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Hugh Welchman on ‘Loving Vincent’
What was once destined to be a short film, focusing on the final days of the world’s most revered painter – Vincent Van Gogh – would later morph into a feature film. It was unknown territory for the...
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KinoVino: A Marriage of Food and Film
In short KinoVino offers a multi-censorial experience of food, wine and cinema, a perfect idea conjured up by Alissa Timoshkina, who holds a PhD in Film History. Acting as hostess for this series of...
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The Brotique: For the Modern Gentleman
If you’re ever in the grand old city of Edinburgh, down Queen St. you will stumble across The Brotique, a men’s store founded by Richard Murphy and his team from Tiger Forest. Cherry picking the best...
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Great Men: Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
In the early years of the 20th century, colour photography was explored by two men, one a Frenchman the other a Russian. These men are remembered today as the pioneers of contemporary colour...
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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Any man who knows his own self worth does not actively want to be a small cog in this world, but how he becomes an individual man cannot be achieved on impulse or by irrational actions. That’s my...
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BEAUTY – A Short Film by Rino Stefano Tagliafierro
Aesthetic beauty, more specifically the aesthetic beauty of paintings, is something man has created to emphasise all that is good and communicable to his fellow man. To answer the question of why that...
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Lost Book Review: The Spirit of Man by Robert Bridges
It was back in the summer when I discovered this ravishing little book by Robert Bridges, Britain’s poet laureate from 1913 to 1930. In the interim between two photo-shoots, I thought I’d take...
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Textiles and Memories
There I was, an introverted little boy, whose shyness erected an enormous barrier, on the most part, to normal childhood pursuits, a barrier which I would not overcome until my early twenties. However,...
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At the Feet of Rostam
I have lost count at the amount of times I wanted to launch this project. It began at the start of 2015, when after many years I rekindled my love for wrestling. It was during boyhood that the sport...
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Fared Shafinury: A Man of Passion
Through elegant rhythms and masterful vocals man can reveal his deepest emotions. With songs wrapped in eternal themes such as love and loss, happiness and sadness, man becomes an alchemist and he...
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Why Modern Art is Rubbish
For my field of study, English Literature won the battle over Art History, so I was never going to become the Art Historian I wanted to be for a handful of my prepubescent years. However the subject...
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Seeing Red
Still an incredibly shy man who immersed himself in the eternal comfort of the arts, I was 22 when I first saw a film by Sergei Parajanov. Having developed a love of film early on in life, I had always...
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Death or Glory: Rebirth of the Cossack’s
Their history is woven into the very foundation of Russian heritage and folklore. The Cossack’s, a warrior class of Eastern Slavic ethnicity, are simultaneously of Russia and yet at the same time not...
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Russian Myths and Legends
There is something primordial about myths and legends. Nowhere are they more rich and illustrious than in Europe, Russia and the Caucasus, comprising a collection of disparate nations that stretch from...
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Culture and the Cult of PC
Like the little Dutch boy who desperately tried plugging up the dyke to stem the flow of water, those of us who wish to protect our cultures from the flood of political correctness are in the same...
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Capturing Man
As the year draws to a close, I felt it time to reflect on a few things. 2015 was a year in which I finally established myself as a photographer, I was at last able to ditch the words “I’m working on...
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Why The Barber Shop is a Man’s Best Friend
I would like to begin with a few lyrics from Gary Portnoy and Judy Hart Angelo’s title song from the 80’s sitcom ‘Cheers’ “Making your way in the world today takes everything you’ve got. Taking a break...
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Gentlemen’s Order: Grooming Essentials
There’s a slight difference between a man and a gentleman, a man is strong, wise and brave, but a gentleman possesses that added extra of being well turned out. We’ve seen a roster of men’s grooming...
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Male Affection and Its Benefits
There has never been a time more urgent than now for men to understand the benefits of mutual affection and intimacy. In a world that is largely indifferent to the problems men face in modern society,...
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A Man and His Gun
Like most boys I owned a fine collection of play guns as a child, moving on to a pellet gun as a teenager. My love for firearms, their beauty and their power has never diminished with time. Although...
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