Ilhéu #A
166 x 230 mm, 154 pages
São Miguel Island, Azores (English-language)
Biannual
Editor: Kathleen McCaul Moura
Art director: Julia Garcia
From the middle of the Atlantic Ocean—the Azores archipelago, to be exact—emerges Ilhéu, a new biannual of prose, interviews and photography dedicated to ‘conversations from the Atlantic’. The name, apparently untranslatable in Spanish or English, refers to both 'islet' and 'island-dweller' in Portuguese; ‘it was this fusion of man and land that excited us’ writes editor (and island-dweller) Kathleen McCaul Moura.
This debut issue spotlights the creative scene on the largest of the nine islands, São Miguel, which also happens to be where magazine is produced and printed. Inside, find interviews with architect Pedro Maurício Borges, ceramicist Lee Hun Chung, novelists Hugo Gonçalaves and Nuno Costa, and curator João Mourão, plus a photo tribute to the island's women and a personal story on tattoos.