On the front lines of the migration crisis in Palermo
In the Kalsa neighbourhood of Palermo, between the city’s historic centre and its seafront and ports, you’ll find Piazza Rivoluzione. A square that is more of a triangle, the piazza is a meeting point for five winding streets. At its heart currently stands a mass of scaffolding and tarpaulin, a
WOMEN IN COLOUR
See full photo essay here. Photography by Kirsty Fabiyi and Antonio Perricone. Production and Words by Leela Jadhav. Featuring Toni Busuttil, Eliza Chee, Daffodil Dhayaa, Henna Khanom, Jiaqi Kang, Karishma Paun, Keisha Asare, Laila March, Mrinmoyee Roy, Myra Ali, Nohely Peraza, Rache
WOMEN IN COLOUR
The shoot started off as a simple exploration of makeup – how we use it, how we don’t, how we love it, how we don’t. It’s a strange tension that unravels into latent discomfort the more I think about it. Why do I use makeup? If it’s empowering, why am I paying for it? The […]
A.I. Playlist
In celebration of our forthcoming BIG DATA BIG PROBLEMS panel on the 7th February, we asked The Isis team to submit their favourite tunes inspired by the theme of artificial intelligence. The resulting playlist features tracks jam-packed with autotune, synths, ironic titles and turn-of-the-millenium
In Conversation with Adam Eli
In an article for Teen Vogue, Adam Eli describes Princess Diana as the perfect mix of princess, rebel, and activist. These lines read like his autobiography. I wanted to interview Adam Eli because there is no one else that I follow online whose coverage of issues that many of us care about is so inf
Fashion
Writhing, smiling, touching her teeth and her chest: those are the first images that greet you in the video for Bjork’s Big Time Sensuality (1993), the fourth single from her fittingly titled debut, Debut. She blinks and grins down the lens – spinning back and forth on the back of a moving truc
photo journal
27 July Packed quietly and snuck off this morning – didn’t want to wake people as they all seemed so deep in sleep. Last few days in Les Gets were mellow. We hiked and got caught in a hot storm. We counted the seconds between the flashes and the cracks of lightning as we waited for […]
