In September, the eyes of the entire photojournalistic society around the world are headed for Perpignan. Thanks to the Visa pour l'Image festival this small city in the south of France becomes a real world capital of documentary photography these days. This year for the thirtieth time. Photojournalist summaries of last year's events, panel discussions about the most important challenges facing the industry and, above all, meetings, meetings and once again meetings - they all are waiting for us. We could not omit this in autumn edition of doc! photo magazine. 

This edition of doc! photo magazine is prepared in cooperation with the 2018 W Ramach Sopotu Festival of Photography and the Berlin based group of curators - fontaine b., which is a source of (trans)avant-garde editions and rare artworks for dealing, curation, exhibition, and private collections.

Projects:

• Cuban Muslims: Tropical Faith Investigation by Joan Alvado
• South Sudan: Dying Country by Peter Bauza
• Land by Lorenzo Castore
• Korean Dreams by Nathalie Daoust
• Stage and Meta-stage: The Superimposed Subject Matter by Zhang Huan & Shozo Shimamoto (fontaine b. for contra doc!; courtesy of DSL Collection, Paris and the Morra Foundation, Naples)
• Hare and Hounds by Kacper Kowalski
• Cholita’s Rise by Eduardo Leal
• Behind the Scenes by Sergey Melnitchenko
• More Than Meets the Eye: Photographs of Mississippi by Betty Press
• Eternal by Grzegorz Wełnicki

Interviews:

• The Photojournalism Is Still Kicking - Jean-François Leroy in conversation with Grzegorz Kosmala
• That Is When Photography Makes Sense in My Eyes - Hans Peter Kuhn in conversation with Chiara Alexandra Valci Mazzara
• Think Less, Shot More, and Rely on Your Intuition - Sergey Melnitchenko in conversation with Anna Akage

Essays:

• Be Careful with the Addiction to the Adrenaline by Anna Akage and Inti Celis (with participation of Ronaldo Schemidt | AFP) 
• Poet of Radical Photography by Jens Pepper (with participation of Miron Zownir)
• Georges Rousse and the Great War: A Creative Document by Georges Vercheval
• The American Digital Memory Dream by Wojtek Wieteska

DOC! WHEN THE STORY MATTERS

Format: 235x320 mm
Number of pages: 188
Number of photographs: 153

Editor-in-chief: Grzegorz Kosmala
Design: Aneta Kowalczyk
Photo post-processing: Aneta Kowalczyk
Printing: Argraf, Warsaw (Poland)
Publisher: BLOW UP PRESS
ISSN: 2299-2855

Cover photo: Lorenzo Castore