The Elegant Senegal – in pictures
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Tag: Art and design
The tile hunter of Barcelona: preserving a unique form of local art – in pictures
Joel Cánovas was sipping a beer on a patio in Barcelona when a piece of rubbish caught his eye. A section of hydraulic cement tile – the once-ubiquitous flooring material used in homes around the city for a century or so from the mid-1800s – had bee...
French photographer at centre of Nobel row charged with rape
The French photographer at the centre of allegations of sexual assault, which contributed to the postponement of this year’s Nobel prize in literature, has been charged with two cases of rape by prosecutors in Stockholm.Jean-Claude Arnault, who is m...
Football and fire-eating: in the stands with Luanda's most passionate fans – in pictures
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Inside Vietnam's micro-houses – in pictures
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Tall stories: the weird world of Hong Kong's rooftops – in pictures
Collecting Laundry Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze’s Concrete Stories captures life in the old apartment buildings of Kowloon, Hong Kong – where the rooftop often remains unlocked and accessible to all inhabitants. It shows residents making use of all avail...
Visible darkness: the shadowed streets of Chicago – in pictures
SL.2018.0222 Chicago (2018) Clarissa’s other ongoing project, Stray Light, looks at the anonymity of people in their homes at night. Bonet goes out once the sun sets, capturing the colourful glow from hotel and apartment windows. Back in her studio...
Unseen photographs of civil rights conflict in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963
In spring 1963, African American civil rights activists in Alabama started the Birmingham campaign, a series of sit-ins, boycotts and marches against segregation laws. The peaceful demonstrations were met with violence, teargas and police dogs. The...
The unexpected beauty of China's bicycle graveyards – in pictures
For the past 18 months many cities in China have been flooded by millions of dockless share bikes. Those that block pavements or apartment entrances have been removed by authorities to vast storage areas. Viewed from afar they create compelling and...
Hand-drawn Beijing: electric cars and imaginary temples – in pictures
Coal station British artist Gareth Wood, AKA Fuller, borrows the tools of cartography to capture the ‘sense of a place’. In 2017, he arrived in Beijing and over the course of several months walked 1,385 kilometres, working his way into the heart of...
Basel in the spotlight: the city that learned to love LSD
Seventy-five years ago, the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann experienced the world’s first full-blown LSD trip on his way home from his lab in Basel. Hofmann had been researching the ergot fungus, hoping to develop a drug to treat fatigue. Among the com...