“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”
― Jessamyn West
 
We live in a time when we’re constantly rushing, with information and images barrelling towards us at a record-breaking pace; yet simultaneously we are alerted to pause, to consider, and to reconsider sources to critically assess whether the content we’re viewing on our screens is fact or fiction. 
 
Real vs Imagined is the final instalment in photoED magazine’s trilogy exploring contrast themes. This issue follows suit from the previous, Order vs Chaos and Home vs Away, in asking readers to pause; but in our instance, the payoff feels considerably kinder and more fulfilling.

In this print-first edition, the last issue in the CONTRASTS trilogy, photoED magazine again flips the script on the reader's experience. From the cover, the publication opens as per usual but somehow concludes in the middle. Flip the print edition on its back to find another beginning, a different entry point, through a second cover.

This issue features:
CAROLYN CHENG shifts the genre of landscape photography into artistic abstraction.
MAXIM DONDYUK, a Ukrainian photographer documents remnants of war that appear eerily similar to scenes from Hollywood apocalypse film sets. 
STREETMAX slows down street photography to craft images that ask us to question not only what we are seeing, but also why we believe, or doubt, them.
YVETTE HAMILTON, An Australian contemporary artist using history and AI to conjure a new portrait of a chemist whose work directly contributed to the birth of photography.
PHANTASMIC PHOTOS The Hamilton Family’s Archive of Spiritualist photography.
ANGELA LEWIS seeks her grandmother through portraits of other women.
JASON BOMERS is a grown-up Lost Boy.
JW TOFTNESS questions the flood of digital devices and our new understandings of reality.
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 PORTFOLIO Artists from our International Call for submissions: 
Gaëtan Changeur, Liv Talarico, Apostolis Giannakopoulos, Debbie Conacher, Chris Myhr, Gustavo Jabbaz, Matt Crabtree, Willie Runte, Vicky Martin, Nika Belianina, Anna Weidle, Leanne Trivett S., Martha Davis, Camille Roquet, and Tash Damjanovic
 
+ Much, much MORE
 
Magazine cover images:
Carolyn Cheng, “Pools I,” from the series Surfacing, Oil Sands, Alberta, 2023.
Anna Weidle, from the series, A Place I Don’t Know
 
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