The body becomes the storyteller. The minds behind Jedda Daisy CulleyDesert Designs found inspiration in the Dreamtime bird Mangkaja, along with the screen prints of artist Jimmy Pike, for their latest interpretive film. Co-directed by Cloudy Rhodes, with music by Cosmic Youth and Daniel Stricker and mesmeric moves from Waangenga Blanco and Yolanda Lowatta, it coincides with the launch of a new T-shirt collection and fresh website from the brand. Go on and let it move you.

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by Natalie O’Moore

Maddie (Moonlight), 2015
In the American Night
Archival Pigment Print

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Photo journal from Turkey

Smoke & Honey

ALEXANDER WANGPRE FALL FILM

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FOR CHANEL
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AMERICA

MAKE LOVE TO THE WORLD

THE HOLE NYC

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‘KDH’ – Celestial Trax Music Video, Rinse
Directed & Produced, 2015
Exclusively released on Fader

Along the River

Awarradam - Steps

Awarradam - Village HAIR

Commewijne Bridge

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French Guiana-7

French Guiana-Prision Bath

GATE KEEPER

GUIDE IN BLUE

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In Clouds

Jungle Courts

Middle of the World

Pineapples

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Somewhere Peaceful

St Laurent

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The Man of Suriname

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by NVS

Suriname Journal

Collection of Photographs taken while in Suriname, 2014
Series 1 of Research & Documentation

In 2014, traveling back to her native Surinamese roots to establish an on-going research and documentation project exploring the core of her identity in a country made up of 90% rainforest.
Along the journey, NVS was sent into the Amazon to visit Maroon villages and to the top of Suriname at Galibi beach with the Carib Indingeous tribe on a video and photo project commissioned from Surinamese Holistic Healer, Loraine Van Tuyl, PhD.

The Suriname Journal is does not end in 2014, Nicole Van Straatum is finding ways to further discover her heritage through personal and sourced experience, photography, writings, and interviews. Series 1 is only the first chapter of Nicole’s life-long voyage of cultural, historical, and individual understanding of being a second generation Surinamese-American.

Along the River

Awarradam - Steps

Awarradam - Village HAIR

Commewijne Bridge

French Guiana-2

French Guiana-7

French Guiana-Prision Bath

GATE KEEPER

GUIDE IN BLUE

Guide-Jungle-1

In Clouds

Jungle Courts

Middle of the World

Pineapples

SKY_BIRD_PALM

snake

Somewhere Peaceful

St Laurent

TANG

The Man of Suriname

waterslide-Marina Lex

Collection of Photographs taken while in Suriname, 2014
Series 1 of Research & Documentation

In 2014, traveling back to her native Surinamese roots to establish an on-going research and documentation project exploring the core of her identity in a country made up of 90% rainforest.
Along the journey, NVS was sent into the Amazon to visit Maroon villages and to the top of Suriname at Galibi beach with the Carib Indingeous tribe on a video and photo project commissioned from Surinamese Holistic Healer, Loraine Van Tuyl, PhD.

The Suriname Journal is does not end in 2014, Nicole Van Straatum is finding ways to further discover her heritage through personal and sourced experience, photography, writings, and interviews. Series 1 is only the first chapter of Nicole’s life-long voyage of cultural, historical, and individual understanding of being a second generation Surinamese-American.