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Dressed to kill: Latvia’s most supernatural fashion label

Looming before you is a figure in black, her face deathly white. The trees around you shiver in silence as...

How Ellen Allien Set the Tone for Berlin's Nightlife

Ellen played a key role in transforming a small, localized phenomenon into an internationally celebrated movement. Her artistic drive is...

Berlin

Isabell Hummel of Soda Books on the enduring appeal of printed magazines

As aesthetic objects that we read, re-read, and collect, magazines offer an analog alternative to the daily digital barrage. We...

Riga

Art, anarchy, and pornography: Creativity in Soviet Latvia

“Is it safe up here?” I call across the rooftop, whose tiles creak and groan under each footstep. “A little...

Sydney Workplaces

How Hayden Cox’s high-tech surfboards are shaking up the industry

“Oh!” we all exclaim, as he trips and tumbles into whitewash, his surfboard ejected rudely from under him. Hayden turns...

Mixtapes Music

Mixtape #103: Robot Koch

For more than 15 years, Robert has been honing his style. He started in Berlin with his band Jahcoozi and...

Bristol Bay, Alaska Travel

The fishing squatter community living in an abandoned Alaskan salmon cannery

The ocean is a central theme in his work, which tends to focus on the lives of those who live...

Berlin

A Turkish Feminist: Eylül Aslan’s gender-defying photography

Often, their faces are concealed by hands and flowers, or their breasts are framed as a dim reflection in the...

Windhoek Travel

Road Trip Namibia: discovering the beauty and contrast of Africa's best-kept secret

Welcome to Namibia, Africa’s most sparsely populated country. With wide, open spaces dedicated to environmental conservation, Namibia is teeming with...

Mixtapes

FvF Mixtape #101 - Kyson

Born in sleepy Adelaide, Australia, Kyson developed his intimate sound, almost ironically, against the beat-heavy backdrop of Berlin. “The city...

Riga Home Stories

Agnese Kleina questions Latvian identity with her bilingual self-published magazine, Benji Knewman

I bound up the stairs and am greeted by a smiling dark-haired woman, who’s standing at the door. “Come in,”...

Bucharest Workplaces

A Silver Lining: Silversmith Radu Ion's intricate art

The sun is fading outside, and his half drunk tea has grown cold from neglect. His eyes watch closely as...

Bordeaux Workplaces

The Daily Grind: Leo Valls

A man — slender, in loose t-shirt and jeans — issues from the group and sails down the edge of...

Nieuwe Niedorp

A Family Affair: Bart & Romy de Vries

Their large rural home of pale brick feels sheltered and remote behind an umbrous grove of roses and apples trees....

Paris

FvF Friends Dinner In Paris

Dean’s a former guest, long-time friend, former agency lead at the award-winning Tender Creative, and co-founder of product design platform...

Link List

Link List #39

This edition of the Link List looks at human connection in light of recent world events, from how we grieve...

Baia Sprie

Breaking The Mould: Dan Leş

Dan Leş is a figurative ceramicist, living in the isolated Maramureş valley of Northern Romania. He’s been working with clay...