Apocalypse, SS24
280 x 177mm, 296 pages
Paris, France (English-language version)
Biannual
Published since 2019
Editor: JRZ
'A few seconds of eternity / Quelques secondes d'éternité'
Whatever you might expect from a more traditional motorcycle magazine, French 'Motorcycle Pop Culture' publication Apocolypse is not. Thick-bodied and visually-striking, this rectangular, largely noir et blanc publication features bold type, both black-and-white and colour photography, illustration, quotes, and essays.
The photographers and artists featured share work which digs its nails into the high intensity world of contemporary motorcycle culture evoking a feeling of adrenaline-soaked freedom from a community clearly in love with their extra curricular raison d'etre.
'Everything aligned, bike, self, body, a free spirit, speed, sounds, the air, the open air. The gaze. I am here and far away, everything and its opposite, the silence and the noise, the infinite space, the infinitesimal. Fluid and fleeting, it carries me away...'