Issue: 05-2015

Issue Magazine 05-2015 opens with a series of "Shoot Yourself" denim fashion images, where models go behind the camera, running alongside highlight features of new art books, music and films. Conversation-style interviews unfold between artists Graeme Mitchell and Jay Batlle, and multi-talented collaborators Ariana Delawari and Nicole Disson. Actor Lakeith Lee Stanfield and director Destin Daniel Cretton talk about their film Short Term 12 and Stanfield's upcoming Straight Outta Compton. Tame Impala's Julien Barbagallo asks Motopony about their forays into the musical unknown, and author Allan MacDonell talks with musician Chelsea Wolfe about her experimental new record. Interviews with The Diary of a Teenage Girl author Phoebe Gloeckner, director Marielle Heller and actor Bel Powley explore three generations of the character Minnie, featuring an excerpt from the graphic novel. Fashion highlights include a cover photo shoot and interview with actor Imogen Poots, "The Strip" fashion editorial, and fashion shoots with Lakeith Lee Stanfield, Chelsea Wolfe and The Tribe's Yana Novikova. Actors share their ambitions, turn-ons and favorite movies in the Go-See series--featuring Jason Mitchell, Troy Garity, Amanda Crew, Kathleen Robertson, Reid Scott and Yana Novikova. ISSUE+ enhanced features include live performances by Ariana Delawari and Motopony, a behind-the-scenes short of Shoot Yourself #Denim, and our unique go-see video interviews.

CONTRIBUTORS TEXT Julien Barbagallo, Destin Daniel Cretton, Jay Batlle, Holly Grigg-Spall, Allan MacDonell, Naomi deLuce Wilding, Clare Shearer, Alyson Luthi, Dan Tinkham, Jade Paoletta, Matthew Hart, Jesy Odio; IMAGE Cara Robbins, Sophie Caby, Jerome Corpuz, Cameron McCool, Nate Hoffman, Alex Aristei, Jan-Willem Dikkers, Emily E., Anna Sophia Moltke, Diana Rosa, Ryan Gordy, John Hurtado, Alec Saint Martin