#FlashBack | The Extraordinary Imagination of Ray Caesar | Issue12
Could you please describe how on earth you create these mesmerising images?
My work is made in a three-dimensional environment using software called Maya. I have used just about every medium in my life and sculpted in a variety of materials; they’re all the same – just tools to bring out the fire in your...
#FlashBack | Stephen Street Paying the Piper | Issue23
Blur, The Smiths, Kaizer Chiefs, The Cranberries… names that have shaped the face of music. One thread ties these great bands together: a record producer called Stephen Street. He gave Ryan Eyden an exclusive interview from his home studio in London and discussed the mortal effect of the internet on the music industry and how...
#FlashBack | South Beach Photo-shoot | Issue17
Photography: Samnorval.com Stylists: Cally Palmer @ Max Models Make-up: Sandy Seale @ Six Love Photographers Assistants: Albert Brun & Jade Van Der Spuy Production, concept & Art direction: Lauren Livsey @ Rock paper Scissors-Theory Models: Bryce @ Ice Models, Celeste @ Ice Models & Nugget Read the rest of issue 17: Open publication – Free...
#FlashBack | Flying with the Sharks | Issue01
Call it art, technology or simply a tongue-in-cheek memorial. Ralph Borland’s latest unveiling sets a new precedent in interactive public sculpture. And like so many of his ideas, this one sounds crazy enough to work… I’m sitting at a bar on Jetty Square eavesdropping on a conversation that could either be about sharks or a...
#FlashBack | Mustafa Maluka Prodigal Son | Issue 08
Part Big Daddy Kane, part Rembrandt van Rijn, Mustafa Maluka is taking the international art scene by storm with a contemporary brand of portraiture as culturally and stylistically complex as the world we live in. Dylan Culhane investigates the phenomenon. Eerily penetrative eyes stare out from bleary, dribbled visages caught in a vice between Pop...
#FlashBack | Irony and Empathy in one divide | Issue 06
The pretended ignorance of vegetarian photographer Jillian Lochner’s work offers a humorous touch that lingers in the mind a lot longer than a slap on the wrists. When I asked this tiny heavyweight photographer, Jillian Lochner, how this idea was conceived, she explained that shooting without any preconceived ideas, but rather from a knowing that...
Flashback | Just an Interview with Just a Band | Issue 24
A few years ago, three friends from Kenyatta University in Nairobi decided to make music together. Bill Sellanga, Dan Muli and Jim Chuchu adopted the unassuming name ‘Just a Band’ and released their first album Scratch to Reveal in 2008. The Huffington Post called their 2009 album, 82, ’the sign of a generational shift’ but...
FlashBack | Breaking Down Wall Street | Issue23
Two things people do not want to see being made: laws and sausages. You might add ‘art’ to that list, but first watch this video of street artists Supakitch and Koralie painting a wall of the Museum of Modern Culture in Göteborg, Sweden. It offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the process of creation… it all...
FlashBack | Roger Balen: Fly Me Away | Issue22
Located not far outside Johannesburg is a big empty space, a space where people are divided up with blankets, sheet metal and wood… a place that Roger Ballen calls ‘The Boarding House’. Between 2004 and 2008, the photographic artist would spend five days a week living and interacting with the people there, capturing those individuals...
FlashBack | Free Zimbabwe(an) Sindiso Nyoni | issue 17
Born in the 1980s, the early days of the now highly controversial Mugabe rule of Zimbabwe, Sindiso Nyoni is heavily influenced by the politics of his country. Jessica Manim retraces his roots, and uncovers a body of artwork that puts message first and aesthetics second. Sindiso Nyoni’s creations strike their viewer in the gut, delivering...
FlashBack | Just Swimmingly | Issue17
Photography: Johan Wilke Stylist: Justin Jurd & Bettina Louw Hair & Make-Up: Bianca Hartkopf Model: Betina Louw @ Faith Models Read the rest of issue 17: Open publication – Free publishing – More south africa Click here to view our #flashBack selection for September.
FlashBack | Of Cookies & Pretty Fish | Issue09
With dark flowing hair, looks to die for and style some would kill for, illustrator Miné Jonker must be the most gorgeous, multifaceted, self-confessed tomboy I have ever met. Finally (sigh of relief), an illustrator of the female kind. A rose amongst thorns, a veritable pearl amongst mussels… sorry boys. By Jenna Mervis Miné has...
#tbt 2009 | FlashBack | Lucky Dube an icon gone too soon | Issue #15
It is a testament to the spirit of his life and music that Lucky Dube will be remembered for decades to come for his massive contribution to the world of reggae and how he used its success to become a global mouthpiece for the struggle against Apartheid. Originally published in one small seed magazine, issue...
