Port #37
The Autumn/Winter issue of Port – featuring Benedict Cumberbatch, Ethan Hawke, LaKeith Stanfield, Jodie Turner-Smith, Richard E Grant and Kate Winslet, photographers Matt Healy, Ian Kenneth Bird, Kennedi Carter, Charlie Gates, Douglas Irvine and Liz Collins, writers Max Porter, Gus Casely-Hayford, Francesca Gavin, Simran Hans, Natty Kasambala, Hannah Strong, Anna Sulan Masing, Ugonna-Ora Owoh, Selma Dabbagh and Mennlay Golokeh Aggrey, plus original writing from Sheila Heti and Kieran Yates.
Port Issue 37 is a tribute to discovery – to the patient, often circuitous path of uncovering and reinterpreting the world through story, memory, art, travel and technology. Our cover stories embody this spirit intimately. Benedict Cumberbatch, in conversation with author Max Porter, explores grief and fatherhood (and their favourite trees) through the lens of imagination and their collaborative work The Thing with Feathers. Ethan Hawke, ever the cultural polymath, speaks to musician and collaborator Hamilton Leithauser about truth, performance and his twin projects, The Lowdown and Blue Moon. LaKeith Stanfield reflects on the unpredictable shape of a career defined by defiance – from Sorry to Bother You to Die, My Love. Jodie Turner-Smith navigates the spaces between resilience, power and womanhood; Richard E Grant revisits a life rendered vivid through friendship, wit and condiment metaphors; and Kate Winslet speaks candidly about loss, creativity and her work as producer, writer and now director.
In Portfolio, our dispatches arrive from across the globe – Malaysia, Mexico, Palestine, Japan, France and Africa – each tethered to a newly uncovered object, material, recipe or space. A chair is the anchor for each photograph, hinting at place, presence and the act of being held.
Elsewhere, Samuel Ross, in conversation with Gus Casely-Hayford, traces identity across the UK and West Africa. We revisit the visionary 1960s initiative EAT (Experiments in Art and Technology), with Francesca Gavin interviewing its director Julie Martin and accessing the movement’s electric archives. Liz Johnson Artur opens her new publication I Will Keep You in Good Company – three decades of personal workbooks capturing the African diaspora.
Port Horizons, our new travel series, begins in the USA at the Savannah College of Art and Design, which is restoring the city’s bones and reimagining its creative future. In our design section, PRD, Max Lamb’s collaboration with Potato Head turns the excess of luxury tourism into tactile and restorative furniture. Meanwhile, Shiro Kuramata, as revealed through a new monograph, emerges as a designer who turned the ephemeral into enduring interior memory. Alison Brooks, interviewed by Caroline Roux, speaks on the realities of designing in and against a male-dominated landscape. In our literary section, Commentary, Sheila Heti maps the porous border between life and art, love and solitude. Kieran Yates, with her gift for observing the poetic in the everyday, takes us to the local gym – a place of aspiration, ritual and strange community.
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