Tide #7

Tide magazine is a bi-annual publication documenting the raw beauty of ordinary life, through contemporary images and multidisciplinary artworks. 
Photographers, filmmakers, visual artists and writers are brought together to translate the hopes and depths of our times.

Driven by ideas and emotion, our stories aim to convey a certain kind of imagery, one that is intimate and universal, all at once.

Each Tide issue revolves around two opposite yet complementary notions: an ever-present duality, as the tidal movements at sea.

In this issue:

Themed ‘Safety and Desire’, this aesthetic seventh issue features a conversation with Canadian self-portrait photographer Kourtney Roy, accompanied by a selection of uncanny and heavily saturated stills from her 2025 series ‘Failed Postcards from Napoli’; Guillaume Blanc-Marianne on the practice of image-making as an intermediary between longing for and attaining an object of desire; the tender story behind Kiss Facility, Irish producer Salvador Navarrete (aka Sega Bodega) and Emirati singer Mayah Alkhateria’s first musical collaboration traversing ‘intimacy and exposure’; and photographer Paul Mesnager’s dutiful documentation of the return of Sadiya—a queer and transgender woman living in exile in Delhi—as she returns to her native Kashmir to honour the 2008 passing of her former lover amidst violent protests in the region.