The Cut - A New Kind of Sports Photography

A self-described perfectionist, London-based film photographer Alice Mann spends years at a time creating colorful portraiture essays focused on identity, femininity, and community. “For me, the focus has always been on people. I’ve been completely amazed by [photos of] people. They’re always very magical.”

Perhaps her most magical project to date is the award-winning series “Drummies,” which encapsulates all of the qualities she seeks to represent in her work. The images capture an underrepresented South African subculture: young drum majorettes, or “drummies.” The female-only sport gained popularity in the early 1980s and nowadays evokes nostalgia for that earlier era. That said, it is still practiced today and stands out as a beautiful, intense activity for local young women to participate in.

Brazil’s vital role in our planet’s climate future can’t be overstated. Unfortunately, President Jair Bolsonaro is “the world’s most dangerous climate denier.” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on what she identifies as the new conformism. Why we’re seeing more extreme crop tops now — the next step in lingerie dressing well-suited to Hot Vaxx Summer. The Senate voted to make Juneteenth a federal holiday. And punctuation matters.

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