RAT MAGAZINE Issue 1 Protection (2025)

Created by: Sunniva Hestenes, Eli Eli Eli and Thea Josefin Cedervall

first edition 100 copies

second edition 100 copies

size: 21.59 x 27.94 cm 80 pages

Print: Christensen Grafisk

paper: Multidesign white matte uncoated

typeface: Akzidenx-Grotesk Next

Editors note:

Flickering between care and control, intimacy and isolation – there are many ways to describe protection. Bodies, ideas, and societies are shielded by visible or invisible borders. But who decides what is worth protecting, and why?

To protect is to anticipate harm, thereby revealing what it is we fear. It can be an act of care, a strategy of resistance, or a tool of control. Gentle or violent, it is by all means contradictory.

One might suggest that the act of photography itself is a form of protection. By isolating moments or memories, we hold them close – rendering the world more legible. Yet in this era, the never-ending digital flow of photographic images can just as easily be invasive or disorienting.

For this first issue of Rat Magazine, we wish to explore different takes on the theme of protection. The contributing artists utilize photography in various ways, each engaging with the implications of the word through their own visual language.

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