Five years in the making. Five cities. Thirteen record stores. One profound question: what does it mean to keep a scene alive? Damien and Gautier Barras went to Japan to find out — and came back with something none of them expected.

Rebecca Manners has been to the volcanic mountain ranges of Java hunting for agatized fossils. She has lived with tribes in the Kayah state of Myanmar. She has drunk gallons of sugary coffee waiting for Master Goldsmiths to trust her enough to begin. She no longer creates large collections. She creates bespoke pieces — each one a living record of the hands and the culture and the place that made it. She calls it the Art of Slow, mindful luxury. It is exactly that: slow, but made to the highest quality. Patience and time is needed.

The darkroom as a creative womb. Photograms made with condoms. A soundscape by Toni Castells. Margherita Chiarva's The Space In Between — presented at ARCO 2020 Madrid — is an invitation to see something you weren't supposed to see, and to understand that what you see says everything about you. An interview from the fair.

Nina Andersson Voigt spent nine years in New York working in cafes, studying at ICP, and assisting Roe Ethridge — badly, by her own cheerful admission. She shot her first editorial for Index Magazine with Bijou Phillips in upstate New York, styled by Mel Ottenberg, and she had the best time. Back in Stockholm now, she shoots people she really wants to shoot. She finds them on Instagram and sends an email asking if she may take their picture. Often she shoots the same person many times.

She photographs the thin line between reality and the unreal. Alena Kotzmannová asks one question, in every project: what happens when you try to reach the boundary of the possible?

World Press Photo first prize. European Publishers Award. Danila Tkachenko photographs abandoned rocket facilities and people who have walked away from society entirely — asking the same question both times: who are you when the social mask comes off?