Maren Solberg
Editor in chief
Twenty years on newspaper features desks before starting Ferrow. Edits every story twice and writes the letter.
Independent perspectives / Issue 09
A different way
of seeing.
Places that stay with you.
Objects with a point of view.
People making the everyday more interesting.
Seven subjects, followed closely.
Every story belongs to one of seven topics. Each opens into its stories online and an index of everything we have printed on it.
All topicsNew in Issue 09
All storiesPlaces · From Issue 07
Where the land takes a breath
A day on foot along the limestone coast south of Marseille, from the first inlet at dawn to a cove you can only reach by a flight of old steps.
Read the story, 9 minMore to read
Out now · Autumn 2026
Issue 09: The Everyday
Eight long reads on rooms, bowls, linen, balconies and Sunday lunch. 160 pages, sewn, on uncoated paper.
How an issue is made
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Pages, sewn and uncoated
Long-form on purpose. A story runs as long as it needs to, usually four to six thousand words.
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Days on location
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Write to usThe threshold piece in Issue 08 had me walking around my own flat with a notebook. I moved the reading chair the same afternoon.
I teach landscape design and I hand the coast story to every first-year student. It explains a place better than our lecture does.
The only magazine I keep. No adverts, no noise, and photographs that make me want to go and look at things properly.
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About Ferrow
A slow magazine about ordinary things done well.
Ferrow started in 2024 at a kitchen table in Marseille, with a simple brief: find people who make the everyday more interesting, and give them the room and the photographs they deserve.
Nine issues later we are a team of three editors and a few dozen contributors. We still travel to every story, still print on uncoated paper and still carry no advertising.
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Kenji Arai
Director of photography
Shoots on medium format and commissions every photographer we publish. Has walked the coast path eleven times.
Adaeze Okafor
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Designs the magazine, the type and the scattered covers. Previously at a photobook studio in Lyon.
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Where to find it
Become a stockistCasa KettleLisbon
Halde BooksCopenhagen
Kiosque QuaranteParis
Tondo LibriMilan
Orrin & MaeLondon
Buchladen FerneBerlin
La Petite RéserveMarseille
Sette PagineRome
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A short email from the editors on the first Sunday of each month. One story from the archive, three things worth seeing and a note on what we are working on.
Ferrow
Dear reader, Issue 09 went to the printer in Verona on Thursday. Kenji spent the afternoon at the press checking the colour of a single tomato.
- 01From the archive. A stone house in Puglia that stays cool without machines, from Issue 08.
- 02Worth seeing. A photobook fair in Lyon on the last weekend of September, free entry.
- 03Working on. A winter issue about repair: shoes, nets, bicycles and a church organ.
Read slowly. Maren
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