Poétique du Récit

Photographer Sam Penn and fashion editor Alex Assil collaborate on this fashion portfolio for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue

The Rustle of Language

Photographer Giovanni Corabi and Document's Style Director Ronald Burton III collaborate on this fashion portfolio for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue

Writing Degree Zero

Photographer Mark Steinmetz and fashion editor Yohana Lebasi collaborate on this fashion portfolio for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue

The many lives of Mia Khalifa

For Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue, the activist, model, and jewelry designer opens up about the twists and turns of her career and the political power...

What is Sport?

Photographer Max Farago and fashion editor Delphine Danhier collaborate on this fashion portfolio starring Devon Lee Carlson for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue

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

Searching for tenderness with Kelela

Inside the artist’s main characters for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue—those who pre-game in Santee Alley, dance behind the DJ booth, and taking up space

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

Decoding the ‘it’ factor with Abbey Lee

In an exclusive digital interview for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue, the cover star details how she found acting and a new sense of creative fulfillment

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

The Structural Analysis of Narrative

Photographer Joshua Woods and fashion editor Gabriella Karefa-Johnson collaborate on this fashion portfolio for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue

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

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

Empire of Signs

Photographer Letty Schmiterlow and fashion editor Jasmine Hassett collaborate on this fashion portfolio for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024

Bill T. Jones and Hank Willis Thomas reanimate creative freedom

The choreographer and conceptualist challenge the categories and moralities of the artist for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024

A Lover’s Discourse

Photographer Nikolai von Bismarck and fashion editor Ola Ebiti collaborate on this fashion portfolio for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue

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

All Except You

Photographer Chris Lensz and Style Director Ronald Burton III collaborate on this fashion portfolio for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue

The gospel of Schiaparelli according to Creative Director Daniel Roseberry and his mom, Fran

Fashion Critic-at-Large Katharine K. Zarrella gets to the heart of sartorial scripture with the mother and son for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue

The Metaphor of the Eye

Photographer Markn and stylist Rasharn Agyemang collaborate on this fashion portfolio for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue

Club Document: Celebrating SS24 with Erykah Badu, Michèle Lamy, and Editor-in-Chief Nick Vogelson

Inside our Issue 24 launch party featuring hot guests and even hotter DJ sets

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

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

For Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue, the artist and trans starlet’s divahood is reconsidered five decades after her passing

Jacques Vallée and Jeffrey J. Kripal challenge the limits of knowledge

The scientist and scholar discuss UFO sightings, AI utopias, and top-secret projects for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue

Clarissa Dalrymple and David Velasco imagine an art world built on human connection

In conversation for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue, the curator and critic recount the friendships, politics, and small graces of New York City’s cultural legacies

The Responsibility of Forms

Photographer Thue Nørgaard and stylist Beat Bolliger collaborate on this fashion portfolio for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue

Maya Hawke and Kim Gordon dissect the poetics of commerce

The multidisciplinary artists untangle lyric metaphors and pop cultural myths for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue

Pleasure of the Text

Photographer Davit Giorgadze, stylist Thistle Brown, and make-up artist Yadim collaborate on this fashion portfolio featuring Valentino Beauty for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue

The Grain of the Voice

Photographer Jackie Nickerson and Style Director Ronald Burton III collaborate on this fashion portfolio for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue

Éléments de Sémiologie

Photographer Théo de Gueltzl and Fashion Director-at-Large Robbie Spencer collaborate on this fashion portfolio for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue

Viggo Mortensen and Ron Howard see storytelling as an act of collaboration

For Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue, the filmmakers ruminate on the transportive power of cinema, the art of interpretation, and the importance of honoring your audience

Erykah Badu and Michèle Lamy summon the spirit of the future

The musician and designer participate in a visionary mind meld for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue, addressing everything from artistic truth-telling to their gold teeth

How To Live Together

Photographer Paul Kooiker and Fashion Director-at-Large Robbie Spencer collaborate on this fashion portfolio for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue

The eternal dreams of Jean Paul Gaultier and Simone Rocha

Wit! Romance! Femininity! The designers talk with Fashion Critic-at-Large Katharine K. Zarrella about the state of haute couture for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue

Isabelle Huppert and Bruce LaBruce capture the profound power of deviance

For Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue, the actor and director discuss the cinematic language, fashion, and revolution in their filmographies

Document Launches Spring/Summer 2024: New Mythologies