Print is not dead: Boat Magazine

Boat Magazine was born out of our passion for storytelling, our obsession with traveling to new places, and our habit of buying way too many good-looking magazines.

Image via www.boat-mag.com 

The team at the Boat studio picks up their Kings Cross shop twice a year and settles for three weeks in a city that has a story to tell. The pair responsible are husband and wife Davey and Erin Spens. Their intention is to refresh our out of date preconceptions of perhaps war torn and crisis bitten cities, travelling to the heart and drawing the truth from experience. 

Boat collaborates with locals to create the most eye opening, personal and honest stories, ones that could never be found from a Google search. Beautiful photographic spreads entail the team's experiences from the centre of the action and written pieces and interviews are thoughtful and true.

Flicking through the pages, you'll be hit with a wonderful waft of rich ink and musky paper. This magazine really is the antidote to 'churnalism', but usually being shelved in the boats and fishing sections of newsagents, it does not get the attention it deserves.

Catch up with Boat's latest venture: Kyoto, and subscribe to Boat here.