UNLICENSED. Bootlegging as Creative Practice. - Ben Schwartz 'As a student at Central

'As a student at Central Saint Martins in the early aughts

What was once a promising field rooted in problem-solving has become a problem in itself

Apart from cigarettes and sex

Seiichi Motohashi's beautiful behind-the-scenes portraits documenting the lives of circus people and their animals in 1970s Japan

that occurred as a result of an accident in operation almost 30 years ago for his brain condition hydrocephalus

UNLICENSED. Bootlegging as Creative Practice. - Ben Schwartz 'As a student at CentralOver the last few decades the term bootlegginga practice once relegated to smugglers and copyright infringershas become understood as a creative act. Debates about homage, appropriation, and theft that are common in the art world, are now being held in the spheres of corporate branding, social media, and the creative industry as a whole. Today, bootlegging has become fetishized as an aesthetic in and of itself, influencing everything from underground