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8 6 | “ D R I FT E R ” S E T

Sepia brown paint and faux python leather: The “Drifter” set created by Lenny Kravitz combines the technical specifications of the Leica M Monochrom with an unusually extravagant design

94 | CL “BAUHAUS”

No-frills aesthetics in silver and black: The special-edition Leica CL marks the centenary of the Bauhaus movement, and pays tribute to a shared ethos

9 8 | Q 2 & B LU E To oT H

What are the benefits of dual connectivity? The Leica Q2 ena-bles wireless data transfer both via Wi-Fi and Bluetooth LE

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Cover: lenny Kravitz, photo-graphed by Mark Seliger

Xiomara Bender8 | T H E P ow E R o F D R E A m S

Formation, community and perfect perfor- mance: How the Democratic People’s Republic

of Korea celebrates its 70th birthday

Nicoló lanfranchi2 2 | m AC Ux I ST R U g g L E S

They are proud and they are many: in northern Brazil the indigenous Macuxi people fight against

assaults on their land

robin Maddock3 8 | w H I T E , w H I T E A N D AwAY

What do a ping-pong ball, spilled milk and white paper have in common? A photo essay on

the fugacity of the moment

José luis Carrillo4 8 | S m o K E A N D S H A D owS

Welcome to the fairytale world of Cannabis Social Clubs: a rather surreal series about people

and their love of weed

lenny Kravitz5 8 | D R I FT E R

Portraits and street scenes, staged and situational: exciting glimpses into the life of the

musician, designer and photographer

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1 0 2 | L F I . gA L L E RY

More than 25000 photographers present over half a million imag-es in the LFI Gallery. In this is-sue: a rainy night, a star with legs, and a headless pedestrian

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1 1 2 | B o o K S

New publications by Alec Soth, Evelyn Hofer and Guy Tillim; and, on the occasion of the 100 year jubilee of its founding, the photo book Bauhaus mädels

1 1 4 | E x H I B I T I o N S

Anthony Hernandez, Kansas City; Alex Prager, Amsterdam; Seaside Photographed in Kent; The Body Observed, Norwich; and Erwin Olaf, Paris

1 1 6 | L E I C A gA L L E R I E S

The programme of Leica Galler-ies around the world, including Yashuhisa Ishii in Tokyo, Anatol Kotte in Constance and Ralph Gibson in London

1 1 8 | I N T E Rv I E w

Photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, co-founder of the film and photo collective Amber, speaks about their archives as the source of inspiration

1 2 2 | m Y P I C T U R E

Whoever believes that selfies are a phenomenon of the 21st century will learn differently from Jean Pigozzi

1 2 2 | I m P R I N T

Nicoló lanfranchi: from his project about the Macuxi

Dangerously beautiful: lenny Kravitz’s “Drifter“ with synthet-ic, faux python-skin trim