Fantom Photographic Quarterly.

Fantom, with an F, is a new international publication about the uses and abuses of photography, compiled under the editorial direction of Selva Barni in Milan and Cay Sophie Rabinowitz in New York and published by Boiler Corporation in Italy.

Alongside essays and portfolios, Fantom divides itself into five sections that form the structure of the magazine for each issue, they are; Eye To Eye, Sample Size, By Appointment Only, Eye Of The Beholder and Means To An End.
Described by the editors as follows, Means To An End “surveys the unintentional surprises of purposeful image production, i.e. scientific, commercial, surveillance, documentary and the like. Herein the vernacular can take precedence over the artistic and visa versa depending on the value not of a discourse that comes after the image, but allowing pictures to lead the discussions”.

For the Means To An End section in issue Number 07, complementing photographic research by Arianne Di Nardo, I wrote a passage about ‘The Virtual Home’, describing architectural visualisations that promote an idealized, aspiration environment with in the hyper-real photographic realm.

I extend my sincere gratitude to the Fantom team in Milan and look forward in anticipation to the forthcoming issue 08.

The following layout images are courtesy of Fantom Photographic Quarterly/Boiler Corporation.

 

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