Are you a voyeur?
Le Petit Voyeur is a bookshop in Denmark that doubles as an arts publisher. This enormous, wonderfully pink magazine is the seventh edition of LPV’s eponymous magazine, and it is entirely text-free. If a magazine with no writing sounds like a bit of a cop-out: I agree with you. In theory. But there is something undeniably pleasurable about flipping through page after page of glossy, full-bleed pictures and letting them wash over you; no reading required.
Many of the photographs in the issue you will almost certainly have seen before. Martin Parr’s beach scenes are reproduced here for the umpteenth time, and there is an (admittedly brilliant) Pelle Cass series of divers and basketball players and fencers that has done the independent-magazine-rounds. But the images get a new life on these XL pages — this is the way they were meant to be seen.
And the cover, which stars a horrifying set of false teeth, is strikingly original. It is by the artists Honey Long and Prue Stent, who blend photography with sculptural practice in their work (run your finger over the teeth and you will feel that they literally jut out). There is a shoot by Long and Stent inside the magazine that plays with the human body in similarly thrilling and revolting ways. Below we’ve photographed some of our favourite spreads.
