A former editor of Breitbart News, Yiannopoulos has also served as an intern for Marjorie Taylor Greene

Milo Yiannopoulos, a far-right British political commentator, was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Louisiana, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

In a statement on Friday, a DHS spokesperson said that Yiannopoulos was arrested on Thursday at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans international airport (MSY). The spokesperson said Yiannopoulos “legally entered the country” in May 2019, but that “he chose to overstay his welcome in violation of our nation’s laws”.

Frontline Rolls, a documentary photography project by Ukrainian photographer Serhii Melnychenko, began in February 2025, when Serhii started sending disposable film cameras to soldiers serving in different areas of the front line. He asked them to document their daily lives, routines, and work.

The project has since been published as a standalone photobook and adapted into an exhibition, with photographs, handwritten letters, and artifacts returned by the participants. In 2026, it won the PhMuseum 2026 Photography Grant Main Prize.

The Ukraine War Archive calls Russia’s war against Ukraine the most documented war in history. Frontline Rolls records it from the soldiers’ own perspective through their photographs, letters, and chosen objects.

How Frontline Rolls began

Serhii spent nearly all of 2024 working on Along the Dnipro. Since he did not have time to travel to soldiers’ positions but wanted to document their experiences, he began looking for alternative ways. He asked himself one question:

“Do I really have to be there in person to document this?” Serhii writes in the foreword to the book, the project’s print format.

The answer was for the soldiers themselves to document their lives for a period of time. Serhii reached out to Fotovramci, which agreed to provide him with disposable film cameras free of charge.

The photographs that came back document the soldiers’ daily lives and the spaces in which they served.

Project participants also shared their stories in the book:

“I joined because I have to protect my family from the orcs. Before the full‐scale invasion I was an artist–designer, worked in advertising. Now a tank commander and reconnaissance pilot on a Mavic. In my free time I decorate shell‐casings and send them to volunteers for help,” says Oleksii, a soldier and participant in the project who goes by the call sign “Lapa.”

“For almost 3½ years I have remained in my soul a civilian. This system is very alien to me. In it I suffer a lot, in particular due to the huge restrictions on freedom. But I am here so that my country remains free. And for my values and convictions I have already paid a considerable price. If I had the option to choose another path—I would still choose this one,” says Oleksii “Photographer,” a soldier and project participant.

“I don’t have a callsign, because everyone knows me as Holikov. In the military since November 2023. From the very start of the full‑scale invasion I volunteered, but with each trip to the front I felt that I was doing not enough and decided to join the ranks of the 109th Separate Brigade of Territorial Defence,” says Viktor Holikov.

“In the army I... feel calmer. I have finally found a certain peace of mind during the full‐scale invasion, despite the difficulties. Partly I still feel that I’m doing not enough, but now it doesn’t haunt me like it used to,” says Kseniia, a servicewoman who goes by the call sign “Jane.”

“The army for me is, first of all, what is called brotherhood. It is hard to describe—you can only understand it by being inside,” says Danylo “Doc.”

The artifacts tell their own stories

Participants returned handwritten letters and personal objects with the exposed film. Serhii describes the resulting collection as a record of “personal experiences, struggles, and memories.”

“I collected artifacts that will remain part of our nation’s history after victory, reminding us of these challenging times,” Serhii says in the book.

Frontline Rolls travels beyond Ukraine

In 2026, Serhii also received the PhEST International Award in Italy, ex aequo with photographer Victorine Alisse.

The photographs were also presented in Copenhagen as part of The War They Live, an exhibition curated by The Kyiv Independent photo editor Irynka Hromotska together with Serhii. The project was also shown at the Athens Photo Festival in 2026. According to Serhii, the exhibition is also scheduled to open at Fotografiska Stockholm in October 2026.

“I sincerely hope that when the war ends, every participant in this project will be alive. Because each of them has become much more to me than just a contributor—they’ve become true friends,” Serhii concludes the foreword to the book.

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On an overcast summer morning, Carolyn Boyd, an archeologist at Texas State University, stood at the foot of a cave in west Texas, looking up toward a series of towering murals painted on a rock wall. Three massive human-like figures soared toward an overhang that had sheltered the painting from the elements since they were drawn here perhaps 4,000 years ago.

An artist herself, Boyd knows how hard it would have been to paint these long, crisp lines. Before starting, the bands of Indigenous hunter-gatherers who lived in this west Texas valley, where the Pecos River empties into the Rio Grande, would have spent weeks pulverizing gypsum, hematite, limonite and manganese to make paint. They would have gathered massive quantities of sotol stalks to fold its fibers into scaffolding. The painting itself would have required teamwork and precision, with people at the bottom guiding artists on the wall as they painted figures stretching up to 30ft tall.

Turn the Volume Up! at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University highlights the activism of everyday people who have confronted injustice. New York’s mayor, Zohran Mamdani, quoting the Bronx rapper KRS-One’s song Turn The Volume Up during his election-day victory speech inspired the name of the exhibit. Featuring work by artists such as Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems and the Guerrilla Girls, the show examines how protests and collective action can create and inspire social change

• Turn the Volume Up! opens on 27 August and runs through 11 July 2027

J’ai eu le plaisir de participer à l’exposition éphémère de l’Association québécoise des relieurs et des artisans du livre (AQRAL) qui s’est tenue le 18 mai. Ce rendez-vous, discret mais foisonnant, a mis en lumière la richesse des savoirs manuels, des matériaux et des récits, dans une fête du livre comme objet d’art et de transmission.

Chaque création exposée témoignait d’un lien engagé et amoureux avec la matière, la mémoire et le geste. Différentes techniques utilisées en reliure artisanale, reliure d’art, restauration, reliures modernes et créatives étaient représentées au cours de cet événement qui se déroulait à la Cité-des-Hospitalières.

Une reconnaissance bien méritée

Un coup de chapeau bien mérité à Catherine Savignac, qui s’est vu attribuer le Prix de la relève Simone B. Roy. Simone Benoît Roy (1929–2017) est une figure emblématique de la reliure d’art au Québec. Originaire de la ville de Québec, pionnière dans ce domaine, elle a consacré sa vie à l’art du livre. À sa mort en 2017, elle a légué une somme importante à l’AQRAL, permettant la création du Fonds Simone Benoît Roy.

Le travail délicat et inspirée de Catherine Savignac sur le papier ne cesse d’émerveiller. Cette distinction lui permettra de poursuivre son perfectionnement auprès de Lucie Lapierre, grande spécialiste des techniques traditionnelles de papier marbré. Ce lien entre générations d’artisanes du livre, entre pratiques traditionnelles et réinventions, est au cœur de ce que célèbre l’AQRAL.

Un moment de partage personnel

J’ai profité de l’occasion pour présenter quelques créations qui me tiennent à cœur, conçues dans cet esprit de filiation.

D’abord, mon « livre des mères », un leporello (ou concertina), que j’ai imaginé en hommage aux femmes qui m’ont précédée, issues de Marie Anne Richard, fille du Roy, et donc, à partir d’une généalogie matrilinéaire. Offert récemment à mes proches, lors de la fête des mères, ce livre frise, comme on l’appelle également, évoque un héritage fragmenté, inscrit en creux dans la mémoire familiale. C’est aussi une réappropriation féministe de la forme accordéon, en clin d’œil à Leporello, le valet de Don Giovanni, qui présentait la liste des conquêtes de son maître : ici, ce sont les noms, les traces des femmes de ma lignée qui s’y déploient, déplient, dans un mouvement inversé, réparateur et poétique, mais révélateur aussi de l’ascendance coloniale.

Il a été réalisé avec un très beau papier signé Lucie Lapierre, dont la qualité artisanale confère une présence forte et une densité matérielle à cette quête intime.

J’ai également présenté un second leporello, d’une grande simplicité formelle, mais rehaussé par un papier somptueux signé Catherine Savignac. Il suggère une mise en valeur de ce dialogue sensible entre les mains, les fibres et la narration que l’on déplie lentement, page après page.

Enfin, j’ai aussi montré quelques-uns de mes carnets de voyage, créés à l’atelier de reliure de Catherine Gaumerd, un espace vibrant de création, de réflexion et de transmission. Mes carnets constituent une réinterprétation personnelle de certaines œuvres de Florent Rousseau, relieur et décorateur du livre français, reconnu pour son approche innovante de la reliure et sa production pédagogique.

Une pratique habitée et collective

Nous avons profité d’un moment de partage joyeux, où les techniques anciennes croisent les expressions plus neuves, et où le livre devient à la fois support, sculpture, archive et expérience. Un rappel aussi que le livre, au-delà de la technologie et du contenu, est un objet sensible, façonné avec soin, investi, transmis. Et, une œuvre en soi.

Merci à l’AQRAL pour cette belle initiative, et longue vie à ces pratiques artisanales qui font du livre un terrain d’exploration toujours renouvelé.