By Sara Bright When Battersea Power Station reopened on 14 October 2022, it ended nearly four decades of dereliction, failed schemes, and engineering dread. The…
By Sara Bright Something strange happens in the early weeks of a new attraction. You are drawn to someone, perhaps even infatuated, and then –…
By Sara Bright On 3 March 1982, Queen Elizabeth II opened the Barbican Centre and called it “one of the wonders of the modern world.”…
By Sara Bright You are mid-conversation at a bar in Shoreditch, laughing at something they have said, when it happens. The shift is instantaneous and…
By Sara Bright When Ellen van Loon first walked the derelict site of Manchester’s former Granada television studios in 2015, she had ten days to…
By Sara Bright Sleep has become a cultural obsession. We track our REM cycles on smartwatches, invest in weighted blankets, and ritualise bedtime routines as…
By Sara Bright For three years, fashion whispered. Quiet luxury – Loro Piana cashmere, The Row’s immaculate tailoring, the stealth wealth of understated neutrals –…
By Tessa Nolan On 11 September 1979, a fifteen-year-old Portuguese boy boarded a plane leaving Lisbon, armed with a scholarship, a clandestine camera, and the…
By Sara Bright A portrait has never been a mirror. It is a negotiation – a silent contract between the one who looks and the…
By Tessa Nolan There is a prejudice so embedded in Western culture that most people never think to question it: the assumption that the ability…