Elsewhere · 20 picks

Fromthe Web

Our pick of stories from Youth Magazine (ymagazine.com). Headlines and links go to the original articles; the short notes are ours.

fashion

From Lagos to Chanel: How Social Media Became Rachel Ojuromi's Runway

A young Nigerian model skipped the casting circuit and built her own audience online, all the way to a luxury runway.

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art

Marcel Duchamp and the Chessboard as an Invisible Work of Art

A famous 1963 photograph reread through the game at its centre, and why chess mattered to Duchamp's practice.

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culture

John Ingledew and the Last Skinhead Era Told from the Inside

Late-70s portraits kept unseen for decades offer a more complicated picture of a much-caricatured subculture.

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culture

When the Street Became Home and the Skateboard a Language for Those Left on the Margin

How idle hours outside an LA skate shop turned into a whole community, with its own codes and slang.

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art

From Parkour to Street Photography: Andrii Bulavka and the French Shot That Breaks the Rules

A Ukrainian artist in France on movement, migration and the composite heatwave image that made his name.

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culture

We Miss the Warehouse: The "Home" That Transformed the Night

A look back at the Chicago club where house music was born, and the mixed crowd that made it special.

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fashion

Dressing Against the World: The Radical Elegance of La Sape

In Brazzaville, Congo's sapeurs turn tailoring, colour and the way they walk into a statement of self.

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fashion

Bangkok: Waikawee Captures the Youth Who Dress to Exist

A photographer follows young Bangkok locals for whom clothes are a way to claim space in a crowded city.

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culture

A Muddy Field and a Faded Bomber: Nineties Festival Nostalgia

Why candid 90s festival pictures, shot before everything became content, still pull so hard on us.

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culture

Adolescents Until 32: What Science Actually Says, and Why We Love Believing It

Fact-checking a viral claim about the brain and asking why it comforted so many twenty-somethings.

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art

Before Perfection: The Seven Lens-Masters Who Taught Us How to Photograph Youth

A primer on the photographers who chose raw honesty over polish when picturing young people.

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art

The Unasked-for Gaze: Street Photography in the Age of Consent

Can street photography survive today's expectations around permission? An essay on the ethics of the candid shot.

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culture

In Medellín: Concrete as Home, Skateboarding as Collective Escape

A photo and film project on the skate crew reshaping how a Colombian city sees its young people.

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culture

The Black Panthers Beyond the Clenched Fist

Beyond the iconic imagery: the community programmes at the heart of the Oakland-born movement.

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culture

Analog Slowness as a Form of Presence and Resistance for Digital Natives

Why disposable cameras and waiting for prints feel radical to a generation raised on instant images.

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art

From Makomé to Today: The Black-and-White of La Haine

Thirty years on, how the film's images became an aesthetic, often cut loose from the story behind them.

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art

From 1970s Hungary to London's Mosh Pits: Gábor and Wanda Martin and an Ageless Youth

A father and daughter's film archives, decades apart, set side by side in one project.

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culture

No Glamour, No Distance: Why Kids Still Feels Real

On the 1995 film's closeness to its teenage subjects and its lasting place in youth culture.

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art

Before Museums Comes the Street: Seoul's Urban Art Hub

Inside the schools, clubs and indie spaces turning Hongdae into a breeding ground for street art.

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beauty

Being Famous Online Before Social Media: The Story of Scene Kids

Teased hair, coloured streaks and heavy liner: how scene kids built online fame before influencers existed.

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