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In 2012, an Ethiopian teenager named Abenezer Temesgen had a brilliant idea. His plan? To get disadvantaged kids off the streets of Addis Abba through skateboarding, even though he didn’t have the funds, equipment or even a skatepark. But since then, he’s shared his mission with the help of Californian photographer…
The great Euriphides once said that experiences and travel were as “education in themselves” – so throw photography in the mix and you’re pretty much getting a degree in life. That’s the beauty of travel photography: its ability to document the world through stories of people, cultures and landscapes, giving…
Jacques Monory: the painter who developed his style after systematically destroying all of his early work in pointed rejection of his education at the École de Paris. Jean-François Lyotard: the philosopher who developed pivotal changes in thought across several different disciplines after systematically breaking down traditional notions of reason and…
You’ll be hard pushed to find a more iconic image than the photograph of the black power salute at the 1968 Olympics. It has become an image that epitomises a century of civil rights, politicised youth and defiance against archaic laws. But this new feature documentary by Matt Norman highlights…
Being a kid of the 80s meant a good percentage of my early education came from Sesame Street, and its assortment of characters breaking down maths (cheers Count!), spelling (R…..UN?) and moral dilemnas, like the most diplomatic way to share important things like cookies, according to Ernie and Bert. But…
Plot: The 2008 presidential elections in Ghana, West Africa serve as a backdrop for this feature documentary that looks behind-the-scenes at the complex, political machinery of a 3rd world democracy struggling to legitimize itself to its first world contemporaries. At stake in this race are the fates of two political…