In development
Everyday Lives Journal
A journal in development, bringing photography, writing, history, music and local voices into conversation around individual lives and the experiences people share.
Editorial method
One photograph, many possible conversations
A photograph might begin a conversation about a person, a street, a ritual or a moment between friends. From there, a story may open onto work, family, faith, rest, celebration, humour or routine — familiar experiences with a different shape in every life.
The visiting photographer's observation is one perspective among many. Wherever possible, it will be placed in conversation with photographers, journalists, writers, scholars, cultural practitioners and people who know the place from within.
Collaborative by design
Room for different voices
Each issue will grow from the work and the people contributing to it. A photographer, writer or local voice may lead a story, while others bring a different view. The photographs and words leave room for readers to make connections of their own.
Contributors retain copyright in their work. Any rights granted to the Journal will be clearly defined in advance, appropriately credited and limited to the agreed publication, archive and promotional uses.
Founding territory
India first. International by intention.
The first issue begins in India. Future issues may grow from photographic work in Peru, Japan, Morocco, Mexico and other countries represented in the Everyday Lives Documentary Archive.
An issue might gather around a place or an experience shared across borders: work, family, faith, rest, celebration, humour, routine or the changing life of a neighbourhood.
The Journal is planned first as a highly designed digital publication, with the possibility of limited-run or print-on-demand physical editions. Publication frequency will remain deliberately measured so that each issue can be edited as a lasting object rather than as a content cycle.
Contributors
Beginning with conversations
The inaugural India issue is in its exploratory editorial stage. Before finalizing its contents, Everyday Lives is beginning conversations with photographers, editors, journalists, writers, scholars, musicians and cultural practitioners whose perspectives may help shape the publication itself. Collaboration is intended to be reciprocal: authorship, credit, rights, editorial process and any available compensation are discussed clearly in advance.