Colors Magazine, issue #75 (Winter, 2008) – “Front Line” by A.P. Smith

COLORS: a magazine about the rest of the world.

On sale in 40 countries, 3 editions, published in 4 languages, with a critically acclaimed website, COLORS is a quarterly magazine that talks to young people all around the world. Since its founding in 1991, COLORS has continued to publish work with the premise that diversity is positive and all cultures have equal value.

For COLORS issue #75 I wrote a feature story profiling Jim Wagner, and his patented Jim Wagner Reality-Based Personal Protection Terrorism Survival Course. I immersed myself in Wagner’s survival course, interviewed him and his students and wrote about it in the context of the “Cease Fear” theme of the magazine.

Author, COLORS magazine, produced in Italy at The United Colors of Benetton’s creative facility, Fabrica.

Resident, Fabrica: The Benetton Group Communication Research Center (2006)
Catena di Villorba, Treviso, Italy

I worked at Fabrica as Managing Editor of BenettonTalk.com, Benetton’s global rights blog. Managing a team of 10 international writers to report daily on topics including human rights, climate change and social justice, I developed the BenettonTalk website into an engaging content platform in a pre-Twitter world.

Managing Editor, BenettonTalk.com

I also worked as Contributing Editor at Fab Magazine and Copy-Editor for COLORS magazine.

I traveled extensively throughout Europe while working for Benetton and freelancing for other publications, including: Vice magaizne and Label magazine. My photography and video work has exhibited at galleries in Milan and Naples as well as the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Exhibiting Artist, Centre Pompidou
Paris, France

In a unique location under one roof, the Centre Pompidou houses one of the most important museums in the world, featuring the leading collection of modern and contemporary art in Europe, a vast public reference library with facilities for over 2,000 readers, general documentation on 20th century art, a cinema and performance halls, a music research institute, educational activity areas, bookshops, a restaurant and a café.

In October, 2006 I exhibited video work at Centre Pompidou in Paris, France. The multi-media exhibition titled Fabrica: Les Yeux Ouverts showcased work by Fabrica residents, including two of my video “self-portraits”.

Due to public and critical acclaim, the exhibition traveled.

Centre Pompidou, 2006
The Milan Triennale, 2007
Shanghai Art Museum, 2007
Shiodomeitalia Creative Center in Tokyo, 2008

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