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Angel Lin by Luka Booth for Vogue CS February 2025

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Ayesha Djwala by Corentin Leroux for All About Magazine April 2021

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miles davis in issey miyake 1985

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A boy sits and looks at the sea in Fatick, Senegal

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PHOTOGRAPHY

Gabriel Moses

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Men pull at a fishing line in Kumasi, Ghana

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1988 - 1992

The Culture of Los Angeles Gangs

Photographed by Axel Koester

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The three sisters (Equilibres), 1984 - by Peter Fischli (1952), Swiss & David Weiss (1946 - 2012), Swiss

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Mano Bianca e Nera, Photo by Oliviero Toscani

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Usain Bolt at 16. 🇯🇲✨

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Édouard Levé

Pornographie, 2002

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© Gauri Gill from the project Balika Mela

http://gaurigill.com

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Edward Hopper, Approaching a City, 1946. Oil on canvas.

Travel is a recurring theme in Edward Hopper’s art. Actively seeking commonplace subjects, he often gave more significance to the journey than to the destination. “To me,” Hopper wrote, “the most important thing is the sense of going on.” Such is the arrested, lonely feeling of Approaching a City. Characteristically, Hopper did not reveal what lay ahead, and in referring to the work, the painter said he wanted to evoke the “interest, curiosity, (and) fear” that one experiences when entering or leaving a city.

Ultimately, Approaching a City conveys a paradox of contemporary life. The unseen traveler of the image is caught in a curious limbo and isolation between city and country. The railroad made faraway places accessible to ordinary people, but it also made those places less distinctive. Hopper, by asserting the anonymity of the place and not revealing the train’s destination, suggests a future that is at once both predictable and unknown.

Photo: Whitney Museum of American Art Text: Philips Collection

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Nokonoshima and Mt. Aso. Photographs from my residency in Japan.

Ella Webb