Kenneth O'Halloran, Fair Trade, 2011

Fairs in Ireland are more than places of trade, often forming an important social and cultural event in the county calendar.

Spancillhill Fair, County Clare, Ireland Fairs in Ireland are more than places of trade, often forming an important social and cultural event in the county calendar. Women regard them as occasions worth dressing up for. Many fairs focus on horse-trading, carried out to a large extent by traveling people, who belong to an ancient Gaelic nomadic tradition. Some fairs have histories dating back for centuries.

Sarah Lucas, Self Portrait with Mug of Tea, 1993. 

Have you ever taken the time to study your body? Every inch of it? It is a modern idea that the relationship a women has with herself is paramount.  A beauty routine is simply the sequence of actions a woman takes to feel good as she sets about her day. 

Alighiero e Boetti, San Bernardino (Gary Gilmore), 1978, Collage and mixed media on paper.

Unknown, Colby Students Cheering, 1963.  

@blissfullylively photographed for @fpnewyorkcity

wearing @fpmovement. 

Susan Meiselas, Carnival Strippers, 1974, Gelatin Silver Print. 

Sam Malpass, Golden Gaze, N.D., Acrylic & Oil on Canvas

photographs by @j_kirn for @freepeople

“Just for a fleeting second, like a glimpse -
I saw somebody sitting on a chair - I had a glimpse of this, think you know, this is happening. And I got interested in painting that - it’s like a frozen glimpse.
I watch out the window, and it happens over there. Or I can sit in this chair - sit and think - and I have a little glimpse of something. That’s the beginning, and I find myself staying with it - not so much with this particular glimpse - with the emotion of it -

Each new glimpse is determined by many, many, many glimpses before. It's this glimpse which inspires you - like an occurrence. And I notice those are moments of having an idea that maybe I could start a picture.”

- Willem deKooning

photographs by @cole_hermm for @fpnewyorkcity

styling @tezzamb and I

photographs by @j_kirn for @freepeople

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Martin Parr, Common Sense, Tokyo, Japan, 1998 

Cherry cola lime, women and joy. 

photographs by @j_kirn for @freepeople

These images are oxidized residues, fixed by light and chemical elements, of living organisms.