{"id":2693,"date":"2010-04-12T14:23:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T13:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/?p=2693"},"modified":"2013-07-28T10:50:52","modified_gmt":"2013-07-28T09:50:52","slug":"issue-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/issue-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Issue 27: Crosscurrent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"review_photo\" alt=\"issue027\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/issue027.jpg?resize=300%2C378&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"300\" height=\"378\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>ISSUE 27: CROSSCURRENT \u2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published April 2010<\/strong><br \/><strong>Features<\/strong><br \/>Geert van Kesteren, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin<br \/>Lisa Barnard, Mark Power and Daniel Cockrill, Marco Vernaschi<br \/>Roberto Boccaccino, Jane Hilton, Sohrab Hura, Liz Hingley<br \/>Louis Quail, Christian Burkert, Jamie Mcgregor Smith<br \/><strong>Columnists<\/strong><br \/>Mark Dowie, Peter Beaumont, Paul Hayward, The Afghan Hound<br \/>Malu Halasa, Simon Njami <strong>+ more.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html#3481869\/4206012\" height=\"705\" width=\"860\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Editors&#8217; Letter<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><strong><strong><br \/><\/strong><\/strong>RIP Motor City, farewell then, Motown. Detroit\u2019s illustrious past is lost to history and this rust belt city is now on the map for 50 per cent unemployment, its status as a \u201cmurder capital\u201d and is infamous \u2013 to photographers in particular \u2013 for the faded grandeur of its abandoned buildings. And yet\u2026 countering these dismal trends are crosscurrents of possibility. What if Detroit reimagined itself as one of the first post-industrial cities? Or if the parking lots were torn up and paradise unpaved? There\u2019s a real chance that this city could reclaim the fertile land that once gave birth to factories and turn its gravid potential into homegrown food. Our special report with photographs by Christian Burkert and Jamie Mcgregor Smith and words by Mark Dowie sees how the land lies.<\/p>\n<p>By the time this issue is out, it\u2019s odds on that a new political leader will be installed in Downing Street. Crosscurrents from the Tory regime that ended so memorably in 1997, as explored through Lisa Barnard\u2019s work on the former Conservative Party Headquarters, have informed Labour policy and will pervade the new regime with equal force.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere we look at different perspectives within mainstream news stories \u2013 Peter Beaumont and Louis Quail on Haiti, Paul Hayward on the first African World Cup, Geert van Kesteren\u2019s new project on Gaza \u2013 along with those that are more or less ignored in the press \u2013 Guinea-Bissau\u2019s collapse into lawlessness, Latvia\u2019s youth as they try to find their footing, as well as a personal battle with schizophrenia in India.<\/p>\n<p>Such reports are a contribution to history in the making. It is in or between these social, political and cultural crosscurrents that the potential for change, for radical alternatives to the problems faced by people across the globe, exists. If a common thread can be found, it is in studying power relations that are ceaselessly at play, and navigating a path towards responding personally or politically\u2026 without basing that response on diametrically opposed choices that in their narrowness remove space for contemplation.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re glad you could join us for our ongoing swim upstream.<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Preview a selection of spreads from issue 27 below<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.foto8.com\/stories\/issue27_to_web\" height=\"600\" width=\"580\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"27_Cover\" src=\"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/27_Cover.jpg\" height=\"147\" width=\"115\" \/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2691,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - 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