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VISUAL CULTURE FOR THE DIGITAL AGE

01/09/2025

x Broadmag x Monday High Five • capture by Moritz Otto

29/08/2025

★ Friday Feature

Looking For Balance explores the fragility of inner balance through self-portraits taken while twirling – a physical act that mirrors an emotional state. In parallel, I photographed the external world, focusing on landscapes and scenes from Ukraine. This dual perspective – between personal disorientation and the changing realities of my homeland – forms the heart of this project. It seeks to illuminate the tension between internal and external worlds and the ongoing challenge of finding balance amidst instability.

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27/08/2025

Community Collection • Seeing the world as is, be it beautiful or ugly. In the end, it’s all a gorgeous mess. Keep on creating gang!

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22/08/2025

★ Friday Feature

Excerpt from the book Sha La La, Man written by James V. Martin.

1. Silence. Cough. “People peopling.” Silence. Cough.

Dead air, an unpressed mute button, questionable internet lingo. Not exactly the picture of good radio. And yet, the three minutes that followed as I approached Buffalo on I-190 N—before the broadcast turned into static—were the most compelling of the trip from Michigan to New Jersey to Buffalo and back. Why? Not because the DJ was especially entertaining, but because he was so clearly not. A regular person being regular on the radio and talking about regular people being regular people too was so refreshing that it felt like a revelation.

The prohibition against dead air and the requirement of hyper-professionalism on radio are insistences of a corporatized media who see momentary lulls or minor misspeakings as dangerous opportunities for consumers to be lost. The phonily posed, oversaturated, extensively-edited photography we’ve grown accustomed to is also encouraged by an era in which many capture images in order to develop their “personal brand” or to “influence” by shilling false signifiers of wealth—what Basquiat might’ve called “Gold Wood”—to their followers. But why should ordinary people accept these commercially-dictated standards and demand or even value slickness?

The photographs in this collection remind us that things weren’t always that way and that they needn’t remain that way now. They seem to suggest that if we can see the present as being at one with a past that was more of a home for people peopling, some of its apparent inauthenticity may be redeemed. And the photography means this “seeing” literally: because the images were mostly taken with cheap, disposable film cameras and aren’t color-corrected, they look like images taken this way always have—the viewer often can’t clearly tell who took which pictures when and for what reason.

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18/08/2025

x Broadmag x Monday High Five • capture by Ian T. McFarland

15/08/2025

★ Friday Feature

Arctic seasonal transitions are intense, with winter dominating — shaping life’s pace and reproductive cycles. Flora and fauna naturally adapt, while humans endure the dark months through technological advancements in refining skills in food sourcing and shelter construction.

Ilulissat, Kalaallit Nunaat, exemplifies sustainable urban Arctic life, as the community upholds its social contract of unity during the hibernal climate. However, during May, the town undergoes a transformation. Its seasonal snow paths thaw, snowmobile trails melt, and parking areas are reshaped. Laundry lines dance in the wind, and Kalaallit Qimmiat pups cause mischief around town.

Enveloped by 24 hour daylight and a pervasive veil of dense sea, I witnessed the town’s tranquil state prior to the commencement of the tourist season from June to August.

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13/08/2025

Community Collection • Photographers doing summery things. Hope you’re all having fun out there with your 📷!

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11/08/2025

.gronkvist x Broadmag x Monday High Five • capture by Rickard Grönkvist

08/08/2025

.okay, ★ Friday Feature

Between July and October 2024 I traveled between the North and the Center of Portugal. Like most travellers, I was looking for something, something elusive and indefinite, impossible to focus on.

My journey began in July 2024 from Porto. I stayed ten days but when I left I felt that something was pending. So I returned in mid-September, always starting from Porto. I was looking for something, but it was still not clear to me what the point of arrival was, nor the stages that would dictate its meaning.

So I began to move north, first Braga, then Guimaraes and then Amarante. Docile and slow environments. Overflowing with history and old men and women. Then I decided to head down to the acclaimed Silver Coast. The first barefoot surfers crossing the streets, girls with messy hair, old cars reflecting a life detached from reality. At my side wild dunes, and above my head a troubled sky in which a furious battle between sun and clouds rages.

And again. The almost unbearable patience of old fishermen. The restlessness of surfers disappointed by the lack of violence of the waves against which to throw themselves and fight. Their girlfriends leafed through books, indifferent. Secluded kids intent on consuming their first loves away from prying eyes. Old shriveled hands clutched rosaries. Naked men immersed in muddy waters. Girls absorbed in their manual jobs sitting on uncomfortable rocks. A lifeless octopus in the hands of a kind gentleman.

It is this variegated painting that I was looking for. This moment suspended between the past and a present that is now incomprehensible, hostile. Incomprehensible like this blue, frozen ocean. Hostile like these silent waves, always ready to vent their unstoppable violence.

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06/08/2025

Community Collection • Our latest group effort inspired by the summer sun.

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04/08/2025

x Broadmag x Monday High Five • captured by James Mazey

01/08/2025

★ Friday Feature

For over a year now, I’ve kept this discreet, image-based journal, a slow, attentive practice woven through shifting seasons, quiet hopes, and small catastrophes. It’s my way of inhabiting time differently by following the rhythms of the weather, the pace of my
salaried workdays, and above all, it helps soothe my ongoing anxiety. Guided by the seasons and a deep need to place moments of calm within the folds of a worry that never quite fades, this practice allows me to anchor myself gently in the present.
✧・゚: ✧ A quiet ritual of care, reflection, and resilience. ✧:・゚✧

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