July 2012 - Friends of Friends / Freunde von Freunden (FvF)

Ole-Martin Hansen

Meet, Ole Hansen, another exhaustingly tall, blonde, and handsome Norwegian, who is the gentleman behind the smokery business Hansen &...

Hamburg

Bent Angelo Jensen

He is Hamburg’s number one dapper. Bent Angelo Jensen already wore suits as a young boy and established the label...

Manila

Clara Balaguer

Manila is like a Fellini woman. Just more tropical – It is a place where many objects seem to crash...

Mixtapes

FvF Mixtape #28

Born in Bremen, Sarah is what you call a true “Nordlicht” even though none of the stereotypes apply to her...

São Paulo

Marko Brajovic

He crossed the Ocean to do what he loves most; Art. Croatian born Architect Marko Brajovic knew as soon as...

New York City

Richard Kern

The photographer Richard Kern has been living in the same fifth-floor walk up in New York’s East Village neighborhood since...

Beirut

Charbel Haber

If Charbel Haber wasn’t in a band, the contents of his apartment would probably start their own one. Since forming...

Mixtapes

FvF Mixtape #27

Gabe Jaffe’s description of himself is to the point: I get bored easily. Due to this, Jaffe has done everything...

Charleston

Hirona Matsuda

When it rains in Charleston, the streets can flood for hours. Most of the city sits below sea level, so...

To boldly go where no cactus has gone before

It started with the attempt of me trying to grow some fresh herbs on the windowsill. Even if I can‘t...

Hamburg

Ralf Köster

He is older than God and also owns more records. This is one of the many myths of Ralf Köster...

Ankara

Zeynep Kayan

Besieged by precarious bureaucracy and white-collars, a strange youth has arisen in Ankara, the capital of Turkey. The children of...

Mixtapes

FvF Mixtape #26

Dominik Grötz, the ginger music-connoisseur has been a long-time friend of FvF and quite the regular in Berlin’s nightlife. Although...

Paris

Linda Bujoli

The word “Photographer” appears when one wishes to search for Linda Bujoli on the internet. But there is more to...

Berlin

Oskar Melzer

Oskar Melzer was 13-years old when he had his first pastrami sandwich. To celebrate his bar mitzvah his parents had...

Mixtapes

FvF Mixtape #25

Within everything there dwells a magic force, is what probably best describes Markus’ alias Roitsch’s attitude towards life and work....

New York City

Ambre Kelly & Andrew Gori

Bellinis, Cipriani and Downtown Soho. Three words that Ambre and Andrew would’ve never recognized in a crystal ball depicting their...

An Essay About the Affiliation of Creativity and the City

The urban appeal Ever since the Bohemians began to populate the cities as a new sort of creative elitism, creativity...

Beirut

Loulwa Beydoun

Born and raised in post-war Beirut, 18 year-old Loulwa Beydoun is rocking the Lebanese art scene with her melancholic drawings...