TABLE OF CONTENTS
FRONT
Agenda
Liz Johnson Artur, Tokyo: Art & Photography, Gillian Wearing, Mimi Cherono Ng’ok
Day Jobs
Kerry Manders on Catherine Opie’s industrious work ethic
Viewfinder
Lou Stoppard on visions of nightlife, from Nairobi to Ibiza
Curriculum
Geoff Dyer on Fred Eaglesmith, Dayanita Singh, and the pleasures of rereading Middlemarch
BACK
Endnote
5 questions for Akwaeke Emezi
WORDS
Deana Lawson: The Conjurer
The great portraitist reimagines the world by revealing mystic truths
A Conversation with Greg Tate
Berlin Stories
How the divided German capital became Michael Schmidt’s life’s work
Gesine Borcherdt
Theo Eshetu: Infinite Screens
A prolific video artist considers identity and belonging
Emmanuel Iduma
PICTURES
Return of the Light
For Anne Hardy, the River Thames yields ethereal photograms
Lena Fritsch
Galaxies
Batia Suter reinvents scientific books as lyrical assemblages
Brian Sholis
Mystic Parallax
Awol Erizku’s surreal visions of Africa and its diaspora
Ashley James
The World of Judith Joy Ross
Through empathic portraits, individuals form a collective citizenry
Rebecca Bengal
Carnival
In Colombia, Jim C. Nedd reflects on the visual codes of mythology
Daniel Berndt
Grayscales
Tom Sandberg’s meditations on absence
Pico Iyer
Cosmic Atlas
Tavares Strachan’s assemblages of colliding histories
Kaelen Wilson-Goldie
Good Night
Feng Li’s absurdist dramas on the streets of Chinese cities
Xuan Juliana Wang
My Grandfather Turned into a Tiger
Between Laos and Minnesota, Pao Houa Her’s memories and dreams
Kong Pheng Pha
True North
Dionne Lee’s intricate collages portray the poetics of survival
Shiv Kotecha
Southern Journeys
In the 1980s, Baldwin Lee made stars of his Black subjects
Casey Gerald
Genesis
Juan Brenner chronicles the glitter and gold of Guatemala’s youth
Suleman Sheikh Anaya