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Jun 16 2016

Native New Yorkers cover story, The Independent Sunday

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There's more to New York than Manolos and cosmopolitans. Seduced by the creative vitality, urban edginess and mystique, seekers, strivers and dreamers from around the globe have flocked here for decades where so many movies have been made, so many lives transformed. This all-night, rock 'n' roll city that has inspired generations of artists also offers the vicarious thrill of living in close proximity to David Bowie, Lou Reed and its other grand achievers and exquisite ghosts, however humble a Manhattan dweller's existence. Crossing the ocean in search of this...

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Jun 16 2016

David Bailey cover story, The Independent Sunday

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Porter would say. I guess she was a girlfriend then. They met at a party in Belgravia, thrown by Angelica’s best friend's parents, when she was 13, “long of limb, nose and hair”. He was in his 20s, already on his second wife, and an international superstar. “I don't remember much of the evening,” Bailey recounts succinctly, “except for two teenage girls peeping behind the party doors, giggling hysterically.” Download: PDF...

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Jun 16 2016

Chateau Marmont cover story, Harper’s Bazaar

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Steeped in history, touched by scandal and immortalised in songs, books and films, Hollywood's Chateau Marmonth hotel sparkles with old-fashioned glamour. 'You can picture the girl and her gangster boyfriend, the rock star and his groupie, the junkie, the reclusive millionaire. Anything and everything can and does happen here,' says auther AM Homes. Download: PDF...

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Jun 15 2016

Elephant Camp, Travel + Leisure

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Saba Douglas-Hamilton and I were sitting beneath the acacia trees beside her lodge in the Kenyan bush, talking about how, while filming in a dried-up riverbank, she narrowly escaped being crushed by an enraged elephant. Tall, tanned, and barefoot, with windswept hair and watchful eyes, the wildlife filmmaker and broadcaster looked every inch the fearless conservationist. Download: PDF...

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Jun 15 2016

Paul McCartney cover story, Voyager

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ROCK STARS DON’T COME MORE FAMOUS than Paul McCartney. Days before our interview, I dreamt that I had to go to some desolate spot on the North Sea to meet him. It has been a long journey: this summer there was talk of meeting on the road in Nashville or Philadelphia where he was touring. Always between planes and appointments, the 68-year-old superstar has been busy: after finishing a sell-out world tour, he went to the White House to receive the Gershwin Award for popular music, addressed the European Parliament...

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Jun 15 2016

Liya Kebede cover story, Voyager

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AS SHE SWEEPS INTO SANT AMBROEUS, Manhattan’s currently hot Upper East Side restaurant, Liya Kebede, bare-faced and beautiful, is turning heads. With her delicate, honey-coloured face and long, lithe body of gazelle-like proportions, she has sold everything from couture and lipstick for Chanel to diamonds for Tiffany and lingerie for Victoria’s Secret. Even without any make-up, with messy, bird’s nest hair and in shapeless sweats, Kebede is hard to miss. Download: PDF...

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Jun 13 2016

Peter Beard, Pure

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Some artists, if they’re lucky, have their moment in the sun. Peter Beard has had a lifetime. The photographer, author, conservationist, prophet, playboy is the last of the great adventurers. He has stalked crocodiles, roped rhinos, been jailed for trapping a poacher in his own snare, chased by lions and gored by an elephant — and when he arrived at the hospital ‘bled out and nearly dead’, while being anaesthetised, he asked ‘Can I have some of that to go.’ This habit of courting danger and shrugging it off is...

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May 17 2016

Pet Grief, Sunday Times Style

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Britt Collins was more devasted by the death of her cat than being abandoned by her mother as a child I am emotionally shattered. It's the same seasick feeling I had after my mother left. When I was seven, she ran off with another man and took our five cats. She'd left a note for my father saying she no longer loved him. "It's not your fault," she wrote. "It's Britt's. I always hated her." My father was heartbroken, although I just felt sad and hurt. I had long come to...

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May 01 2007

The Killing Fields

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The haunting images offer a stark glimpse of the thousands of human lives and millions of animals caught in the international wildlife trade. Patrick Brown, an award-winning photographer, felt driven to document this little-known trade after seeing the shocking decline of Asia’s besieged wildlife populations. He has travelled to some of the world’s most remote and dangerous places, including Cambodia and Burma, to investigative this multi-national trade in Asia’s rarest species, which according to some estimates is worth more than £25 billion a year, exceeding the annual revenues of Coca-Cola. Much...

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