You may remember No Pic No Chat’s previous features here and now I am pleased to present the launch of his first magazine. Available in his and in Pineapple’s store as well.
#1, Autonomy issue
The main subject of the magazine is the experience of gender. NO PIC NO CHAT @no_pic_no_chat photographs and talks – with transgender people (Edmund Krempiński @blueandkxnky, Gabriel Kawa @zamyslony , Ka Katharsis @kakatharsis, Kacper Potępski @ka.per), but not only. Without deceiving themselves or others, they talk about their way to self-acceptance and pride of their body and their sexuality in the most intolerant country in the European Union. The magazine’s guest is also the legend of queer culture, Canadian director, photographer and visual artist – Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce, whose body of work boldly and humorously levitates above all cultural norms.
10% of the profit will go to: EuforJA – the charity fund for binders and gaffs for transgender and non-binary folks experiencing gender dysphoria. Organized by Ali (@queer__alice), Kacper (@ka.per) and Emanuela (@paris.queerton)
Photography and interviews
160 pages, 21 x 21cm (8,3 x 8,3 in)
100 photographs / Bilingual: English, Polish
Author: @no_pic_no_chat / www.nopicnochat.org
Guest author: Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce
Excerpt from Siddhart Dhavant Shangvi’s book „The Last Song of Dusk”
AVAILABLE IN PRINT & DIGITAL IF YOU CLICK HERE
#1, Autonomy issue
Shipping starts 29.06.2021
also available in Pineapple’s store
KAROLINA SULEJ about the zine:
Behind each non-normativity stands a real person, with a name, a body, a history. Person who feels lust, fear and has its own way of expressing gender, identity, love and sex. Person who hopes to manifest its full image to others. But LGBTQIA+ people, in the mainstream discourse, are portrayed as disembodied, ”rainbow” beings, whose sexuality and body should be beyond the interest of anyone. Although obviously, it shouldn’t be questioned, and certainly not if the only question of yours is “what is between their legs” and how much you consider them a freak show. In fact an attentive and empathetic discourse about the body and sexuality is important to each and every one of us – maybe, in particular, for those who are labeled as “different” by cultural paradigms. After all, no one is entitled to take away our right to live a full life as a member of society – with our own peculiar nakedness, fetishes and passions. No Pic No Chat created a zine, in which he photographs and interviews people like no one has dared so far – he captures very intimate things pertaining to one’s body, almost pornographically, yet very intimate, sometimes painful, reaching to the essence of his character’s existence.
The two stories seamlessly intertwine each other, complementing and deepening one another. There is no unnecessary shock nor dazzle here. What we are dealing with, literally and figuratively, is the naked truth itself. It is emphasized by the way of conversations that are explicit, colloquial, and at times even vulgar, yet personal. The reader feels deeply connected with the characters. Both pictures and texts show a certain dialogue between the biological side of gender, as expressed by the body, and the cultural side of it, or maybe rather the psychological one that controls body and mind, the emotional states and desires, with their synchronicities and asynchronicities. It shows us what kind of struggle it really is to search for identity and love for one’s own body. No Pic No Chat’s heroes and heroines are people with various social backgrounds, who speak diverse languages, are of different age groups, each with their own peculiar sizes and shapes – with disabilities, tattooed, scarred. And on the surface of those bodies there is the expression of their decisions, emotions, and traumas as well. No Pic No Chat’s zine is a tale of how we all have the right to love, to have sex, to be in harmony with our bodies. The zine is also about suffering, searching, courage, and finally reconciliation and strength. Without any pathos, these stories will touch every reader down to its very core, and will feel obscene only to those who really separate themselves from what being a real human creature is.
about NO_PIC_NO_CHAT @no_pic_no_chat
Visual artist. He creates movies, photography, and objects. He has graduated cinematography department at Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Film School, the University of Silesia in Katowice (2009). Since 2018, he has been exploring the representation of masculinity and intimacy in photography. His work is strongly influenced by Joseph Campbell’s monomyth theory (The Hero with a Thousand Faces) and the work of Carl Gustaw Jung (The Red Book). In his objects and video artworks, he refers to the collective archetypes and subconscious symbols.
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