Thursday 30 September 2010

International photography magazines

The latest edition of European Photography contains a survey of international photography magazines.  The selection of 43 titles ranges from print media to freely available magazines online.  The freely available publications are listed below.  Of these, the only one I  currently regularly look at is Lens Culture - distinguished by its inclusion of video interviews with photographers.

1000 Words
Ahorn Magazine
American Suburb X
Dide
Flak Photo
Fototapeta
F-Stop Magazine
Lens Culture
Lunatic
Ninja Magazine
Purpose
SuperMassiveBLackHoLe

Foam is an obvious omission from the list and while the online version does not live up to the splendidly produced print version, it is a useful alternative (I'm sorry we don't subscribe to the print).  Like FoamFoto Kvartāls also publishes a free version online using the issuu platform and is similarly ommitted from the European Photography list.  Admittedly it is published in Latvian,  but it does claim to have an international remit. 

The Canadian Prefix Photo is also not listed (not online) and neither is the Edinburgh-based Portfolio (not online, but available in the library).

There must be others...  Etudes Photographiques, Fotografia, Photography Quarterly.  If you would like to recommend one, leave a comment or even better leave a review (I think reviews of non-English language titles would be particularly interesting).

For convenience, I'll also list the titles that you do have to pay for - are these necessarily the better ones?  I have highlighted the ones we take in the library [the links take you to the magazine homepage, not the full-text of the publication].

8 Magazine
Ag
Aperture
Blind Spot
Camera Austria
Chinese Photography
Daylight Magazine
Der Greif
dienacht
Eikon
European Photography* [available online via Library Search]
Exit
Eyemazing
F
Fantom
Fotograf
Fotografija
GUP magazine
HotShoe
IANN
Imago
Katalog
Klack
Kwartalnik Fotografia
Next Level
Ohio Photomagazin
OjodePez
Photonews
Photoworks
Private
Source


References

International Photography Magazines. European Photography v. 31 no. 87 (Summer 2010) p. 74-5.

Further reading
 
Groll, M. Bloghopping. European Photography v. 29 no. 84 (Winter 2008/2009) p. 70-2

Trenkler, K. International Photography Festivals. European Photography v. 29 no. 84 (Winter 2008/2009) p. 76-7