148 x 200 mm, 400 pages Tokyo, Japan (English-language) Annual Editor-in-chief and creative director: Takuhito Kawashima Art director and design: Julie Peeters Born out of the creative direction studio of the same name, the charming ‘bookish’ format annual magazine Partners explores relationships through a thoughtfully curated selection of documentary photography. Each issue is anchored around a question, with contributors offering a wide range of photographic—and occasionally written—interpretations. This fourth issue poses the question ‘What do you follow?’, and features responses from a varied cohort of contributors, spanning artists and filmmakers, to anthropologists and astronomers. According to editor Takuhito Kawashima the idea for the issue was born out of a serendipitous Parisian coffee date with the photographer Osma Harvilahti, whose candid documentation of his partner over the course of their relationship highlighted the human ‘impulse to follow’. This tender series, titled ‘Butterflies’, opens the issue, and is followed by a selection of Tokuko Ushioda’s black and white photographs of over 100 refrigerators, exploring the ubiquitous appliance’s function as both time capsule and physical manifestation of ‘the way we live.’ Plus, contributions from Masayuki Tanaka, Christine Sun Kim, Rebekka Deubner, Nigel Shafran, Naira Sabandar, Masaomi Yasunaga, and more. partners.studio/magazine
