The editor
With thanks to the contributors
RE | Issue 20 | 2022
This is issue 20 of RE:, a magazine for everyone in Norton Rose Fulbright around the world and for our friends, among them our clients and alumni. We have been in search of a little joy to offer up, and it is sometimes surprising where it can be found. In the pages of books, for sure, but also on another world with two moons, if Nick Grandage is right. For Tom Valentine’s daughter, Brynn, it was in the music of Lou Reed’s PerfectDay, while contemplating leaving one country to seek out new adventures in another: a melancholy kind of joy. And splashed across our photo essay there is a wild joy: the joy of wild swimming across the United States. Di Somma lives in New York. Her photographs are on display in Back Streets, but it’s her mention of Madison Square Park in this issue’s Coda that I want to point you to, because it turns out it’s a magical place. Raven Chua's tour of cinema for the Moving Image is a thing of joy in itself. And take a look at all the colour there is in our Wide Angle column. Dr Jonathan Chong could no doubt explain how the brain responds to being steeped in colour. We are all of us extraordinary beings.
The next issue of RE will appear in the middle of 2022. See you then.
The Editor
RE
Laura Shumiloff—publisher
Nicola Liu—editor
Thando Buthelezi—design and production
Clement Lehembre—digital
Robbie Pattemore—consultant
WRITERS
Khawaja Muhammad Akbar, London | Bookshelf
Scott Atkins, Sydney | Bookshelf
Mark Berry, Dubai | Bookshelf
John C Boehm Jr, Houston|Riyadh | a direct Question
Patrick Bracher, Johannesburg | Bookshelf
Lesley Browning, London | Playlist
Richard Calnan, London | Jurisprudence
Jonathan Chong, Montréal | Real Science
Raven Chua, London | the Moving Image
Mathieu Dahan, Paris|Casablanca | a direct Question
Alison Deitz, Sydney| a direct Question
Ramya Djealatchoumy, Paris | the Kitchen Table
Tomas Gärdfors, London | Eating out
Nick Grandage, London | the Essay
Stefan Hagner, Dallas | a direct Question
Alexandra Howe, Paris|London | the Poet
Sacha de Klerk, Toronto | Style
Silvia Lazzati, Milan | Coda
Steven Leitl, Calgary | the Guide
Nicola Liu, London | Style
Bethany Maddy, London | a direct Question
Yui Ota-Barclay, Tokyo | Stringers
Robbie Pattemore, London | the Guide
Xavier Pierrot, Paris | Bookshelf
Verushka Reddy, Johannesburg | Bookshelf
Moontashir Rahman, Toronto | a direct Question
James Reid, Montréal | Style
Andrew Robinson, Cape Town|Durban | Stringers, Way of Life, Style, the Guide
Omar Salah, Amsterdam | Bookshelf
Henrietta Scott, London | Coda
Alexandra Somerset, Paris|London | Coda
Dianne Somma, New York | Coda
Jarret S Stephens, New York | a direct Question
Russell Trice, Los Angeles | Stringers, Bookshelf
PHOTOGRAPHERS AND ARTISTS
Michael Dunn, London | Wide Angle
Sacha de Klerk, Toronto | Wide Angle
Marjolein van Leunen, Amsterdam | Wide Angle
Victor Magos Jr, Dubai | Wide Angle
Avish Maharaj, Durban | Wide Angle
Allyson Morris, Vancouver | Wide Angle
Attilio Pavone, Milan | Wide Angle
Moontashir Rahman, Toronto | In Your Face, the Kitchen Table, a direct Question
Henrietta Scott, London | the Poet, Real Science
Dianne Somma, New York | Back Streets
Christopher Wilson, Vancouver | Wide Angle
James Wilson, Vancouver | the 'Enter a cloud' feature
FEATURES
In Search Of
Susanne Altherr, Munich
Alison Baxter, London
Mark Berry, Dubai
Penny Biram, Johannesburg
Nerushka Bowan, Johannesburg
Keira Brennan, Brisbane
Duc Thuan Luong, Brussels
Jo Feldman, Perth
Judi Johnson, London
Valentina Lastochkina, Moscow
Shona Mascarenhas, Sydney
Ileana Navarro, San Antonio
Omar Salah, Amsterdam
Meggie Tao, Hong Kong
Erika Vale, Toronto
Annette Wurster, Brussels
Wang Yi, Beijing
Enter a cloud
1 Yui Ota-Barclay, Tokyo
2 Jeffrey Anderson, London
3 Yasmine Wilson, Cape Town
4 Louise Higginbottom, London|West Somerset
5 Jonathan Chong, Montréal
6 James Wilson, Vancouver
7 Nicola Liu, London|Scotland
8 Alexandra Somerset, Paris|London
9 Jeffrey Anderson, London
10 Yasmine Wilson, Cape Town
11 Ingeborg Alexander
12 Patrick Bracher, Johannesburg
13 Alexandra Somerset, London
14 Anon, Gigantic Cinema 217
15 James Wilson, Vancouver
16 Virgil, Gigantic Cinema 29
17 W S Graham, Gigantic Cinema 163
THE PHOTO ESSAY
Gregg Segal
EXTERNAL CONTRIBUTORS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Mike Ellis, Shanghai | the Historian
Gregg Segal | Wild Swimming photo essay
Brynn Valentine, Oxford | the Guide, Bookshelf
James Wilson, Vancouver | Enter a cloud
Gigantic Cinema: A Weather Anthology, edited by Alice Oswald, Paul Keegan & Jonathan Cape, London, 2020
RE: A magazine for everyone in Norton Rose Fulbright and for our friends, among them our clients and our alumni.
RE is published twice a year by Norton Rose Fulbright and is available online and (issues 1 to 16) in print. © Norton Rose Fulbright LLP 2022 Issue 20 published February 2022
