S0me fascinating pieces from Katsumi Hayakawa’s latest show at MoMo Roppongi, Tokyo.

www.katsumihayakawa.com

Maybye its me but there’s really nothing more alluring than cold war vamps strutting around Alexander Platz in autumnal haute couture. So you can imagine my deep visual psychosis when I discovered Bottega Fotografica online and lost a small amount of breathing time wondering through their seductive fashion photography. I love the clandestine narratives in the images and the cold tonality of the art direction. AT one point I thought I was Harry Palmer anyway enjoy, aller!

www.bf.com.mx

A fabulous piece of stop motion animation to encourage environmental awareness in the UAE.

Craig Scarr is a freelance travel photographer from Brisbane. Craig’s work spans Fashion, portraiture, and editorial. These images focus on the everyday experience of construction workers in Dubai. A much deliberated subject matter but one which rarely reaches the media pictorially. Craig’s images give a rare insight into the lives of those physically building the city, a view which sharply contrasts the world’s perception of opulence and glamour.

www.craigscarr.com

June sees the launch of A Magazineofrandom published by FN Design run by Shiekha Wafa Hasher Al Maktoum. This is a refreshing lo-fi zine which explores the creative mindset of Dubai in a frank and seemingly spontaneous fashion. We caught up with FN Designs to get some inside info:

What,s the concept behind AMOR?

We wanted to keep the magazine as random as possible. as much as we’d say there’s no structure. there is a structure there somewhere. but majority of it is just about the people we know of in Dubai. We’re letting the concept grow on it’s on and hopefully people will warm up to it in the future.
Where can people pick it up?

At shelter , thejamjar , traffic , cuadro and empty quarter.

What kind of people are you looking to get involved in AMOR?

Creative people who live and work out of Dubai. Irrespective of their national background.

With most of the people involved being Dubai based, do you plan to expand the contributors internationally or keep the focus purely on Dubai’s Creative community?

Nope. contributions are going to be only Dubai based. we see this magazine as something a visitor might pick up and take back with them when they leave UAE. there’s so much random obscure talent here, and some really interesting stories to tell. So we’re keeping it homegrown.

We love the unstitched, removeable format whats the thinking behind that?

Mainly that was for cost cutting purposes lol. but we also figured we’d go ahed and mess with every rule of publishing out there and see what we can come up with.
So whats the Frequency Kenneth? (How often can we expect it.)

4 times a year ( so i guess that’s once every 3 months)