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Roxanne Lowit “No one thought there was anything going on backstage, so for years I was alone and loved it. I guess I made it look too good because now it’s so crowded with photographers. But there’s enough room for everybody.” - Roxanne Lowit, Photographer. Roxanne Lowit’s career spans decades and her archives tell fashion's story. Lowit invented backstage fashion photography and solidified her place in fashion history as a gifted documentarian. A documentarian of a world everyone wants to see - yet precious few do. Her work has been published in numerous books and exhibited in the world’s most prominent galleries and museums: the ‘Gagosian’, ‘Metropolitan Museum of Art’, ‘Whitney Museum’ and the ‘Victoria and Albert Museum’ in London. Lowit parlayed her gift into high-concept fashion editorials for magazines world-wide. She was the fashion world’s backstage storyteller - and fashion was her muse. Roxanne Lowit died unexpectedly on September 13, 2022. She was 80 years old. Roxanne Lowit 1942 - 2022. #neonurchin #neonurchinblog #dedicatedtothethingswelove #suzyurchin #ollyurchin #art #music #photography #fashion #film #design #words #pictures #love #FIT #textiledesigner #donnakaran #scottbarrie #antoniolopez #katemoss #yvessaintlaurent #newyork #photographer #fashionphotographer #editorial #backstagefashionphotographer #nightlife #backstage #models #roxannelowit https://www.instagram.com/p/CiwwFtIoBye/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Bandele Ajetunmobi “He was the youngest brother and he was disabled as well but he was very good at art, so they apprenticed him to a portrait photographer in Lagos. It suited him yet it wasn’t enough, so he packed up and, without anything much, left for England with my Uncle Chris.” - Victoria Loughran, niece of Photographer, Bandele “Tex”” Ajetunmobi. Bandele Ajetunmobi - widely known as “Tex” - was one of Britain’s first black photographers. Ajetunmobi was born in Nigeria in 1921 and was apprenticed to a portrait photographer in Lagos. In 1947, at the age of twenty-six, he stowed away on a boat from Nigeria. In Nigeria, Ajetunmobi found himself an outcast because of a disability from polio as a child. He settled in Spitalfields, East London, an area he documented through photography for almost half a century, focusing on immigrant communities and the multi-racial nature of the area. These images serve as early documents of a multi-cultural London in the post-war years at a time when a growing number of men and women were immigrating to Britain from the former colonies. They depict the Whitechapel area where many immigrants from the Caribbean settled. The music clubs in Whitechapel were shaped by and for black people - but from the start were also frequented by white people. Art historian Kobena Mercer noted in Britain “the nightlife surrounding black music was always a cross-cultural affair”. Most of Ajetunmobi’s work was destroyed when he died in 1994 apart for some two hundred negatives that his niece Victoria Loughran rescued. These are housed in the archive of ‘Autograph ABP', London. #neonurchin #neonurchinblog #dedicatedtothethingswelove #suzyurchin #ollyurchin #art #music #photography #fashion #film #design #words #pictures #love #nigeria #polio #disability #stowaway #commercialstreet #spitalfields #streetphotographer #nightlife #multiracial #multicultural #crosscultural #immigrants #blackphotographer #autographabp #bandeleajetunmobi #tex (at East End of London) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ckfs6WoIG5O/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Studio Ezio Gribaudo A joyous organised disorder heralds the abundant universe of Studio Ezio Gribaudo. The studio was conceived in 1974 by friend and architect Andrea Bruno. This exponential box has the interior of an atelier. A sinusoidal staircase made from rounded carved wood cutouts with wide steps serve as a library that invites one upstairs. Books and works from all periods cover the walls. The intertwining of history, practices, images and forms - between what has existed and what is becoming - are all part of Gribaudo’s work method. The glass cupola placed above the workroom on the intermediate floor - which floods the works-in-progress with light - indicates an exercise of observation (both within and outside of the studio) is taking place through the lens of a giant kaleidoscope. Ezio Gribaudo died July 18, 2022. #neonurchin #neonurchinblog #dedicatedtothethingswelove #suzyurchin #ollyurchin #art #music #photography #fashion #film #design #words #pictures #love #architecture #atelier #sinusoidalstaircase #printer #publisher #artist #collage #andreabruno #turin #brutalist #glasscupola #edizionedartefratellipozzo #studioeziogribaudo #eziogribaudo (at Turin, Italy) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkIYDB3oJ32/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Dagmar van Weeghel Born in 1974, Dagmar van Weeghel is a highly regarded photographer, currently living in the Netherlands. She studied Film and Photography at the ‘Amsterdam University of the Arts’ and the ‘Netherlands Film Academy’. Van Weeghel lived and worked in many African countries as a filmmaker and as a freelance TV Director/Producer before becoming a full-time photographer in 2015. Van Weeghel’s images promote women. Through Van Weeghel’s eyes the narrative unfolds - inviting viewers to connect with real stories and real people. Within each of her series, she focuses on telling stories inspired by the African female experience within the Diaspora. #neonurchin #neonurchinblog #dedicatedtothethingswelove #suzyurchin #ollyurchin #art #music #photography #fashion #film #design #words #pictures #love #africanwomen #blackwomen #africanexperience #africaninfluence #history #diaspora #importance #filmmaker #photographer #dagmarvanweeghel (at Netherlands) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgeJJxuM07G/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Roxanne Lowit “I paint and there were people who I wanted to sit for me but had no time, so I started taking pictures of them. I liked the gratification of getting the instant image so I traded in my paintbrushes for a camera.” - Roxanne Lowit, Photographer. Roxanne Lowit did not go to school to be a photographer. She graduated from ‘Fashion Institute of Technology’ in New York with a degree in ‘Art History and Textile Design’. It was during her successful career as a textile designer that she realised something, Lowit wanted to be a photographer. Lowit started making pictures in the late 70’s with her ‘110 Instamatic' photographing her own designs at the New York fashion shows. Before long she was covering all the designers in Paris where her friends - models like Jerry Hall - would sneak her backstage. It was here that she found her place - and career - in fashion. For over three decades the lens of Lowit has captured the faces, places and spaces. Her images witness the creation of fashion, art, theatre and film. Lowit has photographed thousands of luminaries, including Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali, Kate Moss, Yves Saint-Laurent, Johnny Depp, Madonna and George Clooney. In short, she has captured the creative classes of the last three decades in her photographs, offering unprecedented visual entrée to the beau monde of New York, Paris and Milan. Lowit has always done things differently. You could say that she really created an entirely new genre of photography - by taking her camera where nobody else wanted to go -backstage at fashion shows. Whilst everyone else was fixated on the runway Lowit was busy capturing the real action. Roxanne Lowit died unexpectedly on September 13, 2022. She was 80 years old. Roxanne Lowit 1942 - 2022. #neonurchin #neonurchinblog #dedicatedtothethingswelove #suzyurchin #ollyurchin #art #music #photography #fashion #film #design #words #pictures #love #FIT #textiledesigner #donnakaran #scottbarrie #antoniolopez #katemoss #yvessaintlaurent #newyork #photographer #fashionphotographer #editorial #backstagefashionphotographer #nightlife #backstage #models #roxannelowit https://www.instagram.com/p/CiwwL3KIwQN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Pirates Gold The gold earrings pirates wore served different purposes. The gold hoops ensured that if their body washed ashore there would be enough money for a funeral. Whoever found the body could use the gold jewellery as payment for burial. Some pirates even had the name of their home port engraved on their earring so they could be returned to their families. The earrings also served as hearing protection when firing canons. Pirates would dangle small pieces of wax from their earrings for quick insertion into the ear should firing begin. OG ear plugs alert. There are superstitious about certain items of jewellery bringing certain kinds of luck. Sailors are known for being extra superstitious. Some pirates believed that earrings would protect them against drowning and ensure that they got back to safety. During the height of piracy in the 17th and 18th centuries much of Europe, and especially England, had a number of sumptuary laws in place that regulated what common people could wear and how they could live. These stifling laws prescribed what colours people could wear, what genders could sport jewellery (men were not allowed to) and where one could flaunt the “approved” items they could afford. Those who refused to obey these laws could face jail time or heavy monetary fines. Unsurprisingly, this culture of control didn’t really gel with freewheeling pirates. The flamboyant dress that came to be associated with historic pirates was a direct response to these sumptuary laws. #neonurchin #neonurchinblog #dedicatedtothethingswelove #suzyurchin #ollyurchin #art #music #photography #fashion #film #design #words #pictures #love #pirates #superstition #goldearrings #hoopearrings #burial #crossingtheequator #plundering #talisman #seasickness #improvedeyesight #sumptuarylaws #symbols #pirates #gold https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj-LrhkoJg2/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Do A Runner Sean Young's ‘Blade Runner’ polaroids capture a literal snapshot of life on set. ‘Blade Runner’ was director Ridley Scott's follow-up to ‘Alien’ and was based on the novel ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' by Philip K. Dick. The story takes in place in the (then distant) future of 2019, where Harrison Ford's Blade Runner is tasked with taking down androids dubbed Replicants. Despite being a box-office disappointment upon release, the movie is now considered a landmark sci-fi film, thanks to its themes on what it means to the human, its great performances and stunning visuals. ‘Blade Runner’s' reputation would only grow in the years following its 1982 release, especially when Ridley Scott released a director's cut that removed Ford's pained voiceover and the jarring happy ending been forced on the movie by the studio. The movie eventually received a sequel in the form of ‘Blade Runner 2049’. This follow-up finds Replicant K (Ryan Gosling) tasked with tracking down Harrison Ford's Deckard, who vanished decades prior. ‘Blade Runner 2049’ was another visually stunning sci-fi epic that played more like an art movie than a blockbuster. But is anything as good as Young’s ‘Polaroids’? #neonurchin #neonurchinblog #dedicatedtothethingswelove #suzyurchin #ollyurchin #art #music #photography #fashion #film #design #words #pictures #sciencefiction #cultclassic #replicants #androids #rachel #deckard #behindthescenes #polaroids #movie #bladerunner #ridleyscott #harrisonford #seanyoung https://www.instagram.com/p/CfTVG8ZoJWl/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

LASSCO “Use soft fabrics in unusual ways: in frames or hung on walls. Ham House is the best example of how to do this, but we can’t all afford a set of tapestries, so why not plump for a pretty quilt or rug from the North Country? It will improve the scale of the room and soften the acoustics to give it an intimate air. There’s something quite grand about them but a bit of ostentation in moderation is fine. Our signature style at ‘LASSCO’ will always be English shabby chic, even though it’s been chewed over many times in gastropubs. The winning formula is always a combination of strong brownwood furniture, symmetrical arrangement and red and gold accents. Never underestimate the power of a reflective surface or soft wax finish, either. Subconsciously it implies a room is clean and well-maintained.” - Adrian Amos, Owner, ‘LASSCO’. Established in London’s East End ’LASSCO’ has dealt in reclamation and salvage since 1979. Bridging the gap between the demolition trade and architectural design - you’ll find architectural salvage, decorative and garden antiques, doors, entranceways, woodwork, pub, bygones, bathrooms, metalwork, panelling, lighting and reclaimed wood flooring. Plus ‘Brunswick House Café’ if you get a little peckish. London's best-known reclamation yard (which now has an Oxfordshire outpost) has been selling reclaimed goods for over 40 years. Goods range from the basic to the stupendous – go looking for a doorknob and leave with a wrought-iron balcony. All three venues have on-site restaurants. ‘LASSCO’, 30 Wandsworth Road, Vauxhall, London SW8 2LG. ‘Ropewalk’, 41 Maltby Street, Bermondsey, London SE1 3PA. ‘Three Pigeons’, London Road, Milton Common, Oxfordshire OX9 2JN. #neonurchin #neonurchinblog #dedicatedtothethingswelove #suzyurchin #ollyurchin #art #music #photography #fashion #film #design #words #pictures #love #dukeofbrunswick #vauxhall #jacksonboxer #brunswickhousecafé #curated #architecturalsalvage #demolitiontrade #extraordinary #ornate #architecturaldesign #adrianamos #LASSCO (at Lassco) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj40VctIrro/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=