welcome.jpeg Takes LA

April 20, 2026

Welcome.jpeg, in partnership with Posh and Red Bull, brought LA internet inhabitants outside of the algorithm and into algorhythm – a party exploring how internet culture and digital music can embody a physical environment. The event pushed boundaries of the typical LA party scene, bringing together artists who shape contemporary taste into one shared space. The soundtrack of the night featured blaketheman1000, eilish constance, lightris, ideas for conversations, deer park, matt proxy, zukovstheworld, and nation – pioneers of the genre defining 2020s digital culture. A genre that is hard to explain outside of a fuse of electronica and synth-pop, but it is much more than a strobe light accompanying playlist. It serves as a response to the growing integration of technology and lifestyle, specifically explored through music.

The name, algorhythm, is fitting for such a party, but even more so for the times we live in. A time where everyone is slowing gaining awareness to the algorithms that have sneaked their way into every aspect of our lives, subtly manipulating our every decision, secretly documenting our every move. Though our awareness slowly grows, we are now left to question how much we are impacted by algorithms and, do we really even care? Can man really be governed by machine? Or maybe machine and man's merging is inevitable, and in the face of techno-populism, we can learn to dance to the algorhythm.

Photos courtesy of Stolen Besos & Tommi Rico

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Billel Ouazene: Revelation of the Obscure

December 12, 2025

Between truth and construction, the series explores what it means to be seen in a space where everyone performs, records, and displays themselves, and where identities quietly unfold. I look for the moments when the crowd no longer absorbs but reveals: solitude within the chaos, intimacy rising through the lights, the fragile beauty of those suspended instants the night sometimes lets slip. Light works through shadow, deliberately dark yet never opaque, to unveil what usually remains hidden. This chiaroscuro builds a constant sense of mystery, the feeling of watching without being seen, a gaze observing bodies, fractures, gestures, without ever intervening, whether in a single frame or in movement.

Created during the Dance Hole by Petit with Kim Petras, u.r.trax and JENYS - Billel Ouazene’s Revelation of the Obscure explores what it means to be seen in a space where everyone performs. Moments of solitude in chaos, light revealing what the night usually hides.

Photography and Director by billelouazene
Light Assistant by steadi_borscht
AI Animation by nikamlinova
Sound Design by britmyersprx
DOP by lenakeretli

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Reflecting with Kristina 18

December 09, 2025

Ukrainian-born, Paris-based photographer, Kristina Podobed just released her new book titled Kristina 18. Inspired by the special meaning of the number in her life, she started photography at 18 and was born on the 18th, the book reflects on her intimate, sensual and documentarian style which she has cultivated over her decade and a half as a photographer. She says this about the book, "Kristina 18 is a story about the end of an important chapter, a time that once seemed endless but now exists only in fragments of memory." The end result is a collection of raw and honest photography bound over 134 pages which was released during November.