Nick Vogelson

New York, United States

Founder, Editor-in-Chief and Creative Director at Document Journal

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Love is the message

2 weeks ago | documentjournal.com | Nick Vogelson

In a debut portfolio for the inaugural issue of Notes on Beauty, we explore beauty through the lens of those who have indelibly shaped the cultural landscape of New York and the world over the last four decades What if we reimagined beauty not as a transformation but as a process of uncovering, a journey of becoming oneself?
The mirror and the mirage: Fashion photography in a culture of resistance

3 weeks ago | documentjournal.com | Nick Vogelson

A talk given at Statements on Style, as part of the MoMA Forum on Contemporary Photography, by Nick Vogelson, Editor-in-Chief, Document Journal and Notes on Beauty This talk was originally featured in MoMA’s Statements on Style panel as part of their Forum on Contemporary Photography lecture series on April 23 2025.
Letter from the Editor: Document launches Notes on Beauty

3 weeks ago | documentjournal.com | Nick Vogelson

Beauty is not the subject of this magazine.At least, not in the way we’ve been taught to think about it: as an ideal to aspire to, a product to consume, a tool of exclusion dressed up as glamour. We don’t begin Notes on Beauty with a definition. We begin with the opposite: a question. What is beauty now—and who gets to decide? This publication was born out of a desire to pause. To linger. To resist the relentless speed and surface obsession of our visual culture.
Alexander Wessely on the art without boundaries

Feb 7, 2025 | documentjournal.com | Nick Vogelson

The artist’s work at the Sphere distorts time, identity, and the limits of perception—he sits down with Document to discuss both the human and post-human influences in his multimedia craft Alexander Wessely’s most recent work, Afterlife presents Anyma: The End of Genesys is set to return to the Las Vegas Sphere at the end of the month following a sold-out run.
Announcing Jawara, Document’s Senior Beauty Editor

Nov 13, 2024 | documentjournal.com | Nick Vogelson |Announcing Jawara

Posted The hairstylist sits down with Editor-in-Chief Nick Vogelson to discuss the personal, spiritual, and social impact of beauty For Jawara, hair is art. Beginning by assisting at his aunt’s salon, the Jamaican-American hairstylist has become one of the most sought-after creatives in the industry who’s worked with legends like Beyoncé, Naomi Campbell, and Erykah Badu.
Apple blends science and art to revolutionize mobile image-making

Nov 5, 2024 | documentjournal.com | Nick Vogelson

Document sits down with Chief Aesthetics Scientist Pamela Chan and Product Manager Jeremy Hendricks to discuss how the latest iPhones leverage the history of photography to expand its emotional and creative capacities In 2007, Apple shifted the nature of photography by unveiling the first iPhone, a mobile device that boasted the highest quality camera then available on a cellphone.
Building from the inside George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg of Yabu Pushelberg

Oct 29, 2024 | documentjournal.com | Nick Vogelson

Document sits down with the duo behind the boundary-breaking interiors firm to trace how their personal and professional histories inform their forward-looking designs George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg, the founding duo of design studio Yabu Pushelberg, have shaped some of the world’s most iconic spaces. Established in 1980, their firm is known for its diverse projects that span hospitality, retail, and residential interiors.
Document Journal

Oct 11, 2024 | documentjournal.com | Maya Kotomori |Nick Vogelson
Document Launches Fall/Winter 2024-25: A New Perspective

Oct 8, 2024 | documentjournal.com | Nick Vogelson

The simple act of seeing, or being seen, says as much about the viewer as it does about the object of our sight, proposed the late critic John Berger in his 1972 BBC series Ways of Seeing. Berger’s simple flip struck a chord, and his television series was crystallized in a book of the same name, which is a foundational text for anyone studying visual culture today.
Bela Borsodi’s ‘Birth Life Death’ invents new dynamics for inanimate objects

Jun 7, 2024 | documentjournal.com | Nick Vogelson

On view at The Corner Gallery in upstate New York, the photographer’s mischievous exhibition creates existential language from the everyday Nineteenth-century writer Guy de Maupassant famously once said that the only certainty in life is death. For Vienna-born artist and photographer Bela Borsodi, the crux of that life is maintaining curiosity—about god, about semiology, about objects and their role in our existences.