Hapax #8

170 x 230 mm, 84 pages

London, UK

Biannual

Editors: Christiane Monarchi and Gordon MacDonald 

Designer: Ania Nałęcka-Milach 

‘Commissioning and publishing new photography’

Taking their name from the literary term ‘hapax legomenon’—meaning ‘a one off or that which is recorded once’—issue eight of this slick, small-format photography mag touts itself as an incubator for five artists to test a new style, idea, or departure from their typical work.

Featured inside are exclusively commissioned projects by Tanya Traboulsi, who conjures a phenomenological portrait of Beirut in her series ‘Recurring Dream’, embellished with family photographs of the city from a bygone era; Hicham Gardaf, whose ‘Records of a Vanishing Structure’ immortalises Tangier’s skeletal billboards; Marta Bogdańska, whose hybrid collages blend subjective childhood experience with a collective vision of her native Poland during the demise of communism; as well as, further contributions from Karl Bailey and Rinko Kawauchi.

Oh, and make sure to appreciate the nifty pull-out pages tucked away inside...