CONTRIBUTORS
UGO RONDINONE
Artist
Rondinone’s recipe for this month’s Artist’s Palate (page 162) – Swiss alpine macaroni – nods to his personal roots. Known for his eye-catching public art and whimsical cast-bronze creatures, the prolific artist is also a keen campaigner for bladder cancer treatment research, and recently organised a charity auction at Sotheby’s New York. His rainbow-coloured neon work, We Are Poems, illuminates the entrance of the Beaux-arts de Paris until 30 June.
JONATHAN BELL
Transport & Technology Editor
When Bell joined Wallpaper* as an editorial assistant in 1998, one of his first tasks was writing the contributors’ bios. A lot has changed since, especially in transport and technology, his current editorial remit. ‘Imagine a world before smartphones, when Google was a big new thing, or when the only electric vehicles were milk floats.’ He examines Aston Martin’s first SUV, a ‘fusion of tradition and technology’ (page 047), and showcases graduates in transport (page 098) and visual communication (page 092).
DEYAN SUDJIC
Writer
In January, after 12 years as co-director of London’s Design Museum, Sudjic becomes director emeritus, freeing up time for hands-on curating, finishing his biography of ‘Stalin’s favourite architect’, Boris Iofan, and writing for Wallpaper*. For this issue, we sent him to survey the architectural landscape of Tashkent, Uzbekistan (page 134). ‘Seeing truly impressive Soviet architecture from the 1960s and watching the streets come alive was a great reminder of why cities fascinate me so much,’ he says.
ALICE MANN
Photographer
It’s been an exciting year for Mann, who bagged both the prestigious Grand Prix du Jury and the Wallpaper* New Generation Prize at the Hyères International Festival with Drummies, an exploration of female identity. For our fashion story (page 148), London- and South Africa-based Mann captures style-savvy performance artists as they twirl and strike a plié at London’s Battersea Arts Centre. She is now turning her Drummies project into a book.
IZZY DE WATTRIPONT
Photographer
Bristol-based photography graduate de Wattripont is among our pick of fresh talent this issue (see more rising stars in our Graduate Directory, page 073), and took her ‘personal and intuitive approach’ to Paris to shoot our profiled artist Camille Blatrix (page 060). ‘It was great to see his studio and get an insight into an entirely different world,’ she says. She is currently working on a project documenting a Sea Scout group on England’s south coast.
RANDHIR SINGH
Photographer
Singh’s background in architecture and his ‘contemplative approach’ made him the ideal fit for our architectural tour of Dhaka (page 110). He chronicled everything from a Louis Kahn midcentury gem to Marina Tabassum’s contemporary redbrick mosque, ‘exploring both the formal qualities of each building and its relationship with the landscape around it’. Singh is working on an exhibition about the modernist Indian Institute of Technology, opening soon at Photoink in New Delhi, his home town.