Lydia Figes

Lydia Figes is a freelance writer for Dazed and co-founder of @radicalwomenshistory

VALIE EXPORT, “VALIE EXPORT – SMART EXPORT” (1970)

Art & PhotographyThe world according to VALIE EXPORT, feminist art provocateur

Sabiha Çimen, “Students playing with a colour smoke bomb”

Art & PhotographyThese portraits challenge stereotypes surrounding Muslim girlhood

Scarlett Kapella, BITCH! You Strippin’

Art & Photography10 photo projects that reveal the reality of sex work

Cédrine Scheidig, de la mer à la terre (2023)

Art & PhotographyCédrine Scheidig’s portraits are a study of home and belonging

LS21 engstrom Wallard

Art & PhotographyIntimate photos of people falling in and out of love

Altered Image Green

Art & PhotographyChris Makos’ rarely seen portraits of Andy Warhol in drag

Cindy Sherman, “Untitled Film Still #21”

Art & Photography8 artists who had surprising side hustles before they made it

Edward Hopper

Art & PhotographyHow artist Edward Hopper became the poster boy of isolation

Masculinities: Liberation through Photography

Art & PhotographyEight controversial photos depicting masculinity

John Baldessari, John Sidney

Art & Photography8 famous artists who dramatically destroyed their own artworks

Nan Goldin Rebecca at the Russian Baths NYC 1985

Art & Photography7 artists who radically changed the way we document pregnancy

Blue Planet (3)

Art & PhotographyThe artist-activists who predicted the climate crisis