Holiday Magazine – Issue 396 (Samarkand)

Holiday Magazine Issue 396 (Samarkand) is available now at LOREM (not Ipsum) and comes with different covers. Following a trip to Zurich, Holiday continues eastward and heads for Uzbekistan, specifically Samarkand. The writer Pauline Klein returned from her journey there with a brand-new piece, the director of the Tashkent Center for Contemporary Art Sara Raza shares her views in a lengthy interview about the new creative scene in Central Asia, Delphine Valloire tells the amazing story of the collector Igor Savitsky and — among other stories about local wrestlers, artists and artisans — the filmmaker Furkat Usmanov describes his childhood in the city, whose mere name evokes a string of readymade dreams made up of caravanserais, Persian bazaars and hazily drawn Silk Roads — fantasies that today must be compared to the reality of a fast-changing city and country.

That’s something that photography also makes possible. Hill & Aubrey, Brett Lloyd, Rich Stapleton and Olivier Kervern have brought back their visions of the place and its people, added to by a portfolio from the Uzbek photographer Hassan Kurbanbaev. A body of work enhanced by contributions from Drew Vickers, Dougal Macarthur, Crista Leonard and Matheus Agudelo, as well as Jonathan Frantini, who captures the sheer grace of Mona Tougaard. And since the world is a vast place, Jack Pierson delivers a perspective from afar: a panorama of the New York artists and other figures who keep the city in motion.

Welcome to Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

The magazine comes in a spectacular XXL size format with a weight of 1.5 kilogram.

Holiday Magazine is an english travel publication from France. Between 1946 and 1977, Holiday was one of the most exciting magazines in the United States. Reknowned for its fun layout, its challenging choice of photographers, and the aura of its writers, Holiday was telling about the world like no other magazine. Its strength ? Sending a writer and a photographer to a singular destination, distant or nearby, and asking them to tell from their point of view without constraints of style, objectiveness or length. Nor budgetary limit. At the top of its game, the magazine had more than a million subscribers. Today, 37 years after, Holiday returns at the instigation of the Atelier Franck Durand. This new Holiday wants to capture the essence, the esthetic demands and the sense of journalistic adventure of its original version. A mixed magazine, blending fashion and reporting, Holiday remains demanding regarding both pictures and stories.

Hence, through Holiday, its coverages, fashion editorials or porfolios, reknowned photographers will mix with emerging talents with strong imagery. Main stories will be written by top names, journalists or writers. Finally, the idea of sending a writer on an extended report to deliver his or her vision of a place will remain the underlying theme linking the original Holiday to its new version. Holiday is a magazine written in english, but it’s heart is french. The team who conceives, designs and produces Holiday Magazine is based in Paris.

Details: Holiday Magazine – Issue 396 (Samarkand)

282 pages, 27.5 x 34 cm, 1.5 kg