Benefit broods with five kids, The Sun, December 2012 It has become a weekly if not a daily ritual in Rupert Murdoch’s British tabloid newspaper The Sun : in big and bold articles it writes how ‘feckless’ citizens work or cheat the state’s benefit system in order to support a lifestyle above and beyond what…
Image from Hipster Mockumentary ‘Dalston Superstars’, Vice Magazine I thought it would be helpful to delineate a type of photography I hesitatingly call ‘hipster photography’. Here I am not necessarily referring to photographs which depict hipsters such as the work of The Sartorialist Scott Schumann. Schumann’s photographs might be better described as fashion photography which,…
Miley Cyrus photographed by Terry Richardson Singer Sinead O’Connor has written an open letter to fellow singer Miley Cyrus warning her not to be exploited by the music business. The letter was prompted by Miley Cyrus’ most recent music video which, apart from overt sexual references and nudity, visually also references O’Connor’s minimalistic look in…