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Chi Modu
Chi developed relationships with the biggest
icons of the hip hop movement, including
Tupac Shakur, Notorious B.I.G., Mary J. Blige,
and L-L Cool J, most of whom were not yet
famous at the time. His photos include some
of the most groundbreaking, memorable
images of that era which have graced the
covers of Rolling Stone Magazine and Jazz
Times, and album covers for Snoop, Method
Man, Mobb Deep, Mad Lion, and Christian
McBride. We are very proud to be able to
share some of them with you.
Ryan James Caruthers
Since graduating from Parsons the New
School for Design in 2016, LA-based
photographer Ryan James Caruthers has
not only won the 2017 British Journal of
Photography’s Breakthrough Awards, but has
also been busy shooting editorials for Dazed,
Coeval, FY!, New York Magazine and many
more. We thank him for providing us with an
intimate portfolio of almost poetic images
of intersections of age, race, class, gender,
and body type.
Zohar Winner
Zohar Winner is an incredibly talented graphic
artist based in Berlin. She works across the
mediums of illustration, graphic design and
set design. After graduating at the Bezalel
Academy of Art & Design in Jerusalem, she
worked predominantly as an art director in
the fashion field. Since we consider a good
illustration to be the cherry on the cake
for any magazine, Zohar didn’t hesitate to
provide the much-needed complement
for the magazine.
Walter Pfeiffer
Walter Pfeiffer is a Zürich-based photographer
whose portraits of friends, lovers, still life
and scenery, always taken with a large dose
of fun, not only inspired a generation of
photographers, but also contributed a far
more varied and modern view of what it
means to be queer. Together with Julian
Zigerli, Pfeiffer shot Roman, one of his ‘Walter
Boys’, especially for his Autumn Winter
2018 collection.
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Shaun Ross
Shaun Ross’s newest music video, filmed
at Popsicle LA, features the model-turnedmusician
emerging breaking out of a chrysalis.
Of course it is the breaking out that the lyrics
refer to. It is also a song about the beauty of
transforming into the truest version of yourself.
Since transformation and triumph always
seem to be the biggest points of Shaun’s life
we were glad he gave us some very personal
insight on those important topics.
Slava Mogutin
Slava Mogutin focuses on the more universal
themes of desire and estrangement while
letting his camera range over seemingly
spontaneous situations and marginal scenes
to capture the urban gay subculture in
particular. Since the sneaker market is really
taking off, we felt Slava’s work would be the
best to illustrate what has also become a
fetish for the $65 billion footwear industry.
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Symone Ridgell
2018 summertime heat called for a little—or
a lot of—vintage glamour. We reached out
to Symone Ridgell, LA Video producer at
PAPER magazine, to add some of the late
80s vibes and glam to our magazine before
the inevitable autumn approaches, and the
bright and shiny colors mute and begin to
darken our souls. In that aim, we thank her for
achieving the radical chic which will now shine
through our pages.
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