Pure Nowhere

Salim Garcia: Dipped in Realism, Planted in Fantasy

A conversation with Salim Garcia exploring Sci-Fi, the American Dream, Atlanta’s creative community, experimentation through mediums, and the book he lends to friends when they seem lost.

Dear Youth, PhotosAbby StrangwardJanuary 8, 2021Featured SliderComment

Freshman Year, in iPhone Notes & 35mm

writing shitty words on a Microsoft document pretending that someday it will matter. life is fun and boring right now in a kind of perfect way that I’ll never be satisfied with and nothing is full circle.

Dear Youth, PhotosKyla RainJanuary 6, 2021Comment

The Hardest Part

“I have undergone many changes within the last three months. I wished the majority of it never happened, but that is life and I need to learn how to roll with the punches.”

Dear Youth, PhotosTuri SiosonJuly 25, 2020Comment

Athena Documents Quarantine From Her Bedroom

athena shares a gallery of self portraits on film documenting herself & her space in isolation, musing on the ways in which photography is still exposing new feelings, even now.

Dear Youth, PhotosCheyenne TurnerJune 28, 2020 Comment

THIS HURTS. (queerness, mortality, youth and obsession)

I fear age and I panic to immortalise my friends, my relationships and current youth. I fear isolation, I fear not living a good enough life, I fear the guilt I’ll feel if I do live the fullest life because some don’t have that fortune. I fear I’m driving myself to madness.

Photos, Dear YouthKyla RainApril 4, 2020photo gallery, dear youth, film, 35mmComment

Josh Kern: Love Me. (Or Don’t. Both is Fine.)

A conversation with Josh Kern about his new photo book, Love Me - and a little on distraction, creation, self-destruction, an artist’s process and more.

Friends, Dear Youth, PhotosAbby StrangwardFebruary 11, 2020Comment

still high from the night before

These pictures are about moving to another side of the world for 6 months. About losing and finding yourself again, about struggling to be creative and then being overwhelmed by the beauty of everything, and playing guitar in your driveway at 8am on a Sunday, still high from the night before.

Dear Youth, PhotosAbby StrangwardJanuary 18, 2020Featured Slider Comments

Small Joys, Quiet Towns

There is always an exuberant joy to be found in the colour of the sky and the connection with the people around me. My Nowhere is not a transient state — it’s just off the map.

Photos, Dear YouthZophia DadlezJanuary 10, 2020film, 35mm, photo journal, dear youth, adventure, Featured SliderComment

Washed Out Version of Romanticism

Photos, scans and words exploring the concept of love in your 20s. "It’s about saying goodbye, about picking your clothes up off the floor silently and closing the door behind you."

Dear Youth, PhotosKyla RainDecember 15, 2019Featured Slider Comments

Dancing Barefoot & Photographing Strangers at Gliding Barnacles Surf Fest (with Gonçalo Carvalho)

We go behind the scenes of the annual Portugese surf festival, exploring the candid magic of Gonçalo’s images, and the rich melting pot of culture, art and surfing this community creates each year.

Photos, Dear YouthAbby StrangwardDecember 14, 2019Featured Slider, InterviewsComment

Behind the Scenes of The Dream Machine Art Tour

The Dream Machine - an eclectic, DIY style art & music tour, taken up the east aussie coast in a van packed with canvas and Melbourne artists. We chat with Jordan Borg and Alice Glascott to figure out how the hell they pulled it off.

Photos, FriendsAbby StrangwardDecember 4, 2019Featured Slider, Dear Youth Interviews, InterviewsComment

Family Vacation: Post Animal In Europe

Marie Renaud shares a collection of film photos from Post Animal’s tour across europe last july, full of sleep-deprived, jet-lagged and pure-joy moments.

Photos, MusicAbby StrangwardNovember 12, 2019new in music, Featured SliderComment