Global Risqué / The archive
Real people, surviving pictures, and the words they left behind. We follow the records to bring the person back into view.
Seven collected editionsThe collected editions
Complete documentary editions, composed around the lives behind the photographs. Read each issue with its archival plates, chronology and source notes.
Archive A00 / 40 pages / Print & digital
From Niépce’s Burgundy courtyard to Cornelius’s Philadelphia workshop: the people, partnerships and prices behind photography’s earliest surviving images.
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Archive A01 / 40 pages / Print & digital
Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass: portraits, family ties, public voices, and the struggle to decide how a life would be seen and remembered.
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Archive A02 / 32 pages / Print & digital
Anna Atkins and the people behind the plant books. An inscribed gift, a mother remembered, Mary Wyatt’s specimen business and Anne Dixon’s collaboration, told through surviving words and luminous blue pages.
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Archive A03 / 40 pages / Print & digital
Mary Hillier, Julia Margaret Cameron, and the household behind the sacred pictures: eight historic photographs, named sitters, and a life beyond the photographic role.
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Archive A10 / 32 pages / Print & digital
Cameroon: a royal portrait, a road home, a school and the people who made things. Njoya, the queen mother, craftspeople and traders appear through surviving photographs, drawings and written accounts.
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Archive A11 / 32 pages / Print & digital
Haiti and France: Anténor Firmin’s argument for equality, the writers and subscribers behind a public reply, and the independent republic he wanted to build. Five features, a historical portrait and original French documents.
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Archive A13 / 32 pages / Print & digital
Sol and Elizabeth Plaatje, displaced families and words that crossed borders: land reporting, Setswana publishing, courtship and a challenge to racial caricature in early cinema.
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The edition / $35
Each $35 edition includes a printed copy and the digital PDF, with US shipping included. Ordering opens with the print release; orders and payments are not yet being accepted.
01 / Editorial
Sojourner Truth used a portrait card to connect her public image to the support of a living person.
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02 / Editorial
Frederick Douglass left an argument about who could possess a picture, and how pictures could change a society.
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03 / Editorial
An 1851 newspaper report and an 1863 recollection carry different versions of Sojourner Truth’s speech.
Read the story →The collected editions
Global Risqué brings a collector’s eye to documentary storytelling: considered imagery, original editorial, and the lives behind the frame. Each edition is composed to reward a closer look.
For enquiries about forthcoming editions and photographic prints, contact the editorial office.
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