A print magazine about one place in North America per issue.
From 2013 to 2018, I was the editorial director of The Collective Quarterly, a 200-page print magazine about one place per issue.
We tried to make the world a little smaller by embedding into small communities around North America for weeks or months at a time and giving voice to the struggles and triumphs of the people who lived there.
Our deeper approach to travel journalism drew praise from Gear Patrol, Hypebeast, Inside Hook, Juxtapoz, Monocle, Nieman Storyboard, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Vice, Vogue, and others.
As editorial director, I managed a total of 125 contributing writers, editors, and illustrators published in Bon Appétit, Esquire, GQ, National Geographic, Newsweek, The New York Times, Outside, Rolling Stone, TIME, Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal, and many more.
The magazine was distributed on newsstands around the world; on shelves at Anthropologie, Barnes & Noble, Huckberry, and Urban Outfitters; and in more than 150 of the most respected boutique stores in America, Europe, and Japan.
Because the magazine was especially admired for its vibrant imagery, we created a series of week-long photography workshops that featured keynote speakers (including a Pulitzer Prize winner) from Magnum Photos, National Geographic, The New Yorker, Out, TIME, Vanity Fair, the White House, and Wired.
During our travels, we met Blackfeet Indians in Montana, mad-genius architects in Vermont, surfers in California, survivalists in North Carolina, lobster fisherwomen in Maine, fugitive desert men in the Mojave, and pugilistic conservationists in Georgia. We ate and drank with them, we listened to music together in dusty saloons, and we shared their stories as best we knew how.