KNACK Magazine #57

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Editors & Staff Andrea Catalina Vaca

Co-Founder, Publisher, Director, Photo Editor, Subscriptions, Artist Coordinator, Marketing, Advertising, Digital Operations

Jonathon Duarte

Co-Founder, Creative Director

Ariana Lombardi

Co-Founder, Executive Editor, Writer, Artist Coordinator

Jake Goodman Design Director

Chelsey Alden Editor, Writer

Fernando Gaverd

Designer, Digital Operations

BFrank

Designer

KNACK Magazine is dedicated to showcasing the work of artists of all mediums, and to discuss trends and ideas of art communities.

KNACK Magazine’s ultimate aim is to connect and inspire emerging artists, working artists, and establishes artists. We strive to create a place for artists, writers, designers, thinkers, and innovators to collaborate and produce a unique, informative, and unprecedented web-based art magazine each month.

Cover Design Jake Goodman Spreads Andrea Catalina Vaca­opening spread photography Jake Goodman closing spread photography; spread design Magazine Design Jake Goodman

Submission Guidelines

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Photographers, Graphic Designers & Studio Artists 10–12 high resolution images of your work. All should include pertinent caption information (name, date, medium, year).

Writers

You may submit up to 5,000 words and as little as one. We accept simultaneous submissions. No cover letter necessary. All submissions must be 12-pt Times New Roman, single or double-spaced, with page numbers and include your name, e-mail, phone number, and genre.

KNACK seeks writing of all kinds. We will even consider recipes, reviews, and essays. We seek writers whose work has a distinct voice, is character driven, and is subversive but tasteful.

All Submissions

KNACK encourages all submitters to include a portrait, a brief biography, which can include; your name, age, current location, awards, contact information, etc. (no more than 250 words). And an artist statement (no more than 500 words). We believe that your perspective of your work and process is as lucrative as the work itself. This may range from your upbringing and/or education as an artist, what type of work you produce, inspirations, etc.

If there are specifications or preferences concerning the way in which your work is to be displayed please include them.

Please title files for submission with the name of the piece.

This applies for both writing and visual submissions.

Formats Images

pdf, tiff, or jpeg

Written Works

doc, docx, or rtf

Knack Needs Your Help!

Email

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Submission [Photography, Studio Art, Creative Writing, Graphic Design]

KNACK Magazine is requesting material to be reviewed. Reviews extend to any culture related event that may be happening in your community. Do you know of an exciting show or exhibition opening?

Is there an art collective in your city that deserves some press? Are you a musician, have a band, or are a filmmaker? Send us your CD, movie, or titles of upcoming releases which you’d like to see reviewed in KNACK Magazine. We believe that reviews are essential to creating a dialogue about the arts. If something thrills you, we want to know about it and share it with the KNACK Magazine community—no matter if you live in the New York or Los Angeles, Montreal or Mexico.

All review material can be sent to knackmagazine1@gmail.com. Please send a copy of CDs and films to 4319 N. Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60613. If you would like review material returned to you include return postage and packaging. Entries should contain pertinent details such as name, year, release date, websites and links (if applicable).

For community events we ask that information be sent up to two months in advance to allow proper time for assignment and review.

We look forward to seeing and hearing your work.

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Contents Younes El Atiri

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Gugulethu Khumalo

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Said Muqeem

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Mudasar Rashdi

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Quick Look Nibhan Raheem

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Featured Artists

Younes El Atiri is a Moroccan writer, poet, and independent photographer, specializing in black and white portraits. Several personal and collective exhibitions have appeared in several cities of Morocco, Qatar, and Dubai. Atiri was born in Khouribga, Morocco and currently resides there.

Gugulethu Khumalo is an amateur writer and artist currently completing her final year at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. In her free time from being a busy college student she enjoys taking photographs of everything and everyone around. Khumalo was born in Cape Town, South Africa and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa and Belmont, Massachusetts.

duttydaisies.home.blog i: @duttydaisies

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57 Said Muqeem is a self-taught photographer with a deep love for nature. A Pakistani native, Muqeem focuses on landscape photography. e: said.muqeem94@gmail.com f: /muqeem.clicks

Mudasar Rashdi grew up in a village called Pir Jhando in Sindh Province of Pakistan. Here he developed a sense of understanding and a kinship with his environment. Rashdi is a graduate of the National College of Arts (NCA) in Lahore, Pakistan. He currently works in Lahore, Pakistan.

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Younes El Atiri

These photos are the testimony of an era and the struggle to survive.

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Gugulethu Khumalo

This is more than just a series of black children yelling and shouting. This photo series is about the awakening of a new generation.

Our parents fought the oppressive war of apartheid (literally meaning “separateness�) and we continue to fight our own war. We fight for a free and decolonized system through #FeesMustFall, a student-led protest movement in South Africa with hopes to halt increasing student fees as well as to increase government funding of universities.

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The Winds of Change

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Said Muqeem

As a nature photographer, I want to evoke the spirit of nature and to show the beauty of Pakistan to the rest of the world. I use photography as a means to look deep into the world around me. It gives me peace when I can transform the natural world around me into a still photograph while also being able to hear the sounds of the natural world in that silence.

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The Centaurus

islamabad, pakistan

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Said Muqeem

Night View

lower dir, pakistan

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Stepa Canal

swabi, kpk, pakistan

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Murree Road

pakistan

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Sunrise in a Village swabi, kpk, pakistan

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Edwardes College

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Mudasar Rashdi

My experience is that fear is something that cannot be neglected and it cannot be avoided. In the beginning, I attempted to visualize Power commonly observed throughout the media like explosions and wars and the fear which follows these events. I tried to paint those images with that fear in mind. It is exhausting and leads me to believe that our home does not belong to us: individually or collectively.

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Quick Look

Nibhan Raheem

Growing up in Pakistan as a millennialera “love child� of the Internet and pop-culture was fascinating. I grew up with slow internet and in the aftermath of multiple military dictatorships.

My illustrations draw partly from my personal experiences and partly from the Internet culture found in Pakistan's cyberspace. It's a mix-tape, and nostalgic to the 90s era, fueled primarily by vaporwave and derp.

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