Review
Community of the Andes: Lea Winkler reveal Urubamba
Photographer Lea Winkler digging deep into the soul of Peru's Sacred Valley: a reportage on the lives and traditions of Urubamba's communities for Lampoon digital
Oppenheimer: human fragility in a blockbuster biopic
Murphy gave layered portrayal of Nolan's Oppenheimer, with his complicated interpersonal relationships with colleagues and partners, self-mythologization, and human fragility
Oscars, shame and pride – Poor Things: amplexus and autopsy
Yorgos Lanthimos's Poor Things awarded at Venice Biennale last summer and today at the Oscars in Los Angles: the movie chronicles the macabre becoming splendid, amid diseases and autopsies
Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days and the Ikigai method
Wabi sabi, Ikigai method and tea ceremony, Japanese philosophy for a fulfilling and happy existence: from Wenders' Perfect Day to books by Héctor García and Francesc Miralles and Noriko Morishita
Prada and communism: the redundant, the necessary, and the lucky-ass factor
Culture should be accessible to the community through wealth redistribution. This is the most leftist act to be demanded from those who have more while remaining within the boundaries of...
Billy Barraclough and some Flowers for the deads
Photographer Billy Barraclough: Flowers for the deads. A reportage in a market in Varanasi, India, not so far from the Cemetery
Paris fashion’s return to conservatism
Contemporary fashion finds itself navigating a spectrum from avant-garde innovation to traditional conservatism. At Paris Fashion Week, runway presentations showcase a resurgence of conservative aesthetics
A chromatic liberation: diversity in fashion – Altered States
The liberation found in embracing expressions of beauty, where color and texture serve as tools for personal transformation, challenging conventions and empowering self-identity
The dark side of likes: Schadenfreude and the social media
Political arenas to celebrity mishaps, the pleasure of others' pain in the social media age - how Schadenfreude shapes social cohesion and trust within communities?
From Prada’s Ugly Chic to Tiktok Cringe Chic
Cringe chic is a fashion evolution from Prada's Ugly Chic. Embracing awkwardness and kitsch, redefining beauty on unconventional terms
Power and fashionistas in the Church
The Church and the religious fashion: Fashion for God at Museum Catharijneconvent shows the artistic commitment behind the paraments of the Catholic church in the past
Flames of culture: Zhang Xiao’s Shehuo saga
Step into the world of Shehuo with Zhang Xiao's photographic odyssey, tracing the journey from ancient rituals to contemporary celebrations, where tradition and innovation ignite
Cartier in Sydney, one message only: culture
In Sydney, visiting the Hermitage mansion and the Opera House: Cartier opens to new customers for high jewelry in Australia – the luxury market today responds to only one marketing...
We do celebrate the vulva – Bex Day’s book PETAL
Over seventy shots celebrating the vulva and subverting the biased canons of the representation of the female nude in contemporary society – Bex Day’s first photographic book
Deciphering the myth that is the Big Four
Chronicles from NYFW and LFW – why are we still holding on to an old idea to recreate something new? This might be the time to rethink the old tradition...
Queerbaiting and Rainbow washing: from Harry Style to Frozen
Picture something that seems to start out with the best of intentions but ends up doing worse. The issue of queerbaiting opens the debate to human respect and the need...
Western inspirations, a review: Sophie Stafford analog photography
A collection of images before the fire, a memorial to the lost New Western Bingo and a celebration of its people. After the building burned down, Sophie Stafford’s 2013 analog...
Searching for roughness in the Spring 24 collections
The defect leads to failure, which can evoke a feeling of disappointment or misadventure in the face of the image mastered. Jeanne Lucas’ rough approach for Lampoon digital edition
Exploring ageism in social media: how is the affecting the humanity behind the screens
With adult creators facing TikTok ageism, social media might not be ready to reflect the realities of life beyond young adulthood, but it reflects Zoomer's ideas of age, youth, and...
And I need to forgive – Ashley Batz shoots Alici for Lampoon online
Photographer Ashley Batz in a story with artist Alici in an editorial for Lampoon digital edition: «my new songs are special moments from this summer trapped in time. Like little...
Not only street style, a walk in the Parkside is a precise code
Washed-out photographs in a light that reflects on femininity and womanity. Aliocha Wallon's analog photography for Lampoon online is a sluggish ode to street life and effortless freedom
Fuck-it expense, Gen Z: the digital consumer mis-behavior
Fuck-it expense – how do you spend your time when you think the world is ending? Gen Z consumer behavior reflects human fragility and a generation of frustrated young people
Couture SS 2024: make fashion great again
Fashion has a tendency to look back in order to be able to move forward. The German philosopher Walter Benjamin described how this could be a new way of looking...
Is aesthetics formed on the Internet? Bored generations and web hypnosis
Rituals for bored generations or a new way of composing reality? The web hypnosis and the Internet aesthetics on our relationship with the real dimension
Exploring human fluidity in digital spaces: gamification and self-expression
A deep dive into the gamification’s role in shaping Gen Z virtual identities: self-determination, human fluidity and the potential risks of alienation: Roblox and Fortnite cases
The Role of Black – in fashion and human history
More than just a color – exploring the intersection of fashion, culture, and humanities by tracing attraction of black in the tapestry of western fashion history
Couture – no Opulence any more, but responsibility
Anything that appears opulent today turns out to be out of time, out of the human context we are living in – opulent fashion is not current, it is waste...
Princess Tāj-al-Salṭana: she was beautiful, indeed
Today we see her as ugly, but Princess Tāj-al-Salṭana was a symbol of womanity, feminist struggle and a pioneer of intersectionality. History of the woman who influenced Persia
Pharrell Williams: the nomad who landed in fashion
An overview of all the experiences that have led the music producer to head Louis Vuitton's creative direction: from rap music to catwalks on the Pont Neuf
Digital Roughness – Quality control: Paul Whitfield and Marianthi Hatzikidi
A dynamic feel to this project morphing the subject into a revolutionary warrior – Paul Whitfield and Marianthi Hatzikidi for Lampoon online reflect on the roughness of the digital image
Love in the time of migration. Lesyev and Yaakov in the lens of Gianmarco Onofri
A real love story that begins accidentally with a chance meeting in a bar. A photographic story by Gianmarco Onofri about tenderness and acceptance, human diversity, sex and respect
Retro-Futurism – Human Fragility and the reminiscence of Eighties aesthetic
The Eighties are often referred to as the decade of decadence – A Retro-Futurism editorial, a reminiscence of Eighties movies aesthetic and the fascination for office environments
Take Flight – Betty Oxlade-Martin analog photography for Lampoon online
Taking visual queues from the work of Martin Parr, Sophia Coppola, and the books of Enid Blyton, Betty Oxlade-Martin’s story investigates the naive feel of childlike pleasures
When real life can be extraordinary, why Dream About Nothing?
Nature and artifice, beauty and roughness – reality according to the photographer Bobby Doherty. The hallucinatory imagery and still life photography of his latest book Dream About Nothing
Pope Francis allows blessings for gay couples, using Artificial Intelligence
AI by Angelo Formato Lampoon Digital: using artificial intelligence to imagine the church as a place definitely open to positivity and inclusion – is Pope Francis approving or not?
Benjamin Hampson – Crimson joys of youth, vivid and bright, Mellow into gold with the fading light
A spectrum of life, in every fold and crease. Each color a chapter, in the art of peace. With grace they walk, in life's runway show, Benjamin Hampson analog photography
Lampoon Digital: womanity not fragility: Cianfarano following Buccelli
Following her, womanity and human fragility. An encounter between a photographer and a woman. Luigi Cianfarano and Chiara Buccelli for Lampoon online tap into the movie Blow Up
Pills of lesbian fashion history. Eleanor Medhurst on diversity and Dressing Dykes
Human fluidity. Eleanor Medhurst highlights the value of fashion's overlooked role in lesbian history, throughout which clothing was a tool of self-expression and community building
Kevin Félicianne on Joseph Bologne: the Black Mozart symbol of a community
The dark knights of Bologne. Kevin Félicianne for Lampoon digital stage three black models in memory of Joseph Bologne. A violinist called the black Mozart, a musician symbol of a...
When the bag is jewelry, it becomes a safe haven asset: Hermès Kelly Morphose
The best way today to invest and make your savings pay off is to buy luxury handbags. A retrospective on Hermès Kelly Morphose and an editorial by Manon Clavelier and...
Camila Falquez raises social consciousness on BIPOC, Black, indigenous, people of color
BIPOC means Black Indigenous and People of Colour. A conversation with Camila Falquez, Latin America’s fashion photographer of the year, whose work focus is in on systemic racial injustices
A master according to Gio Ponti – Luis Barragán: his house and rough architecture
Rough walls that are the size of walls – screens on which the spectrum of the Mexican sun is projected. «My house is my refuge, an emotional architecture», architect Don...
No spicy no sexy – Lahu and Karen tribe and communities: Giacomo Riccardi
From the Lahu tribe in Thailand to the happy water offered in Buddhist temples. Giacomo Riccardi report to Lampoon digital the culture and habits of Indigenous communities in the Far...
French artist Angèle Metzger: exploring identity through multifaceted artistic journey
Awarded the prize for best actress for her interpretation of an intersex character in the series About Sasha, Angèle Metzger made her first ceramic show in Paris, presenting daggers with sleeping...
Francesca Cavalcanti and Aurora Troise: a shared experience of youth
Naples, where bonds are formed, identities are forged again. Francesca Cavalcanti and Aurora Troise on the fragility of youth and the human commitment of photography
It’s beginning to look a lot like a ‘spamming’ Christmas
Christmas spam hits the inboxes of journalists. This thin the line between journalism and advs turns the publishing industry into marketers. A Xmas inquiry with intellectual irony
