Laurent Castellani Photo Essay

We highlight the vibrant Porto live performance scene with recommendations by our curator and award winning performer, Emanuel Sousa. He shares tips for both audiences and performers alike. Get your notebooks out kids.

London photographer Mark Sanders is a regular contributor to well followed periodicals including Vanity Fair, Kinfolk and Esquire, among others. His style captures both observed and voyeuristic angles that echo the quiet and the calm.

Last summer we had the opportunity to explore Cognac - and sample some of its best produce! Good food, good friends and amazing local artisan of traditional french "savoir-faire"

My relationship with Monocle has been a long-standing one. Reliably informative and introducing me to the people from around the world, I was eager to understand what makes working for Monocle 24 and the magazine so rewarding.

Having a choice is fundamental to our television and film viewing habits. As an avid consumer of movies and feature length films, it is important to be able to find titles that satisfy my mood and need for cinema.

Music is sound and silence. Both are important to tell the message that you want to tell or convey the feelings you want to. I believe the same should happen to images (music images or not) so I try to work around portraying both sound and silence.