The Light Observer #8
165 x 240 mm, 88 pages
Milan, Italy
Biannual
First published in 2020
Editor-in-chief: Hugo Berger
Creative direction: EHHE Studio
The Light Observer is a biannual magazine that explores light in all its forms through in-depth articles and interviews; mixing upcoming and well-known artists, photographers, architects, scientists and designers.
This eighth issue, themed ‘Landscape(s),’ is lighter than ever, making it an ideal companion for your summer adventures. The cover, which features a hazy grayscale mountainscape by the Anglo-Swiss photographer Joan Ayrton, blurs the line between observation and memory. Meanwhile, the multi-disciplinary works gathered within ‘traverse geographies both external and internal, questioning how we inhabit the visible world and how it, in turn, inhabits us.’
On the Journal:
‘Milanese magazine The Light Observer does precisely what it says on the tin: it ‘investigates our relationship with light’. The biannual publication began its relatively recent life in print by freely exploring the ethereal subject—both scientifically and poetically (largely the latter). Now sitting comfortably at their third issue, editor Hugo Berger and his team have gently shifted their trajectory to observe light ‘through a specific lens’, as Berger writes in the opening pages of issue three…’
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