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ABOUT US
Seen is a journal of film, art, and visual culture, dedicated to platforming nuanced and rigorous writing by and about Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities globally. We are published in print twice per year by BlackStar Projects, home of the annual BlackStar Film Festival.
Each issue blends the intellectual rigor of scholarly journals with the slick, creative aesthetics of magazine culture. Now in our fifth year of publication, Seen provides a consistent platform to uplift creative, challenging, and innovative storytelling from both emerging and established voices. With the number of outlets for cultural criticism rapidly declining, we play a vital role in building and maintaining an archive of compelling analysis and commentary on visual media across the globe.
“It’s important that Seen is beautiful. Part of what makes people archive things is because they find them precious. For the people who get them into their hands, we want them to hold onto them. We hope they’re here 200 years from now.”
— MAORI KARMAEL HOLMES, FOUNDING EDITOR
Artwork by RAQUEL HAZELL for Seen 005
“We really want people to enjoy reading – to have it on their co ee table or have it at their o ce so they can flip through the pages – and that means the pages have to feel good.”
— MAORI KARMAEL HOLMES, FOUNDING EDITOR
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Pro le of LORRAINE O’GRADY for Seen 005
ANDRÉ HOLLAND photographed for Seen 009
Pro le of MARTINE SYMS Seen 004
Artwork by RAQUEL HAZELL for Seen 007
ABIGAIL LUCIEN photographed for Seen 006
Artwork by POLA MANELI for Seen 008
UPLIFTING CREATIVE VOICES
PAST CONTRIBUTORS
AISHA HARRIS
AUTUMN DURALD ARKAPAW
CAULEEN SMITH
DAROL OLU KAE
DEBORAH THOMAS
J WORTHAM
JA’TOVIA GARY
JEFF CHANG
JENNY YANG
MURTADA ELFADL
NUOTAMA BODOMO
OMAR BERRADA
RASHIDA BUMBRAY
SKY HOPINKA
YANCE FORD
ZEBA BLAY
ZOE SAMUDZI
FEATURED ARTISTS
ADEBUNMI GBADEBO
AKINOLA DAVIES JR.
AMY SHERALD
ARTHUR JAFA
ANDRÉ HOLLAND
CHARLES GAINES
COLMAN DOMINGO
DANIELLE DEADWYLER
DREAM HAMPTON
JESUS HILARIO-REYES
JUNE GIVANNI
LULU WANG
MARTINE SYMS
MOOR MOTHER
SANFORD BIGGERS
SKY HOPINKA
SUNEIL SANZGIRI
Photo by PABLO ALARCON JR. for
Photo by LENDL TELLINGTON for Seen 007
STOCKISTS & COLLECTIONS
CALIFORNIA
California Institute of the Arts (CalArts)
Reparations Club
Skylight Books
Stanford University
Vidiots
GEORGIA
The University of Georgia
MARYLAND
Baltimore Museum of Art, E. Kirkbride Miller Art
Research Library
Good Neighbor
NEW YORK
Amant
CARA
Cornell University
Mag Club
McNally Jackson
The Museum of Modern Art
Mono No Aware
Printed Matter
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
School of Visual Arts OHIO
The Wexner Center at Ohio State University
PENNSYLVANIA
american grammar
Free Library of Philadelphia
Haverford College
(Tri-College Consortium)
ICA Philadelphia
Omoi Life Goods
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Temple University
Ulises
The University of Pennsylvania
University of the Arts Library at Forman Arts Initiative
RHODE ISLAND
Rhode Island School of Design
TEXAS
Periodicals
Chess Club
University of Washington Libraries
Rice University
OUR TEAM
MASTHEAD
HEIDI SAMAN
Editor-in-Chief
LEO BROOKS Art Director
AKILI Z. DAVIS
Associate Editor
CAMILLE ACKER
Reviews & Features Editor
KAVITA RAJANNA Essays Editor
YASMINE ESPERT
Interviews & Pro les Editor
SHAUNA SWARTZ
Copyeditor
MAORI KARMAEL HOLMES
Founding Editor
EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
ADAM PIRON
Sundance Institute, COUSIN
GINA DUNCAN The Moth
GREG TATE In memoriam
JEFF CHANG
LOUIS MASSIAH
Scribe Video Center
MARCUS J. MOORE
NEGAR AZIMI
Bidoun
ROYA RASTEGAR
American Cinematheque
SALLY SINGER
SIDDHARTHA MITTER
Photo by PABLO ALARCON JR. for Seen 009
Photo by LENDL TELLINGTON for Seen
PARTNER WITH US
PASSIONATE READERS, GLOBAL REACH.
Seen extends our critical discourse to a wider audience through in-person launch events, roundtable discussions, and more. Some examples of recent events include:
• 009 Contributors Roundtable at Reparations Club, presented by Open Society Foundations
• 009 Launch & Panel Discussion at Percy Diner & Bar, presented with support from Urban Outfitters and Open Society Foundations
• 008 Launch & Discussion with Guest Editor Sky Hopinka at ICA Philadelphia
Photo by LEO BROOKS for Seen 008
