STUDIO ســـتــوديــــو رضـــا RIDA

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A worker polishing an extravagant chandelier of a religious complex in Najaf, Iraq. Captured by studiorida.

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Everyday life is often mundane, a procession of humdrum activities and routinized practices: getting up with the alarm, having a wash, eating breakfast, commuting to work, working, shopping, paying bills. But we should not confuse the ordinary, everyday and mundane with the inconsequential. Psychologists tell us that our daily routines are actually fundamental to our ability to ward off potentially crushing existential anxieties about the meaning of life and our own limited lifespan. On this view, routines can provide a sense of stability and order that enables us to ‘bracket out’ existential concerns and ‘go on’ with everyday life.

Daily routines can produce and confirm our own biographical narratives; the self-identity that we cultivate, which can underpin a more secure sense of subjectivity and agency in the world. Everyday routines can help us to perform for ourselves and others a sense of our identity. But there is also a collective element to this. Everyday routines often link self-understandings to wider collective identities. Indeed, individuals often generate a sense of self-esteem, status and reflected glory by living vicariously through the broader achievements of the groups with whom they identify. As performances of self-identity, and of self-identity in relation to others, our routines are therefore important in establishing a set of expectations about the world and one’s place, purpose and role within it.

— Café by Chris Browning, International Political Economy of Everyday Life

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Shots capturing up and coming local rapper from South London, Big YS. Photographed in Bermondsey and Old Kent Road, London.

Rooted in the NO STANDARDS collective he’s apart of, emerging from YSDC, these portraits aim to capture protests from the whispers of ends where London doesn’t just set the scene, it speaks back. As we walked the streets of South to different location spots, I learnt more about his artistry and lyricism, where his bars speak to topics ranging from survival and struggle, to women and loyalty; his verses always existing under the realm of noncomformity and rebellion.

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Shots capturing up and coming local rapper from South London, Big YS. Photographed in Bermondsey and Old Kent Road, London.

Rooted in the NO STANDARDS collective he’s apart of, emerging from YSDC, these portraits aim to capture protests from the whispers of ends where London doesn’t just set the scene, it speaks back. As we walked the streets of South to different location spots, I learnt more about his artistry and lyricism, where his bars speak to topics ranging from survival and struggle, to women and loyalty; his verses always existing under the realm of noncomformity and rebellion.

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Shots capturing up and coming local rapper from South London, Big YS. Captured in Bermondsey and Old Kent Road, London.

Rooted in the NO STANDARDS collective he’s apart of, emerging from YSDC, these portraits aim to capture protests from the whispers of ends where London doesn’t just set the scene, it speaks back. As we walked the streets of South to different location spots, I learnt more about his artistry and lyricism, where his bars speak to topics ranging from survival and struggle, to women and loyalty; his verses always existing under the realm of noncomformity and rebellion.

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London of Estates. Barbican, London.

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Skyrise apartments of Canary Wharf, London. Canary Wharf is one of the city of London's, and the world's, most important financial hubs. However, taking a closer look at its history, it represents a striking visual metaphor for inequality in the city. Having roots as a British colonial port in the city, it was transformed into a financial "15-minute city" in 1991, where now some of the world's most important banks, tech firms, and corporate companies have set base there housing affluent expats in luxury developments, as captured. However, minutes away, in areas of Tower Hamlets, some of the city's and UK's most deprived communities live. Heavily working class and immigrant communities nearby have been disconnected and often segregated from the economic boom. Regardless of political persuasion, the fact remains that Canary Wharf is a symbol of division: a district born from Britain's imperial trade, reinvented to continue domination by global capitalism into a financial paradise, now standing as a stark reminder of urban inequality just steps away from some of London's most deprived communities. Captured by studiorida.

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Surveillance via Simmons. The East End of London. Captured by studiorida. In the last few months, hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of peoples' faces have been scanned without their consent, under the city's new Live Facial Recognition Deployment technology. There is now 1 camera for every 10 people in the city, with a person's face being captured up to 70 times per day. London has become one of the most surveilled cities in the entire world.

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SAME SHIT DIFFERENT DAY. Repeated everydays of London. Captured by studiorida.

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Entrance to a home in the old city of Najaf, Iraq. Captured by studiorida.

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Woman with a romaine lettuce in Rome. Captured by studiorida.

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A plaque outside the Silchester Estate, commemorating the victims of the neighboring Grenfell Tower fire, one of London and Britain’s most prominent tragedies in modern history. 72 residents of the Grenfell Estate, mostly from working class and immigrant communities, were murdered as a result of government neglect. Captured by studiorida.

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Banners of religious martyrs shown atop a door to a home in Najaf, Iraq. Captured by studiorida.

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I consider the light that enters the room in the early hours of the day as a messenger of the sun, a direct voyager, a particle, a wave, who knows, but an object of sorts that left its solar source, covered miles, and landed on my skin. So the universe constantly visits us while waiting for us to reverse that itinerary.

Shifting the Silence, Etel Adnan

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Cocacola of Marrakesh. Captured by studiorida.

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Gramsci, revolutionary thinker imprisoned during fascist rule in Italy shown in a poster for an event in Naples. Captured by studiorida.

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An alleyway in Naples depicting right-wing political leader Matteo Salvini as a venomous snake. Captured by studiorida.