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Ben Guttin ::: Hideous
Beast ::: Chris Hudson :::
Lynn Marie Kirby ::: Robin
Lambert 07/08 ::: Amber
Landgraff ::: Jessica James Lansdon
::: Wednesday Lupypciw 07/08
::: Travis Meinolf ::: Barbara
Meneley 07/08 ::: Ashley
Neese 08::: Ashley Neese and
Gary Wiseman ::: Berit Nørgaard
::: Paul Notzold ::: Susanne
Cockrell and Ted Purves ::: Sal
Randolph ::: Kerri-Lynn Reeves
::: Brion Nuda Rosch ::: Heath
Schultz ::: James Servin :::
Amy Steel and Eric Nordstrom :::
Sara Thacher 07/08
::: Turner Prize ::: Karen
Wardle

James
Servin began
his career in New York in 1986 with an entry-level job at GQ. After
contributing
articles in his second year at the magazine, he launched a successful
freelance writing
career, placing feature articles in a variety of publications, including
British Vogue, Allure,
Elle, Metropolitan Home, Details, Organic Style and Natural Health.
He has written for many
sections of The New York Times, including The New York Times Magazine,
the “House & Home”
and “Styles of the Times” sections. He was a contributing
editor at Harper’s Bazaar for three
years and was executive editor at Nylon magazine. He currently writes
for House & Garden and
Black Book, among other publications.
The Love Generators
In
2001, I was dealing with a number of health issues that doctors
could find no cures for. And then in May 2004, four kittens came
into my life. The first one, a female tabby, needed a friend, and
so I
returned to the building in Little Italy she came from, where the
super takes in strays. There I found three newborn boys who looked
almost exactly alike. My friend who lives in the building thought
they might be ferile, but the opposite turned out to be true: I've
never met more gentle, and genteel cats. I started by adopting two,
and then eventually a third brother came to join us. I felt extremely
overwhelmed that first year, my apartment filled with four exuberant
kittens. But over time, these extraordinary beings welcomed me into
their private world, a place of peace, sweetness and beauty. Sharing
their world in photographs was merely a matter of observing and
documenting. Often, the cats held the poses, as if they knew that
the pictures would one day generate peaceful energy for others.
Eventually, one of my symptoms, chronic anxiety, faded away, and
the others have healed considerably. I want to pay tribute to my
good friends: Melanie, Toby, Andy and Moses.



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