It was 2011 and the author of this article met Hugo and Frankie and their friendly dog in a pub on the edge of Victoria Park in Hackney, to talk about a decade they had spent organizing Afro-Latin parties in London and collecting music in tropical latitudes. Graham Douglas […]
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Piccadilly Circus in popular culture
The modern buildings, the shops with dazzling window displays and the electronic advertising screens make it difficult to believe that the famous square was built in 1819 to connect Regent Street with the main shopping street: Piccadilly. Text and photos by Virginia Moreno Molina People of different nationalities, […]
Helga Paris
This is how Helga Paris, a photographer in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), came to take the photographs in “Women at work”. Sean Sheehan “Whenever I was at the shopping centre, I looked at people, watched them closely, imagined how they come home tired from work, before they […]
Russia is not the Soviet Union
Many of us have confused our words between Switzerland and Sweden or Lebanon and Libya. Some people, when meaning Russia, end up mentioning the Soviet Union. The problem comes when one truly equates them. Texto y fotos: Victor de Currea-Lugo* Now, in the setting of the Ukraine war, […]
The ‘need’ of a doctrine of ‘sin’
Sin? A word loaded with theological overtones of repressive legalism? Completely out of step in a modern, western secular, enlightened culture? A word that deserves to be banished from the vocabulary of any sensible, ‘tolerant’ person? Nigel Pocock But might this not be a trifle premature? Human history […]
















