issue 002
STRANGERS

£20
224 pages
23.5 x 30 cm
Limited print edition
Shipping starts October 2026

This year, mates returns with issue 002 STRANGERS. Through art, photography, essays and creative writing, 50 emerging creatives explore the strange, stranger, and other in contemporary UK culture.

Moving from anonymity, immigration and algorithmic prediction to the diasporic experience of land, British horror, and Afrofuturism, the issue asks what the stranger reveals about life in the UK today: who can be known, predicted, controlled or admitted?

Contributors were selected through an open call by our Selection Committee: Julita Mahrer Viñas, Nikki Nita Ramírez, Stella Smith and Temitayo Famakinwa.

All proceeds are reinvested to support emerging creatives.

CONTRIBUTORS

Abi Kohler M2 Abid Farhan M2 Ace Cresswell M2 Annabel Miller M2 Anthonia Nnenna Ndukauba M2 Billy Allen M2 Black Peppa M2 Carolina Semprucci M2 Connor Austen M2 David M2 Deen Khan M2 Dhiyandra Natalegawa M2 Dr Ayshah Johnston M2 Elizabeth Omotosho M2 Ella Keeling M2 Ellen Peirson M2 Emily Clayton M2 Eve Wilbraham M2 Fetine Sel Tuzel M2 Freya Palmer M2 Funmi Lijadu M2 Grace de Bláca M2 Gus Donald M2 Hannah Iqbal M2 Harold Offeh M2 Isabella Martin M2 Jody Evans M2 Jordan Nicole Smith M2 Josh Mcloughlin M2 Josie KO M2 Kate Sutton M2 Liam Sandera M2 Lily Maguire M2 Mahika Gautam M2 Marisa Müsing M2 Matt Hickmott M2 Matteo Pini M2 Maximilian Kilworth M2 Mercury.N M2 Mohammad Tariq M2 Nikolai Voelcker M2 Olivia Priya Foster M2 Ozziline Bill M2 Rachel Ashenden M2 Rajesh Bhattacherjee M2 Ramone “K” Anderson M2 Rory Kinlan M2 Sarah Al-Sarraj M2 Savannah Harris M2 Sikander aka Eulogee M2 Stefano Ferrarin M2 Stella Grigor McGarvey M2 Stella Liu M2 Sugar Spike Girl M2 Tien Albert M2 Weronika Ela Uyar

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