Het Canadese Kinfolk, sinds 2011, is een hit. Het op mat papier en met klassieke schreefletter elegant opgemaakte, wijs gestemde en advertentievrije tijdschrift is al aan zijn twaalfde nummer toe. Het organiseerde evenementen, kwam met een kookboek, en kondigt meer expansie aan. Terwijl dit zomernummer nu juist bescheiden is, zich beperkt tot zout en zomer, interviews met Mark Bitterman en Mark Kurlansky, strandetiquette, ijsrecepten, zoutvlakten, Steinbeck, strandkust, duiken, inktvis vangen, New Yorks zout - en erg veel mooie fotografie. We bladeren en beschrijven.
Een selectie uit de inhoudsopgave:
Jakub Michalski, in 2012 op Magpile:
'Kinfolk Magazine, edited by Nathan Williams, is one of the nicest publications I've seen recently. Every issue presents a collection of essays, personal stories and beautiful photographs, as well as paintings, and is a result of a collaboration with artists and creatives from around the globe, all sharing "an interest in small gatherings".'
Tim Murphy in The New York Times, wat kritischer:
'The publication has gained a foothold with the international design-foodie elite for its elegant white pages showing little more than beautiful, dreamy young (mostly white) people, wearing loose braids, knit caps, calico skirts and plenty of comfy flannel and doing earthy things like communing over groaning boards of roasted garden vegetables, diving into swimming holes and lazily traversing the world’s byways on vintage bikes with picnic baskets affixed to them. The images are accompanied by essays that extol the virtues of “slow living”; in other words, doing things that Laura Ingalls Wilder and Tom Sawyer once considered chores, like whitewashing fences, harvesting berries, shucking and boiling corn and dying and sewing one’s own clothes. Call it Prairie Porn.'
'The publication has gained a foothold with the international design-foodie elite for its elegant white pages showing little more than beautiful, dreamy young (mostly white) people, wearing loose braids, knit caps, calico skirts and plenty of comfy flannel and doing earthy things like communing over groaning boards of roasted garden vegetables, diving into swimming holes and lazily traversing the world’s byways on vintage bikes with picnic baskets affixed to them.
The images are accompanied by essays that extol the virtues of “slow living”; in other words, doing things that Laura Ingalls Wilder and Tom Sawyer once considered chores, like whitewashing fences, harvesting berries, shucking and boiling corn and dying and sewing one’s own clothes. Call it Prairie Porn.'
We wijdden zelf al twee besprekingen aan Kinfolk op Athenaeum.nl: