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Empty Porn Sets
Jo Broughton
Jo Broughton
Jo Broughton trained at the Royal College of Art and is a documentary photographer and artist based in London.
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Jo Broughton | Interview
Jo Broughton & Ollie Brock
‘Jo Broughton’s parents were ‘too busy killing each other’, she says, to know where she went when she ran away from home aged seventeen.’
Just Girls
Sarah Perrin
‘When they repeated that word, “stalking”, it didn’t click. Because you can’t stalk your best friend.’
Fiction by Sarah Perrin.
Podcast | Nico Walker
Nico Walker
‘The military recruits around football – they try to pick up the surplus player population. You couldn't make it on the college team? Well, you know, this is kind of similar. Both are violent.’
Nico Walker on American football.
Interview | Thomas Ruff
Thomas Ruff & Alice Zoo
‘The camera records what’s in front of it, but that reality can be pre-arranged.’
Thomas Ruff speaks to Alice Zoo about light, Bernd and Hilla Becher and the essence of photography.
The Cottage
Isabelle Baafi
‘The scarlet stained my palm – / whether the blood of the berry or of the bird, / I couldn’t tell.’
A poem by Isabelle Baafi.
Diary of a London Lockdown
Poppy Sebag-Montefiore
‘The coronavirus seemed to demand immediate responses to the questions we’d been struggling with for years.’
