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A new book published by Steidl tells the story of a group of imprisoned artists and musicians founded in Terezín, a Nazi concentration camp

“When I see a train go by I always get this feeling,” says photographer Mike Brodie. “I don’t know what it is, it’s just this interesting feeling. The idea of freedom and adventure … it’s amazing, it’s a very American feeling.” Brodie was 18 when he left home in Pensacola, Florida, to hop freight trains across the country between 2004 and 2008. He was 19 when, after being gifted a camera by a friend, he started photographing the communities that he rode with, becoming a young observer known as “Polaroid Kidd”. His first book, A Period of Juvenile Prosperity, was publis...

MATTO, an Italian photographer and graphic designer.  “We wanted to do a magazine that was mainly about contemporary art, but a bit more accessible in terms of the text,” he says. “So we do studio visits and conversations with the artists or designers themselves. We don’t want it to be overly academic, so that it becomes completely impenetrable for anyone to read. We wanted to make a magazine about contemporary art that was a bit more inclusive. When we started the magazine and it went into shops, they had really hard time to placing us in a category. It was quite interesting that so...

Armour  sounds so specifically Northern - what is it about Preston and Salford, about Lancashire, that inspires the music you make? Blackhaine: The Lancashire I know is a lost place, trapped between hills and moors. That feeling drives me when I make music, being pressured between nothingness. There’s less sunlight and more rain in Preston, Salford - non of these areas are gentrified yet so it’s a lot more real here for sure.  The record was made over quarantine, how did that shift in living inform Armour? Blackhaine: Creatively I don’t think anything changed, I’m used to working ...