Back in 2005, Bono and his wife, Ali Hewson, founded the EDUN line to bring awareness to trade in Africa and beyond. While no major campaigns have occurred under the Edun name, both Bono and Mrs. Hewson have been featured in Louis Vuitton campaigns with the mention of Edun and the African connections.  It all changes for Edun with their debut campaign photographed by Ryan McGinley. The new Edun advertisement campaign features six photographs each featuring one of six species of butterflies – all indigenous to Africa.

View full looks the campaign shots for Edun in our gallery.

A little bit of video action from the versatile Mr Slimane; “Commonwealth Projects is pleased to present this documentation of Hedi Slimane’s California Song. The self-commissioned video project was filmed over the course of the exhibition’s opening week. It includes footage of the opening night, No Age’s rehearsal for their performance, billboards featuring Hedi’s photographs across LA, and the artwork in the show.”

Impressive images from American photographer Jeff Rich. Concerned with issues around sustainability, the series, which won the 2010 Critical Mass Book Award, centers around The French Broad River in Tennessee. Formerly one of the most polluted river-ways in the U.S, a clean up programme saw it transformed in the 70s. However, latterly it’s slipped back into disrepair. Jeff documents the affects of this on the local ecology and community in these eerie and beautiful shots.  (huh).

The photographic work of Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin are collected in the new two volume book set, Inez van Lamsweerde – Vinoodh Matadin: Pretty Much Everything, available now from Taschen. 666 (yes, a strange number) photographic works, “pretty much everything” they have done over two decades are collected in the book set, published in an edition of 1000 signed and numbered copies (an “art edition” of 100 copies is also available that includes two pigment photo prints by the photographers).

Their works of Alexander McQueen, Bjork, Rachel Weisz, as well as campaigns for Lanvin and others are a small number of the familiar works found inside Pretty Much Everything. Published by Taschen. Available from Amazon.

Select looks from inside the enormous Inez van Lamsweerde – Vinoodh Matadin: Pretty Much Everything book set in our gallery.

A Limited edition publication we’d recommend getting your hands on.

Photography by James Pearson-Howes (British Folk, Dazed, i-D, …) and Will Robson-Scott (The Independent, Mixmag, Time Out), Top Deck is for anyone who spends their daily commute on London buses will feel the familiarity of the world outside those smudged windows. Spot on design from Utile and Mother London with foreward from The Guardian’s Justin Quirk.

“Top Deck, is a series of images made over the course of two years on the top decks of east London buses giving a new a perspective on the monotony of the every day commute. The work will result in a newspaper publication and a two-week show at renowned advertising agency, Mother.”

Incredible portraits of former gang members from New York photographer Adam Amengual. The series ‘Homies’ was made possible by the Homeboy Industries program that helps one-time gang members get back on the straight and narrow. Adam describes “A majority, if not everyone in this series has had a mug shot taken of them at one time in their past. I feel I have flipped that old image of them showing them as proud and iconic. It is a visual metaphor for the transformation they are bringing to their own lives.” More over at Flavorpill.

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Hedi Slimane continues to show off with a camera in his trademark black and white moody fashion. New work up on his visual diary is the usual mix of serious posing and dilapidated buildings and while it can all get a bit self-conscious it’s hard to argue with his eye for a great shot.

Phaidon introduce us to Guido Castagnoli’s Provincial Japan series. Shot in the Shizuoka district, a collection of seemingly uninhabited landscapes and multicoloured Americana with more than a touch of the surreal. “Shooting his first photographs on an old family Leica camera, Castagnoli left his position as an art director at an advertising agency in Milan to pursue photography full time in 2001. His interest in advertising and signage has not decreased, as is evident by the focus of his photographs.”

In his pre blockbuster days Stanley Kubrick found himself taking snaps on the streets of 1940s New York. Age 17 he sold his first piece to Look magazine and soon found himself on their books as a freelance photojournalist.  ”From 1946 to 1950, Kubrick worked for the magazine, completing more than 300 assignments documenting the sights and people of New York City”. With an obvious filmic quality to this early work, these shots are full of drama, movement and the sense of a storyline in motion. More at The Inspiration Grid.

Notcot lets us know about the work of Noah Doely who, in a nutshell, makes photography we’ll be seeing on a designer moodboard in months to come. We might even see images that are ‘inspired’* by these on the site in a years time.

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