Astra #02 - Filth living photography is a perfect tool

photography is a perfect tool for analyzing and understanding entire civilizations

Gewächshäuser und Kanäle bestimmen die Landschaft

host can incorporate much more than a sense of self and hospitality towards others — it can be conceived as a vessel

his reflection a stranger to him

A Future Built on Aesthetics’ presents renowned designer Kenya Hara’s vision of how his industry can support Japan in crafting a future founded on a unique philosophy of beauty as well as crowd-sourced wisdom from around the world

Astra #02 - Filth living photography is a perfect toolThere is a moral element to filth. It is both what we have been taught to hide, and the subversive pleasure in revealing it. Many of the writers in this issue are queer or trans or otherwise outsiders. When you are taught that an intrinsic part of you is shameful, you find power in that shame. All that filth, compressed by the pressure, sparkles like diamonds when you let it into the light. Have you ever felt the relief of telling your own secrets?