Auxiliary Magazine will be releasing a 2012 Calendar with the goal of generating excitement and support for, and to help promote, the best alternative artists, creatives, photographers, models, celebrities, bands, musicians, and fashion designers out there!  The Auxiliary Magazine 2012 Calendar will be compiled of 12 photographs chosen from submissions.  The calendar will then be available for purchase in select boutiques/stores and online.

If you are a photographer or an artist, creative, model, celebrity, band, musician, or fashion designer that wants to be featured in the calendar submit your images to us!

HOW TO SUBMIT

1 : Download the Auxiliary Magazine 2012 Calendar Submission Guidelines.  You must read, agree to, and complete the forms in the Guidelines PDF.
DOWNLOAD HERE : www.auxiliarymagazine.com/downloads/Aux_2012CalendarGuidelines.pdf

2 : Email your submission to us by the deadline.  Only complete submissions that include all required documents and information will be considered.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS : September 30th, 2011

EMAIL SUBMISSIONS TO : 2012calendar@auxiliarymagazine.com

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photo : Luke Copping
hair : Erin Moser
makeup : Leane Steck
interview : Zach Rose and Meagan Hendrickson

Jennifer Link is the founding member of Auxiliary Magazine and one of the driving forces behind it. With a background in fashion and fine art photography, Jennifer has held various positions such as art director, photographer with several prominent alternative designers as clients, and lately, entrepreneur. Jennifer is the editor in chief of Auxiliary but also contributes to the magazine as a photographer and occasionally a writer.

What do you do at Auxiliary Magazine?

I am the Editor in Chief and Publisher.  I also contribute as a photographer and writer having shot some of Auxiliary’s fashion and beauty editorials and having written a few articles and interviews.

How did Auxiliary get started and how has the magazine evolved since its inception?

Well the idea and desire to start a magazine came to me while I was living in New York City.  I was looking for outlets for alternative fashion editorials as a photographer, and found there weren’t many and there were hardly any that fit exactly what I wanted to do.  I also noticed many people around me where complaining about the state of the goth/industrial/alternative/whathaveyou scene while at the same time there were so many great designer, musicians, photographers, and creatives out there, struggling.  So I decided I wanted to start a magazine for alternative fashion, music, and lifestyle that would highlight all the great artists out there and provide an outlet.  I took this idea back to Buffalo with me, as I had a few close friends there that I wanted to work with and I would need way less money to work and live in Buffalo while building up the magazine.  The core group of editors, Luke, Meagan, and Mike formed and we put together the first issue with the help of some friends and contacts we had in nearby cities, Toronto and NYC.  The magazine has evolved so much since that first issue.  Each issue is better than the last, in my opinion, and with each issue I think we tune and tweak the magazine closer to what we envision it to be.  We’ve brought on many different contributors and expanded our core team.  We’ve developed the magazine in so many different ways since then, I can’t even start to get into it!

As a photographer yourself, your more recent published work has been geared more towards fashion, your start was with fine art photography, how did this change come about?

I went to school for a Bachelor of Fine Arts.  I had thought I wanted to focus on video, but after taking a photo class realized I was more interested in my photo work than my video work.  My last year of college my work was highly focused on fashion and how one uses personal style, so after college it seemed an obvious transition into editorial fashion work. I do want to put together a new series of ’fine art’ photos at some point, but they would most defiantly feature alternative fashion/style in them.  At this point I know that’s the main subject for my photography, whether it’s fine art or professional fashion work would be mostly determined by the output, a gallery or a magazine.  I’ve had the idea for a while for a series that would be shot in a way very similar to shooting editorial fashion but the final display would be large format prints.  I love viewing large format photography, so that will probably be what eventually draws me back to making a new art series.

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photo and interview : Luke Copping

Zach Rose is one of the newest additions to the Auxiliary Magazine team. Zach is the lead copy editor for Auxiliary and balances that out by providing photographic and written content to the magazine. Zach is an emerging photographer who is starting to make waves both with his photography as well as his writing.

What do you do at Auxiliary Magazine?

Zach Rose : I do umbriel finite, I do writing, but I primarily do copy editing, copy editing, and more copy editing. I’m one of the last people that looks over writer submissions and checks them for your mistakes, your grammar, and any other weird stuff you may do (yes you).

Do you think that the written word is just as important as an image?

ZR : Both are equally as important and usually outlive the producer. Some people get killed for what they say, or write (or blog these days). While an image can speak a thousand words a word can have a thousand-fold impact with the result dependant on the context of the situation (such as political).

What is your opinion on the state of fetish fashion and how it is intertwining with mainstream fashion?

ZR : I think there has always been some level of fetish in mainstream fashion. But fetish is an ambiguous term in my opinion and can apply to anything that flaunts the body in a unique and provocative way. To me fetish wear is not so much about how good it looks as how quickly it can be removed.

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