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Karen Lubbock
Karen Lubbock is the creator of Karen magazine, which delights in the ordinariness of everyday life, providing an antidote to the mainstream celebrity and lifestyle magazine world.
Karen Lubbock is the creator of Karen magazine, which delights in the ordinariness of everyday life, providing an antidote to the mainstream celebrity and lifestyle magazine world. As it says on the website: “Karen is more interested in the weather than what to wear;, in sell-by dates than celebrity.” Distilling elements from her everyday life in a small Wiltshire village, Lubbock has succeeded in creating a sensitivity, humour and poetics that have a cross-cultural appeal, earning her a following in the UK and US but also in radically diverse locations such as Brazil and Lebanon. She comments that “I want my work to celebrate the everyday and the mundane, to try and communicate a kind of quiet pleasure in the shared experience of ordinary human existence.” Each issue is composed from extracts of conversations, photographs of participants or places, found ephemera and personal observations. A typical issue of Karen magazine might feature: thoughts on looking for four leaf clovers, the diary of a housewife 1946-1998, Tina’s top ten breads (number one Soda – brown or white, number two French Stick), a conversation with the coalmen who are “waiting...
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