Besiders / Portrait

The Blue-collar Artist

The singer-songwriter known as “P’tit Belliveau” once thought you had to go to the city to make a career in music. Now he’s returned to his rural roots to reconnect with his musical identity. From BESIDE Issue 13

Through the lens / Portrait

A Groundbreaking Nature Photographer Rediscovered

In partnership with McCord Museum

A new look through the lens of Alexander Henderson.

Besiders / Portrait

The Freedom of Full Bellies

For the celebrated Brooklyn chef Sophia Roe, food equals freedom, and freedom is the only kind of power she craves.
Besiders / Portrait

Remaking the World, One Globe at a Time

How Peter Bellerby’s London globe-making workshop strives to carry on a tradition that nobody even noticed had gone missing.
Besiders / Portrait

A Profound Act of Love

For marine ecologist Alannah Vellacott, saving the Bahamas’ coral reefs is a fight to protect her home.
Through the lens / Portrait

Tiny Grandeur

The artist Jon Sasaki wants you to reconsider the scale of a landscape in his new series of photographs showing the bacteria left behind by famous nature artists.

Besiders / Portrait

The Unlikely Art of Backyard Adventuring

After a rogue wave nearly killed him off the coast of South Africa, Beau Miles began seeking a different sort of adventure: the kind he could find outside his front door.

Besiders / Village / Portrait

Cornelia Hahn Oberlander’s Unshakable Confidence

For nearly a century, right up until her death on May 22 last year, landscape architect Cornelia Hahn Oberlander tended her garden, greened the concrete of big cities across the world, and sowed seeds that became forests.
Village / Portrait

More Beautiful with Age

In a garage that serves as his workshop, leather worker Patrice Didier — founder of The Robinson Company — celebrates the marks of time on objects designed to last for generations.
Besiders / Portrait

Il Casaro di Kings County

Down the winding roads of Mi’kma’ki/Nova Scotia’s fertile Annapolis Valley, you can find classic Italian cheeses as authentic as any from the old country. Ciro Comencini is a lifelong casaro (cheese maker) who has dedicated his life to handcrafting traditional cheeses from his small farm near the Atlantic coast.

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