Passager #4
150 x 205 mm, 176 pages
Paris, France (French & English-languages)
Biannual
Editor-in-chief: Aude Revier
Art director: Mathieu Delion/Funny Bones
Passager is a new travel magazine comprised of in-depth features penned by journalists and authors from various backgrounds and published in their native language—accompanied by a booklet of careful translations into English and French where applicable. Illustrations and photography run throughout this book-like publication, printed on high quality paper stock and with an embossed front cover.
This latest edition of Passager is an appreciation of the dynamism of the world around us—‘double, multifaceted, straddling borders and languages,’ as editor-in-chief Aude Revier asserts in her editorial. Inside, Juergen Teller tells the tale of his bookshelf through a series of snapshots documenting his favourite pages to leaf through, accompanied by anecdotal annotations; for this edition’s cover story, scholar Raísa França Bastos journeys to the Brazilian town of Pirenópolis to report on the flamboyant masked festivities of an equestrian reenactment of a battle between the Moors and Christians, photographed by Filipe Jardim; and French film director Claire Denis sits in conversation with writer Pierre Léonforte to discuss her oeuvre and childhood inspirations.