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Kenyan-born artist Wangari Mathenge’s new body of work draws inspiration from “The Danger of a Single Story,” a 2009 Ted Talk delivered ... More

Wangari Mathenge

Interview & Portrait by Jan-Willem Dikkers

As the co-founder of 1970s new wave cult band Blondie, Chris Stein is most well-known for his musical prowess. It should come ... More

Chris Stein

Interview by Jon Ronson

In early 1990s rural Mississippi, Levon Brooks was arrested for murdering a three-year-old girl and sentenced to life in prison. A few ... More

Levon and Kennedy:

Mississippi Innocence Project

What began as a fascination with remote, rural communities, necessarily evolved into a greater conversation about modernization and tradition for documentary photographer ... More

Winfried Bullinger

Interview by Lia Marie Hillers

Noël Wells is a comedian, actor, writer and director from San Antonio, Texas. She is known for her roles in Master of ... More

Noël Wells

Photographs

German photojournalist Corinna Kern is interested in the fringe groups of society, those outside the Westernized norm. Her subjects are often marginalized ... More

Corinna Kern

Female Maskers

Vivian is a Los Angeles based artist & illustrator and holds a BFA in Illustration from Art Center College of Design. When ... More

Vivian’s Girls

Illustrations by Vivian Shih

This spring in Frankfurt, Germany, large-scale portraits of refugees drape over the faces of multi-story buildings, old and new, as part of ... More

Vitus Saloshanka:
New Citizens

New Citizens

With a predilection for capturing documentary moments, German filmmaker and photographer Kirstin Schmitt explores her adopted city of Havana with a camera ... More

KIRSTIN SCHMITT

Waiting for the Candymen

Photographer Emilie Regnier spent most of her childhood in West and Central Africa, and situates her photo series Hair in her then ... More

Emilie Regnier

Issue Questionnaire

When my grandmother turned 90 this year, our family created a tributary artwork that incorporated various symbols she uses in her body ... More

Betye Saar

Interview by Sola Agustsson

Alice Mann cites her childhood in post-apartheid South Africa as a catalyst for her photographic work, which focuses on racial stereotyping and ... More

Alice Mann

Issue Questionnaire

When Bob Zahn showed me his latest project, American Gothic II, a fine art photography collection of Slab City, I looked at ... More

American Gothic II

Portfolio by Bob Zahn

I met Chicago-born artist Nathaniel Mary Quinn in 2013 and have had the pleasure of working with him on a number of ... More

Nathaniel Mary Quinn

Interview by Dexter Wimberly

In his newest series, Cathedral of the Pines, photographer Gregory Crewdson returns to his home in rural Massachusetts to stage elaborate interior ... More

Gregory Crewdson

Interview by Matthew Weiner

Los Angeles-born and raised artist Ariana Papademetropoulos paints from found, vintage images which she manipulates and renders large, ornate and vibrant. In ... More

Ariana Papademetropoulos

Interview by Ariel Pink

This series is a collaboration with LA-based artist Alexandra Grant, coinciding with the release of her photography book and exhibition, Shadows, with ... More

Making Shadows

Fashion Series by Alexandra Grant

Scot Sothern has been developing his photographic niche since the ’70s, when he began documenting fringe populations on the streets of America. ... More

Scot Sothern

Issue Questionnaire

Known for his ever-evolving approach to painting, sculptural installation and photography, Bronx-born artist Kori Newkirk uninhibitedly explores cultural identity, black history and ... More

Kori Newkirk

Interview by Christine Y. Kim

Catherine Opie’s work ranges from self-portraiture to landscape photography, often investigating identity through portraits of social groups including the LGBT community, surfers ... More

Catherine Opie

The Art of Philanthropy

Elena Stonaker is a rare bird whose works of art are stunning, inspiring and gloriously strange. The first time I saw something ... More

Elena Stonaker

Interview by Becky Stark

Doug Rickard is an archivist and self-proclaimed “hijacker” fueled by a fascination with American culture and its new brand of self-surveillance—the ever-present ... More

Doug Rickard

Issue Questionnaire

I’ve always avoided getting too close with my neighbors. It’s an unspoken rule in NYC: keep to yourself but always be companionable. ... More

Graeme Mitchell

Interview by Jay Batlle

In 2007, before the selfie was even a common trope, Los Angeles artist Petra Cortright was recording herself with a webcam. For ... More

Petra Cortright

Issue Questionnaire

Artist Charlie White investigates American excess, identity and desire through stylized film and photography. His photographs capture the tension between perception and ... More

Charlie White

Interview by Ali Subotnick

Jennifer Howell is the founder of The Art of Elysium, an organisation which works to make art a catalyst for social change ... More

Jennifer Howell

The Art of Elysium

Allan’s a weird cat and an amazing story teller, and I’ve had the privilege of being his friend for over two decades. ... More

Allan MacDonell

Interview by Buzz Osborne

Not much gives form to the archetype of American glut and consumerism more than its big box stores – the Walmarts and ... More

Carson Davis Brown #_Mass

An Interview

Los Angeles poets Mandy Kahn and Jacqueline Suskin are carving out a place for their old-world craft in the new world. Jacqueline ... More

Mandy Kahn &
Jacqueline Suskin

A Discussion

The experience of Jason McLean’s work is like following a train of thought back to its root. Where did it start? Where ... More

Jason McLean

Interview with Ryan Sluggett

Tabitha Soren: Do you remember the first portrait you ever took, or maybe the first time you attempted to take a serious ... More

Katy Grannan

Interview by Tabitha Soren

In the spring of 2004, Gerhard Steidl, the German publisher came to LA to work with my brother Ed Ruscha on a ... More

Mona Kuhn

Interview by Paul Ruscha

There is a middle ground between our fantasy of fame and life as it exists, one that is strange and lonesome but ... More

Simone Lueck

Interview by Danny Jauregui

Paris-born photographer Sophie Caby moved to LA in 2012 without a car or a license. When she began to travel by bus ... More

Sophie Caby

An interview

These photographs by Whitney Hubbs for Issue Magazine came about following her solo exhibition “The Song Itself Is Already A Skip” at ... More

Whitney Hubbs

Interview by Lucas Blalock

Sonny Ruscha Granade: Do you remember the moment when you officially decided to become an artist? Was there an “ah-ha” moment or ... More

Fay Ray

Interview by Sonny Ruscha

Slava Mogutin and Brian Kenny became partners in love and art the day they met ten years ago. Together they founded SUPERM, ... More

SUPERM: Slava Mogutin & Brian Kenny

An Interview

The early 20th century saw several artists reviving classical myth and history in their work—Picasso and the Minotaur, de Chirico and Ariadne, ... More

Lucile Littot

Madness Grandiosa exhibit

Spandau Parks

Recurrent parallel networks

Over the past seven or so years that she’s been ‘on the scene,’ I sometimes get the feeling that what Lisa Williamson ... More

Lisa Williamson

by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer

Kevin Appel: I want to start by asking you if you can name a moment or something that you saw that was ... More

Alison O'Daniel

Interview by Kevin Appel

Former member of the legendary Bromley Contingent, photographer, Simon Barker sits down for some nostalgic talk with cult-label designer, Wynn Smith (WINK). ... More

Simon Barker: Punk's Dead

Interview by Wynn Smith

Image excerpts from Issue 1-8 (1999 – 2004), Stare (Published with David Renard 1999) Larry Clark, Bob Richardson, Christopher Wool, Mark Gonzales, ... More

The Early Years Video

Lydia Lunch, the underground and legendary musician, actress, performance artist, writer and activist presents a hedonist’s guide to witty and provocative recipes ... More

THE NEED TO FEED

by Lydia Lunch

The work of Swiss amateur photographer, Karlheinz Weinberger is presented in Rebel Youth, a first-of-its-kind compilation of portraits of Zurich’s rebel youth ... More

REBEL YOUTH

by Karlheinz Weinberger

Paul McCarthy is really excited. We got to hang out with him for an afternoon while he was in New York putting ... More

PAUL MCCARTHY

by Carlo McCormick

The following conversation took place in early December 2007 in the second-floor office of Gavin Brown’s Enterprise on Greenwich Street in Lower ... More

ELIZABETH PEYTON

by Walter Robinson

RICHARD MARSHALL: Louise, I would like to discuss two separate, but related, periods of your life — your early years in New ... More

LOUISE BOURGEOIS

by Richard D. Marshall