After choosing this as the theme for issue 9, we proposed the question what is love to ninety people of all ages, genders, sexualities and races. It seemed simple enough, yet was anything but! The ninety answers we received ranged from playful to profound, disdainful to dreamy. Beginning on pg.66 you can read all the responses in the The Love Project, a very special portfolio within this issue.

To be honest, when we started this, I expected to receive relatively similar answers to this question of what is love. However, to my surprise, no two answers were alike. I realized that’s because there can never be one definition of love. Love is universal, yet everyone experiences it differently. It’s diverse. It’s alive, and one can grow with it, or out of it. It’s everything and more that is expressed by the unique group of subjects we photographed for The Love Project. Check it out, and ask yourself...

What does love mean to you?