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Editor’s Letter. • VOLUME 17

KOL Social

Featured Contributors.

Print & Purpose. • CHEN YUN EXPLORES THE COMPLEXITIES OF INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING IN CHINA, NAVIGATING SHIFTING REGULATIONS, DIGITAL CHALLENGES, AND THE ENDURING IMPORTANCE

Accidental Collector. • AUTHOR JONATHAN LETHEM’S TALKS ABOUT HIS LIFE CAPTURED THROUGH OBJECTS, MEMORIES, AND THE SPACES BETWEEN

Unseen Brush Strokes. • IN AN INTERVIEW WITH FEBRUARY JONES, SHE REDEFINES PORTRAITURE BY EXPLORING THE EMOTIONAL WEIGHT BEHIND EACH GAZE, INVITING VIEWERS TO CONFRONT LAYERS OF VULNERABILITY AND IDENTITY.

Skin & Bones. • WITH FRAGMENTS AND DEBRIS, LAVAR MUNROE REVEALS HIS PASSION WITH RAW BEAUTY WITHIN THE BROKEN, DRAWING ATTENTION TO THE STORIES THAT LIE WITHIN THE SHATTERED AND THE DISCARDED. THROUGH EACH FRACTURED PIECE, HE TRANSFORMS WHAT WAS ONCE OVERLOOKED INTO A PROFOUND EXPLORATION OF RESILIENCE, CHALLENGING US TO SEE VALUE IN THE REMNANTS OF WHAT WE DISCARD.

Political Palette. • ANDERS SUNNA WIELDS ART AS A WEAPON OF PROTEST AND SURVIVAL, BOLDLY CONFRONTING CENTURIES OF SÁMI OPPRESSION

Blood And Sand. • PHOTOJOURNALIST NICOLÒ FILIPPO ROSSO CAPTURES COLOMBIA’S WAYUU PEOPLE, ABANDONED IN UNFORGIVING LANDS WHERE CORRUPTION AND EXPLOITATION HAVE STRIPPED LIFE TO ITS BAREST EDGE

On Thin Ice. • IN THE BRUTAL ANDES, PHOTOGRAPHER ALESSANDRO CINQUE CAPTURES ALPAQUEROS’ STRUGGLE AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE AND A WORLD PROFITING FROM THEIR HARDSHIP WITHOUT RETURN

An Open Wound. • DRIVEN FROM THEIR ANCESTRAL LANDS BY DRUG CARTELS AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEVASTATION, THE TARAHUMARA PEOPLE STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL IN HOSTILE CITIES.

Directory.

Tale Of Two Cities • BERLIN CRACKLES WITH ENERGY—A PLACE WHERE NOTHING IS SET, AND EVERYTHING FEELS POSSIBLE.

Is This Game? • AS BUSHMEAT TRADE DECIMATES WILDLIFE AND ENDANGERS HEALTH, CONSERVATION PROJECTS ARE HELPING RURAL COMMUNITIES SHIFT FROM ILLEGAL HUNTING TO SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS, BREAKING CYCLES OF EXPLOITATION.

Future Daze. • HIMALI SINGH SOIN INTERTWINES LAYERED HISTORIES, CULTURAL MEMORIES, AND COSMIC PERSPECTIVES TO CHALLENGE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF TIME.