A new international photography magazine - FRAMES

 

We live in a digital age. In fact, photography has undergone a dramatic transformation in the last few decades.The overwhelming majority of photographs now are captured digitally. Additionally, we use our computers and mobile phones to consume photographs most of the time.

But… how about paper?  Enter FRAMES.

Friday, September 18th 2020 marks quite a special day on the contemporary photography publishing scene. My good photography friend Tomasz Trzebiatowski, is launching a quarterly printed photography magazine. Yes, printed. On paper. And it is looking wonderful.

What is pretty unique about this publication is that FRAMES Magazine embraces all possible photography genres and formats. Each quarterly edition will feature the work of photographers using digital and analogue cameras, mobile phones, even pinhole cameras.

“Excellent photography belongs on paper” - is Tomasz’ motto. The common denominator connecting all the images being printed in FRAMES is simply their visual quality and inspiring, thought-provoking character.

The magazine itself is looks gorgeous. In essence, it is a top-notch, quarterly photography book, printed the wonderful 140gsm uncoated Edixion Challenger offset paper manufactured using 100% ECF pulp. Each edition consists of 108 pages (!).

In the first edition you can see the work of such acclaimed artists as Michael Kenna and Phil Penman as well as some great photography by emerging photographers such as Robert Atwater, Olga Karlovac, Yalim Vural, and Curtis Salonick. What’s more, the first issue also includes two in-depth exclusive interviews with Magda Keaney (Senior Curator, Photographs, National Portrait Gallery in London) and Richard Tsong-Taatarii (photojournalist for the Minneapolis Star Tribune).

But that is not all. When you become a FRAMES subscriber, you automatically get access to the entire suite of their digital offerings: FRAMES Digital companions, online Photography Masterclasses and the insider FRAMES Photo Community. It seems like FRAMES is set to become an impressive blend of printed and digital photography assets through the creation of a passionate international photography community with the magazine and its additional digital components as its hub.

You can become the member of FRAMES today for a monthly fee of $14 USD, (Just under £11 a month). This is an early bird offer which you can access through the link at the end of the blog. 

Your membership will secure you annual access to 4 printed editions of FRAMES Magazine, 8 editions of FRAMES Digital Companions, 4 Photography Masterclasses and the private community and forums. This is exceptional value and allows you the opportunity to help build the community too. It is also a comparatively cheap method of collecting some excellent work with print being the best method of collection these days.

If you would like to start your FRAMES Magazine collection from its very first issue, ensure you become a FRAMES member by October 15th 2020. I am acting as the representative of FRAMES in the North of England and you can follow this link to check out their wonderful site and subscribe today. Using this link ensures you will receive the best deal available: http//:joinframes.com/nigel 

FRAMES Magazine

FRAMES - a new, international, quarterly magazine

This new magazine will launch in the autumn of 2020 and seems to be an extremely comprehensive and high quality product in the making. It's byline is " Excellent photography belongs on paper" and the aim is to make a great print magazine with photographs from across the globe available to all. If you consider the price of individual prints these days then around £20 per quarter for 100 printed pages of a high quality is excellent value.

But there is more. The FRAMES Facebook page is a highly active page with over 4K membership currently, a mix of professional and serious amateurs. You need to ask to be let in but that isn't a problem unless you break the rules. It has some stunning original work and active input from the editor, Tomasz Trzebiatowski, as well as commentary and comment from the community which can tackle such sticky issues as the intrusiveness (or not) of street photography, the legitimate uses of post production techniques (or not) and a range of other photographic considerations. Polaroids, film, pinhole and digital are all here.

You can approach the Facebook group here :- https://www.facebook.com/groups/framesmagazine/ 

In addition the webpage has a range of individual photographs with commentaries by the photographers and interviews with leading lights in the photographic community. You can see the website here :- https://readframes.com/magazine/ and subscribe to the weekly newsletter from there as well. 

Personally I am really looking forward to the launch and a magazine of such a wide range of work without the usual advertisments and technical detail. There are enough of those already. Congratulations to Tomasz on such well conceived concept...and good luck.