SED*8 Magazine

The Team

Joel Antoine Wilkinson – Joel is a young man from Islington with plans for the future, Big Plans! He was an assistant designer for Sed*8, helping to create our logo and define our image. Check out his own designs and photography at www.wealthofmind.co.uk ‘Think Rich People.’

James Adabie – James hails from Ghana via the US where he studied a BA in Fine Arts and Design Art. He has exhibited work in galleries and won awards for his ability to tell the stories of life and people through his images. “Show me a face and I will give you the story of life, human kind, and the truth.”

Emmanuel Cole – Emmanuel has had a few business ventures in the last couple of years. He works with the charity Kids Company, and was inspired to work with Sed*8 because ‘we’re fighting for the same cause – to promote youth culture as it is and the awareness of talent and positive role models in London.’ He talked to South London’s MCs Big Mix and Mad Max to explore the tenuos relationship between urban music and the media.

Rob Khan – Rob Khan works as a freelancer for the BBC in specialist music and entertainment as well as being a bonafide student. In addition he is a HUGE music fan and often spends the majority of his working days trawling for new music and then banging on about it to whoever cares to listen. He enjoys food, travel, exclamation marks! and all things street culture.

Saifur Rahman – Saif is an energetic, enthusiastic and self motivated man from Hackney, East London. Taking time out from his dreams of becoming a civil engineer he has been toying with the idea of photography. Drawn to architectural images Saif loosened it up for this issue of Sed*8 and took to Trafalgar Square to photograph the Barclay’s Freestyle Running Championship 2009.
Tip from the top – ‘Dont hate just love.’

Corinne Scotland - Corinne Scotland is an East-London born lady who left to grow up in the wilds of Essex.  A dreamer, thinker and believer Corinne loves to write lyrics and compose music, plays guitar and piano. She performs her own stuff in local bars and coffee shops. She reckons you won’t get anywhere if you don’t keep pushing new doors. And that is what got her here working with us at Sed*8.

Thiago Nunes Correa – Spotted in a cloud formation on an otherwise cloudless day, Thiago is cool like circuits to light switch fetishists. Seemingly random and impossible to prove perhaps but startlingly acurate none-the-less. He’s a Brazilian-born Londoner complete with pretensions of being a professional writer – thus explaining his involvement with Sed*8.

Linda Ombroisine Diaz – ‘We all start off at zero and our aim in life is to get to 100 percent.’ Linda is a free-spirited person on a quest to realise her potential. She likes listening to other people’s life stories and tries to incorporate what she learn sinto her own life.
She currently works with an organisation called Unspent Convictions, which empowers young offenders with the skills to run political campaigns while looking after her brand new baby girl. Congratulations!

Monfia Phillips – Monifa is 17 year old student who- in 3.5 years- plans on being a chemical physicist. When not being geeky however, she loves listening to some Jill Scott and traveling round London on her slowly fading free Oysterness. Monifa describes Sed*8 as a dysfunctional family, ‘jokes yet professhh’. She loves working on film and despite her keen eye plans on keeping photography only as a hobby – ‘You should try it. Yummy stuff.’

Raziya Gulam – Hailing from Seven Kings, Raziya aspires to be many things from artist to journalist, diplomat to curator.  On her path to one or all of these things she investigated the proliferation of takeaway restaurants around schools in the capital for Sed*8.

Juliet Rudman - With an overactive imagination Juliet Rudman wants to be an abundance of things, from a journalist or photographer to a festival owner. In a perfect world Juliet would live in a travelling perma-festival. Ehm..what else? She can lick her elbow and knows a lot of random facts and bad jokes.
Top Tip: ‘Only carry around the baggage you can wear on your back.’

Amrit Matharoo – At 17 Amrit has lived in east London all her life, a place where, she says, hidden treasures meet world-class shopping. After visiting some galleries in the area she decided to investigate how easy it is to be recognised as an amateur artist and find a space to exhibit in.
‘I sees art as a great way to express yourself and see how others feel and that’s why I love it.’

Growing Up Hackney is part of a collaboration between Iniva, Discover Young Hackney, and the Hackney Museum, who ran a 5-week course where a group of young people from 17-21 had the opportunity to explore and rediscover their domicile of Hackney – the music and arts venues and its vibrant community.
Taking inspiration from photographer Dennis Morris’ photographs of the community he grew up in, they collaborated with artists Othello de’Souza and Obinna Nwosu.  Their work was on show as part of the Growing Up Black exhibition at the Hackney Museum throughout January 2010.

ALVIN CARPIO
Pr…Pr… Pleease Draw Me
“This guy is a character. The 30-second photo-shoot and the 2 minutes trying to convince him to take the shot were unforgettable. He wouldn’t let us take the photo unless I gave him a toke of my cigarette. If I didn’t sacrifice my cigarette, I wouldn’t have got this shot. What makes it so powerful to me is, not only the way he’s desperately smoking, but the hint of his eye-ball through his glasses.”

ALVIN CARPIO
A Rare Show of Teeth
“It’s funny how photography can bring laughter to life. This man was sitting with an intimidating, if not, protective stare. He sat very still while smoking. But once I started taking photos of him, he lifted his hand to cover his face. Then out of no where he began to chuckle almost crazily creating a hilarious spectacle! It really brightened my day to capture this moment. Everyone else enjoyed it too.”

NICOLETTE MILLER
New Approach

CYNTHIA EDO
Two Girls
Hackney’s got taste and style.

words & pictures: Phil Clarke-Hill

Every so often we have to step outside the absorbing chasm that is Londontown and see what’s going down on the rest of the planet. For Issue One, Phil Clarke-Hill takes us to the streets of Bolivia, the world’s second largest Cocaine producer, to see what tricks and trouble yonder yout get up to.

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words: Kyle Gettie
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For each issue of Sed*8 DJ Getz will bring us a taste of real graffiti from the streets of London.  This time round he met up with the anonymous author of ‘London Handstyles’ a book which drops this year and catalogs a history of London wall scribblings over the past two decades.

Once I heard this book was happening I couldn’t wait to get a copy.  There seems to be a shortage of books on London Graffiti, which doesn’t seem right considering how much graff there is and has been in the capital.  I met with the author of new graffiti book ‘London Handstyles’ to find out more and to get a sneak preview of what it looks like.

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Last Saturday afternoon Sed*8 wandered outside the boundaries of East London for some extra-curricular activity down Elephant & Castle way where ‘hip-hop historian’ Aundrieux Sankota John (aka Brother Khonsu of the London Rhyme Syndicate, 1988) invited the public to delve in to the history of his art form. The Hip Hop History sessions runs for eight weeks annually and covers everything from the early days of rhythm and rhyme in Ancient African culture to modern rap.

This week we were lucky enough to catch special guest Swiss from the now infamous So Solid Crew as well the ‘Golden Age of UK Hip Hop’, Khonsu’s area of speciality.

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