If Not Now #03
195 x 260 mm, 228 pages
Berlin, Germany
Editor-in-chief: Elke Numeyer-Windshuttle
Creative direction: Elke Numeyer-Windshuttle, Christian Kirch Knudsen
If Not Now is a cultural magazine featuring interviews, personal storytelling and projects with artists, photographers, activists and more. Their manifesto is to query how our complex human nature navigates global challenges, responding to a different theme each issue.
The subject of #03 is 'These walls were built'. Inside opens with a conversation with designer Ronald Rael discussing the beauty of 'rasquache' and his project 'Prada Marfa' where he built a luxury Prada store in the middle of a Texan desert. Elsewhere, Griselda San Martin's powerful photography of families interacting through a dividing fence at the U.S-Mexico border; Lebanese-British journalist, Zahra Hankir talks about spotlighting Arab female journalists who have invaluable significance in the documentation of the Middle-Eastern experience, plus more impactful, slow-read content surrounding our relationships with both physical and metaphorical walls.