Waterfall: Invisible (Cities)

Waterfall: Invisible (Cities)

The works featured in this book were only a tiny part from what I’ve collected. Some of familiar landscape of Elephant and Castle, Stockholm or Taipei, a food list while staying in Berlin, the impact of Hong Kong, the conflict, the love affair....or a found postcard in Paris and so on, we just happened to be there then. In the postscript section, there’s project based on the community from the island Tristan da Cunha, it’s to show the concept of city from an opposite angle...

independent magazine series | Introduction by YC Chen

independent magazine series | Introduction by YC Chen

雜誌出版是一項最古老的行業,卻也是最能夠隨著世代發展而不斷演化的專業。它是時代性的產物,反射當前環境運作的心理狀態:從外在條件來看,爆炸性的傳播發展方式排擠了紙類刊物的壽命,閱聽眾再也擠不出更多的紙上閱讀時間,但期刊類的出版品或許因為更新速度不如電子媒體,遂再也不必背負傳遞第一手消息的職責,轉而走向「什麼樣的內容更適合或更應該出現在雜誌裡」這類的思考。

independent magazine series | Correspondencia by YC Chen

independent magazine series | Correspondencia by YC Chen

Correspondencia是一本充滿私人化生活態度的雜誌,來自於創辦者Juan Ignacio Moralejo。這本雜誌來自於阿根廷,只能在為數不多的各國獨立書店裡找到它的蹤跡,它並不特別強調個人主義,沒有人物專訪、也不將重點放在創作者的個人功勳之上。首期雜誌收錄了藝術家Wolfgang Tillmans和Mark Borthwick的影像。Moralejo曾在雜誌創刊號發行之初,表示自己非常仰慕Tillmans,直言這些藝術家在九〇年代改變了他理解雜誌和攝影的方式。

independent magazine series | The White Review by YC Chen

independent magazine series | The White Review by YC Chen

這本視覺乾淨極簡的雜誌則是本文字份量很扎實的刊物,幾乎像是一本書一樣,他們以提倡「好新聞(Good Journalism)」為職志,在當代藝術、文學的領域上提供了優美又深度的文章,有趣的是在目錄頁,每一篇文章的背後還有小括號註明這是哪一類別,A代表藝術(art),F代表小說(fiction),P代表詩(poetry)等。網站上的內容和平面不同;如同刊名的靈感來自上上一個世紀的巴黎老雜誌La Revue Blanche,The White Review可說是一本帶著經典風味的嶄新後起之秀。