Kinfolk #55
227 x 295, 178 pages
Copenhagen, Denmark
Founder & Creative director: Nathan Williams
Editor-in-chief: John Burns
Art director: Mario Depicolzuane
Design director: Alex Hunting
Kinfolk has become so familiar that it’s hard to imagine just how radical its minimal, proto-mindfulness, clean lines and clean living aesthetic was when it first appeared back in 2011.
This is The Faith Issue, asking ‘What do you believe in?’ and tackling religion from both a believer’s and non-believer‘s standpoint.
The magazine documents the construction of a new Lutheran church in Denmark; the local parish asked some of the nation’s biggest architects and designers to rethink how Christianity might be presented into the future. Ekemini Uwan, the public theologian holding the Christian church accountable for its complicity in racial violence over the centuries, is interviewed. Jewish duos from opposite sides of the Atlantic are introduced: the Kleins, creators of the kosher food and travel magazine Fleishigs, and Sara Moon and Samson Hart, founders of Miknaf Ha’aretz, a community focused on Jewish land justice.
Plus the late David Lynch on the power transcendental meditation, and actor/director Ramy Youssef on giving comedic nuance to the Muslim American narrative.