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Issue 19 of Revue Faire reassesses the age-old relationship between bookseller, publisher and designer - one that promotes an open and exploratory investigation and allows for content to be written into the form of a book.

The seventh issue of True Journal explores one of photography’s most enduring and elusive formats: the book. Alongside artist Kirstine Roepstorff, Rory McGrath and Oliver Knight discuss ‘Archive of Dark’ - revisiting the ideas, conversations and process that came about during its making, whilst unfolding the nuances and complexities of collaboration between artist, designer and publisher. The Archive of Dark is a book project acting as an epilogue to a body of work investigating darkness that included three separate yet coherent exhibitions; Influenza, Theatre of Glowing Darkness, 2017; Renaissance of the Night, 2018 and EX CAVE, 2019. 

An open-table conversation between photographer Daniel Shea, Oliver Knight and Rory McGrath on their Goldwin 0 collaboration, Enquiry #1, #2, #3.

‘In other words’ is an expression used to introduce a state-ment that repeats what has been said in a different, and sometimes more exact way. In other words, this phrase pro-duces an edit, a duplicate, a double. The meaning behind this expression can be understood as a contemporary attitude toward visual culture – where images and texts of today circulate, are saved, copied, edited and circulated again to a degree where the original is sometimes forgotten. In other words, this exhibition is a reframing of an existing object, a statement, a fact. Whether de-familiarised or reconstructed, poised in unlikely positions...

Interview with Oliver Knight and Rory McGrath, revisiting key references that have come to play in the development of InOtherWords.  Available to read here. WDV: I want to start by telling you how much I loved the design of Real Review when I first saw it. How did you arrive at it and/or what was the inspiration? RM: I'm glad you enjoyed it! Real Review was founded by Jack Self and Shumi Bose and is an important project for us. We had been developing a shared conversation for a long time before the first issue, so that by the time...