Fall 2023 on the stands!

September 2023

On the theme of Place, as in the geography, memory, and putting things in properly of. If you’d like to pick up an issue, or subscribe or give a subscription (thus earning a ticket towards winning the gorgeous painting by Jean Claude Roy on the cover), you can find details here.

Seeing Through Glass, Plastic and Ice

BY Matthew Hollett

When I signed up for my first photography class in art school, my dad rummaged around in the basement and placed a heavy leather case in my hands. I unbuckled it to find his old 35mm camera, a Zenit EM. It had an enormous dent above the lens, as if it had deflected a bullet, and its selenium light meter, mysteriously, did not require batteries.

A Sketch of Stephen

BY Paul Whittle

This is an excerpt of Paul Whittle’s story A Sketch of Stephen. The story is part of a new collection released by Breakwater Books called Best Kind. The collection features…