Pearls Magazine

Pearls is a publication which pairs diverse creative editorial photography with interviews from passionate 'experts' on a collection of niche topics, taken from the subject of their dissertations. We encourage the reader to consider what it takes for an individual to be categorised an expert, and what assumptions are made from their appearance about the expertise they possess. Our celebration of these individuals and their respective fields is held together by a thread of 'Pearls', representing not only the accessory seen in each feature - but the flaunting if their pearls of knowledge and wisdom. Pearls is also a reference to the idea of 'Opulence' which case from the Ballroom scene in the 1990's in New York, where the word was appropriated to mean the illusion of aesthetic of wealth and status, without the reality of either.