UNLICENSED. Bootlegging as Creative Practice. - Ben Schwartz Seiichi Motohashi's beautiful behind-the-scenes portraits

Seiichi Motohashi's beautiful behind-the-scenes portraits documenting the lives of circus people and their animals in 1970s Japan

matsutake offers insights into areas far beyond just mushrooms and addresses a crucial question: what manages to live in the ruins we have made

'As a student at Central Saint Martins in the early aughts

revealing how his years in Paris transformed his understanding of American identity

Elsa’s Saracen tower stands formidable amidst a shrubland… In the distance

UNLICENSED. Bootlegging as Creative Practice. - Ben Schwartz Seiichi Motohashi's beautiful behind-the-scenes portraitsOver the last few decades the term bootlegginga practice once relegated to smugglers and copyright infringershas become understood as a creative act. Debates about homage, appropriation, and theft that are common in the art world, are now being held in the spheres of corporate branding, social media, and the creative industry as a whole. Today, bootlegging has become fetishized as an aesthetic in and of itself, influencing everything from underground