Following on from the resilience-themed issue six in the summer, Boy.Brother.Friend just dropped its latest issue – themed around the concept of ’Dream’.
“This is perhaps one of the most delicate issues of Boy.Brother.Friend,” share founder and editorial director KK Obi and Matthew Sterling Benson. “We hope that the words and images in these pages will inspire and foreground the importance of a diverse community, even as violence and war threaten to fragment our world into recalcitrant differences. We need to imagine alternatives to war and this issue is one small step to centering heretofore unseen possibilities.”
Divided into four chapters – Déjà Vu, A Real Thing, Existing in Memory, and Dreaming Community – the issue focuses on the ongoing conflict in Sudan, an iniquity receiving little international coverage. Photographer Nichole Sobecki shares pre-conflict imagery, while Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann highlights the history of Sudanese jazz. Elsewhere, Rahiem Shadad reflects on the ongoing impact of displacement and the closing shoot features Sudanese diaspora who have created a community in Cairo.
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