Journal tagged by Photography

For our final post of 2022, Jeremy looks at the year’s ‘The Lives They Lived’ issue of The New York Times Magazine, and discusses the design tone adopted for it with Creative director Gail Bichler. The annual issue celebrates the lives of 12 US children killed by gun violence, as guns supercede car accidents as the main cause of death for under 18s.

November’s Mag of the Month is, for the first time, a brand new launch. Safelight Paper is a collection of analogue images by 11 photographers, a broad range of styles and subjects celebrating the power of film and the darkroom. Built on the reputation of a Berlin analogue photography shop/lab, it asks, who needs Photoshop?

We meet Joe Richards, who has just published the second issue of his large-format photography magazine M-A (A Space Between). The gorgeous, tactile publication presents uninterrupted, full-bleed visual stories from emergent and established photographers. He tells us about the magazine and his working week.

The annual international edition of ZEITmagazin is always a great reminder of what we English-speakers miss in the weekly German edition: in short, great commissiong across wrod and image. Here’s a quick look at some visual highlights from this year’s issue.

 

October’s Magazine of the Month is long-term favourite Fantastic Man. Their first ever Menswear Special gives the creative team the chance to have some fun on the streets of Amsterdam and catalogue the eight key men’s garments, including the skirt, in honour of interviewee Jean Paul Gaultier.

All new trends surface in magazines at some point, and right now we’re seeing Artificial Intelligence pop up everywhere. Batshit Times succesfully uses AI technology to reflect and challenge the chaos of the modern world; curiously, in doing so it makes a strong argument for the role of the editor over the algorithm.