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Minimalist, sleek, and adorned in sage green, Blank Street Coffee is a Gen Z heaven. But why is it so popular, and where did it come from? Blank Street Coffee made its debut in London in the summer of 2022, and in just over a year, it swiftly asserted its dominance in the bustling takeaway drinks scene. It currently has 17 stores spread across central London, with an 18th to open imminently; yet stores typically run with only two employees per shift and are less than 350 squa

The quintessential freshers experience: you’ve met someone so cool and fun and interesting on a night out, had a great time talking in...

Photo by Rob Annable via Flickr (licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 ) The ’60s were a widely political era for Britain, during which the role of the state and conditions for quality of life were continuously questioned. Photography had a significant role in displaying these socio-economic conditions. The creation of new estates such as Thamesmead were contrasted photographically with images of harsh living in other urban areas. These ideas linking socially-aware photography to

Photo by Friedrich Magnussen via Wikimedia Commons (licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 DE) On June 22 1948, HMT Empire Windrush arrived in the...

★★☆☆☆ Celebrating the connection between a sexualised hoover, nocturnal wildlife, a rocket launch and the indigenous populations of Lapland is a tough challenge, and one that the V&A has set itself unnecessarily in their brand new Photography Centre. ‘Photography’, as we are reminded at repeated intervals throughout the ‘Sir Elton John and David Furnish’ gallery, ‘is embedded in the story of the V&A’ as it has been collecting photographs since the 1850s, resulting in ‘one of

Photo by Barnyz via Flickr (licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) I moved to London on September 9th, 2021. As of today, I have been a Londoner...

STRAND Magazine writer and photographer Felicia Coulter takes us through Canada's icy landscape, the photographs from her travel diary bringing us on a journey with her across the quiet, snow-filled wilderness. 'New Horizons' Amidst the rugged beauty of Canada's landscape A traveler finds themselves in a foreign state Staring out at the vast wilderness surrounding them They set out on an adventure, seeking to comprehend What truths might lie within their soul And what le

STRAND photographer and writer Ana Aarhus Hudson describes her experience discovering photography through Lee Miller's photographs.

At the scrag end of Shoreditch, that part which is frequently advertised to tourists as ‘close to the remnants of the Roman road’, there’s a graffiti-doused Overground station which either leads to Hackney, or to Manteca. And good luck navigating the swathes of £4 flat white snobs and ethical start-up City boys on your walk of shame back to Liverpool Street. We booked Manteca as we knew it was previously lauded at length, not least by Jay Rayner who had praised it for its ve

Just when you think Soho could not come up with a more unlikely juxtaposition of venues, people, and flavours (Russian-American-French anything was always going to be a contentious ménage à trois), you will come across Bob Bob Ricard on Upper James Street. Ever so often, I find my centre of gravity off-kilter, as the invisible force drags me back to this place. In the spirit of this rule of three, I bring two Northern pals here for New Year’s Eve. So we scurry off to the Cent