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In pictures: How 90s rave transcended politics in the North of Ireland

Gareth McConnell’s new show, An Illusion, documents the search for the ‘single, underlying energy’ that drives us, from conflict-scarred Northern Ireland to the free party scene and mass anti-war protests

Oct 28, 2026

Thom Waite

Art & Photography

These uncompromising portraits question who gets to be seen as cool

Debora Brune’s debut photo book brings disability into the fashion frame, exploring what happens ‘when people with visible physical differences are given the same visual freedom and ambition as anyone else’

Oct 27, 2026

Ayla Angelos

Art & Photography

In pictures: Ryan McGinley asks what makes a NYC It Girl

McGinley writes about his new exhibition, in which he invites more than 30 photographers to contribute their own vision of the actress, model, musician and muse Alana Jessica Martin

Oct 26, 2026

Ryan McGinley

Art & Photography

Chanel and Le19M’s new exhibition asks us to rethink ‘simple’ pleasures

Artists from France and China came together in Shanghai to make invisible labour visible and contemplate the hands shaping our worlds

Oct 26, 2026

Halima Jibril

Art & Photography

These photos offer a candid look at NYC’s erotic gay dancers

Slava Mogutin’s new exhibition, NYC GO-GO 2.0, revisits images from his cult photo book depicting male go-go performers partying backstage in the 00s

Oct 22, 2026

Emily Dinsdale

Art & Photography

Ambroise Degenne’s first photo book is a raw coming-of-age diary in Paris

At 19, the photographer’s debut brings together friends, graffiti, travels and the fleeting moments that have shaped his life so far

Oct 14, 2026

Ayla Angelos

Art & Photography

Loving, lustful portraits from New York’s West Village

‘It was a total sexual world down there’: Stanley Stellar’s new photo book, Don’t Worry Boys, presents his ‘affectionate and beautiful’ pictures of gay men in Manhattan in the 1970s and 80s

Oct 05, 2026

Madeleine Pollard

Art & Photography

In pictures: The wildest, sexiest gay club night of the 90s

A new photo book by Peter J Walsh captures Flesh, a legendary night at The Haçienda which emerged during one of the darkest periods in queer British history

Oct 01, 2026

James Greig

Art & Photography

Sweaty, raucous photos from inside Manchester’s Homobloc

Photographer Gracie Brackstone takes us to the dancefloor at Homobloc, Manchester’s annual queer rave

Sep 30, 2026

Tiarna

Art & Photography

John Yuyi’s new zine chronicles her nude aeroplane selfies

The photographer speaks to Dazed about Airplane Mode 2, the latest instalment of her cult zine of naked self-portraits shot in the toilets of planes

Sep 29, 2026

Emily Dinsdale

Art & Photography

In pictures: The real story of the 90s rave scene is about love

Vinca Petersen’s new zine is an extension of her original cult photo book, looking beyond the music and drugs to the spirit of care and community at the heart of the free party movement

Sep 28, 2026

Marigold Warner