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Sophie Thatcher, photographed by Emma Thatcher in 2024. 🇺🇸

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Ancient Egyptian faience inlays in the form of birds. Belong to the Late Period or the Ptolemaic era. 🇪🇬

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Strawberry Switchblade Photographed By Peter McArthur throughout their career 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

As an integral part of the Glasgow punk and postpunk music scene, Peter McArthur knew Rose and Jill before they knew each other. He was Jill's partner during the Strawberry Switchblade years, and was also the band's main photographer. In 1984, Jill spoke to 19 magazine about her relationship with Peter.

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Sculpture Titled "Angel Holding the Veil of Veronica" by Italian Artist Agostino Cornacchini circa 1730—1735 🇮🇹

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The Underwater Girls of Manabu Koga 🇯🇵

In a world where creativity often treads familiar ground, Japanese photographer and visual designer Manabu Koga carves a unique niche at the intersection of aquatic art, mecha-inspired design, and digital fantasy, blending gravity-defying underwater photography, character-driven visuals, and surreal manipulations into a singular, genre-defying artistic journey.

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US Soldier stands next to an Orthodox cross during the Aleutian Islands campaign after the Invasion of Kiska on June 7, 1942, the Japanese invaded the Aleutian island of Kiska. At its height of occupation 6,800 Japanese personnel were on the island. It was the only battle of WWII fought on American soil. 1943 🇺🇸

Alaska is the most Orthodox Christian state in the country at 5% of the population, a lasting mark of Russian colonization.

Via @durangoism on IG

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Arab Pop Bible Queens

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Ornette Coleman and Anthony Braxton, Prince Street, New York City, 1971 By Val Wilmer 🇺🇸

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"Anise" was a lesbian and bisexual magazine that ran from 1996-2003 in Japan. There were 9 issues total and contained articles, manga, essays, short stories, and so on. 🇯🇵

"In the mid-1990s, the lesbian activists Hagiwara Mami and Koshimizu Yuu asked Ogura You, a make-up artist and supervisor for Badi, for help in launching a new lesbian magazine after the failure of Phryne. Ogura agreed, and emphasized on the importance of Tara publishing being involved in this mission for the purpose of creating a Japanese gay and lesbian community, thus enhancing the new magazine's claim to membership in a large family. The resulting publication was Anise for Womyn [later renamed "Anise for Lesbian and Bisexual Women"] (1996-2003). The content of Anise reflects this mission to engender community consciousness; the magazine features roundtables of both lesbians and gays exchanging opinions about the community as a whole."

Cover illustrations created by Takashima Rika.

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Scanned By @t.archivist on IG the book titled “Nevski Night,” a 1977 collection of nighttime cityscapes in the Nevski district of St Petersburg. 🇷🇺

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There was a time in Mexico when the longer your boots were, the harder you danced. These outlandishly long boots, called botas picudas, became more than just a quirky fashion choice—they were the heart of an underground movement. Emerging from northern Mexico and pulsing to the beat of tribal guarachero, they turned heads and floors alike. 🇲🇽

Young men turned up to parties and quinceañeras flaunting boots that curled, lit up, sparkled, and sometimes even clinked when they hit the ground. Crews formed. Routines were perfected. Dance-offs became the main event. For a flash in time, botas picudas transformed from footwear into a cultural spectacle, a rebellious form of self-expression stitched in leather and pride.

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Shintaro Tsuji, the founder of Sanrio explains the three messages within Hello Kitty. 🇯🇵

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Two girls at a Merle Allin show. Words are lyrics from a GG Allin song of the same name about a man with AIDS. Taken by Tod Seelie, around 2010. 🇺🇸

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Fakir Musafar (1930-2018), Godfather of modern piercing and body modification, and the “Perfect Gentleman.” 🇺🇸

Born Roland Loomis, Fakir spoke of dreams and memories of past lives that in turn motivated his isolated fascination with body modification, a practice he had began on himself during his preteen years, isolated from any subculture of tattoos and piercings that could have influenced him, that is, beyond National Geographic magazines that studied the subject of “primitives” in some depth at the time.

Starting in the 50s, Fakir began a practice of self documentation and self photography of his practice with corsets, piercing, and suspension. He was married, served in the army, and by many opinions lived a normal life, having a job as a higher up at a Silicon Valley ad agency. It wasn’t until 1977 he “came out” and showed his story and practice to the world. This was also when he adopted the name “Fakir Musafar,” after an ancient body piercer.

Fakir never turned back, guesting and speaking tireless on television, at conventions, and in print. Even going as far as to run his own photographic piercing quarterly publication for nearly a decade. Changing the course of what body modification meant to the western world forever.

On August 1st, 2018 he passed away from lung cancer so this means it has been six years without him. RIP.

Last Picture is a scan by @t.archivist on IG

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Lizzy Grant (Svetlana Del Rey) at the Lake Placid corn maze, October 2007. 🇺🇸