After two issues exploring light in a free and poetic manner, the magazine now look at it through a specific lens. In this issue, light is explored through water. The deep ocean — mysterious and compelling — is where we start, interviewing the oceanographer Séverine Martini about bioluminescent organisms and the role light plays at depths of over 200 metres. This interview is juxtaposed alongside photographs taken by Nicolas Floc’h. The photographer captures the colour of water: blue and green monochromes shot below the surface, which bring to mind the work of Yves Klein, James Turrell or Ann Veronica Janssens. We interviewed the latter about her rich and sensitive relationship with light, and how light and liquids interact with each other. In the archives, we found illustrations by a 19th-century French entomologist depicting bioluminescent creatures, which we then contextualised with today’s information and scientific discoveries. And many more exciting articles!
ISSUE 03
Lead articles:
Interview with photographers Arguiñe Escandon and Yann Gross about their project Aya and the making of photographic prints in the jungle with light-sensitive plant emulsion
Photographic series by emerging German photographer Tobias Friedauer
Interview with acclaimed artist Ann Veronica Janssens about her will to “make the material unstable, fluid, simila to experiences and situations
Article featuring an interview with researcher and oceanographer Séverine Martini and photographic series La couleur de l’eau by Nicolas Floc’h, side by side
Photographic series by Charles Negre, exploring the hidden colours emanating from marine corals
Cyanotypes series by Eleonora Paciullo
Interview with photographer Paul Rousteau and his punk approach to digital and the inspiration he finds in painting
Video by Indian artist collective TAXI
Photographic series and text by emerging photographer
Illustrations of luminous marine organisms by Armand-Lucien Clément, originally published in 1887 with updated texts and references
Thoughts:
Essay about Charlotte Perriand’s photographs by writer Ilaria Sponda
Analysis of the mysterious sixteenth century painting Christ at the Sea of Galilee, written by Hugo Berger
Extract from A time of gifts, by writer and traveler Patrick Leigh Fermor
Collaborations:
Series of drawings and pastels by Los-Angeles based artist Melinda Braathen inspired by the poem Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by William Carlos Williams
Illustration inspired by a Haiku from Teijo Nakamura by illustrator Sanae Nicolas
Photographic series entitled Oggetti, Luce e Acqua by Layuhl Jang and Claudia Zalla, using Issey Miyake Archives
English, 128 pages
