Holiday Magazine – Issue 397 (Cartagena de Indias)

Holiday Magazine Issue 397 (Cartagena de Indias) is available now at LOREM (not Ipsum) and comes with different covers. Following its last trip—to Samarkand—Holiday ventures across the Atlantic and sets course for Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.

An issue devoted to a Caribbean wonder listed as a Unesco World Heritage Site and placed under the patronage of Gabriel García Márquez, whose autobiographical pages about a city he loved so dearly are republished in the magazine, alongside memories shared by his son Rodrigo. Elsewhere, artist Oscar Murillo speaks openly in an extended interview; writer Victor Pouchet contributes a singular text drawn from his journey to the city; Yohir Akerman recounts what it means to grow up in Cartagena; Natasha A. Fraser tells the story of a mysterious mermaid ring; historian Jorge Orlando Melo paints a portrait of the ambiguous Simón Bolívar; chef Juan Arbelaez shares his recipe for arroz de coco; and Vanessa Rosales Altamar provides a handbook to her hometown. Other pieces offer in-depth looks at the former Palace of the Inquisition, made-in-Colombia Afrobeat or the extraordinary destiny of boxer Kid Pambelé.

On the photographic side, Milena Villalón and Matheus Agudelo wander, armed with their singular gaze, between past and present in the streets of a city whose history is as rich as it is tumultuous, long known as La Heroica. That happens to also be the title of a series by Hart Lëshkina, the result of wanderings with Selena Forrest deep into the heart of the city. So many journeys, further heightened by the visions and reveries—sometimes from afar, but always attuned—of Bruce Weber, Nicola and Manuel, Krisztián Éder, Yota Hoshi, Daniyel Lowden and Dougal MacArthur, as well as by Yann Faucher’s tribute to the New Wave Paris of the 1980s, created in collaboration with Tony Irvine—because Holiday, yesterday as tomorrow, is always in motion.

Welcome to Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.

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 397 (Cartagena de Indias)

282 pages, 27.5 x 34 cm, 1.5 kg