{ "id": 8209, "date": "2022-07-21T09:37:03", "date_gmt": "2022-07-21T07:37:03", "guid": { "rendered": "https:\/\/athletamag.com\/?p=8209" }, "modified": "2025-08-02T16:47:57", "modified_gmt": "2025-08-02T14:47:57", "slug": "the-eighth-issue", "status": "publish", "type": "post", "link": "https:\/\/athletamag.com\/en\/the-eighth-issue\/", "title": { "rendered": "The Eighth Issue" }, "content": { "rendered": "

The relationship between man and nature, man and community, man and his own sensory individuality. All framed by sports cultural imagery. Introducing Athleta Magazine Issue 8. The cover painted by Achille Mauri\u2019s lens is followed by the first story \u2018I Want To Live In Real Madrid,\u2019 a journey by Alessandro Simonetti through the boiling dunes of Fuerteventura, which have become a football center for African migrants. Dunes that become an inner landscape in Giuliano Pugolotti\u2019s \u2019Inner Dunes,\u2019 an evocative visual essay dedicated to desert ultratrail. Natural element that also returns in \u2018Una Inmensa Stepa Verde,\u2019 where Achille Mauri\u2019s contemporary photographic poetry is exalted in the outdoor context. Two wheels are sublimated in multiple ways in the double reportage \u2018Ice & Fire\u2019 by Eric Scaggiante\/Niccol\u00f2 Varanini and \u2018No Temas, Somos Los Chilangos\u2019 by Jeoffrey Guillemard: on the one hand we observe the fascinating sporting pain of cyclocross, on the other we investigate the social value of the Chilangos Lowbike Club M\u00e9xico, a community that uses the connection between art and cycling to eradicate the scourge of local crime. From community to community, from Mexico City to Venice Beach, where women\u2019s empowerment is amplified on the \u2018There Is No \u201cI\u201d In Grl\u2019 skateboards, portrayed by Giulia Fassina. We then converse with Charlie Dark and Sanchia Legister, a pair of London-based creatives who in running and yoga have found the tools to change their own and others\u2019 lives, and with Virgil Dey, an internationally renowned b-boy and performer with an anthropological and cultural view of breakdancing. The Julien Da Costa\u2019s editorial shaped by the crossover between American football and Parisian fashion \u2018Easy To Pick Up, Hard To Put Down\u2019 is the final piece in this new Athleta Magazine chapter: the only place where sport is art and culture.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>