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The unprintables – The Word on Charleroi

Nicholas Lewis — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:47:09 +0000

A couple more shots that didn’t make it onto The Heritage Issue‘s pages, this time from Sarah‘s series on Charleroi:

The unprintables – The Bling Showstoppers

Nicholas Lewis — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 11:53:30 +0000

Some more shots we didn’t run with in our December edition, this time taken by Ulrike for our Bling Special’s Showstoppers selection.

“Funny story, when we were doing the shoot, two guys from the heating company came to do a standard check, but Zoe was almost fully naked, so I had to hide her. I opened the door with my camera in my hands, and the guys thought I wanted to shoot them for our wall of fame (we take pics of all the guests and put them on a wall) so I started shooting the guys, while Zoe was still in the closet. Afterwards they took so long, so we snuck outside into the elevator, right at the moment the guys were ready to leave…with the elevator of course. Welcome to the house of fun, I guess they will be back soon! Oh, and I also tried the shoes on Ioan (my boyfriend), and the Isabelle l’enfant chain on the cat. And we phoned Veronique Branquinho with her shoe.”

Allo Veronique

Veronique Branquinho shoes

Isabelle l'enfant

Zoe in the elevator

The unprintables – The Shelf

Nicholas Lewis — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 11:33:13 +0000

A photo shoot for our book page typically takes Yassin (the photographer) and Meli (the art director, and sometime reluctant model) about half a day to nail down. With the former having somewhat of a itchy finger folly and the latter a seemingly unlimited supply of ideas, we often end up with quite a selection of photographs we could run with (some prefering to show the book’s cover, others wanting to see the inside spreads and the rest content with merely photographing the spines) . Only having the page space for one visual though, some of our favourite proposals often don’t make the cut. Here, you’ll find different angles to page 84-85 of our Heritage Issue…

All books available from Amazon:

Studio Culture (2009) by Tony Brook and Adrian Shaughnessy – Unit Editons

Antwerp Street Style (2009) by Jens Mollenvanger – Ludion

Bibliographic (2009) by Jason Godfrey – Laurence King

Oil (2009) by Edward Burtynsky – Steidl/Corcoran

American Power (2009) by Mitch Epstein – Steidl

Born in the Streets (2009) – Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain

This Book is Elektronic (2009) – Ludion

Photography Yassin Serghini, Art Direction Melisande McBurnie

They came, brainstormed, ate cake, drank tea, then left.

Nicholas Lewis — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:08:02 +0000

In preparation for our December edition, themed The Heritage Issue (out Friday 27th November), the team gathered around the table to muse about the theme and its many possibilities. Delphine, Damien, Alex, Ulrike, Sarah, Veerle and Lea all were there, and ideas were aplenty. Some were good, some were bad, some were pretty, some were ugly, some were funny as fuck, some were worrying whilst others were plain sure shots. Lots to pull off, in less than 3 weeks. The Heritage Issue will also mark the return of Alex to our pages. Long overdue and highly anticipated. Here are the meeting’s notes, as proof that we do do our homework. In the meantime, back to work as we’re going to print Monday morning on our November issue, themed The Nippon Issue (out Friday 30th october).

Photography Veerle Frissen