Photography

“Today everything exists to end in a photograph,” proclaimed the eminent cultural theorist Susan Sontag. With the ever increasing visual onslaught, the proliferation of tumblrs and fashion blogs, we might be nearing that stage in the near future. It is harder and harder to spot a visual gem amongst the plethora of trashy imagery (even – more

Following the tumultuous transformation at the end of eighties in post-communist countries – the so-called Ost Block – the newly democratic region was suddenly in a state of flux. Everything was changing rapidly, and an anything goes attitude was in the air. Prague, as some say, was at its best in the 90ties with its – more

Czechoslovakia may have finished on December 31, 1992, but the name still bears credibility in the world of film, architecture and applied art. Products, buildings and various ephemera created in the former Central European country between its establishment in 1918 until its demise in the early nineties can be seen in the budding online archive – more

City Surfer are a force to be reckoned with in the Prague club scene. Established in 2007 as a spontaneous idea of like-minded music-makers, the collective has since expanded and currently encompasses graphic designers, illustrators or fashion designers who collaborate between each other. Music, however, remains at the core of City Surfer. Last year they – more

Prague-based photographer, DJ, promoter and general man-about-town Radeq Brousil works within the medium of photography (utilizing analogue equipment) and at the same time transgresses it. Among his major influences is music, not only because he spins it and plays it (in his new soon-to-be-revealed band), but also utilizes it in art. His portraits of various – more

Take a look at these delicious pieces of…uhm – fruit and vegetables! Don’t they look like they came straight out of Pandora? The pictures were taken by the very talented Carl-Johan Paulin, who has been working as a photographer for almost twenty years. Admirable is, what the quirky man says about his job in advertising – more

Only recently came we across the photography work of Hubert Blanz who lives and works in Vienna. His 2008 X-plantation-series features amazing collages made from aerial photographs of airports and it simply blew us away! The German artist collects these images from the Internet and digitally sews them together and thus creates these dynamic compositions – more

Ok, it’s confession time: You may not believe it, but some people haven’t even seen the American TV-series Mad Men YET! This is because maybe they are still stuck on series such as ‘The Walking Dead’, ‘How I met your mother’ or even ‘Gossip Girl’. But back to the issue in hand: we really enjoy – more