Earlier this week, images emerged of a seemingly apocalyptic San Francisco, the world-famous Golden Gate Bridge backlit by an ominous orange glow, the streets as dark at 10 am as they would be at 10 pm. Wildfires are raging mercilessly across America’s West Coast. In California alone, 3.1 million acres have been claimed by the […]
The true measure of our justice system is not how we treat the rich and privileged, but how we treat the poor and marginalised. The legal system in the United States has prejudices so deeply rooted that year in year out black people are subject to unjust brutality and sentencing at an alarmingly disproportionate rate. […]
Melina Matsoukas’ Queen & Slim, released in UK cinemas on January 31, seems almost made for going viral. Centred around the aftermath of violent encounter between a white police officer and an African American couple, it offers a perfect storm of allegoric fantasy and contemporary political relevance that captures the absurdity of America’s criminal justice […]
On 1 June, 2017, President Trump made a statement that the United States would officially be pulling out of the Paris Climate Accords. Fulfilling one of his original campaign promises, withdrawing from the Accords would be a significant success for the Trump administration. Although revered by many high level authority figures and expected to be […]
A year ago the world was gripped by the nerve-racking rock-climbing film Free Solo (filmed on El Capitan in Yosemite). Another popular climbing film, Dawn Wall drew our attention to the same enormous rock face. Travis Scott even released a single titled ‘Yosemite’ supporting his number one album ‘Astroworld’. While the planet is torched with […]
The shootings in Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas this August were, despite their tragedy, unsurprising. The United States has averaged one mass shooting (at least four casualties) per day in 2019 alone and in most cases, including Dayton and El Paso, the guns were legally purchased. In ‘the land of the free,’ school children […]
As you walk into Stills gallery, the white walls and natural light offer a minimalistic ambience that one would never normally associate with the loud and often gaudy works of Cindy Sherman. The intimate photography exhibition, however, hosts a selection of some of Sherman’s earliest work and boasts pieces such as Untitled (Murder Mystery People), […]
Vaping is now a subject of intense debate: seven people have died and at least 450 have been hospitalised in the United States in the last month due to an outbreak of lung infections linked to e-cigarettes and similar products. Last week Trump promised to ban the sale of most flavoured e-cigarettes in the USA. […]