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Janne Iivonen

Janne Iivonen is an award-winning Finnish illustrator who currently lives and works in Brighton, United Kingdom. His illustrations have been featured by clients such as the New Yorker, the Guardian, Monocle, Pentagram, and WIRED.

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Illustration by Janne Iivonen

Going Deep

Spring 2021 | Essays

Life underground, for many of the things that have adapted to it, is like this: The lines between alive and not alive, dead and not, get blurred. Examining these lives raises uncomfortable questions about the very thing we think of as life, and what it means to be living, or at least what it is supposed to look like.