Loupe Magazine Issue 12

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Loupe Magazine Issue 12

Loupe Magazine Issue 12. Play is the starting point for how we interpret the world around us, it develops the tools to navigate the world and form relationships. In this issue, through photography and writing, we have explored playful processes of photography, play therapy, nightlife, performance and identity, collaboration, virtual realities, and war play.

In This Issue

The issue’s cover story is Body Copy. Utilising their background in theatre, circus, opera, puppetry, and stage illusion Mitchell Moreno reacts to adverts found on gay and queer hook-up sites. Through self-constructed sets and personas, Moreno portrays the envisioned characters and explores role play as a therapeutic tool to self-acceptance.

Exploring a resurgence in illegal raves, Joe Magowan has been following ravers and parties for the last 5 years. Documenting the period of quiet after each rave Magowan presents semi-posed portraits as the sun rises.

In the accompanying article Elliot Pearce, a music producer and journalist analyses the factors that lie behind the decline in UK nightclubs. Pearce reveals an industry threatened just as much by developers as the pandemic.

Courtney Craven an ex-photographer and disabled gamer and writer uses in-game photography to document their exploration of the edge of the map within open-world computer games. In their written piece Craven raises questions of accessibility and representation in games and the wider gamer community.

Natalia Kepesz documents the increasing popularity of military-focused youth summer camps in Poland . These camps offer children adventure through ‘playing soldiers’ but Kepesz uneasy images allude to the darker side children play out scenes of war.

In the accompanying article Tim Saunders, a military historian and ex infantry officer explores how the Nazi party militarised a generation of young Germans via the Hitler Youth.

Loupe Mag

Launched in 2016 , Loupe has built a reputation for featuring the best in contemporary photographic talent. As society increasingly uses imagery to communicate they recognise photography’s ability to document, create, debate, and make sense of the world around us.

Loupe showcases work that tackles big subjects, issues that shape the human experience. Loupe is not a photography magazine written by photographers, we commission articles by experts on each theme to explore and contextualise the projects we feature. In the landscape of photography magazines, Loupe is unique.

Published bi-annually.

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