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Head of the House
January 4, 2012 — by
Photographer Annabel Werbrouck documents the lives and homes of young Ethiopians who lost their parents to AIDS, struggling to raise their brothers and sisters.
My photographs offer a look at the daily lives of Ethiopian families where the first-born child has become head of the family following the premature deaths of their parents. This is a growing phenomenon across Ethiopia, due above all to the AIDS epidemic.
Giddyup! 2011 Culture Roundup
December 30, 2011 — by
So, this post is coming quite late in the month but I am sorry. As a real live junior in high school I have been dealing with crazy amounts of work that just makes me want to curl up into the fetal position with a log of cookie dough and read Edith Wharton…hmmm that’s just me? Alright. So I’ve been thinking a lot about what 2011 was like. And in truth it was kind of a rad year from OWS to OFWGKTA. But personally I am so done with 2011, onward and upward into 2012! Every year my family writes our wishes for the New Year on cards and hangs them on our Christmas tree. This year I wished for “Sparkles and Understanding”. In that spirit, I present some of my favorite tidbits of art and culture from 2011.
Nothing in the World But Youth
December 27, 2011 — by
Nothing in the World But Youth is a prolific museum exhibition at Turner Contemporary in Margate, a seaside town in England. 94 artists and over 200 works in the show examine the idea of youth. When I learned about the exhibition and read the incredible catalog, I knew that our projects were on a similar wavelength, so I interviewed the curator Lauren Wright. Read our conversation after the jump…
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Indonesian Punks
December 19, 2011 — by
Police in Aceh, Indonesia’s most conservative province, arrested 65 punk rock teenagers on the grounds that they posed a threat to Islamic values. Having committed no actual crimes, teenagers were arrested by Shariah police while holding a charity concert in Taman Budaya Park last Saturday. The punks were corralled and taken to a police camp outside Areh where they were stripped of their piercings and dog collars, thrown into a pool of water for “spiritual cleansing” and shaved of their mohawks.
Dream Interview with Blake Nelson
December 6, 2011 — by
As far as I can tell, Blake Nelson has never been a seventeen-year-old teenage girl, yet the unassuming forty-something has somehow completely nailed what it is to be a teenage girl in his numerous novels. The key is that Nelson has an incredible talent for writing in the voice of teenagers, from the listless slackers of Paranoid Park (which was made into a Gus Van Sant movie) to Pete the music geek in Rockstar Superstar to the thrift store indie rock darling Andrea Marr of GIRL.
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