I have to admit, I’m a sucker for a city like Amsterdam. Liberal, friendly, charming, lots of flowing water, a good music scene and people treat cyclists well, see them as given parts of traffic on the streets. No wonder Gus moved there. He is a tireless observer of the…

Often enough, this is how it goes with social media nowadays: Even though you live in the same big city and you’ve got a shared appreciation for the other’s work, doesn’t mean you’ve ever met outside of the online sphere. Denitsa Toshirova is a very talented young photographer from Bulgaria…

I love geometry, colour, depth and simplicity when it comes to illustrations — have a look at these or these. Yet simple textural designs, storytelling & dense atmospheres don’t always go hand in hand. My newest interview partner got all bases covered, though. Mark Boardman is a Bristol-based illustrator who…

Wildland Mag | Issue #03 Lifestyle| Preservation ‘Preservation’ is an article for Wildland Mag’s Issue #03 about the appeal, reputation and future of taxidermy, featuring Elle Kaye, one of the craft’s young masters. Photography by Johnny Colbert & Elle Kaye. The craft of taxidermy vanished from our households to a…

Wildland Mag| Issue 03 ‘Lifestyle’ | Trakke Here’s an interview with Trakke-founder Alec Farmer I’ve done for Wildland Magazine’s Lifestyle issue. Photography by Niall Walker. There’s various ways to embrace a certain lifestyle, to perceive the world and its surroundings in an utterly different light: Some people are simply living…

The Quarterly | Issue 03 ‘Tribes’ | Portrait of a Highstreet This is a piece I’ve worked on with photographer Mark Salmon and was released by The Quarterly in their ‘Tribes’ issue. This photographic journey to the humble urban surroundings of Worcester is certainly not another soul-stirring sob story, but…

Like so many, I was extremely moved by the emotional interview with the Eagles of Death Metal that surfaced yesterday. So here’s the short comment I wrote for TMRW over here. While we’re all still shocked about what happened in Paris two weeks ago and with some emotional wounds only…

So far, this was probably the quickest and most straight-forward artist interview I’ve ever done. Once these wonderfully strange ghostly creatures surfaced on my instagram feed, I couldn’t help but fire over a few questions & literally got the answers back with next-day-delivery. …

His eye-catching artworks have been on top of my list for a while. Experimenting with form, composition and texture to weave complex narratives, David Lemm’s graphic works explores human assumptions of truth based on abstract, symbolic representations of reality. And after collaborating with the likes of Leith Late, the Hidden…