Pin It

AZEEMA issue 1
From AZEEMA issue one

21 essential contained magazines to pocketbook at Dazed Newsagents

From grassroots arts zines based in NYC to publications elevating the stories of women in the Center East, become down to the Dazed Newsagents at Reference Point for a curated selection of the most exciting mags correct now

In 1991, two wide-eyed students started a minor zine chosen Mazed & Dislocated, determined to insubordinate against what they perceived to be a "synthetic leisure civilisation developing". From their apprehensive beginnings in the London College of Printing's student union cafe, Jefferson Hack and Rankin Waddell likely didn't envisage what Mazed & Confused would get, but they didn't accept a business program or fancy decks, but the naivety and airs of youth and a resolute desire to say something.

Dazed is jubilant its 30th altogether and it's truthful that lots has changed since the exciting days of early 90s London – Dazed is now published in Korea and China and has readers all over the world. But information technology's e'er stayed contained, and continued to gloat independent publishing.

As function of Dazed Alive, our ii day festival held at 180 The Strand, we've paid tribute to global zine culture and independent magazines by opening a Mazed Newsagents at Reference Point on Arundel Street, right adjacent to the Dazed offices. Reference Signal is a library and store with an ever growing drove of rare books from pattern, art and culture, with an ambition to democratise art and literature, by making this special cultural ephemera open to everyone rather than hidden abroad in athenaeum.

Inspired by the spirit of Soho's sadly-now-closed magazine mecca Wardour News, Dazed Newsagents will be selling copies of indie mags and zines from across the world. There'south cult snarks Mushpit and fashion pisstakers Buffalo, and Azeema, a mag championing underrepresented womxn and non-binary folk from the WANASA region and diaspora, as well as hardcore punk zine and mixtape label Fanfare.

These mags will be bachelor at Reference Point from Oct 9, and bachelor until they're sold out. Head down to see some of the best independent publishing of the 2020s and check out a list of everything that'southward going to be at that place below. All the money from any magazines sold will go to UK youth homeless charity Centrepoint.

viii Ball

viii-Ball Community is a New York City-based artist commonage that operates a zine library, online radio station, and online public-access television station. 8-Ball was formed in 2012 by a group of friends looking to help keep a billiard hall from going out of business organisation in gentrified East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. They hosted moving picture screenings, readings, performances, parties, and other events at the asking of Grand Billiards' possessor, who wanted to attract the neighborhood's new residents to his pool hall. These events included a zine fair, in which local artists and publishers were invited to sell their wares on pool tables.

From 2013 to 2014, viii-Brawl displayed zines and hosted dozens of events at an abandoned newsstand in the Metropolitan Avenue/Lorimer Street station of the New York Urban center Subway. The Newsstand was rebuilt in 2015 equally an installation at the Museum of Modern Fine art, which purchased it for the permanent collection and later exhibited it in Paris at Fondation Louis-Vuitton.

ART WORK

ART Piece of work describes itself every bit a new grassroots critical art publication, and "a text-based site of inquiry for artists and cultural workers operating on the margins". Fine art Piece of work's aim is to investigate the potential for a collaboratively-led art community, existing outside traditional, institutional systems, and has featured Dazed 100ers such every bit Sinead O'Dwyer, Rhea Dillon, and Kai Isaiah-Jamal.

AZEEMA

Jameela Elfaki, Sunayah Arshad, Nooriyah Qais, Evar Hussayni, Ella Lucia and Shayma Bakht are AZEEMA, a London-based print publication, digital platform, and now a creative bureau telling the stories of women within the Middle Eastward, North Africa and South asia, and the diaspora. What'southward crucial to them is their customs, and how those inside information technology are represented, which they do through unique, elevated shoots and region-specific storytelling.

BELLISSIMO

London-based Italian photographers Paolo Zerbini and Ivan Ruberto launched Bellissimo in 2019, a magazine that Zerbini says is "a photographic projection to elevate everyday situations and everyday characters that are actually outstanding for a reason or another. These people catch our eyes – they are the protagonists of our photographic project." They describe Bellissimo as being about photography offset and foremost, translated into an editorial grade. Mag obsessives, they reference constantly – the first issue of Bellissimo was inspired by luxury travel magazines, the 2nd was a send up of style publications. "You could encounter Bellissimo every bit a tribute band," says Zerbini. "And once we understand the kind of music that we're gonna play for that evening, all of the unlike expert tracks of that era will come up popping up."

Statuary AGE EDITIONS

Bronze Historic period Editions is an independent publishing platform started in 2011 by Justin Bailey specialising in limited editions, zines and artists' books.

BUFFALO ZINE

Buffalo is ane of the best mags in the world. "Serious fashion mags are over," reads its tagline on its site (words commencement said in Dazed) and its latest consequence Buffalo Viral takes the sprawling online ephemera of the 2010s and dumps information technology all over its pages. Over the years it'southward constantly referenced and taken the piss out of the style globe, while firmly establishing itself every bit a key presence within information technology. It'southward intelligent, naughty, anarchic – all the expert stuff.

CLOBBER ZINE

Clobber was founded past Paul Toner, with the ambition to speak to young, working-course men who are into Gucci and Prada but don't want to be lectured to nigh fashion in the London-axial industry-facing manner that has infected many publications. Toner told Liverpool fashion retailer Sevenstore that "information technology'due south a top-notch menswear magazine which touches on way, music, art and politics, likewise. It takes an upfront approach to telling authentic stories, inspired by the likes of Sleazenation and The Face up in the 1990s. Clobber Zine spotlights emerging talent through an outer-London perspective, and doesn't take itself too seriously in doing then. If you lot're looking for philosophical journalism, I don't think you've come to the right place."

CHATEAU INTERNATIONAL

Chateau International is an contained arts publishing platform producing books, zines and editions in collaboration with artists, writers, designers, educators and galleries. Recent and upcoming releases include Dope and Diamonds: A Lana Del Rey Reader (2019) edited with Billie Muraben, IMPRINTS (2020) by Ben K. Voss and Midge Wattles, MJKVDL 2021 (2021) by Rick Pushinsky and Mark Jan Krayenhoff van de Leur, and TINA: There Is No Alternative by Navine Chiliad. Khan-Dossos.

Chateau International publications are short-run and produced on modest budgets. Product incorporates both economic, on-demand print and binding methods with specialist and labour-intensive processes such equally foil blocking and screen press to produce publications that are beautiful, urgent, still affordable. Whilst prioritising female person and non-binary artists and writers, Chateau International works with a range of international collaborators who share its interests in the counterculture, fashion, feminism, radical politics, community organising and practices of photography. Chateau International is run by writer and editor Lillian Wilkie.

COLD CUTS

Common cold Cuts is a zine exploring queer identity in the South W Asian and Northward African community. Having released ii bug and a special edition, Cold Cuts' next project is available to pre-society, and is described equally "a special edition issue that compiles studio shoots, interviews and archival imagery to record the untold stories of eleven trans* women living in Beirut, and re-writes the queer history of a war torn and complexly layered metropolis". Drops March 2022.

FAG MAG

Bailey Slater's Fag Mag is a joyous ode to Y2K culture, and Slater described it to ten Mag as "controlled, sexy anarchy...a noughties nosh-off zine created for the gays AND the girls". It gleefully references the batshit landscape of British pop culture in the 2000s, from the Sugababes to Celebrity Large Brother. Slater says:"I wanted to create something that I'd not really seen before; an explicitly queer title marketed towards net-minded teenagers that love popular civilization, music and fashion."

FANFARE

Fanfare is a mixtape label and publisher based in the United Kingdom, split between London and Newcastle. It was founded by Ben Goulder of Snöar Press and Marker Buchanan of Meanwhile Press. Fanfare was created after a decade of collaborations built-in from touring in hardcore punk bands, resulting in the curation of fine art exhibitions and collaborative book releases which exhibited at the Tate Modern, London; Museum of Modernistic Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Fine art, Los Angeles; amongst others. Fanfare releases express edition mixtapes on cassette by artists who also produce the artwork for their mixtape. The approach is more akin to an artist book rather than a musical release.

Sometime Head QUARTERS

Former Headquarters is a new publishing banner by Leeds based artist Sam Hutchinson. Established in 2021, FHQ publishes photography and artist books, alongside limited artist editions and ephemera. 'Formal Mourning' FHQ#01 is the first release, printed in May 2021, and is sold in Village (Leeds) and Tenderbooks (London).

GAL-DEM

gal-dem is an honour winning, Black-owned media company committed to sharing the perspectives of women and not-binary people of colour. Gal-dem addresses inequality and misrepresentation in the manufacture through platforming the creative and editorial work of young women and non-binary people of colour across style, lifestyle, politics, music, arts, and opinion.

HAMBURGER EYES

Hamburger Optics is a blackness and white photography magazine that'due south been publishing since 2001. Over the past xx years, Hamburger Eyes has adult its own signature brand of photography and provided an outlet for both upcoming and established photographers worldwide. Hamburger Eyes is based in California and has published over 200 titles of zines, magazines, and books.

LAW

LAW is a UK street mag that documents the country's "youth of today with grit in their teeth" and finds beauty in its banality. Founder John Joseph Holt told The Face up, "I wanted to make something that people could relate to, in stark dissimilarity to the fashion magazines that were around at the time, something which would show Britain in a beautiful, positive, united light." LAW is a snapshot of a Britain rarely found on the pages of gimmicky magazines, and throughout its issues has archived a distinct artful and mental attitude that's true to this increasingly strange little island.

LOUCHE

Louche is a joyfully anarchic and independent occasional impress magazine virtually elevate and queer performance. It aims to celebrate, interrogate, and create a living archive of drag today, besides as pay hom(o)age to the varied histories and influences of the elevate by.

NEW Moving ridge

New Wave is a London-based contained platform bridging the gap between established and emerging creatives. It provides a space for creatives to be recognised and limited their thoughts across fashion, music, art, photography, architecture, pattern and more.

Every bit a digital magazine and print publication, it shares data on all the denominations of creativity with quality and passion. The impress issue is released annually and features some of the best rising talent from beyond the globe.

SOFA

SOFA is a new magazine that uncovers and defines the at present and looks into the virtually hereafter by exploring 1 tantalizing, terrifying, tantamount or taboo topic per issue while sitting on international sofas with today's virtually interesting people.

SAFAR

Safar is an independent pattern and visual civilization magazine based in Beirut, Lebanon. Published biannually and bilingually (Arabic-English language), Safar curates contributions from designers, thinkers, and artists around a chosen theme. Safar – the Standard arabic word for travel – refers to notions of communication, especially across cultural and linguistic boundaries. The magazine's main goal is to recognize Graphic Blueprint equally an active actor in cultural production and to shift the conversation on design and visual civilization away from its fixation on the global North.

SORT

SORT is a studio focused on independent movie with a printed zine at its core. Built-in out of London'southward queer lodge community and celebrates underground culture through collaborations with similar-minded artists, musicians and publications.

WALLET

When Elise Past Olsen founded Recens Paper at the historic period of 13, she became the globe'southward youngest editor-in-chief. Aged 18, she stepped away feeling "too old" and launched pocket-sized publication Wallet, telling Dazed every bit the first issue came out that "Manner journalism has been in an un-ideal country for a while," and that she "intends to recreate a new conscious through questioning and quizzing the people in power in fashion at present."

Each issue of Wallet since has featured major players in fashion, with every instalment advisedly themed, whether that's effectually ability, technology, or figures in fashion that oasis't received enough recognition for their groundbreaking work. After ten bug, Wallet stopped publishing, and last year Olsen launched the International Library of Fashion Research, a digital resource featuring 5,000-plus pieces of contemporary books and magazines.