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Boy.Brother.Friend ‘examines art, fashion & theory through the guise of the diaspora male experience.’ A poetic and visually stimulating magazine, this tenth issue coincides with the magazine’s fifth anniversary and fittingly explores the concept of ‘Destiny’. Split into three sections, ‘Unlearning the Gaze’, ‘Reconstituting Memory’ and ‘Material Force’, the issue reflects editor-in-chief Kk Obi’s enlightening postulation that ‘destiny is not something we can control nor a fate we must endure, but an ideological struggle that we must perpetually expose in order to act beyond it’. Inside, producer and vocalist John Glacier speaks with Dhruva Balram about walking the line between fate and freedom; cover star Burna Boy is photographed by British filmmaker Sam Taylor-Johnson; Brixton-born art director and fashion designer Samuel Ross talks to David Hopkin about actualising his destiny through the materiality of his labels A-COLD-WALL* and SR_A; and Calum Knight, creative director of SHOWstudio, pens a timely essay on claiming digital selfhood as an alternative to oppressive ‘western paradigms of humanity’. boybrotherfriend.com
