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A song for supper
A shy teenager from an island off Rotterdam, Anton Corbijn only felt confident behind a camera. He has since befriended many subjects, including U2, and invited us for lunch in The Hague.
Culture
Music: Vampire Weekend and Chris Bathgate. Film: 3:10 to Yuma and Battle of Haditha. Art: A New York art cpp[ and exhibition picks. Books: JG Ballard's autobiography, Granta and Madam President.
Observation
At a recent conference, reporters asked me to reflect on Monocle’s first year and why we chose to launch in print rather than as an exclusively digital venture.
Party animal
The second in our series on foreign coverage of the US election is Li Xuejiang, Washington bureau chief for China’s ‘People’s Daily’, the state-controlled newspaper with a circulation of three million.
Film stars
The global camera market has rapidly switched to digital. Last year, Japan produced 94 million digital cameras versus 800,000 film cameras. Yet an army of die-hard fans is keeping the film format alive.
Mix in the right circles
Four enthusiastic Swedes believe the future of music doesn't end with the iPod. Their Pacemaker, a palm-sized DJ system, promises musical discovery, pitch-perfect audio quality and instant party epiphany for music lovers.
Fog City News
The magazine store in San Francisco that's bucking the mainstream, a satirical Parisian paper and healthcare, manga-style.
Freedom fighter
As editor of ‘The Zimbabwe Independent’, Trevor Ncube faced the consequences of criticising the government. Now based in South Africa, he plans to build a pan-African media empire for the continent’s democracy.
Save our skin tones
Digital photography is faster and cheaper but your latest party pictures might make you reconsider. We at Monocle believe it’s time for another shot at analogue film for more flattering results.
Abel García López
In Paracho, Mexico’s guitar-making capital, some luthiers battle cheap imports. A few, like Abel García López, draw on generations of knowledge to produce concert-quality instruments for the world's top virtuosos.
