Owning the Zines of Production w/ Safelight Paper’s Nico Blanchadell

Interview with Nico recapped at 38:24!

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This week I'm sharing why magazines are a particularly special medium: from advancing political ideologies to sharing art and promoting young artists. I was lucky enough to interview Nico Blanchadell, Editor-In-Chief and Creative Director of Safelight Paper, a "slow photography" magazine based in Berlin, and hear about how it is unlike any photography publication in the European market.

Our conversation about curiosity and aesthetics made me reflect on why I love magazines so much. I discuss Freud and Marx, Weimar Germany's car magazines, and attempted assassination of Andy Warhol by radical feminist manifestress and girlboss Valerie Solanas.

Digressions just basically say to read theory and watch Succession...

 

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