The Colour Journal is a collection of six volumes, each devoted to a single colour: blue, red, yellow, green, white and black.

The Colour Journal is not another publication about the meaning of colour. Colours have not been approached in a literal way but as a starting point, a pretext to tell a bigger story.

The Blue Issue — the inaugural issue — contains 15 stories that start from the colour blue: From Henri Matisse’s cut-outs to the special shade of ultramarine that Yves Klein patented, The Colour Journal excavates familiar moments in cultural history in order to discover what lies beneath. Follow a denim hunter through Idaho, visit one of the last Chinese cultural minorities in Guangxi, take a look at Helmut Newton’s private collection of Polaroids, and dive into David Hockney’s chlorinated pools.