Boy.Brother.Friend N°3-5

Boy.Brother.Friend will dissect a new theme each issue, producing artist commissions,surveys of fashion, photography, interviews, new writing: essays, and theories on diaspora,displacement, and more. For the 3rd issue, Boy.Brother.Friend explores the theme ofMovement & Migration and unfolds over four chapters: Arrivals and Departures,Upwardly Mobile, Solidarity Community and Air, Land and Sea. Taking Marseille/Paris as both a starting point and a site for its explorations, Boy.Brother.Friend digsbeneath the surface of these two sprawling cities in the French Republic to present acontemporary snapshot of, and love-letter to Francophone Diaspora’n creativity.
Mohamed Bourousissa’s work was introduced by our former Editorial DirectorEmmanuel Balogun via Parisian gallery Kamel Mennour at the inception ofthis publication and we were so proud to include his iconic work from the series‘Peripherique’ in issue 1. Mohamed’s work confronts complex socio-economic issuesand seeks out tensions between different social contexts. His work also questionscollective histories that touch on French colonialism, migration, visibility and underrepresentation. In You’ve got to Be ready to fight the forces after a few travel rejections/restrictions due to Brexit and the pandemic Mohamed and our team were lucky enoughto spend a day with eight brilliant boys making a fashion story and film with Burberryby Riccardo Tisci on the south coast of Marseille street casted by Stephane Gaboue.Nigerian designer Kenneth Ize then brought us to Paris, France for his second onschedule runway show. In New Dawn we documented Ize’s SS21 show which waswonderfully soundtracked by musician CKTRL at Palais De Tokyo. Ize then spoketo myself and our new Junior Editor Nelson CJ about how he wanted black peopleto wear his clothes with royalty and a strong sense of pride. This series was beautifullydocumented by Reto Schmid. Whilst in Paris Mahoro Seward sat down with legendaryMalian-Senegalese designer of Xuly Bet, Lamine Badian Kouyate. Kouyate spoke to usabout his strong designs, efforts in staying true to his passion for upcycling and necessityfor a sustainable approach to clothing. His clothes were then shipped to Montreal,Canada for a special shot by Etienne Saint-Denis and styled by Lu Philippe Guilmette
Sierra Leone and British Stylist and editor in chief of Dazed Magazine Ib Kamara,picks up the camera with the help of Justin French and turns it to himself and his alterego Sin’egal to deliver some of the most intriguing self portraits that we have ever seen.Kamara portrays a beautiful and intimate vulnerability in his photographs that is notoften seen.
The Òsun Òsogbo is an annual festival held in western Nigerian city of Òsogbo bythe Yoruba people of Òsun state. Known to be the biggest Yoruba traditional festival,the festival attracts thousands of spectators and worshipers globally in August everyyear. It's held in honor of Òsun; a goddess of femininity, fertility, spirituality, emotions,sensuality, nurture, and love. Young photographer Adetolani Davies Jr documentedthis important annual moment within Yoruba culture in Scenes From The Osun OsogboFestival 2021 as well as the scared Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove, the landscape of thegrove and its meandering river is dotted with sanctuaries and shrines, sculptures and artworks in honour of Osun and other deities

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