from left:
Mike Figgis is a writer, director, composer and photographer. In the Dark,
Figgis’s fi rst book of photographic stills, was published by Booth-Clibborn
Editions in 2003. He has also contributed a special portfolio in Another
Magazine’s autumn/winter 2005 issue and was the guest designer for the
fall 2005 issue of Francis Ford Coppola’s Zoetrope: All-Story magazine.
Figgis has just completed a short fi lm for Agent Provocateur, entitled
Tied Up at the Offi ce. For this issue he photographed cover artist John Bock.
Cherry Smyth is a critic, curator and poet. An essay by Smyth on photographer
Thomas Flechtner will be published in a book on his work, Bloom, Lars Muller
Publications, 2007. Her latest poetry collection, One Wanted Thing, is
available from www.lagan-press.org.uk. In this issue she delves into the
world of fi lmmaker Matthew Buckingham.

To accompany this month’s investigation of the Korean art scene, Minsuk Choi
photographed the artword in his homecity of Seoul. After graduating from the
Seoul Institute of Art, Minsuk worked as fi rst assistant to Bien-U Bae before
going freelance.
Born in Dugny in 1970 and raised in Garges-les-Gonesses/Sarcelles, Abdelkader
Franck Attia has always been told, ‘If the fascists come to power, you’ll
be the fi rst to be kicked out.’ Muslim, Christian and Jewish, his name
refl ects his identity - or rather, his identities. While awaiting the
inevitable consequences of a political lurch to the far right, Attia has
become one of the most signifi cant French artists of his generation, and
his installations have been shown internationally everywhere from Italy to
China. For this issue, Attia created the Manifesto pages, an alternative
vision of the origins of the universe featuring an explosion of religious
icons. His work is currently on show at Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin.
In this issue, Paul Gravett looks at the relationship between comics and fi ne
art. Formerly the co-publisher of the British comics culture magazine Escape,
he is co-author of Manga: 60 Years of Japanese Comics, Graphic Novels:
Stories to Change Your Life and Great British Comics; the independent
director of the ICA’s Comica festival; consultant for BBC4’s Comics Britannia
series; a lecturer; curator and a critic. www.paulgravett.com.
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