Draft 006 available instore now…
Darkroom director Rhonda Drakeford enjoyed a conversation with editor of Draft, Paul Cohen a few months back about the Archive of Modern Conflict – the place from where everything included in the new issue of Draft has been drawn, and has been looking forward to seeing this special edition ever since...
The Archive is described by those who work there as 'a place for material that describes a universe out of kilter, not in balance – a kind of laboratory, where experiments take place'. Draft asked artists, academics and photographers to visit the Archive and curate a selection of images. The result is Draft 006 who's cover houses a reproduction of the darkly humoured Jake and Dinos Chapman's watercolour 'If Hitler Had Been a Hippy How Happy Would We Be', and includes selections of images from the last days of Alcatraz by Jeremy Deller, photographs of the interiors of private aircraft from the 1970's selected by Martin Parr and radical Women's Liberation images and posters from the 60's and 70's selected by Journalist Astrid Proll.
Draft is a beautifully produced publication that shouldn't be sullied with the term 'magazine'. Printed in a limited edition of 1500 and available now at Darkroom for £15. Image shown above: Between 1990 and 1998 Lu Zhongguang was a soldier in the Chinese People's Liberation Army. He subsequently became a journalist for the army department of Guangdong Province, and devoted much of his time to photographing soldiers in basic training and making photographs for recruitment campaigns such as those seen above.
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