As summer time winds down, most of us slip again into routine. Street-side tables and rocky coastal cliffs are swapped for workplace desks, inboxes, and the each day commutes. But for individuals who need to maintain onto the fantasy earlier than the season fades, the Dazed artwork and images part has you coated.
August’s picture tales took us deep into the sweat-drenched shadows of London’s underground rave scene, the place photographer Yushy captured the actions (and illegalities) of London’s basement raves. Across the Atlantic, Nadia Krawiecka took us into Rio de Janeiro’s street-side barbershops, inviting us into group hub Maquininha du Corte.
For those that’d moderately keep in, there are sun-lit residing rooms and lounging on sofas as photographer Vincent Wechselberger paperwork the tender relationship between queer siblings. Peer into teenage bedrooms from the 80s with an prolonged lower of Adrienne Salinger’s cult portraits. Or gawk at Kyoichi Tsuzuki’s obsessive cataloguing of Tokyo style collectors displaying off their beloved bed room shrines. Wherever you land, we’ve bought you coated. Here are eight beloved photostories from the previous month…
Feng Li’s White Nights in Wonderland captures surreal moments in on a regular basis life, reworking abnormal avenue pictures into scenes which are as uncanny as they’re magical. Shot over the previous 20 years on the streets of Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai, and his hometown Chengdu, his images reveal the “unbelievable coincidences” he encounters occurring round him. Li describes these moments as “surrealism within reality – the real and the unreal converging bizarrely and theatrically in the same shared space.”
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A step into London’s underground rave scene, Yushy’s Section 63: Underground & Unmasked paperwork the communities and heady power of DIY dance areas from 2022 to 2025. Drawn in by the pounding bass and likelihood encounters exterior squat events, Yushy discovered himself deep inside secretive venues, capturing each the chaos and intimacy of a tradition that has endured many years of presidency crackdowns.
“Over the years, a story started to take shape. Documenting it kept me sane in many ways, and made me more empathetic toward the people I met in that world,” he says. His photographs replicate a dedication to areas that maintain society shifting on the hardest of occasions. “Being in these spaces helps grow both individuality and a sense of community. You can be alone in a club, but you will still be with people who care about the space you’re in.” With golf equipment closing at an alarming fee, Yushy’s work captures a subculture preserving the heart beat of underground London raves earlier than they vanish.
Read the total story right here on Dazed. Section 63: Underground & Unmasked is printed by Velocity Press in October and is out there to pre-order here
Capturing connection throughout quiet corners of their houses, open grassy fields and amber-lit metropolis streets, Vincent Wechselberger’s Sisters paperwork the evolving bond between him and his siblings. Drawing on recollections from his rural Austrian childhood and life in Berlin, the sequence highlights the tenderness of each chosen and organic households. “We’re all queer, and I think queerness shows up not just in who we are, but in how we relate to each other, with softness, complexity, fluidity,” he explains. The sequence additionally displays the depth of these bonds: “We’ve pushed our bond to an intense level of closeness that can make others uncomfortable. It is raw, provocative, and sometimes almost scary, but for us, it is simply who we are.”
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Close-ups, seaside landscapes, and shifting mild come collectively to kind a young portrait of affection within the wilderness in Sergei Pavlov’s Mountain. The intimate photographic sequence explores his associate by fragmented, monochromatic photographs. But Mountain is greater than a examine of 1 particular person – it additionally displays Pavlov’s philosophy on the fragile stability between artwork and life. “When I think about what makes a beautiful life, it’s always something more connected to nature, simplicity, and space,” he explains. These guiding concepts form the sequence, from the mountain that opens the gathering to the refined interaction of sunshine and shadow that animates every body.
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Adrienne Salinger’s Teenagers in Their Bedrooms revisits the personal worlds of American teenagers within the late 80s and early 90s. Originally printed as In My Room in 1995, the sequence supplied a glimpse into adolescence, difficult stereotypes of rebellious or directionless youth. Now, 30 years later, an expanded version contains further images and new texts, persevering with Salinger’s exploration of self-expression inside the sanctuary of the bed room.
“When we look at a photograph, we immediately categorise who the person is… he’s a skater, she’s a burnout, he’s obviously doped up. I wanted to challenge those snap judgments and let the viewer into the worlds these teenagers were building,” she explains. The sequence stays a timeless examine of adolescence, revealing how personal areas form, replicate, and include the ingenious strategy of turning into oneself.
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Teenagers in Their Bedrooms by Adrienne Salinger is printed by Artbook and out now.
Yoji Yamamoto and Maison Margiela gadgets flood the flooring of Tokyo bedrooms in Kyoichi Tsuzuki’s 2008 picture e-book Happy Victims. The sequence captures people whose lives revolve round a singular model, revealing the abnormal, working-class folks behind these extreme, collectable wardrobes.
“There is still a myth that high-end brands are for the upper class who live a high-end life with a high-end husband or wife, a high-end house with gardens, cars, and dogs or horses. But the reality is that many middle-class or working-class people try hard to experience a taste of high-end life by buying a high-end fashion item,” Tsuzuki feedback on the tradition of consumption and luxurious in Japan.
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Happy Victims was just lately reissued by Apartamento, with an up to date foreword by Tsuzuki and an introduction by Isabella Burley of Climax Books.
Capturing the rhythms of Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro’s largest favela, Nadia Krawiecka’s Maquininha du Corte is an intimate photographic sequence that opens the doorways to Peterson Oliveira de Santos’s barbershop, a spot that attracts folks from throughout the neighbourhood for his distinctive carioca cuts. Over a number of months, Krawiecka immersed herself in his world, documenting the each day lifetime of the store and the group that gathers round it. Building belief step by step, her picture sequence reveals a spot the place magnificence, care, and human connection come collectively.
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Daido Moriyama’s images captures the anarchic, theatrical and transient moments of post-war Tokyo. Famous for his blurry, off-kilter photographs, his work traces the town’s streets, underground theatres, and on a regular basis life. This work is introduced collectively in Quartet, which arranges 4 of Moriyama’s early titles and presents them in a single quantity structured like a musical composition.
“For all the graphic force of Moriyama’s language, for all the dynamics of contrast, for all his unsparing subject matter, he is an intensely lyrical artist. He is as poetic as a songwriter,” editor Mark Holborn explains. The assortment spans Moriyama’s theatrical avenue scenes and darkroom experiments, taking readers by the depth of the world as he skilled it.
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Quartet by Daido Moriyama, edited by Mark Holborn, is printed by Thames & Hudson, and out now.