Present Space

In his own written reflections on his practice, British artist @wycliffestutchbury invokes the German French sculptor, painter and poet Jean Arp to articulate nature’s tendency to buckle modern society’s overdependence on reason. At the heart of Stutchbury’s work lies this tension between the human desire to impose order on the natural world and its unwillingness to conform. Wood, he suggests, corrupts, erupts, distorts and discolours before it ever submits, asserting its own internal logic through external force.  Wycliffe Stutchbury documented by Rosie Harriet Ellis for Present Space, Print Seven available from amileamile.com and out in select spaces globally Photography: @rosieharrietellis In conversation with @ameliastevens_design

Vivienne Rohner documented by Priscillia Saada Photography: @priscilliasaada Styling: @ellymcgaw Creative Direction: @duque.j , @nimahabibzadeh Make-Up: @alliesmithmakeup Hair: @tomojidai Manicurist: Megumi Yamamoto Set Design: @commerciallyviable Casting Direction: @establishmentny Talent: @viviennerohner in @tiffanyandco and @chanelofficial full look Photography Assistant: Zane Shaffer Styling Assistant: Alejandra Garran, Daniel Polizzano Production: @viewfindersnyla Present Space, Print Seven available from amileamile.com and out in stores globally

Samuel Elie documented by Marc Hibbert Photography: @marc_hibbert Styling: @laytonbaptista Creative Direction: @duque.j , @nimahabibzadeh Groomer: @drewmartinhair Casting Direction: @establishmentny Talent: @samuelelie_ wears @fearofgod Photography Assistant: Kealan Shilling Styling Assistant: @sirhc.chidi Production: @katiebinfield Present Space, Print Seven available from amileamile.com and out in stores globally this month

What awaits us in Djerba? Driving over the banks of the Sebkhet El Melah, a wide salt lake of pinkish mirages, the desert fades, the Gulf of Gabès nears, then, unexpectedly, the sea. Tunisians refer to the island as Djerba le douce—“the gentle.” The translucent shores and beaches are sublime, a tourist attraction, mostly German, since the 1960s. But it is the inland where the island earns its douce reputation, populated by smiling men and women, careless camels crouching on the road-side, and the low, maze-like homes—the Djerbian houch complexes—with barrel-vaulted roofs that look like upturned boats. Gardens are enclosed in the complexes’ courtyards, built behind earth-banks, with the scents of overgrown jasmine and orange blossom lingering over the high walls, drawn out by the gentle desert wind and, at the opportune moment, finding our noses. As we crept through different villages, we believed that each hid at least one earthly paradise. From Djerba documented by Bilal El Kadhi for Present Space, Print Seven available from amileamile.com and out in stores globally this month Photography: @bilalelkadhi Art Direction: @shainezelhaimour Lighting: @jolan.pery Lighting Assistant: @amor_boussetta Words: @chriscotonou

Devyn Garcia in @dior documented by by Kwabena Sekyi Appiah-Nti Photography: @sekyii Styling: @laytonbaptista Creative Direction: @duque.j , @nimahabibzadeh Make-Up and Hair: @anagdev Casting Direction: @establishmentny Talent: @devynfaithgarcia in @dior Photography Assistant: Jose Milan Styling Assistant: Isabela Velasquez Pedraza Executive Production: @artproduction__ Local Production: @caixapro Present Space, Print Seven available from amileamile.com and out in stores globally this month

There is a tendency to see climate change as a malfunction of technology—a problem of carbon, policy, or engineering. We are told it is the price of industrial success, an unfortunate side effect of progress that clever inventions will one day fix. But the crisis did not begin in the factory. It started in the imagination. It is first and foremost a cultural byproduct—the physical consequence of two ideas so profoundly rooted in the modern mind that we rarely notice them anymore. The first is the cult of speed: the conviction that acceleration itself is a form of improvement. The second is the separation of humanity from nature: the belief that the world exists as raw material for our ambitions. Together, these convictions became the twin engines of modernity, producing the psychological climate that made the physical one fevered. The cult of speed gave us an economy defined by expansion; the separation from nature made relentless extraction feel moral, even inevitable. Once progress was defined by velocity and domination, the rest followed automatically—factories, fossil fuels, and the conviction that limits were errors to be solved rather than conditions to live within. Climate change is the tangible proof that culture has become a force of nature, and that ideas alone can alter the Earth’s temperature. Words: @michelefossi Photography: @zacharyhandley Present Space, Print Seven out in select stores and spaces globally this month.

South London-born saxophonist and music producer @vennagram first erupted onto London’s music scene seven years ago, with an emotional soar on Knucks’ reflective track, Home (2019). The highlight of a song already full of highlights, the praise came rushing in: some listeners called for Venna’s performance to receive an award, while others simply acknowledged the name he was already making for himself. Within two years, Venna—born Malik Venner—had achieved both: first, a Grammy award in 2020 for his contributions to Afrobeats star Burna Boy’s Twice As Tall album, then a name for himself with the warmly welcomed release of his debut EP, VENOLOGY, in 2021. As Venna tells it though—here and in other interviews—the latter was and continues to be the goal. “The fact that people spend their money and come from far and wide to come see a show? That’s more than any accolade.” When one considers his trajectory from sleeping on the floor of the studio after shifts at his long-retired day job to touring the world performing for crowds of thousands of people, it’s clear why that sentiment exists. Over the course of the last five years since VENOLOGY was released, Venna has built a sturdy reputation for himself as one of London’s greatest exports, bringing jazz firmly into the twenty-first-century pop landscape. In 2023, he followed up with his second EP, EQUINOX, featuring contributions from Mick Jenkins, Masego, and his modern jazz contemporary Yussef Dayes, and last year, in 2025, he released his debut album, the self-titled MALIK, under Dayes’ label, Cashmere Thoughts. @vennagram in conversation with @angelharveyideozu for Present Space, Print Seven out in select stores and spaces globally this month. Photography: @mahaney_mark Styling: @adam.winder Creative Direction: @duque.j , @nimahabibzadeh Grooming: @kellypeachbeauty Talent: @vennagram in @hermes Casting Direction: @establishmentny Photography Assistant: Caleb Thal Styling Assistant: Melissa Gordillo Production: Carlye Burke Vila

Branches, clay, flowers, linen, lead, paper, stones, threads, tree roots, wood—and Perla. Though her name evokes the pearl—a iridescent natural gemstone formed inside mollusks—Mexican sculptor and painter @krauzeperla finds beauty not only in the rare wonders of the world, but in the small, everyday objects she encounters. Once aspiring to become an archaeologist—and even studying archeology for a year—Krauze finds interesting materials wherever she goes: whether along the city streets of Mexico City, across the dramatic volcanic landscapes of El Pedregal in Cabo San Lucas, or among the ancient archaeological sites of Copilco and Cuicuilco, early settlements later covered over by lava from the eruption of the Xitle volcano nearly 3000 years ago. Or rather, as she suggests, they find her. Imbuing each material with lyrical qualities—she describes stones, for instance, as “eternal,” holding temporality and geological memory—she attributes to them a kind of equal agency. “The stone feels I can work with it,” she says. “It allows me… to play with it, move it around, inscribe it, draw on it, or place it near another stone.”  @krauzeperla in conversation with @ameliastevens_design Photography: @davidwilliambaum Present Space, Print Seven available from amileamile.com and out in stores globally later this month

Penelope Ternes in @balenciaga documented by Kyle Weeks Photography: @_kyleweeks_ Styling: @louise__ford Creative Direction: @duque.j , @nimahabibzadeh Make-Up: @thierry.do.nascimento Hair: @ryonarushima Manicurist: @nailsanaiscordevant Direction: @establishmentny Talent: @penelope.ternes in @balenciaga Photography Assistants: Pietro Lazzaris, Costanza Canali Manetti Digital Operator: Orson Heidrich Styling Assistant: Mercedes Rigby Ellis Production: @whitedotproductions Present Space, Print Seven available from amileamile.com and out in stores globally later this month

Nothing exemplifies the inevitability of change quite like our planet. In the volcanic mountains that accumulate over millennia, the telltale isotopes trapped inside permafrost and the biomarkers encased in sedimentary rock, Earth’s massive flux of geological, chemical and biological processes is archived in the very vessel that sustains them. As the rate of change increases due to human activity, so expands the cache of history recorded within its confines—albeit in large part due to the huge amounts of data added electronically, as areas of natural wealth are paved over to build the infrastructure on which human’s obsession with knowledge and computation relies. It could be argued that the perceptibility of this relatively new pedagogic vault depends upon the survival of human society, but the same is true of buried dinosaur skeletons and ancient DNA fragments: without a conscious being to perceive them, their stories remain buried in obscurity. Earth as an Archive documented by Aude Le Barbey for Present Space, Print Seven available from amileamile.com and out in stores globally later this month Photography: @audelebarbey Set Design: @studiovegete Words: @cattycattycool

Felice Nova Noordhoff in @ysl by @anthonyvaccarello documented by Pablo Sáez Photography: @pablo.saez Styling: Julie Ragolia Creative Direction: @duque.j , @nimahabibzadeh Make-Up: @adrienpinault Hair: @rimura_official Manicurist: @nailsbymagda.s Casting Direction: @establishmentny Talent: @felicenova in @ysl by @anthonyvaccarello Photography Assistant: Zane Shaffer Styling Assistant: Alejandra Garran, Daniel Polizzano Production: @nilmproduction Present Space, Print Seven available from amileamile.com and out in stores globally later this month

In his own written reflections on his practice, British artist @wycliffestutchbury invokes the German French sculptor, painter and poet Jean Arp to articulate nature’s tendency to buckle modern society’s overdependence on reason. At the heart of Stutchbury’s work lies this tension between the human desire to impose order on the natural world and its unwillingness to conform. Wood, he suggests, corrupts, erupts, distorts and discolours before it ever submits, asserting its own internal logic through external force.  Wycliffe Stutchbury documented by Rosie Harriet Ellis for Present Space, Print Seven available from amileamile.com and out in stores globally later this month Photography: @rosieharrietellis In conversation with @ameliastevens_design