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Exploring Brutalist Sydney

“In giving physical form during the last vestiges of architectural modernism, Sydney’s Brutalism, which finished late by international standards, manifested in a variety of building types for a confident Pacific-rim city,” writes Sydney-based architect and urban designer Glenn Harper in his introduction to the Sydney Brutalist Map. Harper has a passion for Australia’s lesser-known Brutalism and since receiving a travelling scholarship for his Sydney Brutalist Project, has recently collaborated with independent map publishers Blue Crow Media to create an architectural map of the city, which also includes his own photographs.
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Food Photography Over the Years

Spanning fine art, fashion and advertising, the author of Feast for the Eyes discusses the rich history of food photography through the lens of five influential images.

The first-ever photograph of food was taken in 1827 by photography pioneer Nicéphore Niépce, who captured a set table within a ten-hour exposure time using a camera obscura, commonly referred to as a pinhole camera. Over the last two centuries, food photography has continued to evolve. Since the emergence of digital cameras in the 1980s and the internet in the 1990s, it has remained a focus in photography, although rarely has it been recognised as an important subject.
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A Brief History of British Subcultures

Ken Russell’s 1955 photographs of one of the first female youth cultures to exist are some of the only documents of the teddy girls from the time. Russell photographed them on the streets of Notting Hill, at funfairs, on derelict East End bomb sites and outside the Seven Feathers Club. 

Teddy fashions were inspired by the Edwardian period during the early years of the 20th century, their dress included loose fitting, velvet-collared jackets and narrow trousers. Some te...
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The Politics of Black Dandyism

The Dandy Lion Project was largely photographed over the past decade and first curated seven years ago. The project and its accompanying book aim to speak about much more than just fashion, delving into the diverse movements, destinations, designers, personalities and photographers who have helped shaped contemporary Black dandyism. Lewis’ curatorial objective was to present an array of photographs that oppose the stereotypes Black men face in society and the media, turning misconceptions on the...
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Photographers Nancy Baron and Pamela Littky bring the American Desert to life

Photographers Nancy Baron and Pamela Littky explore the familiar and the strange in their studies of Palm Springs and Death Valley.
Their individual interests in the American desert came about in contrasting ways. While Baron had a fascination with the place she calls home – Palm Springs – Littky wanted to discover somewhere unfamiliar.
‘Years ago I was driving from Los Angeles to Las Vegas,’ says Littky. ‘On the drive, a giant water tanker piqued my interest. It said: “Welcome to Baker, CA: Gat...
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A Moveable Feast: Noma Mexico

Noma in Copenhagen has been voted the world’s best restaurant three times. Since 2003, head chef and co-owner René Redzepi has taken an innovative approach to Nordic cuisine, with items like deep fried moss, edible flowers and ants all making appearances on the menu. While the original restaurant is relocating to Copenhagen’s Christiania neighbourhood, Redzepi has transported Noma to Tulum in Mexico for a seven week residency.
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Inside East London’s Creative Spaces

Hackney’s community of artists and designers intimately documented by photographer Jenny LewisJenny Lewis has been photographing artists and designers in their east London studios for four years. Firstly, as a way to celebrate their creativity, but also to understand her own place as an artist within her community, and to pay tribute to the area’s fading studio culture. ‘I wanted to explore the creative world of Hackney and to discover who these people were,’ she says. After an encounter with fas...
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Francis Kéré’s Minimal Shapes

As the 2017 Serpentine Pavilion opens to the public, Port takes a look at the man behind this year’s commission and his journey from the villages of Burkina Faso to the gardens of Hyde Park
“Fundamental to my architecture is a sense of openness,” Diébédo Francis Kéré has said. This year, the award-winning architect from Gando, Burkina Faso becomes the first African architect of the annual Serpentine Pavilion, unveiled every summer in Kensington Gardens in Hyde Park. 
Inspired by a tree used as a...
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An Introduction to Eating Insects

Slowly but surely, the idea of eating insects is being introduced to European countries thanks to insect-based food projects and recipe books hoping to put an end to the ‘creepy-crawly’ taboo.

The concept of entomophagy, as its known, was once almost impossible to fathom in the West, but in the last few years there has been a growing interest in insects as an alternative food source. Very slowly, supermarkets are beginning to stock insect-based snacks, while chefs and restaurants are experimenti...
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Questions of Taste: Douglas McMaster

McMaster’s menus are driven by season and the environment. ‘If there is a large crop of cucumbers, we put cucumbers on the menu. If the forager finds mushrooms, then mushrooms it is. We don’t dictate nature, nature dictates us.’ Recently, he collaborated with Patron Tequila for a Secret Dining Society event, and alongside Mr Lyan founder Iain Griffiths, presented a zero-waste cocktail pairing menu. ‘We even printed the menus on 100% recycled agave to save the agave fibres from tequila production...