Issue #3 is now available!

The team is ready to announce a new number coming! With class, nonchalance, explosiveness, and a little bit of provocation. Celebrating, in 3 hundreds of pages circa, the beauty, talent, expectations and rise of a new generation of artists of all sorts (we have on the list stylists and models, designers and obviously, photographers), whose unique taste for visual creativity makes them une bande à part, a little microcosm of people that embodies the need and the will to create something alternative and sophisticated. Up has tried (and still is trying – with success!) to get closer to these brilliant, colorful minds, collecting their best, inedited works and collaborating with them.

If you want to understand something more about what will be going on in the next pages, you have to start with looking at “Arcade Blues”, main editorial of the issue, all shot and curated by Andrea Quarantotto. The atmosphere is mild, the gazes are lost, the grain intense. Inspired by Andrej Tarkovskij‘s filmography, the artist also mixed to the bold Terry Richardson‘s kind of poses, some futuristic-pop elements directly taken from Ed Ruscha‘s films and canvases.What follow are two sweet, breathtakingly beautiful and seducing Spencer Wohlrab‘s mini-editorials. Marc Jacob‘s new favourite photographer, in exclusive for Up, grasps the stunning shapes of a brunette and a blondie: Bailee Mykell and Mandy Murphy. The Rocker and the Muse.Spacing these two out, we have the grey skies, severe looks and eccentric hairstyles of the noir, punkish and dark models of Eleonora Giammello‘s “Through My Hair” (watch out for the only breaking element – the turquoise scarf!).An even more symmetric, sharp and 100% desaturated style is that used by Erica Fava to underline woman’s beauty in a futuristic vacuum, a desertic black and white wasteland.The massive editorial part is closed by sepia tones, overexposures, light veils, lips softly concealed in a little smile… That’s how Elisabetta Porcinai, also using some Shakespeare‘s Hamlet verses, make the readers retraceOphelia‘s death, among water lilies and forest trees, in the most moving and pure way.Melancholic emotions turn into surprise in front of the cheeky, aggressive attitudes of the “NoN huManS” women bodies designed and illustrated by Ilaria Ciappina. The skinny figures, the carved, bitter faces are framed with huge and highly worked out fur coats and feathers: outfits recalling the harshness of a primitive era.
As usual, the reader reaches the end of the issue while drowning in a rivers of words: words that are the reflections, projects and dreams of a very special gang of artists.
Insight rubric spoke, this time, with a photographer, the french stylish lad Yougo Jeberg, a music producer and a musician, nifty Sigfrid Bobriek and jazzy Ryan Cavanagh, a model, the angel-faced, doubled-talented Josh Beech and, at last, with the explosive, smiling Jon Malvin K, a budding stylist. Special guest, for this number, is the little Ash Kingston, sixteen years young photographer, whose name you’ll hear very much in the near future.In case you’ve been annoyed by the last 36 pages, nevermind. There’s still something “You Should Know”. The hottest news of the artistic side of the web are condensed in this little, shameless page.Close your eyes. Go ahead. Silence and blankness. The very last page is made to reflect, take a break. Only one thin sentence: “Deletion is when memory doesn’t meet his objects of research anymore.” What should this mean? Ask CU.305 new pages. 11 artists. Other uncountable names and cues. Some more collaborators.
How do you expect to find inspiration if you’re not starting from here?
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text by Sara Scialpi