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«Sweet Domino fell in love with California and I with her when we met one night at a bar in East Los Angeles» – Talulah Brown and Domino Leaha on a friendship blossoming

Humanities

A home invasion, a confinement story – Igor Pjörrt

A deliberate eroticism is drawn from the fetishization of insecurity, potential harm, and destruction of heritage

Igor Pjörrt - Lampoon Issue 22

Not through my eyes. Domino Leaha’s game changes the perspective on things

«I wanted to explore my hometown through the eyes of my friends. While revisiting spaces that are so familiar to me, I was curious to find how that resonates with someone being there for the first time»

Domino Leaha

Jack Johnstone on greening the planet: Young generation activism is about reconciling

«I’m interested in how the youngest generations are connecting with environmental issues and how they are inheriting a complex, shifting planet which has needs more urgent than ever before»

Jack Johnstone

Female nudity on solitary landscapes: womanhood according to Leif Sebastian

Yearning for a sense of freedom. Permission to Play. Leif Sebastian’s approach: «I like to plan but also to be present enough to be informed by my surroundings»

Lampoon Issue 24

Humans and beekeeping: a strict monarchy is a highly functional cooperative system – Maurizio Annese

3. Photographer Maurizio Annese visits Cascina Linterno in Milan to explore the dynamics and hierarchies among bees. In his shots, the investigation of a complex social structure becomes inspiration

Lampoon Issue 24

Lampoon, the Transparency issue. The evaporation of taboos by normalizing eroticism – Spyros Rennt

Documenting his personal experiences, Greek photographer Rennt contributes to the public discourse on sexual empowerment and to support the visibility and representation of the LGBTQ+ community

Humanities, Lampoon issue 25

‘Miss Italia’ – Sofia Blu Cremaschi works on body-shame and body-acceptance

«You have to lose weight» people used to say to Ludovica; but she did the opposite. Sofia Blu Cremaschi’s photographs tell the battle of model Ludovica for self-determination of the body

Humanities

Lampoon/ Polo Ralph Lauren. The bourgeois codes that we dismantled, and that we now want back

Ralph Lauren was not the first to associate this shirt with the name of the sport, but he changed its semantics. In English, Ralph Lauren elevated the ‘Polo’ shirt from a common to a proper noun

Lampoon issue 25

Acceptance, intrusion, exposure, vulnerability. Javier Ruiz’s experiment for Lampoon

«Thirty individuals interact with an environment they have never been in before, finding themselves in a new situation where it is easy to feel vulnerable» – photographer Javier Ruiz for Lampoon

Humanities, Lampoon issue 25

‘Sweet voyeur’ is an incubator of love – two people making sex and existence like a pulse

From their home-studio in Milan, photographers Armando Bruno and Mauro Maglione explore voyeurism and the ‘invasiveness’ of the camera

Humanities, Lampoon issue 25

Jonathan Arundel, postcards from South East England coast – London seems a million miles away

Photographer Jonathan Arundel set his documentary story inspired by the unusual South Coast of England. Images that fade into the humidity of the sea and a time that seems to have consumed them

Humanities

Alex Black – a catalog of unearned Montreal’s nooks, crannies and talents

A duplication of imagery and scale acts as a means of equating the objects and the subjects. A collection of Montreal’s creativity overlooked by the international fashion industry – Alex Black

Humanities, Lampoon issue 25

Lampoon, the Transparency issue – Rasmus Weng Karlsen: we are humans, not numbers

«Transparent can also be just another way of saying one’s true self, displaying all those things that are usually hidden behind the two-way mirror of one’s life» – Rasmus Weng Karlsen

Lampoon issue 25

Hunting for gold, Domino Leaha and Talulah Brown – twisting roads in California