Joy Gregory’s new photo book takes a comprehensive look at the work of a generation of artists whose recognition is long overdue. In 1984, artist and educator Joy Gregory arrived in London to pursue her Masters in Photography at the Royal College of Art. She was the first Black woman enrolled in the program – a telling fact that echoed across the arts and academia both then and now. Confronted with absence, networks began to form as emerging artists built collectives without any institutional support. In 1986, Gregory met Araba Mercer, and they began collaborating on projects like Polare ..read more

Across the adult industry pioneering intimacy co-ordinators are ushering in a new understanding of consent, collaboration and connection. Over the last few years, sex in film has become the topic du jour online. Some of the discourse – largely about what we see on-screen – has been brain-meltingly insufferable (hello, Poor Things), but other conversations, like those about behind-the-scenes behaviour, have been productive, and have even led to transformative changes in the industry. Most recently, these have been about intimacy coordinators. Before 2017’s MeToo movement, nobody had heard of t ..read more

Photojournalist Gabriele Micalizzi’s new exhibition, ‘A Kind of Beauty’, examines over a decade of conflicts and the overlooked stories of people at the centre of them. In December 2016, photojournalist Gabriele Micalizzi was in Sirte, a city on the northern coast of Libya that had become the centre of a battle between Islamic State (ISIS) insurgents and US-backed government forces. After months of fighting, the ISIS forces were eventually forced out of their last remaining stronghold, and while the dust from relentless shelling, fighting and siege was settling, Micalizzi entered one of the m ..read more

A new exhibition curated by Johny Pitts pulls together the work of two dozen working class photographers across the country. In 1989, as the fall of the Berlin Wall promised a hopeful, connected, new world order, political scientist and economist Francis Fukuyama declared the “End of History”. With Soviet communism all but finished, his argument ran that Western liberal democracy had ultimately won out as the final form of human governance. Yet with one-sided wars currently raging in the Middle East and the West’s inability (or refusal) to stop them, rapidly increasing rates of poverty, and e ..read more

The Rwanda safety bill has finally passed through the Parliament but the fight to stop the flights is far from over. Tonight (April 22nd) the Rwanda Safety Bill passed its final hurdle to become law. After 5 rounds of parliamentary ping pong between the Houses of Commons and Lords the controversial legislation, introduced to sidestep a ruling of the Supreme Court, will now be sent to King Charles for Royal Assent. For many of the politicians, community leaders, organisers and rights organisations who have fought against the plan since it’s announcement over two years ago, the latest developme ..read more

Two years, countless court cases, protests, press conferences, legislation and more - this is the story of the Conservative’s flagship immigration policy. This week, the Rwanda offshoring plan is back in the headlines. Officially known as the UK and Rwanda Migration and Economic Development Partnership it is essentially a flagship policy of a Government who are pinning all their hopes of “stopping the boats” on the scheme. The plan would see a (relatively small) number of single men gaining access to the UK via the medium of small vessels ‘illegally’ crossing the channel being given a one-way ..read more

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