Hotshoe Issue 213: To Be YoungIn this issue we tap into nostalgia for youth with the theme To Be Young, which encompasses something different for each of us. For some, it will be childhood, for others their teenage years, but we all feel that intangible pull to the past, whether we had an innocent or a traumatic upbringing. The longing can be triggered by a song or a smell or a photograph. We have contributions from eighteen different photographers, as well as a special Crude

quietly belying the magnitude of the elements

play the same character who is abandoned on a lake next to a floating monastery

The images

In In The Vicinity

in-flight or emerging from sand—is interspersed with images of textured rocks

When I look at the collection of photographs that comprise this book

the book opens with a newly commissioned introduction from Simon Baker

Rinko Kawauchi launched her career with the simultaneous publication of three astonishing photobooks—Utatane

Voice is gorgeously printed and bound by Nazraeli Press

and in the span of a decade has become a contemporary classic

this latest body of work reveals a new expansion of Soth’s practice and a new vantage

She delicately weaves stories concerning circumstance