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About
Sediment is a magazine dedicated to memory, place, material culture, and the layered histories that shape contemporary life.
Drawing inspiration from anthropology, archaeology, museum studies, heritage research, and cultural criticism, Sediment examines the traces that remain and the worlds they continue to make. We publish essays, visual projects, photography, interviews, fieldnotes, and experimental forms of writing.
We are slow on purpose. The magazine appears four times a year. Pieces are commissioned long in advance and edited at the pace the work requires. Our contributors are anthropologists, photographers, curators, writers, and the occasional reluctant expert in a field with no name yet.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Maren Aldarondo
Anthropologist working on archival practice and household paper.
Editor, Essays
Iván Velho
Geographer; writes on landscape, coastline, and sediment.
Visual Editor
Sade Okafor
Photographer; teaches at the School of Visual Anthropology, Lisbon.
Editor, Fieldnotes
Noor Karim
Architectural historian based in Istanbul.
Contributors · 2025
- Lina Aroza
- Aiden Roe
- Dora Imbert
- Rui Sant'Ana
- Anwen Llwyd
- Toma Eisele
- Hannah Strick
- P. Vendramin
- Z. Okoye
- M. Bachmann
- K. Saito
- E. Mwangi
Mission Statement
We believe that careful attention to material things — the chipped tile, the index card, the cliff face, the abandoned room — is a form of historical understanding the present urgently needs. Sediment exists to make space for that attention, in print and online, and to pay the writers and image-makers who practice it.