Loupe #11

Issue 11 of Loupe is the Belief issue featuring:

Ionna Sakellaraki Documenting the lives and rituals of the remaining professional mourners in Greece, we are invited to reflect and learn about traditions that will cease to exist in the future.

Sari Soinninen shares her personal experience with psychosis episode and its impact on her relationship with reality. She uses her work as a means to trace and reconnect with the alternative ways of seeing and dimensions that she experienced during her 3-month episode.

Michael Alberry depicts the loud, energetic, and passionate worship of Pentecostal Christians community in the UK, who gather to worship in converted warehouses, to praise God through song and dance.

Darren Harvey-Regan explores his gradual loss of faith in his series Eikon & Klan. The series presents a personal journey, exposing the progression of his ‘unbelief’, through studio shot still lives of ‘new iconography’.

Luke Archer, our editor, dives into spirituality through palmistry, horoscopes, and tarot, sharing with the reader his own personal discoveries and readings through these acts of prediction.

Featured Photographers:

Michael Alberry

Lucy Bliszko

Shai Chishty

Harry Flook

David Harvey-Regan

Maria Lax

Paolo Prendin

Ioanna Sakellarakia

Sari Soininen

Loupe showcases work that tackles big subjects, ones that shape the human experience. Loupe is not a photography magazine written by photographers, they commission articles by experts on the theme to explore and contextualise the projects featured.