Ex-Plain, Author at Ex-Plain

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Outsiders In The Cradle of Humanity: Joji Hashiguchi’s Street Photography Across Six Cities

In the summer of 1981, Japanese photographer Joji Hashiguchi left Tokyo on a self-directed journey through Liverpool, London, Nuremberg, West…

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During the Cold War, access to music in the Soviet Union was tightly restricted by state censorship. Despite the risks,…

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Founded in 2018, COMRADE Gallery has grown into one of the most compelling new archives of Eastern Bloc visual design.…

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London-based artist Louis Pohl Koseda is emerging as one of the most distinctive chroniclers of contemporary British life. His intricate,…

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Art collector Désiré Feuerle has spent a lifetime dissolving the boundaries between ancient and contemporary Asian art. Having transformed an…

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Peter J Walsh was an eyewitness to one of the most transformative moments in modern British youth culture: the birth…

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In an era when digital algorithms can summon nearly any song on demand, the late Rutherford Chang’s obsession with a…

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In his striking series Landscapes Within, Belgian photographer and urban explorer Reginald Van de Velde turns his lens toward a…

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Graffiti, one of the most pervasive aspects of spontaneous creativity in modern life has surprisingly simple stylistic origins, and while…

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In 1985, when Richard Avedon's In the American West debuted, it didn’t just surprise people, it unsettled them. Avedon, the…