#issue eight

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Ingrid Pierre is a phenomenal artist and graphic storyteller; take a moment today to read her powerful series, "Secret Black Woman!"

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Issue #08: Close Distance Created in collaboration with Paolo Morales March 2017 5.5"x8.5", 150 pages, full color digital offset printing on 80# and 100# uncoated stock, plastic coil bound, comes with a 5"x7" postcard print. Printed and bound in New Hampshire. Edition of 75 $28 (Free US shipping until 3/11/17) First 25 orders come with a signed 8.5"x11" print from Vivian Fu!

Photographs by: Sophie Barbasch Jesse Chan Sebastian Collett Tenzing Dakpa Vivian Fu Rachel Jump Lilly McElroy Claudio Nolasco Hannah Price Steven B. Smith Ka-Man Tse Jo Ann Walters Matt Williams

Edited by past Papersafe contributor Paolo Morales, this issue is our largest yet at 150 pages. Paolo approached us a year ago with the idea of editing an issue around the idea of what intimacy looks like in photographs. It’s a simple idea, however, Paolo’s selection of photographs and photographers goes beyond the obvious, and examines the idea of intimacy in ways which we were not expecting. He has curated a body of photographs in this issue that allows us to view and understand intimacy on myriad levels from a range of perspectives: from Ka-Man Tse photographing the LGBTQ community in Hong Kong, to Hannah Price’s photographs of the men who catcalled her on the streets of Philadelphia, to Vivian Fu’s diaristic images of intimate moments with her partner.

From Paolo: 
One of the things that prompt me to take pictures is to understand what intimacy looks and feels like in photographs. The work in this issue doesn’t make me feel any closer to an answer, but an answer isn’t the point. These pictures made by friends, former teachers, and people whom I’ve never met but whose work I just admire, make me feel like the problems I grapple with as a photographer are not distinct or peculiar. In other words, looking at these pictures remind me of the joys of learning, discovery, and revelation in the act of seeing.

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Take a moment today to live in Chen Chen's crushingly beautiful poetry, which we still cannot stop feeling.

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Spend some time with Paul Tran's exquisite poetry today!

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Yanyi’s Queer / Trans / Asian folio is a gift that keeps on giving. In her own words, Muriel Leung’s poetic essay, "This is to live several lives,” started out as a reflection on what it meant to write her latest book, Bone Confetti, then spiraled into something about the survival of bees, immigration, labor, model minority myth-making, and a whole lot of queer sorrow. Take a moment today to live in Muriel’s brilliant work!

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"How will you change? What is the weight of your relaxed state? How will you begin again?" Take a moment today to live in Kimberly Alidio's stirring poems, which kick off Yanyi's Queer / Trans / Asian Folio in our latest issue!

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Take a moment today to acquaint yourself with the brilliant work of Sheida Soleimani, Liz Cohen, and Chanel Von-Habsburg Lothringen! "'Diversity' has become such a buzz-word in both the art word and academia that trying to pinpoint exactly what that means can become problematic in itself. I’m always frustrated at the lack of visibility that marginalized bodies in the art world face, but I’m also frustrated, in turn, with the constant fetishization of these identities, especially with exhibitions that show artists solely based on their race, gender, or orientation. Recognizing that we need to be inclusive of these identities is extremely important, but the way we go about it needs to be re-assessed."

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Sarah Kane, the brilliant English playwright, took her life 18 years ago. Meghan Lamb's sublime essay, "What Do You Offer?", is an achingly tender dialogue with Kane's work. Take a moment today to lose yourself in Lamb's deeply moving love letter to Kane and her oeuvre.

"If only, if only

we could reach you somehow, inside that darkened room."