Yokoso/Welcome (#3 Trash)
Stepping off the plane, I assess the initial impact of Tokyo on my jet-lagged form: I take my first breath of Japanese air and weigh the humidity like a water balloon in my hands …

In Cahoots with a Graffiti Ninja (#4 Graffiti)
Geoff Speedo endeavoured to get an interview with a Graffiti Ninja, but owing to a distinct lack of journalistic prowess, failed. On a whim he turned to his hirsute hero…

Scroobius Pip: An Interview (#6 Sound)
He arrives just after 8pm clad in his trademark suit, a skinny tie, and a beard that looks like it’s there for religious reasons…

The Modern Condition: Kapuscinski’s Africa (#7 Home & Homelessness)
As I sit here writing this, I’m alone – a single lamp soft lights the low table at which I work, while speakers pulse in stereo, turning silence to ambience …

Tibet (#8 Beauty & Beastliness)
All around the four walls are fading frescoes depicting Buddhist life, fading because this place is a thousand years old; a thousand years of burning yak butter lamps smudging the walls black …

Written for Spark!

David LaChapelle (Exhibition Review)
It’s hard to resist LaChapelle’s fantasy world, where the idea of celebrity is bound up in glamour and excess; the perverse and utterly ridiculous …