August 2018 - Friends of Friends / Freunde von Freunden (FvF)

August 2018

A comment on the recents events in Chemnitz, Germany
While we don’t consider FvF a magazine that delivers timely commentary on current affairs, in light of the recent events...
Gender equality in Rwanda and the women leading the way forward
Gender equality in Rwanda and the women leading the way forward Photographer Espen Eichhöfer portrays seven females thriving in business...
Link List #87: Losing the human touch with AI-generated artwork and inanimate objects with feelings—be careful how you sit on that chair
Hopefully you enjoyed the reads from this week’s Link List, but if you’ve still got an internet itch to scratch,...
Nils Verkaeren’s restless spirit leads him to desolate locales capturing nature on his canvas
Tucked away in one of the busiest streets in Antwerp, only five minutes away from the central station, we find...
Narratives of home told through the language of dance with Medhat Aldaabal
It was in this exact spot two years ago that the contemporary dancer and choreographer’s first performance of his personal...
Leslie Williamson captures homes as physical manifestations of people’s lives
To Williamson, everything starts with the person and their work. “There is a thorough line with everything these people do,...
Link List #86: The final push to recognize climate change, kickboxing grandmas in Kenya, and conversations on art in Myanmar
Hopefully you enjoyed the reads from this week’s Link List, but if you’ve still got an internet itch to scratch,...
Germany’s market for print media traditionally has been strong. Magazine stores in train stations are flooded with colorful publications, fighting...
A testament to preserving industrial heritage in the Dutch countryside with the De Grijze Silo
Finding a new purpose for these concrete giants isn’t easy, but tearing them down would mean stripping an entire area...
Crediting the exemplary females previously unacknowledged for their seminal work in design
Eileen Gray completed her work on one of the 20th century’s masterpieces of modernist architecture in 1929, aged 51. It...