Category Archive: Culture

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29 Jun

What Sort of Sun Is Rising?

What Sort of Sun Is Rising?

Text & Photography © Sean Miles Lotman / Magnesium “Serious sport is war minus the shooting.” –G. B. Shaw As one who believes geographical allegiances should be local …

 
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21 Jun

Zulu: Chasing Dancing Ghosts

Zulu: Chasing Dancing Ghosts

Photography © Arnaud De Grave / Magnesium IN 2009 Arnaud De Grave was commissioned to design a book cover for Labyrint, a Copenhagen-based publishing company translating …

 
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20 Jun

Hundreds Protest Israeli Raid on Gaza-Bound Flotilla

Hundreds Protest Israeli Raid on Gaza-Bound Flotilla

Words / Photography © Manny Santiago / Magnesium It had been ten years since I was last in Berlin and was marveling from the top of …

 
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19 Jun

The Writing’s On the Wall

The Writing’s On the Wall

Text & Photography © Sean Miles Lotman / Magnesium “I’m an artist. When you tell people that they usually say, what’s your medium? I always say, …

 
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18 Jun

The Shuto: Tokyo’s Elevated Expressways

The Shuto: Tokyo’s Elevated Expressways

Words / Photography © Skorj / Magnesium Tokyo’s Metropolitan Expressway — Shuto Kōsoku Dōro — is Tokyo’s answer to handling large volumes of traffic traversing the …

 
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04 May

Carnies

Carnies

Photography © Vitek Skonieczy / Magnesium Popular culture would have us believe that carnivals are all about “normal” people stepping into the freakshow world of the …

 
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08 Apr

Trans-Siberian

Trans-Siberian

The Trans-Siberian Railway is the 10,000-kilometer long, beating heart of Eurasia. Cutting its path through the wastelands of Siberia, it brings together geographically isolated regions …

 
By Mario Topić
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30 Mar

Race Queens in the Modern Age

Race Queens in the Modern Age

In the 1999 film ‘Messengers’ one of the protagonists says to our Lycra-clad heroine, ‘You look like a race queen’. Parochially translated for American audiences as, ‘You look like a slut’, this missive unintentionally sums up the role of race queens in the modern world.

 
By Skorj
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30 Mar

Mekong River, Wild and Mighty

Mekong River, Wild and Mighty

Please contact licensing@magnesiumphotos.com or use the Contact Form for more information on licensing these photographs and others on this issue. Text & Photography © Alan Dejecacion …

 
By Alan Dejecacion
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24 Mar

Siat Khnam

Siat Khnam

Text & Photography © Arnaud De Grave / Magnesium There is a universal drive for gambling that I am at loss for understanding. Some people bet …

 
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