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A NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC RARITY: Magazine opts out of cover photo for special on Africa crisis.
*To emphasize the gravity of its single-topic September issue on Africa, National Geographic is being released without a cover photo for the first time since 1988 – and only the second time since it began the practice regularly in 1959.
Heralded for its award-winning photography, (N.G. cameras are behind the current box office phenomenon “March of the Penguins”), the magazine decided instead to go with a simple white cover under the bold, brown title – “Africa” – and the subtitle: “Whatever you thought, think again."
"Africa isn't one place. It's a million places. We felt that no single photograph could cover the depth of Africa," said the magazine's new editor in chief, Chris Johns, who was a career photographer for 30 years, spending much of that time in Africa.
Johns, in this first complete issue published under his direction, said he wanted to "highlight astonishing stories of renewal, ingenuity and potential heard through unfiltered African voices. These stories counterbalance the bleak headlines of civil war, disease, poverty and extinction."
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