NO. 16 — YOUTH & LUST
“Knowing that all of our hard work has paid off, and that people have been able to pick up a copy of the magazine anywhere in the world… nothing feels better than that.” DO YOU HAVE A ‘DREAM’ CITY WHERE YOU COULD SEE YOURSELF WORKING? Honestly, no. The closest I could ever dream of living in a city would be Geneva, in Switzerland, where I’m from originally. I’m too much of an outdoors-ey person to see myself being able to cope with the life of a big city. WHY DID YOU AND MEGAN BREUKELMAN DECIDE TO PURSUE FASHION AS THE FOCUS OF YOUR MAGAZINE? Purely because of our love for fashion photography. It’s what interested us the most, what we were most drawn to, and what we felt we knew best.
HOW DO YOU COLLABORATE WITH PHOTOGRAPHERS AND DESIGNERS ON PHOTOSHOOTS AND EDITORIALS FOR ATLAS? Atlas is 100% submission based. That means that all the work that you see in the magazine and on our website is imagery that we have been sent by photographers and designers from around the world. When we first started out, we would reach out to a lot of our photographer friends, telling them about our project and ask them if they were interested in submitting. Thankfully, people did! Slowly but surely, word has spread. Now we receive thousands of submissions per issue! WHERE DO YOU FIND INSPIRATION FOR THE ISSUES OF ATLAS MAGAZINE? The inspiration is always drawn from the themes, which we come up with ahead of time. Then we’ll chat as a team and come up with a few ideas of what that theme means to us, and how we could interpret it. As for how we come up with the themes.. it’s a lot of random word generators and then we write down the words we like the most, and choose the themes as a team from there! ATLAS IS NOW AN INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN ONLINE AND PRINT PUBLICATION--WHAT WAS IT LIKE TO SEE YOUR PUBLICATION ON SHELVES AT POPULAR BOOKSTORES SUCH AS BARNES AND NOBLES, ETC.? It’s been the most incredible feeling in the world. Knowing that all of our hard work has paid off, and that people have been able to pick up a copy of the magazine anywhere in the world… nothing feels better than that.
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