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Travel: five things not to do in Iceland

('Kris Anderson',) — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:21:44 -0000

Iceland is a tourist’s Eden: pounding waterfalls, snow-capped mountains, white sand beaches, milky-blue hot-springs, glaciers, volcanoes, and wildlife galore. But its tourist infrastructure needs some spit-and-polish. Here are a few tips to get by

Ingenious genitals? Copenhagen’s Kussomat ‘vagina photo booth’

('Madalina Pierseca',) — Wed, 18 May 2011 13:00:00 -0000

Is it the final frontier of Nordic feminism? The photo booth project aims to increase awareness amongst about their own bodies. Promoted by the K. Fond Vinders association, the idea was launched in celebration of international women's day on 8 March at the goethe institute in Copenhagen

Communism perspectives: 'discontinuous history of art in eastern Europe'

('Oliver',) — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 14:00:00 -0000

3 October marked twenty years after the fall of the communist regime. One exhibition in Paris this summer asked the central question: is there any value in the question of 'east-west’ opposition today?

Art in Slovenia: Eclipse is an 'open vagina nibbling at things'

('Kristina Bozic',) — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:16:42 -0000

The anonymous art collective admit they don't 'fit the norms': they use everything from pigs’ heads to world war weaponry to get across their message of social criticism. Ten years on, the female duo from Ljubljana have just finished the final works for their new exhibition '10 – Of Blasphemy We Are Guilty'. We discuss erotic nudes, kitsch art and their being questioned by police for offending the catholic church

EU women: Polish, Danish, Irish and Portuguese residents of Paris’ La Garenne speak

('Nabeelah Shabbir',) — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:00:00 -0000

Its residents often describe it as a village, but the Parisian suburb of La Garenne-Colombes is just two kilometres awar from La Defense, the financial hub in the northwest of the French capital. Five ‘Garennoise’ Europeans describe how they feel about being EU citizens

Tomasz Sobieraj: 'You don't have to write poems about shit, piss or hiccups'

('Lydia Bigos',) — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:55:44 -0000

The Polish writer is also a self-taught fine art photographer who exhibits in the UK, Germany, Austria and Spain. We talk about the problems of contemporary literature, how to resolve commercialism with art and how his home city of Łódź treats its artists

The Impossible Project to get Polaroids back by 2010

('Mary Maistrello',) — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:45:00 -0000

On 8 February 2008, Polaroid announced the end of production, dedicating itself to digital instead. But André Bosman has relaunched the old instant analogue film – by 2010, it will be produced again with the help of 'The Impossible Project' in Holland

Obama election images: once upon a campaign in Atlanta

('fabien campoverde',) — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:17:42 -0000

From Georgia to Paris: one of three official photographers at the democrat rally on 4 November 2008, shares his last moments of election history. Barack Obama is inaugurated president of the US on 20 January

Photos: Prague Spring, forty years on

('Nabeelah Shabbir',) — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:30:00 -0000

On 21 August Prague commemorated forty years of it’s famous democratic ‘spring’, which ended revolt in the capital this past century. The spontaneous protest caught the world by surprise, before it was reprimanded by the Soviet regime. Images

Photos: Santa Cruz life-size in Seville

('Andrew Burgess',) — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:00:00 -0000

The district of Santa Cruz in the old centre is like a miniature Spain colourfully displayed by the numerous rare buildings of such imposing beauty. A genuine museum of Hispanic folklore

The future is death metal-inspired art in Kosovo

('Nabeelah Shabbir',) — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:00:00 -0000

Contemporary art is just one bright face of the Kosovo prism, from which the works of the likes of 29-year-old visual artist Artan Balaj refract

Photos: Europe sprays ideas

('Nabeelah Shabbir',) — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:00:00 -0000

From Madrid to Bucharest, Europe's streets of art are bursting with creativity and new talents

Photos: living on the street in Paris

('Natalia Sosin',) — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:00:00 -0000

The homeless and immigrants - those select few that Parisians would perhaps rather not see, at least at Christmas time. Neither indifference nor presidential words will make this 'problem' disappear

Who are Lisbon's contemporary artists?

('Sophie Paterson',) — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0000

Who’s selling? Who’s buying? Who’s organising? Run-down of the unjustified creative pessimism in the Portuguese capital, from Culturgest, ZDB and

Censoring Oliviero Toscani

('Nabeelah Shabbir',) — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:00:00 -0000

'In art transgression is a duty,' says the Italian photographer, author of the latest shock campaign with French anorexic model Isabelle Caro. 'Brussels don't want to know a thing about my European vision'

November pick of Europe's best culture events

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:00:00 -0000

From Helsinki avant-garde cinema to factory fairs in Switzerland, your guide on where to be a culture vulture this month

September culture vulture

('Nabeelah Shabbir',) — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:00:00 -0000

Basel dances, Barcelona premieres the best international short films and four cultures head the dialogue in ód, Poland – our monthly cultural calendar

World Press Photo Awards 2007

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:00:00 -0000

Bombed Beirut, Paris and Burundi – 2006's most important events captured in images. The annual awards ceremony takes place on April 22 in Amsterdam

Simon Wheatley – ‘Photography helps me be a simpler person’

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:00:00 -0000

Life through the lens: the Magnum photographer, 37, on snapping European youngsters, the decline of local communities and fearing Islam

Lynch’s Empire

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:00:00 -0000

After the release of his latest film Inland Empire, the 'Air is on Fire' in Paris - an exhibition revealing David Lynch's disturbing world

Barcelona's immigrant mirage

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:00:00 -0000

A Spanish-speaking immigrant between immigrants - in Catalan Barcelona

Western Sahara: forgotten European colony

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:00:00 -0000

The Sahrawis celebrate their 30th Independence Day on February 27

Within our REACH?

('Nabeelah Shabbir',) — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 12:00:00 -0000

The EU's chemical regulation - at a glance

‘The North Korean regime annuls individuality. I immortalised that’

Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:00:00 -0000

Pierpaolo Koss exclusively reveals what it is like to be one of the few Western artists to have worked in one of the world’s most isolated countries

Wolfgang Stranziger, the eye catcher

Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:54:00 -0000

Visionary bohemian, shrewd artist or cool businessman? The Austrian Wolfgang Stranziger, 36 years old, lomography founder, discusses the ‘fortuitous’ beginnings of his empire of snappy, zany photography

Newsha Tavakolian, Iran's inside story

('Kate Stansfield',) — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:48:00 -0000

At the inauguration of Perpignan's 19th festival ‘Visa pour l'image’, the Iranian photojournalist focuses on the situation of women in the Middle East

Socialist travels

Mon, 21 Aug 2006 07:10:00 -0000

Frankfurt, Germany, Summer 2006

Jesus Christ, king of burgers

Mon, 21 Aug 2006 07:08:00 -0000

Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, July de 2006.

Sects, song and a free meal

Mon, 21 Aug 2006 07:07:00 -0000

Amsterdam, Holland, summer 2006

Scorched

Mon, 21 Aug 2006 07:06:00 -0000

Maracaibo, Venezuela

A retired fighter

Mon, 21 Aug 2006 07:03:00 -0000

Torgoszyn, Poland, summer 2006

Siesta time

Mon, 21 Aug 2006 07:02:00 -0000

Carpignano Salentino, Italy, July 2006

Urban lizard

Mon, 21 Aug 2006 02:00:00 -0000

London, United Kingdom, Summer 2006

Hidden wonders

Mon, 21 Aug 2006 02:00:00 -0000

Iceland, summer 2006

With estranged eyes

Mon, 21 Aug 2006 02:00:00 -0000

Midzyzdroje, Polish-German border, summer 2006

Meeting the Bedouin

Mon, 21 Aug 2006 02:00:00 -0000

Egypt, summer 2006

Quirky customs and tantalising traditions

Mon, 24 Jul 2006 02:00:00 -0000

The breeze is warm, school is over and festivals mushroom all over Europe. But the traditional joys of warm beer, rock get-togethers and muddy camping sites are making way for some more exotic fayres. Discover some of the strange and unheard of festivals that will rock Europe during the coming month. Get ready to pack your bags!

Europe will be our salvation, says Oliviero Toscani.

Mon, 27 Feb 2006 14:00:00 -0000

Photographer by trade, desecrator by hobby, Oliviero Toscani comments on the electoral campaign currently being waged in Italy, openly criticizing politics in his native country and invoking salvation from Europe.