Michael Kenna is a British photographer best known for his black-and-white images of unpopulated landscapes and urban scenes. Often employing long exposure times that he further emphasizes in the dark room, Kenna’s work is both picturesque and mysterious. "You can't always see what's otherwise noticeable during the day,” he has explained. “With long exposures, you can photograph what the human eye is incapable of seeing." Throughout his focused practice, Kenna is more inspired by earlier photographers, such as Eugène Atget and Alfred Stieglitz, than by his contemporaries. Born in 1953 in Lancashire, England, he originally intended on becoming a priest, but was ultimately drawn to art. He attend the London College of Printing, where he learned commercial photography techniques. Kenna moved to San Francisco in 1977 and began exhibiting in local galleries, developing his hallmark subject matter and high-contrast black-and-white aesthetic. He attributes his technical breakthroughs in the medium to his time spent working as a printing assistant for the famed photographer Ruth Bernhard. Today, Kenna’s works are in the collections of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, among others. He lives and works in Seattle, WA.

Stefan Sagmeister is an Austrian graphic designer and typographer based in New York. His eye-catching and provocative designs are imprinted in popular culture in the form of album art for many music artists, including Lou Reed, OK Go, The Rolling Stones, Jay Z, Pat Metheny, and Talking Heads.

Joe Perez is a creative director and graphic artist behind some of the most acclaimed records of our time. After working with Kanye West for eight years, including his notable contribution as a creative director at DONDA, he launched his own design and animation studio. The cover he designed for The Pinkprint album by Nicky Minaj ended up on Billboard’s list of The 50 Greatest Album Covers of All Time, amid other iconic designs.

What is the nature of control? The desire for it and to be free of it are essential parts of both life and art. New issue explores the many ways we attempt to exert or wrest away control – creatively, politically, socially – through the lens of a diverse array of artists who have broken down the boundaries of authority in their work: Laia Abril, Barbara Alter, Richard Avedon, Roe Ethridge, Sam Geballe, Nan Goldin, Jos Jansen, Steven Klein, Barbara Kruger, Mona Kuhn, Natalie Lennard, Tyler Mitchell, Richard-Jonathan Nelson, Lisa Oppenheim, Frida Orupabo, Rodrigo Valenzuela, James Welling, Jordan Wolfson, and more.

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