Hotshoe Issue 209 – An Emotional Landscape
Hotshoe Issue 209, titled An Emotional Landscape, addresses our interdependence with the non-human world — whether experienced in urban or rural settings. The editorial focus holds throughout: nature as a condition of feeling and perception, not merely as subject matter.
Contributors
The issue brings together thirteen photographers working across distinct visual registers. Portfolios are contributed by Trent Parke, Stephen Gill, Mimi Plumb, Pia-Paulina Guilmoth, Jem Southam, Yana Wernicke, Rinko Kawauchi, Takashi Homma, Masahisa Fukase Photography – Photobooks, Jack Davison, Robbie Lawrence, Michael Lundgren, and Gregory Crewdson. The range spans quiet observation, constructed cinematic scenes, lyrical documentary, and work rooted in atmosphere and the natural world.
Editorial Structure
Beyond the portfolios, the issue includes an extended Q&A that deepens the thematic context. The Crude Metaphors section presents a short story by Cal Brocket written in response to photographs by Robin Schwartz — a format that positions text and image as mutual commentary rather than caption and illustration. Four photobook reviews round out the issue, offering a compact survey of recent publishing in the field.
This copy is available from Lokator100, dispatched from Germany with tracking and careful packaging. Further issues are listed in the Photobooks collection.
About Hotshoe
Hotshoe is a photography magazine focused on authored projects, portfolios, and critical context. Each issue is structured around a defined editorial theme, bringing together photographers whose work engages that theme from different methodological and visual positions.
Issue 209, An Emotional Landscape, draws together practitioners working across documentary observation, constructed staging, quiet lyricism, and engagement with the natural world — from widely recognised names to photographers whose work merits closer attention.
