“Where are ‘we’ going as a collective society?” That’s the question posed by this year’s…
This fascination with the familiar isn’t a new phenomenon, says Phillip Prodger, head of photographs at the National Portrait Gallery and a former judge of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize. “We live in a world of the free exchange of imagery and social media and perhaps the photographs that once were considered more private aren’t considered so private anymore. I think people have been making those photographs all along but perhaps not sharing them in that way.”
A 13-day coma, four brain haemorrhages, a fractured cheekbone, a broken collarbone, a broken humerus,…
Years ago, a goth I knew recounted a conversation he’d once had. “You goths, you’re so…
The plastic flamingo was designed in 1957 by Don Featherstone. Gloriously kitsch and garishly pink,…
On 7th May 1979 the Iranian newspapers announced a new law had been passed stating…
At its peak in the 1960s, Dreamland Margate thronged with visitors. Millions of them, young…