Smoke was...
... a love-letter to London, to the wet neon flicker of late-night pavements, electric with endless possibility, and the soft dishevelled beauty of the city’s dawn... to the overheard stories and unexplored histories, the facts and the fictions, the accidental poetry and fugitive art of graffiti-slashed suburban stations and rain-splashed shopfronts... the out-of-shot lives half-glimpsed from a train window, or from a phone number scrawled on the back of a Travelcard, dropped on the night-bus stairs...
Founded in April 2003 by Jude Rogers and Matt Haynes, Smoke – an A5 magazine of words and images inspired by London – published its 16th issue in the summer of 2010, and then decided to take a short sabbatical to consider its options and work on other projects; the first of these – Soho! – appeared in December 2010. Back issues of the magazine are still available, though, both individually and as multi-issue sets - see our mail-order page for full details of how to order.
Further projects will emerge in 2011. If you’d like to be kept up to date with the latest developments, we’re on Facebook (link opens in a new window) – or there’s an old-fashioned mailing list if you prefer. Meanwhile, the tabs at the top will lead you to excerpts from individual issues, some of our favourite photos, the complete collection of London’s Campest Statues, and a selection of words found written on the steamed-up windows of late-night buses. Or, if you'd just like to know more about what we were thinking in the summer of 2010, then the June 2010 tab will do the trick.
