Holiday Magazine Issue 398 | The Canada Issue

Holiday Magazine Issue 398 — The Canada Issue

An independent travel and photography magazine exploring Canada through literature, landscape, Indigenous cultural histories, fashion and contemporary visual culture.

Holiday Magazine Issue 398 — The Canada Issue is the Autumn/Winter 2026–2027 edition of the Paris-based travel and style magazine. Dedicated to Canada, the publication brings together literary essays, documentary photography, fashion editorials and cultural research to examine a country shaped by geographic distance, different histories and distinct ways of inhabiting the landscape.

From the Gaspé Peninsula and Quebec to the Canadian Rockies, Ontario, Nunavut and the Pacific Coast, Issue 398 constructs a portrait of Canada through its people, places, artistic traditions and relationship with the natural environment.

Canada: Geography, Literature and Cultural Identity

The Canada Issue approaches travel as an opportunity to investigate national identity and the relationship between territory and memory.

Writer Madeleine Thien contributes a short story inspired by a journey through the Gaspé Peninsula. Philosopher Mark Kingwell questions the familiar representation of Canadians as inherently polite, while ethnobotanist Wade Davis examines how human societies understand and relate to the natural world.

Karen Burshtein explores Margaret Atwood’s island refuge for birds, introducing questions of environmental protection, literary identity and the relationship between private space and ecological responsibility.

The editorial journey moves between cultural history and contemporary life, examining Inuit cinema, Nunavut’s parka-making traditions, the legacy of artist Emily Carr and the representation of First Nations heritage.

From Glenn Gould and Agnes Martin to Contemporary Canada

Beyond landscape, Holiday Issue 398 considers the figures who have contributed to Canada’s cultural identity.

The publication explores pianist Glenn Gould, conceptual and abstract painter Agnes Martin, photographer Jeff Wall and the Canadian origins of American folk music.

Other narratives examine Margaret Trudeau, actor Keanu Reeves and model Daria Werbowy, alongside less familiar accounts of animal encounters and a seven-day journey along British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast.

Through these different subjects, the issue presents Canada as a collection of overlapping cultural histories rather than a single national image.

Photography Across the Canadian Landscape

Holiday’s editorial approach. Issue 398 brings together photographers working between portraiture, landscape, documentary observation and fashion.

Angelo Pennetta photographs the Canadian Rockies, while Olivier Kervern investigates Quebec. Hill & Aubrey document Nunavut, examining a northern territory where landscape, climate and human presence are closely connected.

Tom Johnson travels through Ontario with Kirsten Owen, developing a visual narrative that moves between pastoral imagery and contemporary fashion photography.

Alessandro Furchino Capria explores the relationship between interiors and nature. Raymonde April contributes photographs connected to her hometown, while Yota Hoshi constructs a portrait of Canada through still-life images of objects.

Jack Day photographs Awar Odhiang during an urban journey, introducing another perspective on identity, movement and the contemporary Canadian city.

Holiday Magazine: Travel, Fashion and Independent Publishing

Originally established in the United States in the twentieth century and subsequently revived in Paris, Holiday approaches travel through literature, photography, fashion and cultural encounters.

Rather than organizing each issue as a conventional destination guide, the magazine develops an extended portrait of a territory through commissioned writing and visual research.

The Canada Issue continues this publishing approach, bringing together internationally recognized artists, writers and photographers with subjects rooted in the places under investigation.

The magazine becomes both a record of travel and a printed archive of contemporary cultural observation.

Product Details

/ soft cover
/ 292 pages
/ 24 × 28 cm
/ english language

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