Port #36
230 x 300 mm, 280 pages (plus supplement)
London
Biannual
First published 2011
Editor-in-chief: Dan Crowe
Creative director: Matt Curtis
Port continues to grow into its redesign, which sees its static logo replaced with hand drawn versions by each of its seven cover stars: Celeste, John Malkovich, Joseph Quinn, Spike Lee, Tahar Rahim, David Oyelowo and Svitlana Grot. Usually overlaid as a graphic, this issue continues to embed the handwriting further into the scenography of the cover images, scrawled onto a Polaroid or, in the case of Joseph Quinn, his cup.
For the Spring/Summer 2025 issue, loosely themed around ‘Family,’ Port examines the heterogeneity of families, and the term's manifold interpretations, exploring ‘traditional and non-traditional structures; chosen families; communities built through shared experience; motherhood; sisterhood; fatherhood; creative legacies; design legacies; subcultures; queer communities; collective support systems; family responsibility; caregiving; generational storytelling; shifting family dynamics, and even families of books.’ At the heart of the issue is the feature ‘Mother of Motherland,’ covering empowering stories of Ukrainian motherhood amidst war.
On the Journal:
‘We tried a couple of handwritten versions in the studio, and then just asked people on the shoots to write a few. We felt if we didn’t like it after issue one, we would drop it. But we liked it. We feel there is more to do before it gets too familiar.’
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