addicted to otherness

 

Growing up in rural Holland, Jop Van Bennekom went to study graphic design. Magazines like The Face, i-D and NME played a defining role in his teenage quest for identity. “I was addicted to otherness,” Jop told Interview magazine. Gert Jonkers was also born in rural Holland, in the family of a preacher. He sang for a while in a country band, but was more at ease writing about music.

 

 

what I found especially intriguing was that [re-magazine] was almost boring, but somehow also interesting at the same time. —olivier zahm, founder and editor of purple magazine

Cover of Re-Magazine, issue 3, autumn & winter 1998. On Sex

Cover of Re-Magazine, issue 3, autumn & winter 1998. Image via arnoudholleman.nl.

student project turned real
magazine

Jop proposed Re-Magazine as his thesis project at the Jan van Eyck Academie. One of the advising researchers encouraged him to convert it into a real magazine. The first eight issues of Re- each used a different thematic lens: home, boredom, sex, or re-connecting with one’s past. In 2002, with issue nine, the magazine changed direction. Since then, each publication has been dedicated to one person.

 

 

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