MEZCLUM

Bed. noun. Piece of furniture upon which a person may recline or sleep, for many centuries considered the most important piece of furniture in the house and a prized status symbol.

A P O L Y H E D R A L P O I N T O F V I E W

CONCON21In my bed

5Mezclum

35In their beds

51Meet the artistLina Scheynius

TENTSTENTS

To tell a story, a sentence needs a subject, a verb and a direct object. News photos need the same construction. Photojourna-lists tell stories with their images. Also, words are always used in conjunction with photojournalist’s images.Photojournalists capture verbs.

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World Press Photo 2011

Daily

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2nd prize stories

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JAPAN’S NUCLEAR REFUGEES

World Press Photo 2012

General

News

3rd prize stories

The girls are there, alone with the photographer, exposing themselves to our eyes. They not only expose their face, their skin, their tattoos, they expose their universes. Every picture reveals a girl in her sanctuary: We see a lot, we know nothing; every Girl and her Room remains a mystery, a vulnerable object of intrigue.There are no photographs in which the girl doesn’t seem to perfectly fit in the room. They must work together because these are two symbiotic beings living in coexis-tence. As the girl evolves, so goes the room. A Girl and Her Room is a candid vivisec-tion of that process in book form.

A GIRL IN HER ROOM

RANIA MATAR

“...an area that is

theirs, that they

can fully control,

decorate, trash and

be themselves in –

within an outside

world that is often

intimidating.”

STUDIESPORTRAITS

In the eighteenth century, somnambulism held a larger, more general connotation of memory alienation–of being cut off from the conscious awareness of one’s own experiential memories–sleepwalking being just one example.Not fully formed and not yet ‘awake’, a sleeping child becomes a metaphor for our own sleeping awareness. These moments of reprieve are times we can easily reflect (and project) upon. Looking closely at our lives and the ones we love, we see vulnera-bility, innocence; we acknowledge mortality.

SOMNAMBULISM

KEN SCHELS

“I was the sleepwalk-

er moving through

the bedrooms of

these still and si-

lent children, all

tucked in their beds.

Eventually, I came to

realize that seeing

was, in many ways,

only believing.”

PATRICK ZACHMANNBack in November 2005, when nightly riots on the outskirts of French cities catapulted the word banlieue into the international media vocabulary (generally preceded by adjectives like grim, ghettoi-zed or impoverished), Patrick Zachmann was in Shanghai. He had already started working on his exhibition, ‘Ma proche banlieue’ (My near, dear banlieue). Four years later, far from reacting to ‘current’ events, the images offer a multi-faceted reflection on the French banlieues as seen through some 30 years of his photographs and films.Zachmann’s ‘decisive moments’ have ten-ded to spread themselves out: seven years for his early project on Jewish identity, six for the Chinese diaspora, three for Malian families between France and Africa, three more for Chile’s ‘buried memory’, plus multiple sequels. But the banlieues have always occupied a particular place in his work as a setting where his preferred the-mes – immigration, identity, memory and forgetting – take concrete, human form, as suggested by his punning title, ‘Ma pro-che banlieue’, evoking at once the ‘inner suburbs’ and his lifelong connection with them, beginning with the Paris suburbs where he was born in 1955.

Zachmann has built up a body of work that consistently deals with questions of identity, memory and the immigration of various communities.

As the “photographer of what cannot be said”, as opposed to an action photographer, he has never retreated in the face of the long investigations required to speak the unspoken.

A sequence zoomed in on issues of immigration and identity by panning back and forth between Malian families living in the Parisian banlieue of Evry and their relatives in Mali, which matched up stately colour portraits with more impressionistic black and white snapshots.

MALIENS HERE AND THERE

Zachmanns passion to penetra-te deep into the veneer of Chi-na sincerity exposes the front that China has often presented to outsiders. This façade has often been exacerbated by other photo-graphers who were unable to find a means to picture the raw side of the country and its people. Through the course of the book and its ten chapters, Zachmann and W. take us to Europe, the United States, China, Tahiti, Hong Kong, Singapore, Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, and Macao showing us the raw side to life through the Chinese its people. There is a fascinating and purposefully fragmented un-derstanding of China at play as Zachmann makes us ‘look’ at the Chinese. This ‘look’ is created by a conscious stream of narra-tive found in both image and in text. The text, which reminds me of the dialogue in Chris Marker’s film “Sans Soleil”, has a per-sonal but universally familiar atmosphere. It allows the voyeu-ristic element of the task of un-derstanding to be carried out in a comfortable manner rather than an intrusive one.

W. OR THE EYE OF A LONG-NOSE

JOSH FANNINGEDITOR / PUBLISHER

MATT STUCKEY

ADAM JOHNSONCREATIVE DIRECTOR

OWEN LINDSAY

FARRIN FOSTERSUB-EDITOR

STAVROULA MOUNTZOURIS

Josh Fanning knows how to wear a cravat and can slam Guinness at an alarming rate. These facts, and his ability to string a sen-tence together, qualify him to edit this magazine.

Matt wears a golfing hat almost everywhere. It covers his bald head and encases his amazing brain. His other notable quali-ties include magic with design & illustration.

Adam Johnson is a man of charisma and charm who seems capable of convin-cing people to do almost anything. He runs Xtra Shiny when he’s not making the magzine look pretty.

Owen Lindsay is a modern renaissance man who wri-tes, illustrates and plots ways to take over the world. So far he has been successful in all but the last of these pursuits.

Farrin Foster likes words. She finds them coming out of her mouth, wandering from her pen onto paper and mysteriously appearing on her computer screen all the time.

Think rainbows and fluffy clouds and you are hal-fway towards how fantastic Stavroula Mountzouris is. She has an encyclopedic knowledge of fashion and yearns to help people.

WHO WE ARE

AARON SHUPPAN

CLARA SANKEY

JARED BROWN

ANDY WATSON

ANTHONY WENDT

SVEN KOVAC

Aaron Schuppan has the skin of Mr Fantastic and jaw of American Dad. He has used these super-powers, and a variety of cameras, to become the master of all images.

Clara Sankey’s writing is almost as delicious as the gourmet foodie stuff she often talks about. We’re not sure where she appea-red from but we hope she never goes back there.

Jared Brown has moved from a career as a fully-fled-ged rock star to a career as a fully-fledged rock star photographer. He only had to change one word on his business card.

Owner of denim mecca ‘RHD’ Andy is a style icon... whether he likes it or not. Swing past his shop and ask him about Japane-se denim... he loves that stuff.

Anthony Wendt is a DJ, a world-class barista, a top reviewer and the un-dis-puted king of all bearded men. He is so good at so much stuff it makes us a little sick in the mouth.

Sven Kovac is a photogra-pher who looks a little like a model and can hold a sterling conversation. He loves his job and can’t imagine a day without his camera.