Sirens and Ice Cream Trucks

If Alia Penner were President, the first thing she’d do is “paint the White House every color in the world.” She is an artist after all – she paints, draws, collages and designs – and describes her work as “filled… READ MORE

October 26, 2011

A Willing Nomad

Set among a row of semi-identical, 18th-century houses, on a tree-lined, quietly sunlit street in Camberwell, the facade does not particularly stand out. The exposed brick reaches up five floors. Two trodden down, concrete steps lead up to a dark… READ MORE

October 19, 2011

Misty Rabbit

At 2 PM on Wednesday afternoon I receive a frantic text message: “Nat! I’ve had a massive night!! Can we shoot later please?” I was prepared for a disruptive turn of events. Mimi Xu is a professional DJ and her… READ MORE

October 12, 2011

A decent proposal

“The first time I visited Paris and went to the flea market at Porte de Clignancourt I found this beautiful, old bust. It was a rainy day and the bust was soaking wet. I bought it for pretty much no money…. READ MORE

October 7, 2011

Tea Parties and Soirees

The 15-minute hike from Kilburn Park tube station to Emma Summerton‘s new apartment was a walk down memory lane. Only my memory didn’t serve me as well as I thought it would or should. During my post-graduate year in London,… READ MORE

September 28, 2011

A little bit of That

When I pull up to the gas station a few meters from Karla’s doorstep, three men are being held at gunpoint by police men. They’re kneeling on the floor and facing the side wall, hands behind their heads. A few… READ MORE

September 21, 2011

Keep it Kolorful

Kristine Karnaky, or Miss KK as she prefers to be called, lives in Hermon, a small, unknown neighborhood North East of Los Angeles. The ground floor apartment where she resides with her fiance Joseph, aka Featherbeard – he wears beards… READ MORE

September 14, 2011

Fallen Angels

“Sometimes I buy things that are so not me, but that I think are too beautiful to let go.” Aneta is referring to the three or four pairs of fall Prada shoes she bought spur of the moment back in… READ MORE

September 7, 2011

Ninety Six Tears

I was prepared for the dogs. Annakim’s house has those canine vibrations after all. Before I am good and well inside the garden door and on the overgrown front lawn, not one but three dogs dash towards me, their legs… READ MORE

August 31, 2011

Surfin’ USA

Heather Seton hitchhiked across the English channel when she was just 18-years old. She planned to spend two weeks in France with a girlfriend to immerse herself in the Bohemian lifestyle of early Sixties Paris. She soon bemused painters and… READ MORE

August 24, 2011

The Glamorous Things

Kelly Framel works hard. Very hard. She posts five days a week, infallibly and religiously. And to relax she works some more. Her vacations consist of sponsored trips – her most recent one was a 10-day tour of Sao Paulo… READ MORE

August 17, 2011

The Mexican Connection

The road from Tulum to Valladolid is a monotonous, single-lane highway. Besides exotic shrubbery and a few Mexican strip malls – really just a cement shack with rusty wired candy displays – there’s not much more than the faint and… READ MORE

August 10, 2011