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15 Aug 2026 10 min read Photography

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A CRT TV showing black people at carnival in a dimly lit gallery bathed in red light.

Promotional red poster of classic 1990s manga Akira, showing Kaneda on a makeshift throne made of industrial junk.

STOP WAR! graphic design poster by Barbara Galińska.

Art by Chris Silverman showing a stick figure fleeing a giant '?' block on a red background.

Stain glass window throwing reddish-pink light onto an ornately panelled timber wall.

Union Black by Chris Ofili, which is the Union flag in red, black, and green.

Cover of Digital Design for Planetary Care edited by Elio Caccavale and Gordon Hush, published by Bloomsbury.

Curator's text on the wall in a gallery of Gordon Parks' We Shall Not Be Moved exhibition.

Photo of projector screen in an event called The Algorithmic Sovereign at Somerset House featuring Max Haven, Dr. Seeta Peña Ganghadharan, and Damien Roach.

Still from Disney' Fantastia showing Mickey Mouse as The Sorcerer's Apprentice commanding a broom.

Blurry photo of a symposium lecture in an ornate eighteenth century room.

Ornate braided circle mural painted on a wall in an autumnal garden.

Nigerian curator Okwui Enwezor caught mid-leap above a circular pad.

Gazing upwards into an ornately decorated Iranian hall with a spectacular circular centrepiece.

Mine Kafon Drone, intact.

Mine Kafon Drone, mid-explosion, stage 1.

Mine Kafon Drone, mid-explosion, stage 2.

Detail from Bridget Riley's dot art.

Soloro an interactive album by Ari Melenciano you can remix to become what she calls endlessly distortional material.

White and grey striped balloon from a show by Patternity, December 2015

Circular indentation in a poured concrete wall, RCA Dyson Building.

Stylised Do Not Enter sign in black and white.

Venn digram about the theoretical framework used by critical internet researchers by Morgane Billuart in their book Becoming the Product.

Circular skylight in Serpentine Gallery South, August 2026.

Unknown woman sitting in a coffee shop (or maybe gallery) with white walls under a circular skylight.

New Dawn by Mary Branson in Westminster Hall, Palace of Westminster: an artwork featuring a lot of circles.

Looking up inside the main entrance of the V&A Museum, Kensington.

Circular windows inside the V&A Museum, Kensington.

Detail of pages in the Patternity book.

Selfie in a dirty circular mirror at Worthing station.

Circular speaker with black wide skirt and red tweeter.

London Underground roundel modded by Greenpeace to read "LONDON'S BURNING".

Kanye's Yeezus CD album.

Stylised circular "1st" sign.

Entrance to Colette, formerly at 213 Rue Saint-Honoré, Paris.

Art by Rosana Antolí from her show Permeating Murmur in Madrid.

A colourful roll of bank notes called El Dinero Vuela by Adriana Martínez Barón.

Chart exhibited by W.E.B. Du Bois in 1909 called Occupations of Negroes and Whites in Georgia.

Circular photo montage called Kojo by Tavares Strachan.

Swan no. 13 by Hilma af Klint, another circular artwork.

Circular embroidered artwork called Venus Does Not Exist by Michèle Boulogne.

Label of vinyl record Valley of the Shadows by Origin Unknown, Ram Records 1996.

BLKNWS blue vinyl record.

Label of V Recordings, Setting the Pace since 93!

Planet Earth on a light turquoise and purple background.

Hype Studies 2025 programme.

no one told me, an artwork about our existence in an age of hypervisibility exhibited by Mimi Ọnụọha at secession Vienna in 2025.

Programme cover of 'No & __': a two-day symposium on technological refusal in 2026 at Maastricht University.

Entertained or Else: Boredom and Networked Media by Tina Kendall, published by Bloomsbury.

Giant photo of a Nice biscuit, taken at All Day Hey! 2026.

Cover of album, Juan Atkins & Moritz von Oswald present Borderland: Transport.

Installation view of Will to Power, a clear monolithic sculptural installation by Michèle Saint-Michel at Hypha Gallery South Bank.

Black and white diagram with the word spectacle radiating out to related words such as circus, ritual, carnival, etc.

Psycho-Politics by Byung-Chul Han, a slim book with a black cover and giant white letters.

An Emergent Glossary of Incomputable Intelligence by Ari Melenciano.

A plywood bookshelf showing the cover of one book in particular, God's Bit of Wood by Ousmane Sembene.

Promotional poster for Eurotunnel from the early 1990's (I think) boasting that "In 1993, you'll be able to hop on a train from Birmingham to Brussels".

Evening at the Shoreditch Arts Clubs presented by HERVISIONS featuring Chia Amisola, Yichu Li, Nacoca Ko, Zein Majali, and Bea Xu.

Untitled painting which is a riot of colour by Joseph Mobolaji Aina.

Akira promotional poster with that iconic red motorbike.

Two black ballet dancers mid-pose on a bisected black/white background, in a painting called Shadow of a Mirror by Ludovic Nkoth.

Two swans mid-pose on a bisected black/white background, in a painting called Swan no. 1 by Hilma af Klint.

Photo of the newly published book: The Women Council by Jenny Grettve, published by Plastic Letters Press.

Six blue cotton shirt sleeves arranged in horizontal layers as art of an artwork.

Still from an animated feature showing a close-up of a futuristic watch being fed with a miniature CD.

Pantone colour card for 12-0712 TCX Vanilla.

Instagram post by eli1ah that says Rent is the creative director in his inimitable black graffiti script on bright yellow background

Cover of Dub Come Save Me, a remix album by Roots Manuva.

Patternity a book about the inspirational power of pattern by Anna Murray and Grace Winteringham.

Privilege of Fake Abundance, an artwork by Nicole Vindel which is a precarious stack of metal kitchenware in artist's studio.

Photo taken from street level of a wooden bridge structure between two buildings, with a person walking across appearing to step over its edge.

Detail of a gallery interior with walls painted in thick bands of dusty pink and light grey.

Photo of crowds in front of the Mona Lisa in the Louvre who are all straining to take photos of the Mona Lisa.

Long exposure shot of Identity 2.0 Open Studio event at Somerset House.

Deviation Sunday set list.

Revolutionary Letter #96 by Diane di Prima which says "Empire / is its own / undoing".

Cover of jazz album The Awakening by The Ahmad Jamal Trio.

Artwork installed in a London bus stop near Holborn station decrying the lurch to the far right in British politics.

Giant flags of USA and UK hanging from the ceiling in Pan-African colours of red-black-green.

Street Fighter II bonus stage where Ken is destroying a Tesla cybertruck.

Pink, green, and purple artwork for Degenerative AI, a 2026 essay written by Idil Galip and Ludmila Lupinacci.

Colourful mural showing local figures who live on and around the Bermondsey Blue Market.

Photo of the book Can Feminism be African? by Minna Salami, taken in a garden.

Two contrasting posters for HARDCORE/LOVE, a 2025 exhibition showing Arthur Jafa and Mark Leckey's video art at Conditions in Croydon.

Still from La Decima Vittima, showing Ursula Andress.

Still from La Decima Vittima, showing multiple reporters looking into the camera as if the viewer is on the ground underneath them.

Photo taken showing the dance floor at Deviation's 5th birthday party.

Cover of Gildas & Masaya's Paris, a nu-rave/electro mix album released in 2008.

Theory of the Gimmick by SIanne Ngai, held by Michael.

Drone Selfie, an artwork showing the mirror image of a drone hovering in a living room.

Apocalypse Nerds by Nastasa Hadjadji and Olivier Tesquet published by éditions divergences.

Dame Sylvia Crow Garden Banner, an up cycled cotton, linen and silk quilt by Christie Swallow.

Blockchain Chicken Farm and Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside by Xiaowei Wang, one of my favourite books I've read this year.

untitled, from the series Death by GPS by Salvatore Vitale, a photo of a person's hands gesturing as if they are swiping a phone that is not there.

Out of focus photo taken while at Louisiana Museum in Denmark, showing their green garden blurred.

Snowman by David Weiss and Peter Fischli, installed in the garden of Louisiana Museum in Denmark.

Photo of the book Essayism Trilogy special edition by Brian Dillon, taken in a garden.

Monika Jiang delivering one of her immersive meditative experiences, this one at Future Days in Lisbon.

Against the Machine by Paul Kingsnorth.

Photo of a clear blue sky over a clear blue sea.

Kestrel caught mid-flight taking off from a lamppost.

Hype: A Critical Field Guide by Johannes Klingebiel.

Ministry of Sewers, an art intervention project exhibited by artist duo Cooking Sections in Folkestone, 2025.

Brutalist building from a central African country I can't quite remember now.

Soundsystem, a stack of speakers just in time for carnival.

Three people walking through the farm at Residenza Lago Scuro, soon to be my temporary home in September!

we move through scales of blue by Phoebe Barwell, an artwork installed at Bethnal Green tube station.

Love Warbler (Remix), a sonic art installation by Hanna Tuulikki at the 2025 Folkestone Triennial.

Black woman drinking from a coloured only water fountain in Alabama, photo taken by Gordon Parks.

The Cybernetic Border by Iván Chaar López.

#NotABugSplat a large than life photographed aerially by a drone showing the portrait of a young child rot highlight civilian collateral damage of automated warfare.

Another piece of art by Rosana Antolí from her show Permeating Murmur in Madrid.

Still from BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions, showing the near-future Nautica hovering vessel.

An oil painting called Evening by Andrii Frolov.

The morning after the night before, at Berghain. 18 November 2018.

Saturation edited by Melody Joe and Rafico Ruiz.

Poster for Brain Rot, AI Slop and the Enshittification of the Internet at Anglia Ruskin University.

Errant Journal issue 8: Against Visibility.

No Humans Involved, an art book published with Hammer Museum.

Photo portrait of Anas Aremeyaw Anas taken at Oslo Freedom Forum.

Diagram associated with Mysterion by Jani Christou.

deutschland, an art installation by Coumba Samba.

Random Walk, Feeding and Weather, an installation by Merve Mepa at the 18th Istanbul Biennale, 2025.

Diagram associated with Mysterion by Jani Christou.

Soften Up Hard Lad by Corbin Shaw.

Mashup of Marvin Gaye's I Want You album art to commemorate the Alabama Sweet Tea Party.

Michael Kibedi speaking at ffconf, 2024.

Exterior shot of Librairie 1909 bookshop, Paris.

Exterior shot of gallery in Antwerp with glass front displaying LAN by Brennan Wojtyla.

In Loving Memory of Corsica Studios in Elephant & Castle, which closed earlier this year.

Sony stack hi-fi system.

Tweet by @ridhima_z about the discomfort of the UK heatwave.

R-Type level 2.

Title slide of Human Decentred Design by Michael Kibedi, delivered as a guest lecture at the RCA.

whose logics do paths materialise? a question asked by the conceptual artist Lily Hassioti.

Y>x, a conceptual interactive artwork by Célune Gabriella Ama Acheampong.

First edition of Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.

Assata: An Autobiography.

Pittsburgh Memory, a collage by Romare Bearden.

Pre-insta era dancefloor photo by Alastair Allan, still up on dirtydirtydancing.net

Another photo from dirtydirtydancing.net

And another.

Gildas & Masaya DJing wearing matching Kitsuné blue oxford shirts. Source as above.

Another photo from dirtydirtydancing.net

Another photo from dirtydirtydancing.net

Another photo from dirtydirtydancing.net

Another photo from dirtydirtydancing.net

Vintage film poster of La Decimal Vittima.

Incomputable Earth edited by Antonia Majaca.

Still from APEX by Arthur Jafa (black man thinking).

Still from APEX by Arthur Jafa (sun flare).

Still from APEX by Arthur Jafa (fish).

White organic pattern on black background.

Album cover of 100% GALCHER by Galcher Lustwerk.

Title screen of Todd's Adventures in Slime World on the Atari Lynx.

Album cover of FABRICLIVE 79 by Jimmy Edgar.

Album cover of On Top by The Moments.

Album cover of Donuts by J Dilla.

Album cover of thanks to plastic part one by theo parrish.

Mix artwork for Fotomachine on WNYU Beats in Space, #1050.

Where are the Black Designers, drawn by Michael Kibedi on an iPad.

Journey artefact receipt from my time visiting Processing... at The Serpentine Gallery Educational Space.

Photo of mobile comms mast I took during an Internet Infrastructure Walk led by Anne Lee Steele.

Another photo I took during an Internet Infrastructure Walk led by Anne Lee Steele.

Concrete foot tunnel in Copenhagen covered in graffiti.

Mega bomb detonating, taken from the original Akira manga comic book.

Man in gas mask poised next to a camera, taken by Lee Miller.

Black and white photo of Mwazulu Diyabanza, taken under a CCTV camera.

Famous photo of black infant being shown two dolls, one black and the other white.

Young black woman commuter on Washington DC metro surrounded by masked white nationalists, 4 July 2026.

Still from 1928 black and white cartoon Steamboat Willie, the first appearance of Mickey Mouse.

Famous protest photo of a black woman walking past National Guard men pushing aside their rifles.

Recreation of the iconic Malcolm X looking-out-the window photo to commemorate the Alabama Sweet Tea Party.

@strange_aeon delivering a lecture in front of a slide which says: The greatest research skill you can have is being a nosy bitch who wants to find out.

Beats in Space (WNYU), #1050 Part 1 with Fotomachine (1 hour 13 mins). Recorded live on 7 July 2020.

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