In the aftermath of the Utøya island shooting in Norway in November 2011, Andrea Gjestvang began taking portraits of its young survivors. Her pictures won her the top prize at the Sony World Photography awards http://gu.com/p/3fc55
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Laura Marling: ‘Americans – they’re just a lot more poetic’
Singer-songwriter Laura Marling talks to Tom Lamont about lyrics, love, her new album and why she decided to move from London to LA
Photograph: Steve Schofield for the Observer
If the times they are a-changing, then you could do worse than change with them. Here’s our selection of the most well-judged image shifts in modern culture
Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian, Rex Features, & Richard Saker for the Observer
Rupert Everett has long been a martyr to his passions, but lately he’s had something else on his mind. Victoria Coren, a lifelong fan, joins him for dinner to talk about his excoriating memoirs, his portrayal of Oscar Wilde and his urge to be a serious man
Nobody does the everyman better than Matt Damon. His common touch has made him one of the world’s most bankable stars. He tells Tim Lewis about offending Barack Obama, his love for Ben Affleck and marrying outside the Hollywood elite
Australian rapper Iggy Azalea talks to Kate Mossman about being taken seriously and doing things the Kanye way
Tom Odell has been dumped by women and even by a band, but it doesn’t get him down. Here he talks about winning a Brit – and a date with Taylor Swift
From Hamlet to Skyfall, The Hour to Cloud Atlas, Ben Whishaw’s success and versatility are in no doubt. Yet, as he takes on a new role in Peter and Alice opposite his heroine, Judi Dench, he reveals that he is still unsure of himself
It’s was always just the two of them at home – and they have stayed close
Director Ken Loach’s new film revisits the year that Britons turned to socialism – and ushered in the NHS, public ownership and the concept of public (not private) good. The Observer traces the spirit of ’45 and speak to some who remember the dawn of a new life
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