A collection of all the articles we’ve published over the past month, for those who like to savor their Magpies’ tidings as an issue.
March Issue, 2025
Speed of Life: Magpies Mix Tape
“Each moment is transient, gone as quickly as it appears, the journey playing out like an unedited film.”
The Writing is on The Wall
Brassaï declares that the “bastard art of the streets of ill repute that does not even arouse our curiosity, so ephemeral that it is easily obliterated by bad weather or a coat of paint, nevertheless offers a criterion of worth. Its authority is absolute, overturning all the laboriously established canons of aesthetics”
The Advocacies of Edirin John Duvwiama’s Photography
“Photography is enough in itself for existing, and so are the many advocacies of Bliss’ photography.”
February Issue, 2025
A collection of all the articles we’ve published over the past month, for those who like to savor their Magpies’ tidings as an issue.
An Interview With Don Julien: When the world is quiet
We were grateful for the opportunity to ask Don Julien a few questions about his photography.
When Photography Asks Questions of Destiny and Known or Unknown Outcomes
Photographer Ololade Koleosho believes that the lives of single mothers dwells somewhere on the “delicate balance between struggle and celebration.”
Dorothea Lange and the Japanese-American Internment
The military seized her photographs, quietly depositing them in the National Archives, where they remained mostly unseen and unpublished until 2006
Mondrian Meets Dorian Gray: Patterns of Neoliberal Disregard
“The photos not only capture the accidental Mondrian-like effect of relegation of the maintenance of building envelopes to individual tenants, they also reveal a Dorian-Gray’s-like picture of the inefficiencies of neo-liberalism and the cumulative effects of decades of rising economic inequality and shirking of collective investment in an important component of the infrastructure that enables and sustains us.”
Samuel Oladele’s Bordering Portraits
“When we view the pictures, we are drawn into a region of borders, boundaries, and limits. When asked about this idea behind his photography, Oladele calls it the unique African way of looking.”
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