May 2012
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Once Magazine: An Update from the Team
Dear Readers and Subscribers,
Next week you’ll have a beautiful new issue of Once in your Newsstand: our ninth so far, including the pilot edition.
Together, we’ve come a long way. During these past months, we’ll have put out nine issues we’re extremely proud of. We hope you’ve loved them, too: it’s because of your support that we have been able to establish our place in the field of tablet...
April 2012
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Retina iPad Update
Dear Readers,
Thank you for being so patient as we work to optimize our software for the retina iPad. We realize we’ve been slow (too slow) getting it out the door, but as is always the case with new software, it takes longer than expected to iron out the bugs. We’ve been coding and recoding for the past month, and we’re still at it. And we must say that as we test different...
Lens: Places Without Power (of Any Sort) →
In California, unincorporated communities lack basic infrastructure, since no local government can finance it. Max Whittaker has been documenting these areas, which often exist alongside well-off enclaves.
The New York Times’ Lens blog spotlights the work that Max Whittaker shot for Once Magazine’s current issue. Check it out, and download the April issue here.
Our preview of the...
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WatchVideo produced by Carrie Ching. Courtesy of California Watch, the state’s largest investigative reporting team, and part of the independent, nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting. To see more visit cironline.org or http://californiawatch.org/californialost.
California runs on water. In The Golden State’s Central Valley, farmers compete with major cities for irrigation rights to grow...
March 2012
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Once update for the new iPad
Today is iPad day, and we’re really excited about the newest model. With a retina display that’s twice that of the iPad 1 and 2, the potential for beautiful photo stories is even more promising.
We’ve started testing on the newest iPad, but unfortunately don’t have an updated app for the device yet. This means that you’ll still be able to see Once issues on the new iPad, but they won’t look as...
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February 2012
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“I like the idea of having a site that is a place to think about what the...”
– Maud Newton, How We Will Read: Laura Miller and Maud Newton
Great interview by Findings about the iPad experience, with a mention of Once Magazine that we have tastefully refrained from excerpting. Check out the iPad-focused The Chimerest, too. Exciting times.
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January 2012
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December 2011
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November 2011
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Sharing Content With MSNBC's PhotoBlog
There are plenty of photos on the internet. Just look at the other tabs open on your screen right now. But, to us at least, there seems to be a dearth of photo stories, especially in the places where you would expect to find them: major media outlets. Photo blogs on news sites, however, stand as exceptions to the rule. It’s in these vertically scrolling landscapes where photographs and their...
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Issue Two: In the Shadow of the Wall
Issue 2, November 2011: Download Now
Reporting by Eric White and Melissa del Bosque
In a beautiful set of images, photographer Eric White documents the heavily contested U.S.-Mexico border as it winds its way through the scorching Sonoran desert to the shores of the Gulf of Mexico.
I first came across Eric White’s work in 2010, at the Center for Photography at Woodstock as part of the...
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Issue Two: Fighting on Two Fronts
Photography by Anastasia Taylor-Lind and essay by Katie Scott. Edited by Taylor Wiles for Issue 2, November 2011.
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The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the armed liberation group on U.S. and E.U. terrorist watch lists, is fighting for Kurdish rights in Turkey; yet many of its female soldiers join with a different sense of purpose. In addition to fighting...
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Issue Two: The Featherweights
Photography by Anders Hansson and essay by Göran Engström. Edited by John Knight for Issue 2, November 2011.
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Just about every weekend in Babur’s Gardens, men from the capital of Afghanistan meet to pit their prized roosters against each other. Kabul’s cockfighting community has reemerged in the past ten years as is has become legal again...
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Interview with an Egyptian blogger: Alaa Abd...
Photo by Dr. Ashraf Ezzat
It’s with some remorse that I relay a conversation I had last week with revolutionary Egyptian blogger Alaa Abd El-Fattah, who returned to Egypt on Sunday to “hand himself over” to military police following a speaking engagement in California. Or “handing himself over” was how he viewed it on Tuesday, October 25. It was the day after he learned that Egypt’s military...
October 2011
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Illuminating the Injustices of Burma’s Military Regime
Last week I had coffee with mimi lok, the director of the oral history book series, Voice of Witness published by McSweeney’s. The books focus on human rights crises around the world and have included issues like the militant dictatorships in Zimbabwe and Sudan, the catastrophic federal response to Hurricane...
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ONCE Live: A Spirited Event
As the old saying goes, “there ain’t no party like a Once party, ehhh!” Well, maybe it’s not so old. And maybe it’s in fact entirely new, but I’m hoping that people can begin to consider the aphorism after last’s night’s ONCE Live event at the Burritt Room inside the Crescent San Francisco. The event was the first of, and a peep into, an ongoing salon series of parties, talks, and people mashups...
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Surviving the Salt at the Bay of Bengal
Photography by Munem Wasif, essay by Mark Hertsgaard. Edited by Taylor Wiles for Issue 1, October 2011.
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Communities in the Satkhira District, as well as other coastal areas of Bangladesh, are struggling against a confluence of factors weakening their fertile lands. Climate-change-induced rising sea levels and upstream damming have caused the...
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Chernobyl's Black Gold
Photography by Guillaume Herbaut, essay by Bruno Masi. Edited by Christy Wiles for Issue 1, October 2011.
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In Brief: April 26, 2011 marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the largest nuclear explosion in history. In days, entire villages became contaminated wastelands. Twenty-five years after the horrendous meltdown, radioactivity levels remain dangerously...
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Trouble in the Water
Photography by Matt Eich, essay by Spencer Strub. Edited by Christy Wiles for Issue 1, October 2011.
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From the tall grass and glassy waters of the bayou to a family owned and operated alligator farm in Houma, Louisiana, “Trouble in the Water” explores two sides of the American alligator industry—the wild gator hunt and the inland farm—and the multiple...
September 2011
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A Field Trip to Boston
Last week Jackson, Andrew, and I flew to Boston. Jackson took the redeye, while Andrew and I opted for the 6 a.m. flight out of SFO thinking we could grab a couple more hours of sleep before thrusting ourselves into conference marathon mode. Sleep never came, and there are few words that can properly describe the tingle a commute like this—a trans-American flight sans snacks but plenty of...
August 2011
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Between Enemy Lines
Photography by Ivor Prickett, essay by Haley Sweetland Edwards. Edited by Taylor Wiles for the Pilot Issue, September 2011.
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In Brief: Less than a handful of nations have formally recognized Abkhazia, the breakaway region of Georgia that sits between Russia and the Black Sea. The 2008 war between Russia and Georgia brought the region into the limelight, but...
The Hunt
Photography by Andrea Gjestvang, essay by Sabine Barth. Edited by Ben Shattuck for the Pilot Issue, Sepember 2011. Download Now: http://bit.ly/o9PY03
In Brief: Where the land ends and the ice continues, the seal hunters of Greenland battle hunger, fatigue, and biting cold to put food on their families’ tables. Due to shrinking hunting grounds and stringent EU catch quotas, this already...
No Better Time
Photography by Kendrick Brinson, essay by Ben Shattuck. Edited by Christy Wiles for the Pilot Issue, September 2011. Download Now: http://bit.ly/o9PY03 In Brief: In a time of great economic uncertainty, where retirement for U.S. baby boomers and the promise of Social Security are anything but secure, Sun City, Arizona shines as a bastion of fun and youthful optimism for the...
July 2011
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Where We Stand
Below is a statement made by photojournalist Ying Ang that addresses the condition of photojournalism, what she portends for its future and how Once fits in to this rapidly changing media equation. “The state of photojournalism and visual storytelling is undergoing enormous change in conjunction with the very tools that we have at our disposal to communicate with our audience. This...
June 2011
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WatchJust in time for LOOK3 — new video! ONCE MAGAZINE IS…
May 2011
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