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Eau à Eau
A visual project inspired by the Haitian Vodou spirit LaSirenn, to explore water as a metaphor for identity, transformation and feminine strength.
Written by Sophie Ackroyd
Oceanic Birthright
Mira Gupta explores water as a space of memory, politics and healing, tracing the intersections of marine ecology, colonialism and surf culture through Black and Indigenous histories.
Written by Mira Gupta
Notice the Water You’re Already In
Exploring the relationship between water and attention, considering what our obsession with measurement, productivity, and outcomes has taken from us.
Written by Claudia Neuschulz
Logistics and Leviathan
Freddie Smith explores how both films reveal the hidden violence and scale of global industry, reshaping how we perceive time, labour and the exploitation of the sea.
Written by Freddie Smith
Omi L’eko
This photo essay explores water as a living force that shapes identity, survival, and memory in Lagos.
Written by Ayodeji Ayodele
Two Sides of Madrid
Exploring the chasm between Athletico and Real Madrid.
Written by Jesse Dean-Smith
FLOWING BETWEEN PARALLELS
Multimedia artist Rawz follows a small stream in Oxfordshire that bridges one of England’s sharpest socio-economic divides.
Written by Rawz
The Round Lake
Laila Ghaffar traces how The Round Lake collapses dystopian fiction into present reality, exposing the colonial and political structures driving water scarcity in Pakistan.
Written by Laila Ghaffar
Tukur Ridwan’s Poems
A series of poems by Tukur Ridwan exploring water through spirituality, ritual and marine imagery, tracing the sea as a site of rebirth, longing and transformation.
Written by Tukur Ridwan
The career of a dictator’s son
Exploring the footballing story of Al-Saadi Gaddafi, who was able to play in Serie A due to his father’s connections.
Written by Eli Haidari
The Flood is Coming
Exploring how climate change, political inaction and global power are bound together in producing mass displacement and environmental injustice.
Written by Lina Idrees
La Sape
La Sape is a Congolese sartorial movement and subculture rooted in the reclamation of agency, power and identity.
Written by Ashley Zibiza
Omi Ni Polish
A poem by Abdulrazaq Balogun exploring water as a force of creation, healing and destruction, reflecting on its role within memory, ritual and human violence.
Written by Abdulrazaq Balogun
The New Sheriff in Town
FC Sheriff Tiraspol recently beat Real Madrid away from home in the Champions League.
Written by Nathan Ousby
Assimilation & Identity
Adjusting to a new home is a priority for immigrants, especially second-generation individuals born in Western countries.
Written by Ashley Zibiza
Learning from Satire
Exploring Satire and the 2019 Mister America, underscoring its importance but questioning its lack of impact.
Written by Freddie Smith
Tainted Waters
A photo series by Prince El-sha Martey documenting life along Ghana’s polluted rivers, lagoons and coastlines.
Written by Prince El-sha Martey
Footballer turned murderer
The story of former Brazilian goalkeeper Bruno Fernandes De Souza, who once had the world at his feet.
Written by Nathan Ousby
John Builds New homes
New Life Homes is made up of twelve New Mexico supportive housing nonprofits.
Written by Lina Idrees
Black Voices In Country Music
How the work of Claudia Jones helps explain the lack of black recognition in country music.
Written by Ashley Zibiza
The Coast And Divine Water
A collection of poems by Mira Hagiwara Gupta exploring water as a space of intimacy, spirituality and emotional transformation across love, memory and ritual.
Written by Mira Gupta
Wartime Football
Exploring the contrasting lives two international footballers who served their countries in World War Two.
Written by Charlie Adey
Abandoned in Pakistan
Lina Idrees interviews Tahera Hasan, the founder and director of the NGO Imkaan.
Written by Lina Idrees
The Nonchalance of Suicide
Exploring how Abbas Kiarostami’s Taste of Cherry approaches men's mental health.
Written by Freddie Smith
Where the water used to fall
Deana Kotiga reflects on her Croatian homeland through her accompanying photographic project, tracing how environmental change unsettles memory, place and belonging.
Written by Deana Kotiga
The heroes of 2007
As Iraq was engulfed in civil war, its football team won the 2007 Asian Cup.
Written by Nathan Ousby
Being dependent is humiliating
Giulia Rubin argues the need for reforming Western healthcare systems.
Written by Giulia Rubin
Community in Film through Food
Exploring the centrality of food and importance of community through Juzo Itami’s Tampopo.
Written by Freddie Smith
Aerochrome Coastlines
Using rare Kodak Aerochrome film, Mil Donila captures Philippine coastlines in striking infrared tones, reimagining a medium designed to reveal what lies hidden.
Written by Mil Donila
French Football’s Sleeping Hero
The story of Jean-Pierre Adams, a pioneering footballer who fell into a coma following a routine knee operation.
Written by Charlie Adey
Energy Democracy Now
Giulia Rubin explores Energy Democracy, a movement working towards centering local agency and collective control in energy distribution.
Written by Giulia Rubin
A Film About Soul-Searching
This article explores Joyland, a film about a young man who falls in love with a trans woman and navigates the ambiguity of his masculine identity.
Written by Lina Idrees
Beach Epiphany
Rodrigo Koraicho is a photographer and visual artist based in São Paulo.
Written by Jai Toor
Basque Identity
Amidst the rise of football conglomerates, Athletic Bilbao remains symbolic of Basque identity.
Written by Charlie Adey
Digital Justice
Alternative Dispute Resolutions are designed to resolve conflicts without the need for a judge's ruling.
Written by Maria Alessandra Panzera
Black Political Struggle and its Iconography
Joseph Yorke-Wescott explores the different ways in which black struggle has been narrativised through time, highlighting how the idea of the Black Revolutionary ultimately relies on eventual death.
Written by Joseph Yorke-Westcott
Steve’s Collages
A visual commentary by collage artist Steve Timms, pairing surreal water-inspired collages with reflections on swimming, escapism and emotional renewal.
Written by Steve Timms
The Wall in the Head
Harry Russel explores the footballing implications of the divide between East and West Germany.
Written by Harry Russell
sexual violence in India
Exploring how the Hindu caste based system in India has led to discrimination amongst communities and sexual violence against Dalit women.
Written by Lina Idrees
Freshta
A conversation with the West London raised DJ and radio host.
Written by Dillon Gohil
The Undesirables
In the mid-1940s, hundreds of Chinese seamen were secretly deported from Liverpool.
Written by Jai Toor
Belgium’s Colonial Legacy
Harry Russel explores the colonial roots of Belgium’s Golden Generation.
Written by Harry Russell
Digital Surveillance in Protest
What can Hong Kong teach Paris about digital surveillance in the wake of the violent protests of 2019?
Written by Tiffany Lai
A lot of us are very lonely
Henry Kidney explores Spike Jonze’s Her, relating growing loneliness to the ascendency of hyper-individualism.
Written by Henry Kidney
Water Damage
A personal reflection on generational trauma, memory and healing, using damaged family archives and submerged film to explore water as both a force of destruction and renewal.
Written by Sophie Smith
Fighting for Kashmir
Exploring Arundhati Roy’s literary contributions to the region's struggle for freedom.
Written by Lina Idrees
Spirituality in Jazz
John Coltrane is one of the most revered jazz musicians of all time, but many do not fully recognise the role of his wife Alice.
Written by Dillon Gohil
Nancy June
Following our Halloween event, we caught up with DJ and producer Nancy June to delve into her signature heavy bass sound and explore how her early life experiences have shaped her identity behind the decks.
Written by Jai Toor
Green Gentrification
Mose Vernetti explores environmentalism-led gentrification.
Written by Mose Vernetti
The Death of Cyberpunk
Cyberpunk is dead and we have killed it, argues Owen Dawes.
Written by Owen Dawes
We the Ragamuffin
Nathan Tuft sat down with Julian Henriques to discuss his 1992 film We The Ragamuffin.
Written by Nathan Tuft
Lebanon & the Spectacle
Matthew Limb explores the reactive approach to Lebanon’s time of crisis.
Written by Matt Limb
Reforming Education
Henry Kidney analyses British educational inequality using Wes Anderson’s Rushmore.
Written by Henry Kidney
Afropean
Fourth Floor sat down with photographer, writer, and cultural commentator Johny Pitts for a conversation about his upcoming podcast, developed in collaboration with Reduced Listening.
Written by Ethan Odle
The Other
Exploring Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland’s One Nation project, drawing parallels to the work of Marina Abramovic & Ulay in creating an ego-less identity underpinned by trust.
Written by Jai Toor
The Community Cook Up
Fourth Floor sat down with Hannah Norton to talk about her latest project, focusing on a food bank located in Tottenham.
Written by Jai Toor
Go somewhere you’ve never been
Exploring the philosophy of Anthony Bourdain.
Written by Dillon Gohil
The Human Condition with Photographic Bandwidth
Fourth Floor sat down with Timothy, the founder of Photographic Bandwidth, a publishing house exploring spirituality and philosophical approaches to the human condition through documentary photography.
Written by Jai Toor
About Some Meaningless Events
Exploring the revolutionary potential of cinema through the 1974 Moroccan docu-fiction.
Written by Henry Kidney
AI Art with Jumoke Fernandez
Soheil sat down with Jumoke Fernandez to talk about generative AI and art.
Written by Soheil Rahimi
A Grand Don’t Come For Free
Delving into the legacy and importance of Mike Skinner’s acclaimed concept album classic.
Written by Jai Toor
The Tiger of Mysore
Capturing resistance to the British Empire.
Written by Lina Idrees
Empowerment or Fetishisation?
Exploring contested narratives of fetishisation, sexualisation, and violence in Tarantino’s Kill Bill films.
Written by Jasmine Joshi
A Kitsch Expression
Indera Tamara interviews digital artist Vince Ibay, a rising talent reshaping popular culture through innovative 3D scanning and virtual reality.
Written by Indera Tamara
Johnny 316
Dillon Gohil explores the lost-then-found indie film starring the controversial Vincent Gallo.
Written by Dillon Gohil
HOW ART CAN TURN THE WORLD INSIDE OUT
Owen Dawes dives into the world of French photograffeur JR, exploring his interactive processes that give agency to marginalised communities.
Written by Owen Dawes
Cannibal Holocaust
Henry Kidney explores this controversial films reinforcement of the cannibal stereotype.
Written by Henry Kidney
Sade Mia
Fourth Floor interviews photographer Sade Mia, discussing her captivating Heston Kids project and future plans in her photography journey.
Written by Jai Toor
THE FORGOTTEN SOUND OF EAST LONDON
Dillon Gohil explores their brief history of the influential AR Kane, within which by chance the duo created a new genre.
Written by Dillon Gohil
Mapalo Simon
Explore the work of Mapalo Simon.
Written by Indera Tamara
Alt-Right Gaming
How does coded language and iconography within the alt-right manifest in gaming?
Written by Jasmine Joshi
Josh Scurville
Fourth Floor interviews Josh Scurville, a talented illustrator and artist known for his vivid illustrations and animations.
Written by Jai Toor
DEATH GRIPS & THE STATE OF PROTEST
Exploring whether music can still induce collective action in light of its commercialisation.
Written by Jasmine Joshi
Female de-miners of Nagorno-Karabakh
Fourth Floor sat with documentary photographer and writer Eva Clifford to discuss her journey into documenting the first female demining team in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Written by Jai Toor
A WEST SO WEIRD?
Whilst many reviewers of Bacurau cover the acclaimed Brazilian film’s deft manipulation of Post Western Cinema’s themes, few adequately discuss the specificities of Filho & Dornelles’ exploration of neocolonialism.
Written by Bertie Gmaj
Milo Blake
Fourth Floor interviews director Milo Blake, discussing his journey, extensive body of work, ambitions, and more!
Written by Jai Toor
GURDJIEFF’S FOURTH WAY
Can you achieve enlightenment without leading an asectic life?
Written by Dillon Gohil
The Future Of Partying
Fourth Floor interviews Hadi, the founder of Ecodisco, the sustainable nightlife consultancy known for facilitating London’s first ever plastic-free club night.
Written by Soheil Rahimi
CITIZENS OF NOWHERE
Multidisciplinary artist Emma Louse Rixhon, founder of the clothing brand Citizens of Nowhere, shares her journey and insights with Fourth Floor.
Written by Jai Toor
Anthea Spivey
Fourth Floor interviews documentary photographer Anthea Spivey to discuss her work, focusing on her project on albinism in Senegal.
Written by Jai Toor