212, Issue 21 – Dear John

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212 is a large-format international biannual magazine based in Istanbul.

It’s a publication about art and society and each issue will tackle various universal subjects within a distinct theme, through long-form writing, short fiction, photo essays and interviews.

212 is a playground for photographers, artists and writers to communicate their thoughts on any given subject matter. Our aim is to collide the worlds of photography, art, fashion, and culture at large, with an in-depth editorial identity that affectionately merges the past with the present, as we like to call it the ‘long-now’.

In this issue:There was a time when we put our feelings into words and sent them away. Now, as the world is being reconfigured and the narratives we once relied on no longer hold, ‘Dear John’, reaches back to that gesture to ask a simple yet vital question: in the midst of all this transformation, how do we return to ourselves? Named after farewell letters, it is an introspection, a reckoning, and perhaps a search for another way of speaking to our time and to ourselves.

A new issue. A new season. A letter to our time. And an invitation to write one back.