ABOUT WIT'S’ END

Wits’ End is the zine of international visual journalism and documentary reporting. Gritty, rude, darkly funny and anchored by robust reporting from journalists in any field, in any format and from any country - and it covers anything those journalists damn well please.

Edited by ex-BBC reporter and documentary director Christopher Bobyn, it features photo essays, comic book reportage, travelogues and more by journeymen and journeywomen journalists pushing their craft.

Wit’s End seeks to provide a place where field-tested journalists can do their best work without limits on their wordcount, photo spreads, runtime or fear of being family-friendly. It’s a sandbox where they can get dirty so to properly convey the real world they find and capture.

If the sometimes violent, sometimes beautiful intersection of current affairs, history and culture leaves you thought provoked, perplexed and even pissed off, then welcome to where our reporting begins - at your wits’ end.

CHRISTOPHER BOBYN BIOGRAPHY

Christopher Bobyn is visual journalist and former BBC reporter and documentary director, originally from Montréal, Canada. His work has had him report extensively on the aftermath of conflict in the former-Yugoslavia, revolution in Egypt, the Syrian refugee crisis Turkey and Germany, and the war in Ukraine.

His photography and films have been featured by National Geographic, Arte, ZDF, CNN, Deutsche Welle and the BBC.

When he’s not editing Wits’ End, Christopher is working on his documentary film about the legacy of WW2 in Japan, to be released for the 80th anniversary of the end of the war in 2025.

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