DOPAMINE isn’t just the “pleasure molecule.” It’s the molecule of anticipation.

Issue 26 brings together two electrifying covers that take the dopamine dive from Sadiq Desh captured by Cris Cerdeira to multidisciplinary visual artist and photographer Tomás Pintos’ cover story, Besos hasta agotar stock (Kisses Until Sold Out), developed from the live performance, creating a space where glamour meets exhaustion.

We search for the right balance of the happy hormone through a series of in-depth interviews with designers to contemporary artist using various mediums including Achilles Ion Gabriel (creative director at CAMPER), Charles Jeffrey, Ela Fidalgo, Emeric Tchatchoua, Gabriele Esposito, Meryll Rogge, Perfume Genius, Théodore, Agoston, and Hijiri of Carne Bollente. What they all of in common, is a search and will to live their authentic artistic selves.

Expanding into the neurotransmitter’s universe is fashion driven photography by Andy Dyo, Aytekin Yalçın, Christopher Barraja, Hengyi Liang, Lander Ibarretxe, Louise Reinke, and Shengzhe.

Fucking Young began as an inspirational platform focusing on youthful aesthetics derived from manly hemispheres. Our freedom allowed us to merge established with emerging artists, thus aiding the latter reaching their own public. A synergy that owed most to a passion for the arts has since grown to a state where not only do we promote content created by others, moreover we sponsor and collaborate in birthing such work. Now we also celebrate this community’s creativity with our printed magazine, which intends to better shelter our love and presence in the youthful hemisphere of the current times.