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Purple Magazine
— S/S 2010 issue 13

Jefferson Hack


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Jefferson Hack photographed by Rankin

interview by OLIVIER ZAHM
portrait by ROGER RICH and personal pictures

JEFFERSON HACK was only 21 when he and the photographer Rankin started the magazine Dazed & Confused in 1992.He went on to launch Another Magazine in 2001 and Another Man in 2005, CREATING THE ONLY BRITISH INDEPENDENT PRESS GROUP OF HIS GENERATION. His love for magazine publishing transcends his passion for fashion and photography, and even for art — because his agenda is actually a social one. The two decades of Jefferson’s activism have never been compromised by glamour or success. It was high time we met the man to whom Bono said “Jefferson, you’re a guy who’s always at the right place at the right time with the right spirit.”

JEFFERSON HACK — It’s interesting to see your office, Olivier. I think one’s office environment is as telling as…

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