JPG: Brave New Photography

JPG Magazine is for people who love imagemaking without attitude. It's about the kind of photography you get when you love the moment more than the camera. It's for photographers who, like us, have found themselves online, sharing their work, and would like to see that work in print.

JPG is a magazine. It's published 6 times a year by 8020 Publishing and distributed nationally. You can pick up a subscription or find it in US bookstores like Borders and Barnes and Noble. Everything in the magazine comes from you!

JPG is a website. Here any photographer can join and upload photos and stories to their member page. You can also submit your work for consideration in the magazine.

JPG is a community. JPG exists because of, and exclusively for, photographers like you. Without you, we're nothing.

View JPG Magazine, Issue 14

Issue 14 includes three themes (Fanatic, Emotion Capture, and Bird's-Eye View), two photo essays (Bound and Aerial Wonder), two How To stories (Pinhole photography and Lith Printing), and three insightful My Precious personal product reviews (Brownie Hawkeye, Zorki 4, and the Leica D-Lux).

The Intersection of Passion and Weird

Shades of fanaticism are infinitely varied: “Normal” to one person may be oddball or downright shocking to the next.

In this issue we explore the world of the fanatic, from Civil War re-enactors to stuffed animal collectors. We present a cross-section of passion, obsession, and a just a little bit of weird. Robyn Cumming’s photo essay “Bound” highlights the price of obsession.

Encapsulating emotional stories entirely within a single frame is the essence of photography, and the photos in our Samsung-sponsored theme Emotion Capture tell fascinating ones.

We also feature six photographers with six portrait studies titled “About Faces.” Also in this issue we showcase aerial photography in the theme Bird’s-Eye View. It’s an amazing selection that gives us quite literally a different perspective on things we see every day.

Alexander Heilner explores the abstract geography of the world beneath us, and—in perhaps what is best described as the ultimate bird’s-eye view—NASA’s Warren Harold tells us what it’s like working with images from the Moon.

Beginning with this issue, we’ve evolved the “JPG Sightings” page (opposite) into a section we call “What’s New,” to show off what’s going on in the JPG community and out in the world: events, news, etc. We’ve also retooled our “Photo Challenge” section to feature compelling and personal challenges.

Check out seven photos of people celebrating in our first installment on page 112.

Perhaps the most rewarding aspect of publishing JPG is seeing the world through the eyes of the community.

JPG is a window into your world—our world—in a way no other magazine can be. So to reflect this focus, we’ve updated our tagline: “Your World in Pictures.” The photos and stories you share provide an insightful view of our evolving cultures directly, honestly, and beautifully.

So get out there and show us your world. No one knows it better than you.

– Paul Cloutier, Publisher

Download JPG Magazine, Issue 14

PDF format, 8.7MB, 59Pages.

You name it, somebody loves it! Our Fanatic Issue shows you the enthusiastic individuals who take their hobbies to the next level. We've also got a photo essay by Robyn Cumming exploring the objects that become personal obsessions.

Bird's-Eye View, the theme for aerial photography, shows you the world from a new perspective. There's also an interview with NASA's Warren Harold on lunar photography and a great article by Alexander Heilner on man-made aerial landscapes.

Our Emotion Capture theme, sponsored by Samsung, shows you those complex human feelings captured perfectly in a single frame. We've also include portrait studies by six different photographers. Plus, pinhole photography, lith printing, and so much more!

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