Pa Salieu is the driving force behind a new cultural narrative
For Document’s Winter/Resort 2023 issue, the breakout musician reflects on his many lives, from the frontline to international fame
Tommy Pico and Carmen Maria Machado investigate horror as a reflection of the American psyche
For Document’s Winter/Resort 2023 issue, the writers delve deep into our collective subconscious to reveal the inextricable link between desire and fear
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Rick Owens and Ron Athey were born from the sociosexual underworlds of Los Angeles
For Document’s Winter/Resort 2023 issue, the design deity and extreme performance artist reminisce on the teen degeneracy that informed their creative trajectories
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
Emma Corrin mines stories of unbridled, uncensored self-discovery
For Document’s Winter/Resort 2023 issue, the rising star speaks to film’s capacity for turning speculative freedoms into reality
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...
White Noise
Photographer Mario Sorrenti and Document’s fashion and creative director Sarah Richardson collaborate on this fashion portfolio for Document’s tenth anniversary
Milk Fed
Photographer Gray Sorrenti and Document’s fashion and creative director Sarah Richardson collaborate on this fashion portfolio for Document’s tenth anniversary
Lupita Nyong’o leverages language to depict the nuances of humanity
Upon her return to the ‘Black Panther’ franchise, the celebrated actor reflects on healing alongside her character for Document’s Winter/Resort 2023 issue
The Year of Magical Thinking
Photographer Richard Bush and Document’s fashion and creative director Sarah Richardson collaborate on this fashion portfolio for Document’s tenth anniversary
Just Kids
Venetia Scott photographs and styles this fashion portfolio for Document’s tenth anniversary
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
Kevin Abstract and Charles Atlas interrogate physical realities in digital fantasies
For Document’s Winter/Resort 2023 issue, the musician and the artist meet for the first time to explore the evolving principles and practices of video-making
Tropic of Orange
Photographer Thue Nørgaard and Document’s fashion and creative director Sarah Richardson collaborate on this fashion portfolio for Document’s tenth anniversary
Sofia Prantera’s Aries evolves hand in hand with youth culture
For Document’s Winter/Resort 2023 issue, the designer delves into the persistent allure of subculture and subverting the all-knowing algorithm
Hari Nef and Lena Dunham on the complicated communion of performance
For Document’s Winter/Resort 2023 issue, the actor and writer reunite in the name of authenticity—delving into their respective cults of personality
Nicolas Cage and John Carpenter are cinema’s most studious eccentrics
For Document’s Winter/Resort 2023 issue, the horror master and the movie star expound on a possible curriculum for the apocryphal Nicolas Cage University
Document Journal launches Winter/Resort 2023: The Fabric of America
For the second half of our tenth anniversary celebration, we widen our aperture from the city outside our window to examine America as a whole—or,...
She Loved to Look at Flowers
Photographer Janneke van der Hagen and stylist Alexandra Bickerdike collaborate on this fashion portfolio for Document’s tenth anniversary
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
The Poet’s Eye
Photographer James Brodribb and stylist Diana Choi collaborate on this fashion portfolio for Document’s tenth anniversary
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
For Document’s tenth anniversary, Rahel Aima reflects on what New York gave to her, and why she left it
The World is a Beautiful Place to be Born Into
Photographer Patrick Bienert and Document's fashion editor Alice Lefons collaborate on this fashion portfolio for Document’s tenth anniversary
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
Kafka’s Castle Stands Above the World
Photographer Alexandra Leese and stylist Camille Bidault-Waddington collaborate on this fashion portfolio for Document’s tenth anniversary
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
Gabriela Hearst and Amber Valletta look back to the land to imagine an energized future
For Document’s tenth anniversary issue, Chloé’s Creative Director is joined by the actor and model to discuss the intersection of environmentalism and artistry
Unified’s designs foreground versatility and collectability
Michael Colovos joins Document to discuss the eternal power of denim, and the making of Unified’s zine for Document’s tenth anniversary issue
Funny Fantasies Are Never So Real As Oldstyle Romances
Photographer Richard Bush and Document’s fashion and creative director Sarah Richardson collaborate on this fashion portfolio for Document’s tenth anniversary
Perfume Genius expresses the indefinable on ‘Ugly Season’
For Document’s tenth anniversary issue, musician Mike Hadreas reflects on the physicality of emotions and using anxiety as artistic fuel
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
In Woods Where Many Rivers Run
Photographer Glen Luchford and Document’s fashion and creative director Sarah Richardson collaborate on this fashion portfolio for Document’s tenth anniversary
Nicolas Party warps familiar realities into an unsettling world of his own
The Swiss artist discusses his otherworldly portfolio and paying homage to the rattlesnake in his painting of Joan Didion for Document’s Tenth Anniversary cover
The art of cruising in the post-digital age
From screens to streets: Drew Zeiba outlines the resurgence of anonymous sex in the city
Living at Xanadu: Ten writers muse on Joan Didion’s literary legacy
Cynthia Zarin, Ira Silverberg, Fariha Róisín, and others reflect on the reach of the iconic American voice
A war vocabulary: Displaced Ukrainians share fragmented stories of loss, trauma, and absurdity
“In a time of war, beauty becomes dangerous. Beautiful things, people, relationships—nowadays they don’t exist to inspire. They exist to be annihilated.”
I Have Not Lain With Beauty All My Life
Photographer Willy Vanderperre and stylist Olivier Rizzo collaborate on this fashion portfolio for Document’s tenth anniversary
And That’s the Way It Always Is and That’s the Way
Photographer Indigo Lewin and Document’s fashion and creative director Sarah Richardson collaborate on this fashion portfolio for Document’s tenth anniversary
The new coming of age, according to Ever Anderson and Diana Silvers
The actors meet to investigate the next generation of teenage cinema
That Sensual Phosphorescence My Youth Delighted In
Photographer Richard Bush and Document’s fashion and creative director Sarah Richardson collaborate on this fashion portfolio for Document’s tenth anniversary
Truth Is Not The Secret Of A Few
Photographer Mario Sorrenti and Document’s fashion and creative director Sarah Richardson collaborate on this fashion portfolio for Document’s tenth anniversary
