Author: Rabinowitz, Cay SophieThis issue features a portfolio by Maureen Beitler about an unusual family in the Hudson Valley; essays by curator Marina Chao on new collages by Justine Kurland and by Ben Read on the poetic landscapes of South African photographer Ian van Coller; a long research report on the relationship between modernist architecture and personal health by architect Landon Brown; and a fiction text by Judith Zander responding to the photographs of ruins in former East Germany by Sven Gatter.There is also a reportage by Onaje Benjamin on the long-term work of SNUG, a community first response team responding to gun violence in Upstate New York neighbourhoods.An “art magazine about the use and abuse of photography,” OSMOS is divided into thematic sections: some traditional and others more idiosyncratic. ISBN 9781734555745. OSMOS. pb. 96 pages. 63 colour, 33 b/w ills. 28 x 21.6 cm.not yet published
