Pedestrian Magazine, Issue 5

Pedestrian was a short-lived magazine I published from 2018–2020. Each issue centered on the lives, routines, and informal networks that emerge through daily movement in shared public space. Drawing on the aesthetics of community newsletters and church bulletins, Pedestrian treated the everyday as both subject and structure.

The magazine featured interviews with USPS letter carriers, food cart vendors, subway musicians, artists, bookstore owners, and others whose work and presence shape the social fabric of the street. Across five issues, Pedestrian assembled a portrait of civic life—attentive to overlooked labor, ordinary rituals, and the subtle infrastructures that hold neighborhoods together.

Contributors included Curtis Merkel, Héctor García, Jen Shear, Alejandra Sabillón, Ebrima Jassey and Salieu Suso, Nina Bower Crooke, Alex Roth, Hiromi Ueyoshi, Bryce Dwyer, Marc Fisher, Emma Schwartz, Susan Schubert, Mary Manning, Brian Broker, Kate Ruggeri, Julia Brandão, Marc Ruecker, Khutso Paynter, Inga Danysz, Emily Stamboulian, Catherine Hu, Chris Maggi, Tom Wilson, and Laura Quan.