Contributor, Issue 16 (Ali Michael cover)

Exploring fashion through art and photography since 2008, Contributor invites the viewer into a three-dimensional world of inspiration and creativity. In bringing together some of the most interesting artists today, Contributor highlights experimental approaches to photography. The print magazine is available online and at selected stores worldwide. The production team behind Contributor consists of Editor-in-Chief Robert Rydberg, Creative Director Martin Sandberg, Publishing Editor Antonia Nessen, Executive Editor Magnus Magnusson and Fashion Editor Hilda Sandström, working alongside editorial partners.

In this issue:

What’s in the box? Instead of a conventional magazine format, we continue to package Contributor in a box. Inside you’ll find a selection of large prints in two different sizes and one poster.

We’re thrilled to have the actress Katherine Waterston on the cover. Waterston’s lived-in, full-bodied, and palpable commitment is why she’s become a reliable source for a variety of directors looking to infuse their characters with a visceral complexity, a nuanced humanity, that’s difficult to find elsewhere.

For our second cover, we walked around Paris with supermodel Ali Michael, masterly styled by our Editor-In-Chief Robert Rydberg. Throughout this issue, we take a look at how modernist discourses about fashion keep influencing the present. From color charts and block patterns, to the recombination of contrasting pieces of clothing and fashion as architecture, we reflect on the theme of “blocking”.