![Lilly Wachowski’s manifesto on New Mythologies](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/10112308/DOCUMENT_Lily-W_WEB-THUMBNAIL-600x450.jpg)
Lilly Wachowski’s manifesto on New Mythologies
In this exclusive essay for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue, the painter and filmmaker takes a look at the challenges on our horizon, and finds the...
![Rituals and origin stories across Japan’s southern islands](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/03114955/DOCUMENT_Japan_WEB-THUMBNAIL-600x450.jpg)
Rituals and origin stories across Japan’s southern islands
Land art, mythic stones, Shikoku pilgrims, and contemporary architecture as seen by photographer Laurence Ellis for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue
![Hallucinating sense in the era of infinity-content](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/28170237/DOC24_Technical-Images_WEB-DOC24_Silicon-Valley_WEB-THUMBNAIL-600x450.jpg)
Hallucinating sense in the era of infinity-content
This essay for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue traverses arthouse cinema, Shein, and streaming to explore how the ‘technical image’ is changing the nature of meaning-making
![New Red Order blends satire and sincerity to deconstruct empire](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/23181552/DOC24-NEW_RED_ORDER_WEB-THUMBNAIL-600x450.jpg)
New Red Order blends satire and sincerity to deconstruct empire
For Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue, the public secret society and art collective mobilizes a campaign for returning land to Indigenous Americans
![Techno-futurists are selling an interplanetary paradise for the posthuman generation—they just forgot about the rest of us](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/23125857/THUMBNAIL-600x450.jpg)
Techno-futurists are selling an interplanetary paradise for the posthuman generation—they just forgot about the rest of us
Inside the cult of TESCREALism and the dangerous fantasies of Silicon Valley’s self-appointed demigods, for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue
![An exoplanetary archaeology of the Prada archive](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/22183545/DOCUMENT_Prada-Artifacts_WEB-THUMBNAIL-600x450.jpg)
An exoplanetary archaeology of the Prada archive
For its Spring/Summer 2024 issue, Document shares a series of fashion artifacts recovered from the interstellar future
![Futuristic aspirations and climate limitations collide on the elevations of the Bolivian Altiplano](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/21151832/DOC24-ALTIPLANO-FREDERIC_LAGRANGE_WEB-THUMBNAIL-600x450.jpg)
Futuristic aspirations and climate limitations collide on the elevations of the Bolivian Altiplano
In the South American highlands, prehistoric landscapes of salt flats and plant life are confronting the environmental challenges of drought and lithium mining
![Shahzia Sikander transforms time into a medium](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/16162843/DOC24-SHAHZIA_SIKANDER_WEB-THUMBNAIL-600x450.jpg)
Shahzia Sikander transforms time into a medium
In an exclusive portfolio for Document Journal’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue, the artist merges the present, past, and possible
![Inside the secret libidinal archive of George Platt Lynes](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/14125246/DOC24-GEORGE_PLATT_LYNES-WEB-THUMBNAIL-1-600x450.jpg)
Inside the secret libidinal archive of George Platt Lynes
Director Sam Shahid joins photographer Bruce Weber to discuss the artist’s clandestine homoerotic nudes, documented in his new film ‘Hidden Master’
![Confronting emerging mythologies from the striptease to gang wars to ‘The Sims’](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/08151452/DOC24-ROLAND_BARTHES-WEB-THUMBNAIL-600x450.jpg)
Confronting emerging mythologies from the striptease to gang wars to ‘The Sims’
Document asked 15 critics to turn philosopher Roland Barthes’s 1950s magazine column on its head for its Spring/Summer 2024 issue
![Second Life’s loyal users embrace its decaying software and no-fun imperfections](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/08115312/DOC24-BELA_BORSODI-ALICE_BUCKNELL-WEB-THUMBNAIL-600x450.jpg)
Second Life’s loyal users embrace its decaying software and no-fun imperfections
Inside the multiplayer virtual world of furries, glitchy landscapes, and digital slumlords, for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue
![The sincere glamor of Candy Darling](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/07130731/DOC24-CANDY_DARLING-GERARD_MALANGA-WEB-THUMBNAIL-600x450.jpg)
The sincere glamor of Candy Darling
For Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue, the artist and trans starlet’s divahood is reconsidered five decades after her passing
![Living among the City of the Dead in Colma, California](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/12122431/DOC23_COLMA_WEB-THUMBNAIL-600x450.jpg)
Living among the City of the Dead in Colma, California
For Document’s Fall/Winter 23, writer Daniel Gumbiner explores life, death, and industry in the state’s largest necropolis
![Iggy Teller does Teller](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/25120916/Juergen_1-600x450.jpg)
Iggy Teller does Teller
For Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue, Juergen Teller and Dovile Drizyte reimagine the artist’s iconic works in a portfolio with their baby, Iggy, as its star
![Resisting simulations of the self](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/27180419/DOCUMENT23_MCKENZIE-WARK_WEB-THUMBNAIL-600x450.jpg)
Resisting simulations of the self
For Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue, McKenzie Wark grapples with society’s love for identity-making, imagining a future free from flags or labels
![B-girls shoulder the history of breaking](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/27122444/DOC23_NIKE_THUMBNAIL-600x450.jpg)
B-girls shoulder the history of breaking
Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue profiles the women at the forefront of breakdancing as it makes its way to the Olympic floor
![Between mountains and sea, Brioni safeguards traditions of tailoring](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/16161442/DOCUMENT23_BRIONI_EDDHORDER_WEB-THUMBNAIL-600x450.jpg)
Between mountains and sea, Brioni safeguards traditions of tailoring
For its Fall/Winter 2023 issue, Document travels to Italy’s Abruzzo region where the atelier’s heritage collides with la dolce vita
![In the New Hampshire wild, DJs Octo Octa and Eris Drew forage for the sound of home](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/14132449/DOCUMENT23_ERISDREW_OCTOOCTA-THUMBNAIL-600x450.jpg)
In the New Hampshire wild, DJs Octo Octa and Eris Drew forage for the sound of home
For Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue, McKenzie Wark is a houseguest of the dynamic pair, picking their brains on what it is to build a life...
![Constance Debré on dirty freedoms](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/13122617/DOCUMENT_CONSTANCEDEBRE_WEB_THUMBNAIL-600x450.jpg)
Constance Debré on dirty freedoms
For Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue, the novelist muses on love and power across the prison window’s glass
![Moments of Respite: A portrait of North Africa’s migrant and queer communities](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/03111306/Laurence_1-600x450.jpg)
Moments of Respite: A portrait of North Africa’s migrant and queer communities
Photographer Laurence Ellis captures individuals living and dreaming on their own land for Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue
![Paul Sepuya holds a mirror up to the medium, in conversation with Ryan McNamara](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/27125247/Paul_1-600x450.jpg)
Paul Sepuya holds a mirror up to the medium, in conversation with Ryan McNamara
The photographer presents ‘Setups and In-Betweens’ for Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue, a portfolio of improvisational images
![Martine Gutierrez deconstructs the avatar, in conversation with Zackary Drucker](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/24120845/Martine_1-600x450.jpg)
Martine Gutierrez deconstructs the avatar, in conversation with Zackary Drucker
For Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue, the artist shares ‘Child Interrupted,’ a portfolio positioning the self as invention
![Cherokee Jack takes to Mono Lake for contemplative adventure](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/20133558/Moncler_1-600x450.jpg)
Cherokee Jack takes to Mono Lake for contemplative adventure
Photographer Cole Sprouse and stylist Michelle Cameron capture the activist against natural geometries, equipped with protean garments from the Moncler x Pharrell Williams collection
![The sacrament of the secondhand](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/22125959/1-3-600x450.jpg)
The sacrament of the secondhand
Amid the crowds of the kilo sale, Shahidha Bari bears witness to the perennial art of passing down and picking up
![The erotic architecture of Fire Island, where flesh and fantasy meet](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/17134521/FireIsland_1-600x450.jpg)
The erotic architecture of Fire Island, where flesh and fantasy meet
Between the Pines and Cherry Grove rests a legacy of gay desire, treading nature and artifice off Long Island’s South Shore
![Chasing the mirage of the “future city”](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/15113459/Mohamed_1-600x450.jpg)
Chasing the mirage of the “future city”
From Futurama to The Line, Mohamed Elshahed points to the failed promise of the smart metropolis, where yesterday’s dreams make up tomorrow’s nightmares
![Epistolary Filth: The life and death of ‘J.D.s’ zine](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/17130726/JDS_1-600x450.jpg)
Epistolary Filth: The life and death of ‘J.D.s’ zine
For Document’s Spring/Summer 2023 issue, Jesse Doris looks back on the transgressive queer digest, and the subculture it willed into existence
![The thrills and perils of raw-dogging reality](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/15103707/Christina_1-600x450.jpg)
The thrills and perils of raw-dogging reality
Untethered from drugs, apps, and shoes, Christina Catherine Martinez charts a journey of physical and psychological undress to Mexico’s only nude beach
![Uncovering the photographic archive of Allen Ginsberg](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/11125906/Ginsberg_1-600x450.jpg)
Uncovering the photographic archive of Allen Ginsberg
For Document’s Spring/Summer 2023 issue, the Beat poet is recontextualized through his own lens, portraiting the likes of Iggy Pop, Gus Van Sant, William S....
![On Treasure Beach, ceremonies of hospitality and hallucinogens draw a path to the self](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/11113316/Ira_1-600x450.jpg)
On Treasure Beach, ceremonies of hospitality and hallucinogens draw a path to the self
For Document’s Spring/Summer 2023 issue, literary savant Ira Silverberg looks back on psychologically-formative experiences along Jamaica’s coast
![The seductive promise of finding home on the homepage](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/11112148/OliverBown_1-600x450.jpg)
The seductive promise of finding home on the homepage
For Document’s Spring/Summer 2023 issue, Oliver Brown dissects how physical reality defines social interaction, from escalators to web browsers and the metaverse
![A Return to the Land: Regenerative agricultural practices safeguard future fertility](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/05130230/Laurence_1-600x450.jpg)
A Return to the Land: Regenerative agricultural practices safeguard future fertility
Photographer Laurence Ellis captures the farmers paving a new path toward sustainability for Document’s Spring/Summer 2023 issue
![Between rivers and histories, An-My Lê’s photographs interrogate the complex fictions of warfare](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/04115442/An_1-600x450.jpg)
Between rivers and histories, An-My Lê’s photographs interrogate the complex fictions of warfare
For Document’s Spring/Summer 2023 issue, MoMA’s Roxana Marcoci curates a selection of lesser-known works from the artist’s complex oeuvre
![Between illusion and the studied art of the tease, strip clubs are the last bastion of the American Dream](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/22192404/Susan_1-600x450.jpg)
Between illusion and the studied art of the tease, strip clubs are the last bastion of the American Dream
Rachel Rabbit White explores the strip club's enduring fantasy of social and sexual upward mobility, both on-stage and off
![Chasing divinity in the Mojave Desert](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/25223713/KenLayne_1-600x450.jpg)
Chasing divinity in the Mojave Desert
For the seeker, the mystic, the artist, the outlaw, the romantic idiot, the allure of the American West endures
![Ariana Papademetropoulos warps archetypal ways of seeing with ghostly fantasies](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/22211728/Ariana_1-600x450.jpg)
Ariana Papademetropoulos warps archetypal ways of seeing with ghostly fantasies
For Document’s Winter/Resort 2023 issue, the artist shares a portfolio of paintings that blur the boundary between mythology and reality
![In Pasco County, Florida—Nudist Capital, USA—the body politic is on fully display](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/29124232/Nudists_1-600x450.jpg)
In Pasco County, Florida—Nudist Capital, USA—the body politic is on fully display
Way down upon the Suwannee River, purists and partiers clash over the movements founding doctrine
![In ‘Death of A,’ Kandis Williams invents recognition of the internal](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/14115322/KandisWilliams_1-600x450.jpg)
In ‘Death of A,’ Kandis Williams invents recognition of the internal
For Document’s Winter/Resort 2023 issue, the artist compiles stills from her stripped-down interpretation of Arthur Miller’s classic tragedy
![Behind crumbling highways and ghost towns lies the mythological freedom of the American road](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/22190928/Nadav_1-600x450.jpg)
Behind crumbling highways and ghost towns lies the mythological freedom of the American road
Is the walkability-car divide another front in the so-called ‘culture wars’? Drew Zeiba explores the online proliferation of the new urbanist
![Raw eggs, pink pills, and embodied identity: Online communities create their own proof in a vacuum of truth](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/22185503/Josh_1-600x450.jpg)
Raw eggs, pink pills, and embodied identity: Online communities create their own proof in a vacuum of truth
Radical Liberal Online Activists and Right Wing Bodybuilders represent two poles of the political spectrum—but they are are each a product of the waning of...
![Anicka Yi’s paintings are living, autonomous creatures](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/22205423/Anicka_1-600x450.jpg)
Anicka Yi’s paintings are living, autonomous creatures
Following her 'ÄLñ§ñ' exhibition, the artist joins Hans-Ulrich Obrist to discuss why art and science should mingle
![Waajeed constructs Afrofuturist realms from the seed of Detroit techno](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/22195304/Detroit_1-600x450.jpg)
Waajeed constructs Afrofuturist realms from the seed of Detroit techno
The musician's latest album, 'Memoirs of Hi-Tech Jazz,' is an exploration of the technological funk and soul that defined his youth and the city's cultural...
![In ‘Whirlpool,’ Jim Goldberg examines the spirit of the small-town South](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/28115053/JimGoldberg_1-600x450.jpg)
In ‘Whirlpool,’ Jim Goldberg examines the spirit of the small-town South
For Document’s Winter/Resort 2023 issue, the photographer uncovers the nuance of the working-class life along Arkansas’s White River
![From El Paso to Harlem: Troy Montes-Michie explores the subversive history of the zoot suit](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/06141908/THUMB_HORIZONTAL-14-600x450.jpg)
From El Paso to Harlem: Troy Montes-Michie explores the subversive history of the zoot suit
For Document’s tenth anniversary, the artist joins independent curator Monique Long to expand on the lasting allure of the iconic ensemble
![Matthew Williams wants his clothing to have a life of its own](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/06150322/THUMB_HORIZONTAL_01-1-600x450.jpg)
Matthew Williams wants his clothing to have a life of its own
For Document’s tenth anniversary, the Givenchy Creative Director shares the ways in which he navigates the science of fashion and how the cities he’s lived...
![New York was killing me: Seeking community in the city of cultural saturation](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/06144941/THUMB_HORIZONTAL-16-600x450.jpg)
New York was killing me: Seeking community in the city of cultural saturation
For Document’s tenth anniversary, Rahel Aima reflects on what New York gave to her, and why she left it
![Jimmy DeSana, an iconoclast even within the ’70s avant-garde, is finally entering mainstream consciousness](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/23124750/THUMB_HORIZONTAL-47-600x450.jpg)
Jimmy DeSana, an iconoclast even within the ’70s avant-garde, is finally entering mainstream consciousness
Laurie Simmons and Drew Sawyer discuss the late artist’s AIDS-era collages in a portfolio for Document’s tenth anniversary
![Eileen Myles chronicles a people’s history of East River Park](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/31151746/THUMB_HORIZONTAL-24-600x450.jpg)
Eileen Myles chronicles a people’s history of East River Park
For Document’s tenth anniversary, the writer merges personal, political, and geological histories to document a city in flux
![Frédéric Lagrange finds faith in faces](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/06134816/THUMB_HORIZONTAL-13-600x450.jpg)
Frédéric Lagrange finds faith in faces
For Document’s tenth anniversary, the photographer presents the most memorable moments of his career in a series of portraits
![Nicolas Party warps familiar realities into an unsettling world of his own](https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/06131517/THUMB_HORIZONTAL-12-600x450.jpg)