Purple Magazine

Jan 2025

Purple Magazine documents the collaborative art project between Patti Smith, Soundwalk Collective, and Kurimanzutto in this series of editorial and documentary photographs. Captured by photographer Darío Castillo, the images move between intimate, candid portraits of cultural icons like Patti Smith and Willem Dafoe and detailed observations of the collective's immersive exhibition space. The project leans into an analogue film aesthetic, utilizing high-contrast monochrome grading to emphasize the raw textures of the installation’s mixed media collages, archival documents, and layered manuscript pages. The photography frames the exhibition as an atmospheric environment, focusing on the interplay of natural light, shadow, and projection to document the narrative style of the gathering.

Editorial, Horizontal, Monochrome

Analogue / film

Magazines

Editorial