02/02/2026
BESIDE Issue 17, 2025
is a project I’ve been a massive fan of for years. I’m thrilled to have contributed a few images for its 17th issue: ‘Ephemeral’. And I’m honoured to share a few spreads with the great .rabz and !
“The works, featured at the opening and closing of the magazine, set the tone of the Ephemeral issue. Though [Romain, Vincent and Charlotte’s] practices unfold along distinct trajectories, what brings them together here is a shared, experimental use of colour that reaches beyond documentation, working instead as a means of composing narrative.
Across these pages, hues invite the reader to drift between seasons and states, lending winter a shifting pulse. In this muted time of year, colour became a way of holding the season’s reality at a distance, while also finding refuge in its emotional weather.” —
Featuring:
CHARLOTTE RAINVILLE
Mark Nunez, 2022. San Francisco, California, United States.
Verglas, 2023. Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Deuxième neige, 2025. Montréal, Québec, Canada.
ROMAIN RABASA .rabz
Hostile territories, 2023. Lofoten Islands, Norway.
VINCENT KARCHER
Fire born MMXXII, 2022. Thompson Okanagan, British Columbia, Canada.
Hivernisé, 2023. Kootenay, British Columbia, Canada.