cuff tweet I wrote in July: “It’s so depressing that I’ve gone into every job I’ve had in media knowing I’ll probably be laid off at some point if I don’t leave first.” I

IN MARCH 1997, ZOO YORK premiered their first full-length video at the New York Underground Film Festival. Mixtape would be a radical departure from the skate video norm at the time. First and foremost, it was the biggest team video released by an Ea

Musician, comedian, podcaster, writer and philosopher, Blindboy Boatclub is a cultural figurehead and one of Ireland’s foremost artistic voices. He has published two number-one bestselling books of short stories: The Gospel According to Blindboy and

On the south coast of Sri Lanka, under the ample shade of a Wetakeiya tree, a group of local young women are sitting in the sand learning about ocean safety. On their laps are booklets written half in English and half in the ornate looping curls of S

Subversive street artist Foka Wolf has an air of mystery about him. He’s never photographed and doesn’t like to give away too much for obvious reasons. He’s based somewhere in the UK’s Midlands area and has been using text installations and interrupt

The Lower Third is an intimate, low-ceilinged basement set under London’s Denmark Street, a historically musical location. Putting on sunglasses, as a flurry of smartphone cameras flash him, Blanco, one of London’s finest MCs, addresses the roughly 2

Tricia Romano’s The Freaks Came Out To Write tells the story of New York’s iconic Village Voice, using over 200 interviews with the people who were there. The paper was the first publication to cover hip-hop, the avant-garde art scene, and the AIDS c

THE ‘DRAMA STUDIO’ — a classroom whose breeze blocks had been painted navy rather than cream — at my school didn’t have desks. Classes were normally spent sitting on chairs in a circle. When it came to watching things, we’d crowd our seats around the

“I like zhoosh,” says Professor Paul Baker on his favourite Polari word when we interviewed him for this feature. “It’s got an interesting pronunciation and starts with a consonant sound that rarely appears at the start of words in English (the “zhju

When Bongeziwe Mabandla released his third album, iimini, a day after South Africa went into full lockdown, it was a blessing in disguise. “I’m glad I did that, because people could listen to it without a lot of distractions,” says the award-winning

Musician, curator, but foremost — a skateboarder, Helena Long has had to ease off the gas lately. “I’ve always been slightly distracted,” she says, smiling, gazing upwards for a moment as if watching her thoughts tick over, on a video call from her L

WHEN IRISH PHOTOGRAPHER AND DIRECTOR, Niall O’Brien and his girlfriend Nikki moved to Silicon Valley for a three-month work secondment, they found themselves in a nondescript area called Campbell. They were living in a big, soulless, empty apartment

AGAINST THE CLASH AND WAIL of God-summoning voices in the sky comes the hee-haw of a lone donkey in anguish. It rises in the swirling island winds that sway the palm trees as if in a restless dream. An electric moon is beaming violently onto the isla

IT’S DRAG NIGHT IN NAMIBIA and The Loft for You, a venue in the country’s centrally-located capital of Windhoek, is filled with revellers. The diverse crowd, which ranges broadly over age, race, sexual and gender expression, filter through the doors

AWARD-WINNING ADVENTURE PHOTOGRAPHER, Cat Vinton started her journey in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic. Leaving the UK as soon as she graduated from Camberwell College of Arts when she was 21, Cat was desperate to explore the world, so headed f

The British-Pakistani DJ/producer, now based in London and whose real name is Ahad Elley, has a distinctly kaleidoscopic sound — seamlessly fusing genres from far-reaching corners of the globe. From D’n’B to bhangra, to grime and Kuduro, it’s made hi

How did you get into photography and which photographers influenced you when you were starting? I got into photography via music, specifically hip-hop. I would also say that my grandmother influenced me, something I did not fully realise until her re

ONCE NIGHT HAS FALLEN AND the streets have emptied of vehicles, Tehran’s motorways become a playground for many young Iranians. Escaping the day-to-day pressures of life, car drivers and motorbike riders rip around the highways at high speed, under t

SCRAWLED ON WALLS ACROSS KYIV, graffiti harks back to a more innocent time: ‘Queer Sex,’ ‘Make QueerPunk Again,’ and ‘Be Queer, Do Crime, Hail Satan,’ among others. These provocative pronouncements were painted by the subversive collective, Rebel Que

LUCA ALBRISI’S LATEST FILM PROJECT began with a couple of false starts. He originally planned to film his movie about a group of friends crossing the Dolomites on skis and splitboards (snowboards that split in two to act as touring skis) in 2019 but