‘What I Be': Our Deepest Insecurities on Display
By asking some courageous members of our society to finish the phrase ‘I am not my…’, photographer Steve Rosenfield encourages his subjects to acknowledge the traits that bother them, yet certainly don’t define them. Once this is established, they are asked to write some words of their choice on a body part and have their...
Love is African | Loux The Vintage Guru
His style being reminiscent of the Congolese sapeurs, Loux — a self-proclaimed hipster — aims to put African fashion into the spotlight by collecting and designing retro clothing and documenting it in beautiful photographs on his tumblr.
IMAGES OF THE WEEK: FEBRUARY
At the end of each week, we add four more images from onesmallseed.net to the relevant month’s gallery collection on onesmallseed.com. All images are the featured works of members of one small seed network, our creative online community. To have your work featured here, simply sign up as a member and start uploading! Week 02...
COMPETITION: MAKE-BELIEVE presents LUCID ILLUSIONS
MAKE-BELIEVE presents LUCID ILLUSIONS happens on 22 February at the Nelson’s Creek Wine Estate with a crisp swimming pool surrounded by idyllic grass lawns. On the line-up are PHAT JACK (The Warm-Up/Jhb), SOUND SENSIBLE, (Toy-Toy / Jhb), Afterlife AV, Black Book, Bruno Morphet, Helmut J, One Track Mike, Sadhu Sensi and The Skene Brothers. We...
GAP GOES BACK TO BLUE
To celebrate its heritage, Gap launches the global campaign ‘Back to Blue’. According to Seth Farbman, Gap’s Global Chief Marketing Officer, ‘Back to Blue means getting back to what matters most – our truest selves, when we are most comfortable in our own skin.’ The collection includes iconic denim pieces such as denim jackets, sweaters...
Kaveh Golestan | ‘The Citadel’
From 1975 – 1977, Iranian documentary photographer Kaveh Golestan took photographs of women working in the Citadel of Shahr-e No, the red light district of Teheran. Although his jarring realism and artsy street photography has influenced many Iranian artists, it has not been prized to the same extent in Europe. Yet 11 years after his...
Barneys New York | Brothers, Sisters, Sons & Daughters
The luxury retailer Barneys New York has dared to do something different for its new campaign Brothers, Sisters, Sons & Daughters and cast transgender models for a fashion shoot by Bruce Weber. According to Dennis Freedman, the creative director of Barneys, the transgender community has been neglected in recent history. I was exquisitely aware that...
Adidas | Stan is Back
In the mid-1960s adidas‘ iconic Stan Smith tennis shoe was developed for French player Robert Haillet, by the start of the 70s Stan Smith‘s name was added to the sneaker and went on to become adorned with the trademark silhouetted image of Smith’s moustachioed face on the tongue of every pair. It was there when...
PHZ-Sicks | The Moment The World Takes Notice
Nominated for DMV Best VA Male Rap Artist in 2011, PHZ-Sicks is now making his mark on the scene with his recent release The Moment (available here). Here he tells us about the tedious two-year production process, family influence and Nelson Mandela. Tell me a bit about your new album The Moment. Did the ideas...
Philippe Halsman | Astonish Me! at Musée de l’Elysée
From 29 January to 11 May, Musée de l’Elysée will exhibit photographer Philippe Halsman‘s collection of extraordinary work, starting with first beginnings in 1930s Paris to his breakthrough phase in New York between 1940 and 1970. Within nine years Halsman became one of the most famous portrait photographers in Paris and once he got to...
WIN: CAPE TOWN ELECTRONIC MUSIC FESTIVAL 2014
The third edition of the Cape Town Electronic Music Festival kicks off on 4 February 2014 and will run through until 9 February 2014. Headliners are deep house don Dixon (Germany), drum ‘n bass trio Noisia (Netherlands) and hip hop pioneer DJ The Original Jazzy Jay (US). What’s more, before the main festival (7 –...
Gangs of Ballet | ‘Everyone Must Come & Say Hello To Us’
Gangs of Ballet have had a great 2013. They’ve been playing every festival that matters, touring all around and flying the (metaphorical) Durban flag wherever they go. After Rocking The Daisies the boys decided to spend a few extra days in Cape Town, so that’s where we found out which festival is the best and...
DJ Face on hip hop, True School & 9th Wonder
Making an exemplary start in his parents’ basement under the watchful eye of his older brother, Sean Armstrong aka DJ Face is both a fully-fledged member of 9th Wonder‘s True School Corporation as well as the Black Jedi chapter of The Universal Zulu Nation — and thus a hip hop artist gaining steady traction. While...
