Please see below photographs from the presentation of the documentary of The Limit by Laureana Toledo at the Roy and Edna Disney/Calarts Theatre in LA. Disguised as a thirty minute fan documentary, Mexico-city based artist Laureana Toledo’sThe Limit investigates how information and pop culture are digested, how colonialism is still activating our fantasies and expectations, and how the secondary role of women around rock bands is funnily reversed. “As a response to the commission of doing a piece of art in Sheffield addressed to an imaginary spectator that hates art, I decided to put together a cover band that would only play covers by bands from Sheffield––Pulp, Def Leppard, Human League, ABC, Joe Cocker and the Arctic Monkeys,” explains Toledo.

Named after the cult Sheffield nightclub which closed in 1992, The Limit was created in Mexico, pulling musicians from four of the most important groups in the Mexican rock scene––Julián Placencia (Discoruido/IMS), Sergio Acosta (Zoe), Quique Rangel (Cafe Tacvba) and Diego Suárez (Bengala). After playing one local concert at The Tandem Pub in Mexico City, The Limit traveled to Sheffield to play two shows before disbanding.

The screening was followed by a Q&A session with Laureana and music critic Josh Kun.

Laureana Toldeo presents The Limit book and documentary at the Imperial nightclub in Mexico City, photographs below:

Listen from around 44 minutes 49 seconds to hear about Alixandra Fazzina’s  A Million Shillings: Escape from Somalia on BBC Newshour

Buy tickets for benefit night here

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Are these the most fearlessly stylish men on the planet? Italian photographer Daniele Tamagni’s beautiful book portrays the unequalled Congolese Sapeurs.

Any man who considers dressing a little more than just putting on clothes will appreciate this book, The Gentlemen of Bacongo – The Importance of Being Elegant, by Italian photographer Daniele Tamagni. A largely photographic tome, it dwells on a gang of chaps, such as Arca, Lalhande, KVV Mouzieto, Lamame and Hassan Salvadore from Brazzaville in the Congo, and their adherence to the Société des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Élégantes, the ‘religion of clothing’ otherwise known as La SAPE….

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Nina Berman will be talking at The Festival of Politics in Edinburgh on Saturday 21st August at 16:00

Join Nina as she presents her work on the effects of conflict. Berman’s work has been extensively exhibited and collected, receiving awards in art and journalism from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the World Press Photo Foundation and the Open Society Institute documentary photography fund among others.