radical media archive

Ramdane Touhami with The last whole earth catalog, june 1971, published by Stewart Brand

interview  

by Olivier Zahm

portraits by Olivier Zahm

 

Émile Shahidi and Ramdane Touhami are passionate about the underground press, political publications, and posters. they launched a platform to protect this uncensored, revolutionary spirit — driven by ideas, politics, and creative freedom, not fashion. essays, eroticism, photography, and illustration: a forgotten history of free speech, preserved to inspire every one of us.

 

OLIVIER ZAHM — Where did the idea for the Radical Media Archive come from?

RAMDANE TOUHAMI — For years I’ve been buying and collecting underground magazines from Japan and the United States, the avant-garde press and lots of Black Panther Party publications. At first it was purely for their graphic design. Then I thought: “There’s no real…