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Mee-Lai Stone

@mlestone

picture editor, culture https://teapaw.org/t.co/4L6UrIJPWP

 London
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Joined December 2012
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Audrey Hepburn to Salvador Dalí: Cecil Beaton’s bright young things – in pictures theguardian.com/artanddesign… @NPGLondon
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Backstage look at English National Opera’s season-opener – Rossini’s version of Cinderella theguardian.com/music/2025/s…
You shall go to the ball! Behind the scenes at ENO’s La Cenerentola

You shall go to the ball! Behind the scenes at ENO’s La Cenerentola

Photographer David Levene gets an exclusive backstage look at English National Opera’s season-opener – Rossini’s version of Cinderella – complete with white mice, a sprinkle of magic … and men in drag

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‘We were drunk all the time!’: how Oasis got mad for it – in pictures theguardian.com/artanddesign… @thamesandhudson by Jill Furmanovsky & @NoelGallagher
‘We were drunk all the time!’: how Oasis got mad for it – in pictures

‘We were drunk all the time!’: how Oasis got mad for it – in pictures

Jill Furmanovsky has been photographing – and mothering! – Oasis from the start of their career. She looks back on her best images, while Noel Gallagher explains her magic

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Lemmy, Leigh Bowery and ‘the two Georges’: 80s stars in the Limelight – in pictures theguardian.com/artanddesign… @zebra1gallery
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Suck it up! The sinister side of holiday snaps – in pictures theguardian.com/artanddesign… Les Rencontres de la photographie, Arles
Suck it up! The sinister side of holiday snaps – in pictures

Suck it up! The sinister side of holiday snaps – in pictures

Kourtney Roy’s filmic photo series The Tourist exposes the loneliness and desperation behind even the most glamorous looking vacation snapshots

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Lobster wars and superheroes! Get set for Arles photography festival – in pictures theguardian.com/artanddesign…
Lobster wars and superheroes! Get set for Arles photography festival – in pictures

Lobster wars and superheroes! Get set for Arles photography festival – in pictures

From moving family reunions to voguing drag stars, this year’s Recontres d’Arles is promising a host of ‘disobedient’ images

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‘Parenthood is messy’: what it’s really like to raise a child – in pictures theguardian.com/artanddesign… @DaylightBooks
‘Parenthood is messy’: what it’s really like to raise a child – in pictures

‘Parenthood is messy’: what it’s really like to raise a child – in pictures

Aware that social media paints an unrealistic picture of ‘perfect’ parenting, Kirsten Lewis spent 15 years capturing the raw reality of life with kids. Her message? Your children love you!

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Down by the river: a meditation on mental health – in pictures theguardian.com/artanddesign…
Down by the river: a meditation on mental health – in pictures

Down by the river: a meditation on mental health – in pictures

During a period of deep personal turmoil, Marjolein Martinot took her camera down to the riverside in southern France – and began to feel connected again

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It’s a knockout! Punchy images from Photo London theguardian.com/artanddesign… @PhotoLondonFair @SomersetHouse
It’s a knockout! Punchy images from Photo London

It’s a knockout! Punchy images from Photo London

Female boxers, revolutionary icons and fascinating early works by Martin Parr all feature in the 10th edition of the celebrated festival

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London is the place for me! The capital’s best image makers – in pictures theguardian.com/artanddesign… @PhotoLondonFair @SomersetHouse
London is the place for me! The capital’s best image makers – in pictures

London is the place for me! The capital’s best image makers – in pictures

From Tower Bridge bathers to moody night bus portraits, these photographs from David Bailey, Mary McCartney and more reinvent the way we see the city

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Braying donkeys, kissing clowns and Marilyn’s dress mishap: Magnum sale – in pictures theguardian.com/artanddesign… @MagnumPhotos
Braying donkeys, kissing clowns and Marilyn’s dress mishap: Magnum sale – in pictures

Braying donkeys, kissing clowns and Marilyn’s dress mishap: Magnum sale – in pictures

From mambo dancers to Marilyn Monroe’s dress strap, from strip shows to knocked-out boxers, the theme of Magnum’s Square Print Sale is spectacle. Step this way for the unusual and the unbelievable

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Artists on the moon and gods in the sea: Sony World Photography award winners – in pictures theguardian.com/artanddesign… @WorldPhotoOrg @SomersetHouse
Apes, toilets, conflicts and cowboys: Sony World Photography awards – in pictures

Apes, toilets, conflicts and cowboys: Sony World Photography awards – in pictures

Artists on the moon, gods in the sea, and guns at the ready in America … here are photographs from the overall winners of this year’s professional competition

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‘Everybody seemed thrilled they’d made it inside’: sizzling images from Studio 54 – in pictures theguardian.com/artanddesign… @Stanley_Barker
‘Everybody seemed thrilled they’d made it inside’: sizzling images from Studio 54 – in pictures

‘Everybody seemed thrilled they’d made it inside’: sizzling images from Studio 54 – in pictures

The disco mecca was arguably the most famous nightclub of all time – and certainly the most decadent. Between 1978 and 1980, Tod Papageorge captured its glamorous dancers and drinkers

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Chic, Missy and Bryan Ferry’s wallpaper: 75 years of Atlantic Records – in pictures theguardian.com/music/galler… @TASCHEN
Chic, Missy and Bryan Ferry’s wallpaper: 75 years of Atlantic Records – in pictures

Chic, Missy and Bryan Ferry’s wallpaper: 75 years of Atlantic Records – in pictures

Founded with a $10,000 loan from a dentist, the label has had an extraordinary array of groundbreakers from Aretha Franklin to the Drifters, from Abba to Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

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Did you catch that? On the boats with Cornish fishers – in pictures theguardian.com/artanddesign… @The_RPS @GaiaFoundation
Did you catch that? On the boats with Cornish fishers – in pictures

Did you catch that? On the boats with Cornish fishers – in pictures

Flying lobsters, cuttlefish ink and stargazy pie … Jon Tonks got on his kayak to spend 18 months photographing the incredible fishing communities around England’s south-west coast

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‘I could have sworn they were flying’: California skateboarders – in pictures theguardian.com/artanddesign… @CKBGallery
‘I could have sworn they were flying’: California skateboarders – in pictures

‘I could have sworn they were flying’: California skateboarders – in pictures

In the mid-70s, Hugh Holland stumbled on a group of kids skating in a drainage bowl. His images captured the scene at its rebellious peak – just before it went mainstream

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Kate, Kylie, Kim … and a topless Iggy: faces of the Face magazine – in pictures theguardian.com/artanddesign… @NPGLondon
Kate, Kylie, Kim … and a topless Iggy: faces of the Face magazine – in pictures

Kate, Kylie, Kim … and a topless Iggy: faces of the Face magazine – in pictures

Through the 80s and 90s, the British style glossy defined pop and magazine culture – as a dazzling new exhibition shows

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Runaway snakes and scooting pups: surreal street photography – in pictures theguardian.com/artanddesign… @Eyeshot_Mag
Runaway snakes and scooting pups: surreal street photography – in pictures

Runaway snakes and scooting pups: surreal street photography – in pictures

The latest issue of Eyeshot magazine celebrates the serendipity of everyday life – where construction site sunbathers and hovering cemetery angels defy logic

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Behind the scenes at the 2025 Baftas – in pictures theguardian.com/film/gallery… @BAFTA
Behind the scenes at the 2025 Baftas – in pictures

Behind the scenes at the 2025 Baftas – in pictures

Guardian photographer Sarah Lee enjoyed a night with the stars at the Bafta ceremony at London’s Royal Festival Hall on Sunday

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Going toe to toe: Peter Hujar’s astonishing vision – in pictures theguardian.com/artanddesign…
Condoms, cows and contortions: Peter Hujar’s astonishing vision – in pictures

Condoms, cows and contortions: Peter Hujar’s astonishing vision – in pictures

The photographer was a key figure on New York’s downtown scene – but, as a new exhibition shows, his later works dealt with the great losses of the Aids crisis

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