Colors, is a monothematic, quarterly magazine founded in 1991 under the editorship of Oliviero Toscani and Tibor Kalman, in the belief that differences are positive and all cultures are of equal value.
They investigate why people move, what borders they cross, what possessions they carry, and what obstacles they must overcome with selection of suggestions on how to pack your bags and build a temporary shelter, and drawn a series of maps to set you on the right path.
Today, 232 million people live outside their country of birth, and 90 million are packing their bags at this very moment. They are looking for work, for their families, for refuge from wars and natural disasters, or just for fun.
COLORS 89 – Moving House follows them. In India, the devout are going to a temple to sacrifice toy airplanes in hopes of obtaining an emigration visa, and in Mexico, tourists at a local fun park pay to be followed by fake American border guards. In Spain, homeowners head to the streets after being driven out of their apartments; in Shanghai migrants from rural China live in second-hand freight containers; and in the West Bank, Israeli settlers build cabins out of particleboard. There are also stories from today’s great contemporary odysseys: sub-Saharan Africans crossing desert and sea to reach Europe, Syrians settling in Jordan’s eighth-most populous city: Zaatari refugee camp.
