Talka №1 book-magazine includes series by Latvian photographers Gunars Binde, Roman Korovin, Andrey Strokin, Vladimir Svetlov, Finnish photographer Henrik Duncker and Estonian photographer Krista Mőlder as well as artworks by Peteris Lidaka and Maija Kurseva.
Edition of 700 copies
Elastic softcover
164x216 mm
176 pages
ISBN 978–9934-8476-2-2
Texts have been written by Sergei Timofejev, Aleksandr Zapol, Pauls Bankovskis, Vadim Agapov and Paavo Matsin. Memories about Anatols Imermanis were shared by Janis Rokpelnis and Gunars Binde but TALKA’s author Stanislav Gorecky has contacted Friedrich Zander by using the newest digital communication forms with the finest matter.
Texts are published in their original language—Russian or Latvian. The excerpt from a novel by Paavo Matsin is published in English.
The publication includes all the necessary elements of a glossy magazine: an interview, a photo shoot, media stars, a review of new design trends, and the issue’s overarching theme. <…> The publication opens with an interview about Anatols Imermanis — poet and translator Jānis Rokpelnis and photographer Gunārs Binde speak with Aleksandrs Zapoļs and Vladimirs Svetlovs about their friend, about cultural and literary life in Soviet Latvia, and, of course, about poetry. The thematic core of the publication — the Latvian detective genre and its author Anatols Imermanis — is further developed in the photo shoot “Casting,” in which well-known figures from Riga try themselves in the role of investigator Moon, the main character of several of Imermanis’s novels. <…> However, the project’s authors never reveal the intrigue or say who ultimately succeeded in the selection.
The boundaries of stereotype are deliberately broken in the structure of the periodical as well. The glossy magazine formula of the “interview with a star” is taken to the point of absurdity in Talka. With the help of a spiritual séance, Staņislavs Goreckihs interviews the inventor and Riga native Frīdrihs Canders, a pioneer of rocket engineering. Mr. Canders also preserves the intrigue, avoiding a number of the questions posed by his interlocutor.
This publication conveys important messages that remain relevant to the contemporary cultural environment of Riga. It plays with — and dismantles — the mythology of the glossy magazine.
Svetlona Pogodina „Talka”: graujot žurnālu mitoloģiju. Hīena
Talka №1 book-magazine includes series by Latvian photographers Gunars Binde, Roman Korovin, Andrey Strokin, Vladimir Svetlov, Finnish photographer Henrik Duncker and Estonian photographer Krista Mőlder as well as artworks by Peteris Lidaka and Maija Kurseva.
Edition of 700 copies
Elastic softcover
164x216 mm
176 pages
ISBN 978–9934-8476-2-2
Texts have been written by Sergei Timofejev, Aleksandr Zapol, Pauls Bankovskis, Vadim Agapov and Paavo Matsin. Memories about Anatols Imermanis were shared by Janis Rokpelnis and Gunars Binde but TALKA’s author Stanislav Gorecky has contacted Friedrich Zander by using the newest digital communication forms with the finest matter.
Texts are published in their original language—Russian or Latvian. The excerpt from a novel by Paavo Matsin is published in English.
The publication includes all the necessary elements of a glossy magazine: an interview, a photo shoot, media stars, a review of new design trends, and the issue’s overarching theme. <…> The publication opens with an interview about Anatols Imermanis — poet and translator Jānis Rokpelnis and photographer Gunārs Binde speak with Aleksandrs Zapoļs and Vladimirs Svetlovs about their friend, about cultural and literary life in Soviet Latvia, and, of course, about poetry. The thematic core of the publication — the Latvian detective genre and its author Anatols Imermanis — is further developed in the photo shoot “Casting,” in which well-known figures from Riga try themselves in the role of investigator Moon, the main character of several of Imermanis’s novels. <…> However, the project’s authors never reveal the intrigue or say who ultimately succeeded in the selection.
The boundaries of stereotype are deliberately broken in the structure of the periodical as well. The glossy magazine formula of the “interview with a star” is taken to the point of absurdity in Talka. With the help of a spiritual séance, Staņislavs Goreckihs interviews the inventor and Riga native Frīdrihs Canders, a pioneer of rocket engineering. Mr. Canders also preserves the intrigue, avoiding a number of the questions posed by his interlocutor.
This publication conveys important messages that remain relevant to the contemporary cultural environment of Riga. It plays with — and dismantles — the mythology of the glossy magazine.
Svetlona Pogodina „Talka”: graujot žurnālu mitoloģiju. Hīena
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