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Politics

New York’s tepid slog towards legalizing marijuana is killing our vibe

While state-wide legalization of weed seems inevitable, recent announcements on drug enforcement policies by Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio are as tepid...

Fashion

Why is fashion in such a Georgian state of mind?

Did the "Demna Effect" cause the fashion world to put an international spotlight on Georgia?

Society

The 68.5 million people running from war and crisis globally is now the highest on record

According to the latest report by the U.N.'s Refugee Agency, every two seconds a person is displaced somewhere on the planet.

Environment

Mammals are increasingly going about their lives in the dark to get away from humans

Researchers at the University of California in Berkeley monitored 62 different species and discovered that all had drastically shifted their routines just to get away...

Fashion

We have Donatella Versace to thank for the new sensual men of fashion

The impenetrable designer spoke with Document about the new era of trendsetting and the rise of sensual menswear.

Art

This is how Juergen Teller handles his football fanaticism

The vibrant photographer reveals his maniacal love of football just in time for the 2018 World Cup with a new exhibition at the Garage Museum...

Fashion

Paul Surridge goes wild for his first Cavalli men’s collection

For Paul Surridge’s debut at Cavalli, time was the ultimate luxury on display.

Society

The Document Agenda: Not quite so hidden as you think

Every week Document has an agenda: digging up dispatches from the creases of global culture. With this information, go forth.

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The New Vanguard

Document and Calvin Klein spotlight visionary image makers, with Ford Models, Aperture Foundation, and powered by Swipecast.

Igor Pjörrt

Born in Madeira Island, Portugal, Igor Pjörrt is a London based photographer traversing the intersections of masculinity, intimacy, and temporality through his work. Pjörrt often...

Juan C. Rodriguez & Carmen Triana

Juan C. Rodriguez and Carmen Triana are a photographer/stylist team based between Colombia and Spain. Friends since childhood, the pair seeks to merge fashion photography...

Quil Lemons

Quil Lemons is a student at The New School in New York City. His studies in journalism and design help actualize his vision of expanding...

Steph Wilson

Steph Wilson lives in South London with 30 birds and a little dog. Although fine art painting is also within her realm of expertise, she...

Tahia Farhin Haque

Tahia Farhin Haque is based in Bangladesh. Originally a biochemistry major, she switched her focus when she was awarded a full scholarship to photography school...

Luis Alberto Rodriguez

Luis Alberto Rodriguez is a former dancer, and he uses that background to inform his choices as a photographer. His work places bodies in a...

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At Large

Essays and Exposés

Culture

serpentwithfeet sows the seeds of love in ‘soil’

Josiah Wise's latest release as serpentwithfeet is a sensuous plea to indulge the fantasies of unbroken human intimacy.

by Nathan Taylor Pemberton

Art

Three emerging Latina artists trace the connection to the ‘Radical Women’ before them

As the Brooklyn Museum shines a long overdue light on two decades of conceptual works by pioneering Latina artists, a trio of emerging New York...

by Dalya Benor

Photography

If you haven’t a sense of humor, don’t speak to Geoff Dyer. Or read his books.

If you do, the novelist's latest, a literary meditation on photographer Garry Winogrand, is the kind of cheeky, yet critical, approach to photography we've long...

by Emily Wells

Film

Visions of Vigilantism

How two recent films, Eli Roth's remake of 'Death Wish' and the Safdie Brother's 'Good Time,' update a less-spoken promise of the American dream: instant...

by Jonathon Sturgeon

Literature

In ‘Blue Self-Portrait’ Noémi Lefebvre created a space to breathe

Document talks with the French author about her breakthrough novel, Blue Self-Portrait, out in the U.S. this month.

by Cody Delistraty

Fashion

Automated for the people

What does the rise of workwear in fashion say about our own ideas about labor in the age of automation and the Amazon warehouse?

by Mindy Meissen

Fashion

Lucie and Luke Meier are in pursuit of minimalism’s soul

The creative directors of Jil Sander have brought their fusion of elite and cult style to the brand's minimalist halls.

by Anders Christian Madsen

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Fashion Portfolios

Loverboy in Chinatown

Document joins designer Charles Jeffery as he explores the fluorescent haze of the New York Mart mall hidden underneath the Manhattan Bridge.

by Shawn Lakin

Fashion Portfolio

Composition in black and glitter

On an airy, black marble promenade in Liberty Park this

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Fashion Portfolio

Just Before It All

Document's Shawn Lakin teams up with collaborator and photographer Ryan

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Fashion Portfolio

Sam Rock and Camille Bidault-Waddington

Photographer Sam Rock and stylist Camille Bidault-Waddington resuscitate our senses

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Conversations

Casual Encounters with Remarkable Minds

Art

Curator Alissa Bennett details the dark side to Lena Dunham

The actress in conversation with Alissa Bennett, the creator of the biannual morbid zine "Dead is Better."

by Lena Dunham

Juliana Huxtable and Stuart Comer on the new politics of trans visibility in the social media age

The artist and downtown 'It Girl' speaks with the MoMA curator about the fine line between transgender visibility and commercial exploitation for Document Spring/Summer 2016.

by Blake Abbie

Designer Milton Glaser still loves New York City, after all these years

The Bronx native behind one of the world's most famous logos discusses the city that, to him, is brimming with endless possibilities to unlock the...

by Eglée de Bure

Luca Guadagnino has conquered love, now he hopes to scare the world

The Italian director behind last year's most moving love story discusses his 'deeply personal' remake of Italian-horror classic 'Suspiria,' set to be released this September,...

by Nathan Taylor Pemberton

If knowledge is power, then coders like Fereshteh Forough and Barbara Liskov will inherit the earth

Two women helping to lead the tech sector towards greater diversity and inclusion discuss the power of code to advance women from America to Afghanistan.

by Daisy Prince

Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asia Kate Dillon on the fine art of creative survival

The co-founder of Black Lives Matter sits down with the 'Billions' actor to discuss the responsibilities of artistry and the present-day struggle over language.

by Megan Wray Schertler

The directors of ‘McQueen’ on portraying the designer’s life beyond the tabloids and tell-alls

Filmmakers Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui refused to whitewash the tumult and glory of the late designer's life in their documentary co-effort. It premiered, this...

by Shawn Lakin

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Documented

Visual Reportage and Artist Portfolios

A new cross-cultural book series will help you ‘unlearn’ the tired narratives on Asian identity

Volume One of FAR-NEAR approaches the cultural complications of Asian identity with artworks free from the pressures of place, expectation and stereotype.

by Sharifa Morris

Drenched and rapturous, New York City’s Dance Parade celebrates a new chapter

With the repeal of the repressive Cabaret Laws that had been a thorn in the side of club goers for a century, New York City...

by Daisy Prince

Katharina Grosse rejects your idea that painting is archaic

Known for work that takes place on a captivating scale, the painter discusses a technique that operates far beyond the realm of one dimension for...

by Drew Sawyer

50 years later, a new look at the 1968 Paris protests from a lost archive

Hidden away for half a century, rare photographs by a young freelancer captured the chaos and optimism of three weeks of social unrest known as...

by Daisy Prince

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At Large

Three emerging Latina artists trace the connection to the ‘Radical Women’ before them

As the Brooklyn Museum shines a long overdue light on two decades of conceptual works by pioneering Latina artists, a trio of emerging New York...

by Dalya Benor

Fashion Portfolio

Backstage as Tbilisi’s Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week comes into its magnificent own

Photographer Ryan Koopmans captured the playful colors and fearless combinations that have come to define Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tbilisi as a singular European spectacle.

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Conversations

Meet the women of Rome’s first all-female motorcycle club

Document speaks with the four members of The Litas, featured in a Bulgari-produced documentary premiering this week at the Tribeca Film Festival.

by David Plaisant

Documented

The endless drawings of Joan Jonas

Never before published drawings by Joan Jonas that were inspired by a “Female Devouring Ghost” perched on the shore between life and death.

by Gillian Young

Fashion Portfolio

Everything but the kitchen sink

Photographer Alex Lockett and stylist Ai Kamoshita explore the interrelated points of domesticity.

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Fashion Portfolio

Hedi Slimane and Sarah Richardson

Photographer Hedi Slimane and Document's Fashion Director Sarah Richardson in collaboration for the Spring / Summer 2018 issue.

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At Large

Amen Dunes makes peace with freedom

On ‘Freedom’, his fifth record as Amen Dunes, Damon McMahon makes post-modern soul music that stares down the borderless terrain of the self.

by Nathan Taylor Pemberton