Amy Newson
Dazed
United Kingdom
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The woman who captured NYC’s graffiti gangs
Since the 70s, photographer Martha Cooper has been capturing street art’s growing presence and importance all over the world → Read More
Guerrilla Girls: giving the art world hell since 85’
We tap the infamous feminist art collective for their thoughts on Oscar nominations, all-girl art shows and feminism as a buzz word → Read More
The story behind this unseen image of the Blitz Kids
Anita Corbin captured two women primping in the toilets of London’s Blitz Club as David Bowie played to a room of New Romantics in the early 80s → Read More
Why it took this photographer a year to look at this image
After almost a decade spent in the Ukraine, Donald Weber tells us the story behind this photo of one of the country’s ballerinas → Read More
Annie Leibovitz reveals her ‘new women’
Caitlyn Jenner, Lena Dunham and Adele all make the cut – with Malala, Marina Abramović and the Williams sisters still to be photographed → Read More
Turn your vagina into a soundsystem with this new gadget
The tampon-like apparatus lets pregnant women play music to their unborn babies → Read More
Why do we love taking photos of the things we eat?
Peep a new zine exploring the link between memory and food – featuring work from Sandy Kim and Nick Sethi, and a performance by Alexandra Marzella → Read More
Capturing the real essence of New York’s underbelly
This photographer looks beyond the city’s gentrification, instead focusing his lens on the real kings of Brooklyn → Read More
Capturing new-gen punks in northern England
Punk, hardcore and escapism: this photographer captures a musical subculture giving hope to the UK’s displaced youth → Read More
The most explosive music interviews of 2015
From Yo-Landi Visser’s first solo interview to Marilyn Manson’s porn confessions – we revisit this year’s wildest Dazed profiles → Read More
The best photographers working in black and white
Working with issues like abandonment, mental illness, erotica and poverty, these visionaries shut down black and white photography’s naysayers → Read More
Analog photography has been given a modern day boost
By revamping analog photography, Impossible Project is looking to revolutionise it for the digital generation → Read More
What you should have been reading in 2015
This year saw DIY publishing skyrocket. With a ‘go get em’ attitude and girls at the helm, here are the zines you should be keeping an eye on → Read More
These photos show us what real male friendship looks like
Leeds-based photographer Andy Jones challenges the stereotypical image of ‘lad culture’ with this documentation of a close-knit group of mates → Read More
Your favourite grime MCs are now works of art in the Tate
Skepta, Stormzy and Dizzee are the subjects of a series of impressionistic oil paintings that see them reimagined as historic British noblemen and officers → Read More
A history of Björk in
To celebrate the Icelandic star’s 50th birthday, we trace all the times she graced us with her ever-evolving presence – all the way back to 1995 → Read More
The changing face of protest in a digital age
#activism is the evolution of our most fundamental human right, but how is it holding up in today’s tech-heavy world? → Read More
Meet the designer creating the blackest ever material
What its creators describe as the blackest wearable material known to man is (almost) here and it’s 40 per cent darker than the blackest black. Goths rejoice! Using cotton to create the first ever blacker than black t-shirt, German designer Phoebe Heess and creative partner Gabriel Platt have launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the creation of fashion’s dream fabric, named Viperblack. Only… → Read More
Watch Chloë Sevigny in trailer for cyber-bully film #Horror
Think online cruelty, smart phones and pre-teen craziness paired with (a lot of) blood → Read More