Justsmile Issue 7: What We Carry Forward

Justsmile Issue 6 “What We Carry Forward” revisits ideas and stories from the past, honoring their origins while presenting them in a modernized form.

Cover 1 features cktrl photographed by Jessica Madavo and styled by Feranmi Eso. In Dylan Green’s cover feature ‘cktrl, In Sound And Silence’, the Lewisham-born multi-instrumentalist, composer, and DJ reflects on a decade of musical experimentation in the afterglow of his debut album release.

Cover 2 features Theaster Gates photographed by Donavon Smallwood. For two decades, the Chicago native has expanded the category of the artist, moulding and recombining raw matter in service of his people.

Also in the issue: Justsmile Fashion Director Yashua Simmons explores the idea of family values—asking how they are passed down, preserved, and transformed across generations. Artist Lucien Smith, now a restaurateur, shares his journey of bringing back the 1971 Soho-based artist-run restaurant founded by Gordon Matta-Clark. Kiyan Williams—an artist working across sculpture, installation, performance, and public art—engages with writer Zoë Hopkins. Fashion Editor Marcus Correa takes us on a journey to Delancey Street in Lower Manhattan. Inspired by the street style of the 1980s, he collaborates with photographer Tom Kneller. Amid his nationally-touring Young, Gifted and Black exhibition, which excerpts from the Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family collection, Bernard Lumpkin discusses his philosophies of collecting and the living room as classroom. We speak with the prolific photographer Baldwin Lee about his moving images from the 1980s. Curator Oluremi C. Onabanjo gives us a preview of the forthcoming Ideas of Africa: Portraiture and Political Imagination at MoMA. And much more!

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