Zoe May Whitfield

United Kingdom

Writer at Freelance

WRITING! @ various ~ commission me : https://t.co/7pnn1asqJ5. ⬇️ recent work ⬇️

Articles

A book of physique photography celebrates clandestine visual culture

22 hours ago | wallpaper.com | Zoe May Whitfield

‘A friend who visits a lot, always sits at my desk (where I have all these pictures), and has never shown interest in them, really responded once he saw my edit,’ says the revered critic, collector and sometime curator Vince Aletti, reflecting on an early phase of his new monograph.
Director Amalia Ulman on her Chloe Sevigny-starring new film 'Magic Farm'

2 days ago | wallpaper.com | Zoe May Whitfield

The first image Amalia Ulman dreamed up while writing her sophomore feature involved a radiant green field and a bright blue sky. In Magic Farm, which the Argentine-Spanish filmmaker and conceptual artist also directs and stars in, the scene features her real life grandmother driving a motorcycle, the surrounding landscape an echo of the Windows XP wallpaper introduced by Microsoft in 2001. ‘I always saw it as colourful,’ Ulman shares over Zoom.
In ‘Bonjour Tristesse’, Miyako Bellizzi’s dreamy costumes tell a fashion story of their own

1 week ago | wallpaper.com | Zoe May Whitfield

A distinctive black and white image, one of Larry Clark’s Tulsa photographs from his controversial 1971 series, sits behind costume designer Miyako Bellizzi when we meet on Zoom in anticipation of her new project, Bonjour Tristesse.
This knitwear collaboration is a playful exploration of the role of the fashion critic

2 weeks ago | wallpaper.com | Zoe May Whitfield

First published in 2020, Dal Chodha’s Show Notes is comprised of the kind of writing that rarely, if ever, find an audience beyond their author: pretty alien to readers of fashion writing, wholly familiar to anyone who’s at some point been tasked with analysing a 20-minute catwalk show in real time. Key descriptors and, occasionally, whole sentences (but never full stops) are formatted almost like poetry, darting across white pages in varying lengths, to a strict but impulsive rhythm.
Inside Fondazione Prada’s exploration of 20th century German photography

3 weeks ago | dazeddigital.com | Zoe May Whitfield

16 Images On 20 November 1969, German photographer Heinrich Riebesehl spent a total of five hours and 35 minutes discreetly documenting the patrons of a lift in the building that housed Neue Hannoversche Presse, a daily newspaper published in Hanover between 1946-71.
Yorgos Lanthimos: ‘I love taking pictures, sometimes more than film’

1 month ago | dazeddigital.com | Zoe May Whitfield

As the first exhibition of photography by Lanthimos opens in LA, the visionary auteur tells Dazed about his relationship with the medium, building a darkroom during Poor Things and finding an unlikely assistant in Emma Stone8 With the arrival of his photo book Dear God, the Parthenon is still broken last May, Yorgos Lanthimos re-introduced fans to a world they already knew via his lens, having absorbed the distinctive attributes of the filmmaker’s work viewing Poor Things some months earlier.
8 brilliant new art documentaries you need to see

1 month ago | dazeddigital.com | Zoe May Whitfield

If your instinct after having seen an exhibition is to seek out more of the same, documentaries can be an good place to start. Lee Shulman’s definitive new study of one of Britain’s most celebrated and consistently prolific photographers,I Am Martin Parr, is a great counterpart toCommon Sense: Martin Parr, currently on show at Rocket in Hackney (through May 31).
8 brilliant new art documentaries you need to see

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Zoe May Whitfield

2 hours ago“I want to awaken a sense of reverence,” says photographer Gleeson Paulino of his solo show Echoes of the Amazon. “A reminder that we are not separate from nature, but a part of it; a call to remember, to respect, and to reconnect.” Paulino’s evocative photography explores the cultural, social and …
A Century of Swimming and Style at Design Museum interrogates the loaded history of swimwear

1 month ago | wallpaper.com | Zoe May Whitfield

Of all the garments to inhabit a wardrobe, swimwear is perhaps the most loaded. Sharing many of the same properties as underwear – in terms of proportions (frequently small) and cling factor (typically high) – that it is designed to be worn in the public arena carries additional significance. What these spaces are, and how we engage with them, socially and sartorially, is highlighted in a new exhibition at the Design Museum, ‘Splash! A Century of Swimming and Style’ (until 17 August 2025).
New film La Cocina casts the kitchen as a melting pot of contemporary culture

1 month ago | wallpaper.com | Zoe May Whitfield

When a customer orders a cherry coke in Alonso Ruizpalacios’ new film, La Cocina – a politically pertinent, oftentimes feverishly paced reworking of Arnold Wesker’s 1957 play, The Kitchen – it sets in motion near inevitable chaos. The drinks machine is broken (just a hairband prevents it from flooding the entire kitchen), so the moment a preoccupied waitress pushes the lever, it’s game over: the sticky brown liquid starts gushing, making a paddling pool of the floor.