Ris Fatah
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THE FACE MAGAZINE ; CULTURE SHIFT a major retrospective at The National Portrait Gallery , London
London’s National Portrait Gallery takes an intense step back in time this month with the launch of The Face Magazine: Culture Shift, a retrospective of the mass of iconic imagery published by the style bible during its 24-year reign beginning in 1980. Created by Nick Logan, who had previously reinvented the NME and…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah’s New Year Resolution : Tune into CORMAC’s ‘Queerly Beloved’ totally unmissable Podcast
Looking for inspiration this New Year, then, in case it’s passed you by, check out DJ/Producer Cormac’s Queerly Beloved podcast. Now on its second series, Cormac invites DJs, musicians, friends and allies from the LGBTQ+ community to talk about music, queerness and anything else that’s shaped their lives. In each episode Cormac’s guest…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews WICKED : a fairy-tale, fantasy pop musical that is an assault on the senses.
Oh, where to begin with Wicked? Well director John M Chu‘s screen adaptation of the Broadway smash hit has taken over $600m at the box office in little over a month, and that can’t all be due to the genius casting of queer icon Jonathan Bailey as the love interest of Ariana Grande.…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews the stunning thought-provoking exhibition THE 80s: PHOTOGRAPHING BRITAIN at London’s Tate Britain
The beginning of the AIDS crisis, mass unemployment, urban riots, the Miners’ strike, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Thatcherism, Section 28, the build-up to the controversial Poll Tax and much more…the 1980s on paper look pretty traumatic for the UK. This holds true for photographic paper too, as is borne out by the…
