The Long Way Home of Ivan Putnik, Truck Driver is a collection of photographs and notes on the surroundings of remote Siberian roads and towns. Presented as an archive from a truck driver named Ivan Putnik, the photographs are actually made by various amateur photographers who uploaded the photospheres to Google Street View.

Fascinated by the visual variety, Vaste Programme (IT) recontextualized the images to create a fictional story. Apart from showing life in a remote area of the world, the cropped stills present universal environmental concerns such as pollution, the extraction of fossil fuels and the transformation of the landscape. Even though the available imagery originates from a specific subset of the population, it does not amplify the archetypal image of life in Siberia, but rather provides the reader with a combination of both classic and unusual sights. From the beauty of unspoiled nature to grotesque industrial projects, and from monolithic Soviet-era suburbs to weirdly charming interiors. The Long Way Home highlights what is often overlooked, and focuses on the hidden gems of vernacular photography.

About Vaste Programme
Vaste Programme is the pseudonym of the young artistic trio from Rome (IT) consisting of Giulia Vigna, Leonardo Magrelli and Alessandro Tini. Their practice focuses on post-photography and new media, aiming to shine a light on everyday visual matter and to reveal new meanings by appropriating this imagery as storytellers. The Long Way Home of Ivan Putnik, Truck Driver is their first published photo book.

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JÓN’s largest ever issue - at exactly 300 pages, is out in the world. Featuring stellar interviews and shoots, we’ve got your reading for the second half of 2021 sorted.

See our fashion stories in FULL, not available anywhere online. You gotta get the book, people. See unseen photos and read the full interview with Lucifer star Tom Ellis, read about the canine companion of Giacomo Gianiotti, the Grey’s Anatomy hottie, and find out what he does on the weekends and who has the most closest space in his new LA home. We meet Ed Helms, the super funny Office and Hangover actor, who talks about his new hit Peacock comedy Rutherford Falls. Akili McDowell from David Makes Man chats with us, as does olympic hurdler and handsome man Devon Allen. To top it off, the uber handsome Jake Lacyrocks his 90s moves and, well, looks so cute, in a chic fashion story.

You gotta get this issue. It’s EVERYTHING.

JÓN magazine is a premium, 300 page black and white print magazine available online and at select news-stands around the world. We feature celeb interviews and shoots, fashion stories, illustrations, columns, collage and art, all bound beautifully into a stunning book. Be part of the JÓN family, get your copy today.

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This edition was made in São Paulo, Brazil. Here we met a random smattering of local guys from one of the world's biggest and queerest cities, with a diverse population and a vibrant gay scene. We introduce this city to you via its men, who you can get to know through a selection of intimate photography and personal storytelling.

There's really something special about Latin America, a certain openness and boldness that is unparalleled in the world. When we made our first visit to this region for our fifteenth issue in Bogotá, Colombia, it became our most naked issue ever. Then when we released our twenty-fourth issue, made in Guadalajara, Mexico, that issue took the nudity crown. And now, this issue in São Paulo has followed suit to become another very exposed edition. We always say that nudity is never essential for Elska, but it's always nice to see, and here in Brazil we see a lot, even a guy who whips it out in a public park! Oh the scandal!

Another common feature of our Latin American issues comes in the stories, which tend towards the romantic or dramatic, including a good amount of focus on love, longing, and sex. Each of the men were invited to write a story about anything at all form their lives, as long as it's something true, and it just happened that these were the subjects they gravitated towards, but not only… Some of the story highlights here include Murillo J's description of a Paulista nightclub, full of creativity and free-spiritedness, and how they tried to adapt it for the COVID era; Rodrigo K's ode to anime, especially its homoeroticism and how it helped him become who he is today; Bruno V's tale of his transition, including devastating setbacks in surgery as well as hope for the future; and Mike F's chronology on how he discovered his dream to become a dancer and how he made it happen.

Includes stories in English, Portuguese, and Spanish (all followed by English translations where applicable)

Features images of / stories from: Ciriaco V, Jaime S, Murillo J, Leo F, Rodrigo K, Bruno A, Mike F, Ale D, Alexie A, and Bruno V

We also recommend ordering the companion e-zine ‘Elska Ekstra São Paulo’, available separately or as part of the ‘Bundle’, to get loads more content. This includes behind the scenes tales, outtakes, extra stories, and five extra Brazilian boys: Rosa S, Kevem M, Henrique X, Yohan, and João F; plus three more guys from our ‘Elska Dehors’ feature

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Welcome to Elska, a project about sharing the bodies and voices of guys we meet all over the world. Referred to by The Advocate as ‘probably the nicest, most sincere magazine to have ever been created’ and also described as ‘part intellectual queer pin-up mag and part sexy anthropology journal’, you won’t find celebrity gossip, models, or lifestyle tips here. Instead come travel along with us get to know a diverse cross-section of queer boys everywhere through intimate photography and personal storytelling

This edition was made in Dublin, Ireland. Here we met a smattering of local guys from one of Europe's most historic cities and also one of its most up-and-coming, with a population that is becoming more and more diverse and an LGBTQ community that is becoming more and more vibrant. We introduce this city to you via its men, who you can get to know through a selection of intimate photography and personal storytelling.

Shot during a unique summertime lull within the COVID-19 pandemic, when Ireland was growing cautiously optimistic, this is one of our most cheerful issues. The outdoor images reveal a lot more sunshine than the Irish climate typically allows, and a real sense of warmth extends to the indoor images, which reveal much more intimacy, including nudity, than we expected to come from this nation. The stories as well are rather light, including topics such as meeting men on beer-fueled nights out, getting excited over Adele concerts, hooking up with ‘straight’ boys in cars, and even finding something positive to come out of the pandemic.

Here at Elska we love to visit places that fill our minds with preconceptions and then attempt to break the stereotypes - in this way our Dublin issue may be one of the most surprising, full of sun, sex, freedom and hope from a country that we thought would be much more conservative and well, a bit damp. It's a great issue to mark what may hopefully be the end of the COVID-19 era, and something to get us dreaming about a future holiday to Ireland someday soon.

Includes stories in English, Irish, Polish, and Portuguese (all followed by English translations where applicable)

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Welcome to Elska, a project about sharing the bodies and voices of guys we meet all over the world. Referred to by The Advocate as ‘probably the nicest, most sincere magazine to have ever been created’ and also described as ‘part intellectual queer pin-up mag and part sexy anthropology journal’, you won’t find celebrity gossip, models, or lifestyle tips here. Instead come travel along with us get to know a diverse cross-section of queer boys everywhere through intimate photography and personal storytelling

While Donald Trump was being inaugurated, photographer Tom de Peyret traveled to Las Vegas and captured the underside of a city lost in its own verticality.

In Concrete Mirages, Tom de Peyret freezes a seemingly abandoned setting, from the flashiest towers to empty dams, only a scattering of onlookers walk in the stifling heat. These towers emerge like golden totems from a landscape of which there is almost nothing left, as if we’ve been propelled into a dystopian world following some kind of catastrophe.
Yet these elements recount a true and shared history, that of the energy spent in an absurd and vain quest, the quasi-impossible construction of a city in the middle of the desert. It is the very story of the birth of Las Vegas and its urban unrest.

The photographer’s minimalist work runs counter to the almost hysterical profusion that emanates from the cit The photographer’s minimalist work runs counter to the almost hysterical profusion that emanates from the city. Between vertical madness and horizontal vertigo, Tom de Peyret paints a unique and stellar portrait of Sin City.

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Super-Limited Edition of 500 copies!
100 Pages + 18 Stickers!
In collaboration with Eytys!
Photographed by Zac Bayly!
Styled by Bridie Gilbert!

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Archives are all around us: in the form of family albums, or the community, city and national archives. We tend to perceive them as places and spaces where memories and evidence of histories are kept, preserved, indexed and certified; as repositories of traces, and treasure coves of relics and narratives. However, they are also very complicated entities, as the construction of archives all too easily lends itself to the curation, staging, erasure and manipulation of histories in ‘the public eye’. The new issue of Foam Magazine focuses on the archive as subject and looks at contemporary ways of engaging with archival images, and their remediation as a form of activation and critical analysis. The relationship between photography and the archive is a symbiotic one, but also an inherently problematic one, which is why the questions addressed in this magazine relate to its construction, and place decolonial approaches at the centre of the conversation.

We are incredibly proud to host contributions from a wide plethora of precious guests: from portfolios showing the works of artists such as Tavares Strachan, Alanna Fields, David Alekhuogie, Pacifico Silano and Frida Orupabo to text contributions by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, Anjali Arondekar, Brenda J. Caro Cocotle and Rona Sela – only to name a few. Our focus not only lies in the examination of established or physical archives, but in the creation of contemporary forms of photographic archiving. Ranging from innovative collaborations and new approaches in education as described by Sunil Shah, to the collection of memes as explored by Clusterduck Collective with their transmedia project Meme Manifesto. Our most-loved feature, the On My Mind, hosts precious reflections from Shirin Neshat and Jacqueline Bates, while the Bookshelf presents an inspiring and necessary selection coming from Jessica de Abreu and Amsterdam-based The Black Archives. The What’s New introduces the upcoming publication by Mohamad Abdouni, Treat Me Like Your Mother: Trans* Histories from Beirut Forgotten Past and our regular, main Interview presents an inspiring conversation between Awoiska van der Molen and Eugenie Shinkle. Last but not least, you fill find something special right at the end of this issue of Foam Magazine: the back cover of Histories presents a small selection of posters from the archive of Now You See Me Moria, a joint effort between an Afghan refugee living in the largest refugee camp of Europe (located in Moria, on the Greek island of Lesbos), and a photo editor based in the Netherlands, to collect photos and share stories documenting life in the camp. We invite you to ponder on the reimagined archive – one where past collective memories merge, shape the present and redirect the future. 

CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS & WRITERS

Kelani Abass, Mohamad Abdouni, Jessica de Abreu, David Alekhuogie, Marina Amaral, Gomantak Maratha Samaj Archives, Anjali Arondekar, Mariama Attah, Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Henri Badaröh, Fernando Banzi, Anne Barlinckhoff, Jacqueline Bates, Dan Boardman, Antawan I. Byrd, David Campany, Clusterduck Collective, Brenda J. Caro Cocotle, Alanna Fields, Avram Finkelstein, Chandra Frank, Lucy Ives, Délio Jasse, Kim Knoppers, Mika Kobayashi, Mirjam Kooiman, Carollina Lauriano, Amak Mahmoodian, Ana Raquel Manhique, Aspen Mays, Elisa Medde, Lívia Melzi, Awoiska van der Molen, Anne Wetsi Mpoma, Varun Nayar, Shirin Neshat, Now You See Me Moria, Eduardo Jorge de Oliveira, Andrés Orjuela, Frida Orupabo, Rhita Oudghiri, Giovanna Petrocchi, Som Prabh, Stephanie Ribeiro, Chalil Rissas, Sofia Yala Rodrigues, Roberto Ruiz, Rona Sela, Eugenie Shinkle, Pacifico Silano, Joy Stacey, Tavares Strachan, Sunil Shah, Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, Kai Yokoyama 

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Image from the series EIGHTEEN NINETY, 2020, installation detail from the exhibition In Plain Sight © Tavares Strachan, courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery

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Foam Magazine is an international photography magazine published three times a year by Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam.

Foam Magazine is supported by the Niemeijer Fund and sponsored by Igepa Netherlands BV, supplier of excellent paper. 

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A collection of photographs documenting Los Angeles during the lockdown of Spring 2020.

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Jonathan Ducrest (b. 1976) was born and raised in Switzerland, where his interest in photography was ignited with a point-and-shoot camera he received from his parents. The mountain vistas, atmospheric conditions, and dramatic scenery of the towering Swiss landscape, provided him with his earliest subjects.

In 1998 he relocated to the United States, where he settled in New York City. There, he expanded his practice into the urban canyons and architectural wonders of the metropolis, which drew parallels with his earlier scenes of nature's awe-inspiring power.

In 2013 Ducrest moved to Los Angeles in pursuit of new photographic discoveries. The West Coast's varied topography—deserts, oceanic horizons, and local styles—have provided a fresh set of artistic challenges, while also bringing together the varied strands of his visual palette from twenty-five years of experimentation and creative investigation. Ducrest's compositional skill, discerning eye, and cinematic sensibilities have made him one of the foremost practitioners of landscape, travel and urban photography working in the Los Angeles area. After 23 years in the U.S., he moved back to his native Switzerland in early 2021.

Ducrest's work has been collected extensively, by individuals, and major collectors, including Netflix. His photographs have been featured in many television productions—Disney-ABC, Warner Media and Apple. In 2020, he received a citation award for Petrol Station 2018, from the renowned American Institute of Architects, during the AIA/Architectural Photography Awards. In April 2020, his image Salerno Umbrellas was selected by Saatchi Art’s Chief Curator for their “New This Week Collection”. In 2021, Saatchi Art also named him one of 21 artists to watch in 2021.

Welcome to Hole & Corner 21, an issue that is both inspired by, and a result of, an ever-increasing feeling of restlessness. The past year has given even the most dedicated homebody itchy feet.

While we’ve been focusing on life inside our own four walls, we’re also keen to get away. Quite where ‘away’ is, varies from person to person. So we’ve been doing some long-distance travelling, as well as some trips closer to home that still stretch the imagination and trigger a few flagging neurons.

We caught up with Sarah Ryhanen to hear about her life at Worlds End, the New York State farm she’s built with her family, friends and co-workers. Then we couldn’t resist a dip into the sauna culture of Finland, recently identified as worthy of protection on UNESCO’s List of Cultural Heritage. Next stop, an organic cotton seed-to-sew collective, Oshadi, in south India, using ancient recipes to make miracles grow – as nature intended. We talked to seasoned travellers, temporarily stopped in their tracks, about the places they’ve visited – from photographer Cat Vinton’s documentation of an ocean-dwelling community dealing with the real impact of climate change, to Catherine Lock of The New Craftsmen, who talked us through some of the little treasures and curiosities she’s collected on her travels over the years.

Our own creative restlessness has resulted in a change of look for the magazine. We’ve played with type, got lost in the photography, added more stories, split it into two parts, and wrapped it in a piece of art by George Young. The artist describes it as a ‘joyful painting about the good things we can hope to enjoy’. We love his optimism, and hope you do too.

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PAPERBOY is fun, lighthearted, and most of all, useful. It comes in a convenient format that you can roll up and stick in your pocket. It has been designed to be read and used and the overall idea is to lighten up the reader’s day.

It is for women and men, it has words and pictures.

As well as extremely accomplished, world renowned writers, photographers and artists, PAPERBOY will be recruiting a select group of high school kids and undergraduates, who have talent but need a break, and in turn will give a young person the opportunity to get published.

27.7 × 22 cm, Softcover, 2021

BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! magazine
Collectors Edition Vol 2 – PRIDE issue

The world's first fine art photography magazine dedicated to queer and gay photography - ad free

Volume 2 features ten photographers from nine countries: AdeY (UK), David Charles Collins (Australia), Matthew Finley (USA), Ashish Gupta (India), Manuel Moncayo (Mexico), Juan Antonio Papagni Meca (Argentina), Sebastian Perinotti (Argentina), Mauricio A. Rodriguez (Venezuela), Xavier Samré (France), Inon Sani (Peru) + illustrator Matthew Hetznecker (USA)

Frankie – issue 100

let’s all light some candles, prepare our icing-licking technique and clear our throats for a rousing rendition of the happy birthday song, because frankie has just turned 100! hip-hip-hooray! blood, sweat, tears, copious amounts of tea and just as many viewings of the golden girls and twin peaks have gone into the past 17 years of mag-making, culminating in this here cake-y beauty, which almost look edible (though we don’t recommend having a taste). as always, it’s packed with the weird, wonderful and heartwarming, like a nifty guide to mushroom foraging, an ode to ye olde grunge fashion, the very best mockumentaries and an awesome indigenous archaeologist. we meet the first-ever female roadie and some folks who’ve reached 100 in their own unique way (including having lunch with 100 total strangers), make vision boards for the year ahead, and revisit some childhood hobbies (turns out tamagotchis are just as annoying as you remember). there’s a 1970s australia-themed bar, some tips on not being a dick at a gallery, and ideas for giving old socks new life. so, what are you waiting for, frankie friends? pop on a party hat and grab a copy, stat.

The Power & Empowerment Edition

In our latest issue of the BJP, we explore the idea of empowerment. We consider the individual experience, as well as the collaborative and universal one.

Our features include the compelling work of Rahim Fortune, Cansu Yıldıran, Donna Ferrato, Sadie Catt, Igor Furtado, Angelica Elliott. And, Rafal Milach and Karolina Gembara unpack the rise of creative protest movements in Poland.
Elsewhere, we visit the studio of Suzie Howell in east London and look back at the history of women’s rights over their bodies, as has been documented in photography. We are also On Location in Athens, exploring the city’s image-making scene

The all-new BJP is a bi-monthly premium publication, packed with double the content of our classic magazines and completely advertising free. 

Jurgen Maelfeyt
WET

23 x 30 cm, 48 p, ills colours, linnen hardcover
ISBN 9789493146662
design and edit: Jurgen Maelfeyt

edition of 500
April 2021

Issue#9. Fight

Fight. (Jackie Nickerson cover) Beauty Papers Issue 9. With: Maggi Hambling, Jackie Nickerson, Glen Luchford, Yadim, Nick Sethi, Zanele Muholi, Sunil Gupta, Harley Weir, Dominick Sheldon, Lea Colombo, Lucy Bridge, Piczo, Bibi Borthwick, Simon Emmett, Paul Kooiker.

400 pages full colour. Seven alternative covers. Size 220 x 285 mm. Weight 1.35kg

by Stuart Sandford

Soft Cover｜108 Pages｜29.7×21 cm

The artist has been shooting 35mm film (using his trusty Yashica T-5) since 2004 in his art school days back in his hometown of Sheffield, UK. Collected in this volume are works dating from that time up to the present, a number of them previously unpublished. Sandford has lived, worked, and travelled extensively across Europe, America, South Africa, and Russia, taking photographs of friends, lovers, and places and spaces along the way. Using a snapshot aesthetic, and in a style he calls "diaristic portraiture", Sandford creates scenarios and invites intimate relations with his subject, devising timeless vignettes of adoration, pleasure, and love (whether real or imagined) within the images and the connected narratives of the lives of those he photographs. Also incorporated in this volume are works from his Outside series (2007-TBA), again shot using 35mm and many unpublished, documenting urban, rural and sometimes lost public cruising spaces where men have sex with men.

About the artist :

Stuart Sandford was born in Sheffield, England but has lived and worked in the USA for the last 10 years, 5 of those in Los Angeles. He has exhibited his work widely in galleries and museums internationally, including the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit and Centre de la Photographie, Genève. His work has been featured in numerous publications and it appears in many private collections around the world including the Sir Elton John Photography Collection.

Self Service N°54

Self Service is French style for international filles and garcons. Stylish to the extreme, this coffee-table-worthy mag is packed to its spine with a mix of gloss and matte pages featuring fashion’s biggest names and most exciting designs. This is a title to delve into, to ponder, to come back to and read again. Cool, classy and bold, this is a title for lovers of the European Vogues, Purple and Fantastic Man.

Cereal – Issue 21

SS 2021

In our SS21 issue, we consider the subject of preservation. 

We explore anthroposophical design at the Goetheanum in Switzerland and Dà Licença in Portugal. In the UK, we tour the collections of Sir John Soane’s Museum and the Oxford Botanic Garden. We also rediscover the works of Auguste Rodin and the designs of Hvidt & Mølgaard, visit Potter’s House in Mallorca, and delve into the restoration of modernist architecture in Los Angeles.

In our essays, we contemplate memory and identity. 

#38 death, when you think about it

A third of the population never talks about death with their loved ones. The society of the global North has lost its natural attitude towards death. Through the ideal of infinite growth, consumer life, and the cult of eternal youth, death gradually became taboo. The presence of death has been delayed by society through a healthcare system focused on improving citizens’ physical condition, thus effecting the greatest possible delay to dying – not only in practice, but also within the collective consciousness of mainstream society. The importance and depth of the process of departure is reduced. One possible result is the suppression of fears connected to the end of life, which make it impossible to experience life in the present.

For theorists of photography such as Susan Sontag and Roland Barthes, the medium of photography was itself a kind of death or its imprint. As Sontag points out: “Photographs state the innocence, the vulnerability of lives heading toward their own destruction, and this link between photography and death haunts all photographs of people.” The fragile line between death and life has been the subject of art since antiquity. What are the forms taken by the topic today? It might be difficult to go through all the layers of emotion that surround our cessation, but we will try to imagine the diverse moments of encountering death and the different perspectives one might adopt, with the aim, ideally, of accepting respect and gratitude for life, allowing us to perceive it in the present. The art of accepting death at that moment can become the art of living.

Vivienne Westwood (London, UK)
March 7 - June 30

Photos
Andreas Kronthaler

Published in 2020
13 x 19 cm
32 pages
Color Offset Print
First Edition

REAL FASHION HIGHLIGHTS ILLUMINATED IN A WHOLE NEW WAY

The international fashion world is creative, expressive and above all fast-moving. This book is dedicated to elaborately staged, lovingly designed fashion productions and is a homage to fashion photography. 12 fashion experts have screened hundreds of magazines worldwide and have selected the best editorials, covers and campaigns for you. The Fashion Yearbook 2021 comprehensively depicts the fashion highlights and the creative minds behind them, such as photographers, stylists, models and make-up artists, in a stunning illustrated book, making it a unique standard work of the fashion industry. The result is beautiful. Engaging. Inspiring. Simply sensational.

• The best international fashion editorials, covers and campaigns of 2020
• A unique overview of the most impressive fashion photographs
• Top-class jury, among other the former editor-in-chief of American InStyle, Ariel Foxman, and street style icon Veronika Heilbrunner

Studio Magazine – Issue 2

A magazine published biannually showcasing art and fashion in contemporary culture. 

Her name is Julia, his name is Vincent. They met almost 10 years ago, and have been creating together for 5 years. ‘Erotish’ is an exercise in style, inspired by the aesthetics of the 1980s. Nostalgic for a time when “everything seemed positive, carefree, and where aesthetics were the priority”, the photographers play with retro codes, a few clothes in satin, naked bodies on motorcycles, a subtle blurry effect… But far from producing a vulgar sexy collection, or merely copy and pasting a certain aesthetic, the duo reclaims to modernize this aesthetic. (Cyrielle Gendron for Photo fr)

Julia Stoltz is an art director, photographer and director, living and working in Paris. Together with Vincent Girardot she forms the creative duo Julia & Vincent. As an artist duo they look for the artificial in our daily life.

Published by Art Paper Editions,

design and edit: Jurgen Maelfeyt

23,5x31cm, 80 pages, ills colour / b&w, paperback

edition of 700