Photographer Emily-Jayne Nolan went down to Moth Club, Hackney to capture the anniversary show of Peace & Justice Project’s campaign to save grassroots music venues. Inside Hackney’s Moth Club, it’s warm. Not quite sweat dropping off the ceilings warm just yet, but it’s getting there. In the centre of the packed out room, people throw themselves at one another as the pounding drums and driving guitars of Ditz fill the room. Atop one of the booths that line the side of the room, microphone cable trailing high above heads from the stage, lead singer Cal Francis holds court, the melee of lim ..read more

Meet the young people finding life talking about death in cafes popping up across the world. As I entered a dimly lit room I didn’t know what to expect, and would’ve believed you if you told me I’d mistakenly joined a Book Club or Crochet Circle. Ten smiling faces looked back at me, and I selected my chair in the circle, anxiously waiting for the silence to break. When it did, my nerves dissipated, and my world opened up. This little room, at the end of an idyllic London Mews, was my first experience of a Death Cafe. It was my second date in a now, ironically deceased romance. When he fi ..read more

The Texas Regulators are a women-led trail riding group who celebrate zydeco music, Creole heritage and African-American cowboy culture in America’s Deep South. “When a horse rides past you, you can feel it if you’re not even looking,” Ashley Lewis explains. “When you have so many horses moving together, it’s pumping. It’s pumping the ground where we ride. We ride across several fields of cattle. As we ride, you see the cattle stop what they’re doing, come to the fence of the road that we’re riding on and they start to run right alongside of us. You’ll see people come out on their porches or ..read more

In his new book, Dublin City, Suburbs & County 1970s, photographer Keith Nolan relives the spirit and warmth of the Irish capital. While enrolled in a boarding school in Dublin from 1958-1964, Keith Nolan discovered photography and was immediately hooked, devoting himself to it without a second thought. “I left college at the ripe old age of sixteen as my parents became aware that I wasn’t bothered about further academic achievements, only photography!” Nolan says. After assisting a local photographer who specialised in weddings and commercial work, and operated a colour film lab, Nolan w ..read more

A new exhibition at the Photographers’ Gallery tells the story of Café Royal Books through hundreds of titles charting shifting modern life. Back in 2005, abstract painter Craig Atkinson was steadily on course for a Masters in Fine Art when he came to realise the path before him was not his to walk. “The paintings were big, slow, heavy, cumbersome, and could only be shown in one place at a time,” he remembers. “I began to think about who I was painting for, and why. It started to seem quite self-indulgent.” Then 28, Atkinson wanted to make work that was an antidote to the problems posed by th ..read more

How a Malmö skatepark created a sense of belonging in a neglected neighbourhood. It’s an exceptionally hot summer morning in Malmö. The Swedish city is in the midst of one of its most sweltering Julys on record. Although it usually struggles to manage 18 degrees in the warmer months, this year has seen the temperature hitting over 30 most days. As a result, the streets are considerably more quiet than usual. Kroksbäck skatepark is a case in point. As the midday sun reaches its peak, the all-concrete spot feels uncharacteristically peaceful, with barely a single spot of shade in sight. Across ..read more

In this excerpt from his new book ‘Against Landlords’, lawyer and campaigner Nick Bano sets out a road map to ending private landlordism. The housing crisis is a tale of conflict. The system of housing wealth in Britain is characterised by conflict between renters and owners, conflict between generations, between regions, between racial groups. The simple fact that underpins the bitterness we feel about our housing situation is that, in each case, the more disadvantaged of each of those groups is transferring wealth to the better-off. Renters prop up house prices, as each month they justify t ..read more

The Israelism director talks about the film’s morphing impact, Israel’s colonialism, and being accused of being anti-semitic. When Erin Axelman was growing up in rural Maine in the 2000s, they often struggled with their Jewish heritage. The local Jewish community was small, and they largely felt disconnected with the wider diaspora. “I was made fun of for being Jewish as a kid,” Axelman recalls. “Not super intense anti-semitism, but it made me feel different and people made fun of you for being oppressed [historically].” The idea of Israel as a home for people like themselves, propped up by a ..read more

Tariq Zaidi’s 40 day journey around the secretive state are captured in his new photobook, ‘ North Korea: The People’s Paradise’. In 2019, just one year before North Korea completely closed its borders, photographer Tariq Zaidi was huddled among a group of tourists at the Chongam Kindergarten in Chongjin, a city towards the northeast tip of the country. Accompanied by guides, the group were receiving a tightly-curated tour of the facilities, including a musical show performed by children of the school in its main auditorium. Ever the curious type, he decided that he wanted to see ot ..read more

Oscar winners, politicians and film professionals are among those who have donated lots to the Cinema for Gaza auction, raising money for Medical Aid for Palestine Latest figures show almost 35,000 Palestinians have been killed, with over 75,000 wounded in Israeli attacks since October 7th. Conditions on the ground in Gaza continue to rapidly deteriorate as huge swathes of the strip have been laid waste by Israeli bombs. Schools, bakeries and vital infrastructure have all been targeted as only minimal shipments of aid have been allowed through. Just last week seven aid workers including three ..read more