Born in Beijing and raised in Phoenix, AMY X. WANG
is a writer and journalist currently living in New York
City. As a staff reporter at Rolling Stone, she covers
everything from the record industry to the digital
revolution’s impact on the music business and the
monetization of creativity. Her writing has appeared in
Quartz, The Atlantic, Slate and The Economist. Wang has
a BA in English from Yale University. On page 158, she
explains how the design of Drake’s latest tour makes the
live music experience more democratic.After graduating with honours in English from the
University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, VICTOR DLAMINI
began his career as a reporter at the Sunday Tribune in
KwaZulu-Natal. Inspired by written language throughout
his life, the Johannesburg-based jack of all trades
now works as a corporate communications adviser,
photographer and social philosopher. He is the chairman
of Chillibush advertising and director of Dlamini Weil
Communications, as well as a regular contributor to
his eponymous web show, the Victor Dlamini Literary
Podcast. For this issue, he took the portraits of Mariam
Kamara found on page 54.EMANUEL HAHN is a Brooklyn-based editorial and
documentary photographer specializing in portraiture
and human stories. He works as a narrative filmmaker
‘on the side’. Having grown up in South Korea, Singapore
and Cambodia, Hahn is curious about different cultures,
especially diaspora communities around the world.
As a deep observer and listener, he loves to discover
people’s personalities and perspectives, which inform
his shooting process. He’s worked for clients such as
Airbnb and Tiffany & Co., and his photographs have been
published in The New York Times and Surface Magazine,
among others. You can see Hahn’s portraits of artist Zac
Hacmon on page 71.LUKE PEARSON is a designer and academic. He directs
the architecture undergraduate programme at The Bartlett
School of Architecture, UCL. Together with Sandra
Youkhana, he founded design and research practice
You+Pea. Pearson and Youkhana lead the Videogame
Urbanism master’s studio at the Bartlett. Pearson’s research
applies game technologies to architecture and urbanism.
He examines virtual worlds as forms of conceptual
architecture and explores games as new platforms for
public engagement. His expertise extends to in-game
concerts on page 164.14 CONTRIBUTORS