The Eyes questions cultural and societal evolutions through the prism of photography and creation and gives carte blanche to experts directly concerned by the subjects addressed. B-Side invites its readers to a visual exploration of what it means to be Afropean, a notion of expertise of guest curator Johny Pitts, British photographer and author.
Historical and contemporary photographers, seminal and singular books and journals explore the diversity of black identities as experienced in Europe. 
 
Entitled “B-Side“, this issue is strongly inspired by music, the field that gave birth to the term Afropean. B-Side is also an opportunity to take an offbeat approach and look at the B-side, the one we don’t hear much about and see most of the time in a marginal way.
 
“Afropean felt like something I could anchor myself to, but that could not be monolithic – it needed to be allowed to shift and move as a term, functioning in antithesis to the way nationalism does, with its ethnic absolutism and blood and soil narrative. It needed to be a site of fusion and blurs.”
- Johny Pitts

TEXTS:
 
B-SIDE Taous Dahmani
 
SPECTRES AND TEXTURES: THE B-SIDE WINS AGAIN Johny Pitts
 
CONVERSATION WITH MAD PROFESSOR Melissa Chemam, Johny Pitts, Mad Professor, Roger Robinson
 
30 TRACKS FROM THE B-SIDE Johny Pitts’ Afropean playlist
 
WHAT DOES AFROPEAN MEAN TO YOU? Thomas Chatterton Williams, Marie Daulne, Claude Grunitzky, Anna Lafont, Vittorio Longhi, Caryl Phillips, Minna Salami, Elvan Zabunyan
 
THE EYES X PHOTOCAPTIONIST Johny Pitts, Roger Robinson

13 ARTISTS PORTFOLIOS :                                
JAZZ GRANT           
MOHAMED BOUROUISSA                                  
JAMES BARNOR                                               
EDDIE OTCHERE                                                                                                    
RÉMY BOURDEAU                                           
SILVIA ROSI                                                      
CÉDRINE SCHEIDIG                                           
ZINEB SEDIRA
BRUNO BOUDJELAL
TABITA REZAIRE
DÉLIO JASSE
MAUD SULTER
MARVIN BONHEUR
SOFIA YALA RODRIGUES
 
7 BOOKS PORTFOLIOS
REVUE NOIRE
10 YEARS OF TRACE 
 LIZ JOHNSON ARTUR 
PARIS BOUT DU MONDE // ANAIK FRANTZ & FRANCOIS MASPERO 
THE GHOSTS OF SONGS: THE FILM ART OF THE BLACK AUDIO FILM COLLECTIVE // KODWO ESHUN & ANJALIKA SAGAR
BISO BANA YA POTO // CLAUDIA NDEBELE
A SERIES OF UTTERLY IMPROBABLE, YET EXTRAORDINARY RENDITIONS // ARTHUR JAFA