Sirene #17
238 x 320 mm, 106 pages
UK & Italy (English-language edition)
Printed on paper made from recycled algae
Biannual
Editor-in-chief: Alberto Coretti
Creative director: Floriana Cavallo
Art director: Macro Boldrino
‘The ocean outside, the ocean inside’ says the tagline, in part, it's safe to assume, because the paper used in this magazine about the sea is made from algae (from algal blooms found in at risk lagoons). There's a lot of blue, a bit like a holiday.
Sirene encourages readers to ‘go beyond’ in this seventeenth issue. Stories inside include: Freediving champion William Trubridge pushing beyond his limits. Surfing the waves of Grajagan, where no one had surfed before. Journey Among the Imaginary Islands. Urak Lawoi, the ‘People of the Sea.’
On the Journal:
‘The weather in London turned sticky this week and with the muggy heat comes my desire to escape to the sea. Serendipitously, the new issue of Sirene arrived, and I allowed it to gently draw me in over a cup of coffee – for as the brief editorial note states, "This is the sea, and it is summer: nothing else matters"…’ READ MORE