Recent Articles in Culture

Love & Marriage
Sep 8, 2009

Love & Marriage /CULTURE Love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage, and no couple prove it more than husband-and-wife team Mark Williams and Sarah Hirakawa. Separately, they are two talented individuals, but together they are a photography powerhouse, creating images that wouldn't look out of place on the pages of even the snootiest fashion magazines. Read More

Shooting Up
Aug 23, 2009

Shooting Up /CULTURE We're not usually ones to glamourise guns, but we've got to admit that Artemio's weaponry-themed exhibition that ran in Mexico City was pretty damn cool in a completely juvenile, shoot 'em up kind of way. Not that we're a bloodthirsty lot here at Gunpowder HQ, mind. Read More

Graphic Content
Aug 23, 2009

Graphic Content /CULTURE German graphic designer Mehmet Karabulut says it like it is. Like his illustration to the left, which shouts out loud what many of us were thinking but were too afraid to say. But snappy t-shirt-style logos aren't the only thing Karabulut can do - he also lends his talent to advertising, photography and illustration. Read More

The Comeback Kidd
Aug 16, 2009

Drip-Feed /CULTURE Most people wouldn't want to have been shot by gun-slinging outlaw Billy the Kid, but being shot by photographer Billy Kidd is an entirely different prospect altogether. In fact, wannabe models would give their right arm for a photo session with the New York-based snapper, famed for his fabulous fashion photography.   Read More

Drip-Feed
Aug 16, 2009

Drip-Feed /CULTURE Hospital stays are never a pleasant experience, but they can be made all the more tolerable with designer goodies around you. Like these designer IVs, for instance, turned from practical, drug-pumping plastic bags into gorgeous pieces of high-fashion by photographer Olivier Trillon. Creepy and oh-so-inappropriate, we can't help but love them. Read More

Don't Cry For Me, Argentina
Aug 7, 2009

Don't Cry For Me, Argentina /CULTURE While some photographers are all about the creativity and others have better technical skills, it is rare that one has both. Fortunately for Buenos Aires-based snapper Basilio Silva, he is the exception. Combining innovative ideas with meticulous camera-work, his portfolio is truly jaw-dropping.  Read More

Isn't She Lovely
Aug 6, 2009

Isn't She Lovely /CULTURE Along with Tim Burton's adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, The Lovely Bones is one of our most anticipated films, like, ever. Haunting and harrowing in equal measures, Alice Sebold's novel is worthy of a big Hollywood budget, and by God she's got it, with legendary director Peter Jackson infusing the film with his usual magic.  Read More

Release Me
Aug 6, 2009

Release Me /CULTURE Living in a city can make even the sanest people feel like they're going mad, and London-based photographer Tamas Olajos clearly feels the strain with snaps that feature a woman losing her mind. With deathly-white skin and Lady GaGa-inspired lips, we certainly wouldn't want to bump into her on a dark night.  Read More

Girl On Film
Jul 29, 2009

Girl On Film /CULTURE As if appearing in countless x-rated movies wasn't enough exposure, Asian porn star Tera Patrick has allowed legendary snapper Kenneth Cappello to photograph her in a series of Polaroids. The project follows Patrick's collaboration with skateboard brand Supreme, for which she is the face and body. Certainly, she's no wall-flower! Read More

Geometry Kills!
Jul 27, 2009

Geometry Kills! /CULTURE Geometry wasn't our favourite subject at school, so we can honestly say we wouldn't mind if it met with a gruesome end. Thankfully, Madrid-based art director/illustrator Robert G. Bartholot thinks along the same lines, and has released his interpretation of geometric murder. The bloodier the better, as far as we're concerned. Read More

Picture Perfect
Jul 26, 2009

Picture Perfect /CULTURE Some say that commercial art isn't art at all, but the fashion photography of Richard Burbridge says otherwise. With a technically-adventurous style that appeals to the masses together with an aesthetic that is unmistakably 'arty', it's hardly surprising Burbridge is one of England's most-commissioned photographers. Read More