For the latest issue of the Guardian Long Read magazine, the brief for the cover was simple: something that evokes the pleasure of summer reading.
“With these magazines, there’s always a front-and-back reveal,” explains Chris Clarke, who has art directed all four issues of the magazine, which collates some of our finest long-form journalism. “For this summer issue, we lean into the joy of undistracted reading: on the front, a woman sits in a boat, reading, as the tide comes in. On the back, she is still there, still reading, except the tide has gone out and the boat is beached on the sand.”
