For International Women’s Day (and all other days), here are 5 picks across indie print, photo books and magazines.
Sunday Reads
Sunday Reads: on women, by women, for women
- Words
- Nora Hagdahl
- Photography
- Changwook Gu
KITTYPOP
Gather here my crazy cat ladies. This is a tiny little zine with big vibes. Kittypop takes the adorable chaos of early-2000s Korean teen mags and refixes it into a cute giggle loop. Cat-cute-repeat. Cat-cute-repeat. Illustrators from Seoul and London has made features about imaginary cat superstars, astrology signs, and too-sweet interviews you didn’t realise you needed. The mag is released by Space Type, an indie type foundry/design studio that also runs a riso micropress, which explains why the whole thing feels like it was typeset by someone who actually enjoys life. Kawaii.
Yuki (Final Edit) by Imogene Barron
Imogene Barron’s Yuki (Final Edit) is a clean little softcover print: 100 pages, A4, full colour, foil-stamped cover, in an edition of 250. Shot in Seoul over a week, it centers model/artist Yuki Beniya, captured with the kind of intimacy you only get when the camera is in the room as a friend. It’s published by Friend Editions, designed by Brian Roettinger, and comes with an introduction by Cat Power (remember Sea of Love!) It’s cool and tender.
The Whitney Review 06
Whitney Mallett’s Whitney Review is a forever favourite when it comes to indie print. It’s a biannual review print for everything literature, built around short and snappy criticism (like 200 words or something) instead of lengthy essays. Issue #06 (Fall/Winter 2025/2026) is explicitly‚ about “illness, style, contact, and shade” contributors include Collier Schorr, Macy Rodman, Canal Street Research Association, and more, plus some interviews (Judith Thurman, John Keene, Francesca Lia Block). 70+ reviews, mostly books. The vibe is literary but not dry. Like someone who reads and goes outside and has opinions on both.
Belén, María Belén
Belén, María Belén is made with (and about) Archivo de la Memoria Trans / Memory Trans Archive, and it traces the life of María Belén Correa, an activist central to trans rights in Argentina and Latin America. Through archival photographs, documents, and autobiographical texts, the book tells her story.
Fortuna y Fetiche by Bárbara Sánchez-Kane y Sofía Alazraki
Fortuna y Fetiche comes out of an exhibition at Dashwood Projects (NYC) in spring 2025. I love Dashwood books. The print, which looks amazing, comes with an essay by journalist Guillermo Osorno. Sánchez-Kane’s practice moves between fashion, performance, and installation, messing with mexicanidad, masculinity, pleasure, domination. Alazraki, born in Buenos Aires and based in Europe/Madrid, works across photography, art direction, and set design. Beginning as playful letter-exchanges, their collaboration became a sequence of sculptural photographs that feel part fetish, part collage, part surreal still life.