Fall/Winter 2023

Founder and editor of OSMOS Magazine Cay Sophie Rabinowitz (formerly of Parkett and Fantom) describes the publication as “an art magazine about the use and abuse of photography.” The magazine is divided into thematic sections—some traditional, and others more idiosyncratic.

OSMOS Magazine Issue 25 features an essay by writer and researcher Jonah Goldman Kay on the involved and multi-dimensional critique inherent to the work of sculptor, photographer, and filmmaker RaMell Ross and his extrapolation of a long, black, Southern history.

Artist Gauri Gill, recipient of the 2023 Prix Pictet for photography and sustainability, discusses her series The Village on the Highway (2021) on the vernacular architecture of farmers at the Singhu border in India--a response to new, threatening laws instituted by the Indian government. This is a story about resilience, ingenuity, persistence, and courage.

Christian Rattemeyer expands on the experimental and alchemical photographic practice of Los Angeles artist Matthew Brandt, focusing on the textural black and gold carbon prints (2018-23) and their relationships to recent California forest fires, forming a visually striking dialogue between site, lived experience, material, and modes of production.

Emerging conceptual artist Nicole Wilson introduces her work Ötzi, while Czech curator, Michal Nanoru, surveys the paintings and personality of Jakub Matuska. Some of the highlights in this issue of OSMOS Magazine come from our discoveries, namely, the photographs James P. Meyer made of Prague in 1968, and the stunning color street photographs of women made over the course of one year by Catherine DeLattre, whose solo exhibition Shoppers, Broadway Upper West Side, NYC, 1979-80 was on view at OSMOS Address in NYC through November 4, 2023.