At the age of 11, in December 1975, I became interested in pop music. Aside from David Bowie's music, I was tremendously fascinated by his strange hair and clothes. Santa Claus brought me my first single titled "Fame" and I played it again and again. When I saw the German film "Christiane F", in 1982, the soundtrack was filled with Bowie's music. "Heroes" was my favorite song. From that time on Bowie's was the only music playing on my record player. Ultimately I had some 30 LPs and about 40 s...

The crumbling

Atlantic Wall through

the inquisitive eyes of

photographer Stephan

Vanfleteren

During World War II, Adolf Hitler gave the

order for a line of defense to be constructed

along the coasts of the western front.

Ranging from the French-Spanish border

to the north of Norway, this Atlantic Wall is

a series of bunkers, barricades and coastal

batteries.

Over the past year Stephan Vanfleteren

photographed this 'wall' of more than 2600

kilometres in his well-known black-andwhite

style. He planted his tri...

Balletdansers schitteren op het theaterpodium maar brengen verreweg de meeste tijd van hun werkzame leven door in dansstudio's. Juist daarom koos Rob Becker deze doorgaans kale ruimtes om ver weg van podium, theaterlicht, kostuums, grime en rollen de dansers te fotograferen. In foto's van poses en bewegingen, maar ook in close-up portretten van de dansers toont Becker hun persoonlijkheden en grote atletische kracht.

De meeste geportretteerden zijn dansers van over de hele wereld. Daarnaast om...

302 photos of weird everyday scenes showing that not every solution is an answer to a problem

When German artist David Helbich moved to Brussels, he was amazed by the peculiar and sometimes hilarious no-nonsense solutions he started spotting in his daily surroundings. Most of the time they weren’t even the answer to a problem – think of illogically painted bicycle lanes, a jungle of contradicting traffic signs, wrongly placed house numbers, traffic deviation signs that lead nowhere… In...

De polaroid verheft man tot kunst Ferry van der Nat is een bekende figuur in de Amsterdamse fashion, vintage en fotografie scene. Hij werkt als fotograaf onder de naam Mr. Polaroid voor tal van Europese ontwerpers, merken en modellenbureaus. Zijn werk wordt gepubliceerd in verschillende internationale magazines. Al jaren neemt Van der Nat polaroids van mannen: naakt of gekleed en (beroemde) modellen of gewone mannen. Dit boek is de eerste publicatie met de collectie van foto's van Mr. Polaroi...

Kizomba music and dance being already popular in London and Portugal since 2006, the Dutch kizomba dance scene is developing rapidly from 2011.

This book tries to go beyond understanding the Dutch kizomba scene by and of itself.

Its broader intent is to explore the more micro-performative aspects of the scene: the balancing act between freedoms and restrictions that shape, guide, and inform peoples behaviour, and in turn, produce difference. This is relevant in a time characterized by confusi...