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A few months of confinement have gone by in Paris and as I try to readjust my lifestyle around the restrictions that have been imposed, I feel very much trapped. I am not able to hang out with my friends, go beyond a one kilometre perimeter around my house, or even visit my father and my brother who live on the other side of town. Instead, I have found myself spending most of my time immersed in the online realm, in an attempt to seek out the face-to-face social interaction t

From DJ set live-streams, zoom parties to virtual gatherings: the pandemic is certainly not putting the night life scene to sleep anytime soon. Rather, it seems to have awakened even more. As we travel the uncharted waters that lockdown has washed up, the electronic music nightlife has made a natural transition to the online realm. Indeed, the popular slogan, which has long been echoed at French Techno Parades, ‘Rien n’arrête un peuple qui danse’ (Nothing stops a nation of d

This piece originally appeared in the Strand Magazine's December 2019 "Go Global" Issue Alia Romagnoli is a half Indian and half Italian photographer and art director whose international upbringing affected her photography in the best way. Specializing in fashion and portraiture, Alia uses photography as a medium to explore her own queer identity and biracial background. Her work has been featured in publications such as British Vogue, Vice, INDIE Magazine, Teen Vogue, The G

Curated by eleven students on the MA in Curating the Art Museum at the Courtauld Institute of Art and hosted by Somerset House,...

8th March – 9th June 2019 FREE Entry View Here Enclosed in coloured frames, projected on blank walls and evoking images within and...

26 October 2018 - 24 February 2019 Exhibition Day Pass £5 Concessions £2.50 Free entry before noon Free entry under 18s View Here We live in a digitised reality. Such has been proven with the recent political controversies in which the phrase ‘fake news’ has entered our everyday vocabulary, in which the lucrative commodification of our personal data made international headlines. “All I know is what’s on the internet,” the title of the new exhibition at the Photographer's Ga

24 October – 10 November 2018 Free Entry View Here Huxley-Parlour is presenting the third edition of Masters of Photography, a survey of 30 works by some of the most influential photographers of the 20th Century. Despite its small size, the exhibition proves to be an absorbing experience for those interested in the medium and its development over the last 100 years. While strolling around the gallery one cannot escape the feeling that the photographs placed on the walls look

22nd June – 2nd September 2018 Adult: £19.50 Concessions: £11 Students/14-17: £9 Young Barbican: £5 View Here “This is an incredible opportunity for our visitors to see the first UK survey of the work of such a significant photographer. Dorothea Lange is undoubtedly one of the great photographers of the twentieth century and the issues raised through her work have powerful resonance with issues we’re facing in society today.” Jane Alison, Head of Visual Arts, Barbican Do

28th February – 27th May 2018 Standard: £13.50 Concessions: £11 Young Barbican: £5 View Here After the success of their latest monumental exhibition, Jean Michael Basquiat: Boom for Real , The Barbican Centre calls viewers to a similarly groundbreaking and controversial art collection: Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins part of the Barbican’s 2018 season “The Art of Change”, is in fact a provocatory and intrinsically political display of pictures taken by twe

23rd February – 3rd June 2018 Free admission before 12.00 every day Exhibition Day Pass £4 (£2.50 concessions) Advance Online Booking £2.50 View Here This 2018 edition of the ‘Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize’ at the Photographers’ Gallery features four artists: Batia Suter, Rafal Milach, Mathieu Asselin and Luke Willis Thompson. The foundation and the gallery have collaborated since 2005 to present every year a selection of artworks. Past winners included Soph