In this exclusive editorial GATA favourite Vitalii Akimov teamed up with UK-based brand R & M Leathers and muse Lidija Judickaite to create a photo series that captures the very ethos that defines the brand: independence, strength and a unapologetic refusal to prove anything to anyone.
Read MoreOccupying a space that melds black metal nihilism, techno, and digital performance art, VMO have become notorious for their “death rave” style live shows. In the wake of their latest collaboration with Italian producer Talpah GATA chatted with both to learn more about the lore surrounding their live shows, musical collaborations and their most recent tour of Japan.
Read MoreWhy would anyone remain anonymous on social media in 2026? GATA recently connected with the elusive and enigmatic artist KLOUD discuss the origins of the mask and their feelings on the world’s increasing tendency towards data extraction, AI pumping and forced algorithms.
Read MoreTOO MUCH: A GATA SHORT FILM. This film examines how women are often labelled as “too much” by showing a woman who simply exists on her own terms.
Read MoreKris Esfandiari is an artist who continues to evolve while pushing both boundaries and her own expectations …
Read MoreWith the release of his newest album sacrificio, Safety Trance returns with a sonic catalogue that combines gentle trance, industrial and experimental hard techno with a slice of goth and dembow rhythms.
Read MoreWorking between instinct and imagination, Naya Kotko creates photographs that feel suspended in another world. Her universe is shaped by subculture, emotion, and a постоян tension between control and chaos.
Read MoreTokyo, a cold night, endless movement and endless faces.
Read MoreTokyo rock unit bed are one of Japan’s newest groups to bite back at the traditional music industry.
Read MoreGATA explores how the auteur deconstructed the American dream, exposing the darkness that exists within us all, without ever losing his lust for life.
Read MoreIn 2026, La Femme isn’t looking back. They’re still shapeshifting, still provoking, still proving that rock’s wild heart beats strongest when it refuses to behave.
Read MoreTokyo-based artist Yuki Umezawahas describes her style as “human modification” merging photographic portraiture with graphic touches to bend her subjects into hauntingly beautiful forms, GATA recently spoke to the artist, touching on the roots of her creative process and the importance of transformation and decay in her art.
Read MoreThere are designers who build brands, and then there are designers who build worlds. ILONA belongs to the latter. Raised between Los Angeles, Berlin, and Paris, her work challenges traditional fashion design to create a diary stitched in fabric: charged with memory, trauma and obsession.
Read MoreErotic cinema is less a genre than a shifting negotiation between desire and power. From stylised 1970s sensuality to contemporary industry realism, these films reveal how the body on screen becomes a site of fantasy, control, and confrontation.
Read MoreFor Valentine’s Day, we caught up with DeathbyRomy on romance as ritual, devotion as power play, and why being mutually obsessed is the only love language that matters.
Read MoreIn this conversation for GATA Magazine, Lindsay reflects on love as a creative force, on the rituals that anchor her days, and on her attraction to quiet, unguarded moments.
Read MoreFrom London’s underground to posthuman fashion, Parma Ham is reshaping what it means to wear art. Sculptor, performer, DJ, and rave instigator, their world lives somewhere between ritual, nightlife, and extreme self-expression.
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