Selfies

Culture

The strange allure of the toothbrush selfie

Why are candid mid-brushing pictures such an enduring social media flex?
Anna Samson
4.13.21
Photography

Nancy Floyd took a selfie every day for 40 years

In 1982, the photographer set herself the challenge of taking a self-portrait every single day.
Ryan White
11.26.20
Photography

This photographer lets his famous subjects take intimate self-portraits

Jonathan Anderson, Simone Rocha, Gareth Bale and more turn the camera on themselves. Just don't call them selfies.
Ryan White
11.20.19
Opinion

how selfies destroy our self-esteem

In their new book 'Mixed Feelings: Exploring Modern Life and the Internet, One Discussion at a Time', journalist Sarah Raphael and model Naomi Shimada break down what social media is really doing to our self-worth.
Sarah Raphael
9.19.19
Photography

these powerful self-portraits are about reclaiming your body after rape

How artist Ciarra K. Walters is using photography to talk about trauma.
Zio Baritaux
11.9.18
Culture

your selfies actually make you (post)human

In 'Faceworld,' theoretician Marion Zilio shows how selfies allow us access to previously hidden parts of ourselves
Micha Barban Dangerfield
10.30.18
Photography

Anne Collier collected four decades of selfies

In a rare interview, the American visual artist Anne Collier discusses her project Women with Cameras (Self Portrait) -- a collection of selfies from over the past four decades.
Ryan White
8.10.18
Culture

these kim kardashian selfies are remarkably like history’s greatest self-portraits

We took some of the best images from Phaidon’s new Five Hundred Self-Portraits and cross referenced them with posts from Kim Kardashian’s Instagram.
Matthew Whitehouse
4.3.18
Culture

petra cortright turns camgirling into feminist art

Petra Cortright has been putting her image online for over a decade. As her new show 'CAM WORLS' opens in Los Angeles, the pioneering post-internet artist talks selfies vs. self-portraits, and why she doesn't use Snapchat.
Nadja Sayej
2.26.18
prison life

selfies from the inside - a new zine is documenting the lives of young prisoners

The reality of life for Britain’s young prisoners will be exposed in a photo zine published later this year, at a time when violence, understaffing and budget cuts have created a crisis so urgent that it’s been suggested the army might be sent into jails.
Emma Finamore
11.1.17
Big Brother

your iphone recognises your bra pics and sorts them into a folder

Sorry, your “brassiere,” because clearly Apple’s language isn’t as modern as its technology.
Georgie Wright
10.31.17
Beauty

5 mopey songs to match 5 smokey eyeliners

Because whatever, it’s raining and you’re emo now.
Bertie Brandes
8.30.17
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