Joobin Bekhrad

Selected Work 2012 — 2025

‘[Joobin’s] articles are brilliant and so well-researched.’
Barbara Hulanicki, OBE

‘[His] poems are pure poetry ... They speak to all the senses.’
Christian Lacroix

Unseen Photos of David Bowie at the Height of His Fame
Another Man, 2019
Photograph: Terry O’Neill

How the ‘Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World’ Got its Logo
The New York Times, 2020
Photograph: Michael Putland

John Malkovich Speaks on Recreating 61 Seminal Portraits
Another Man, 2020
Photograph: Sandro Miller

A Masterclass in Songwriting from Johnny Marr
Another Man, 2018
Photograph: Clare Muller

The Least-Known Most Influential Man in Fashion
The New York Times, 2017
Photograph: Masayoshi Sukita

How to Recreate Paul Weller’s Most Stylish Moments
GQ, 2018
Photograph: John Stoddart

Remembering Johnny Thunders Through Those Who Knew Him
Another Man, 2017
Photograph: Erica Echenberg

Rolling Stones’ Ronnie Wood: Painting Is My ‘God-Given Talent’
CNN, 2019
Photograph: Roger Woolman

A Love Letter to a Grittier, Punk-Accented New York
The Art Newspaper, 2018
Photograph: Chris Stein

Joobin Bekhrad is a writer, editor, and creative director*.

In addition to editing and creatively directing Reorient, an acclaimed arts review he founded in 2012, Bekhrad has written for such publications as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Financial Times, The Economist, The Telegraph, Forbes, CNN, the BBC, GQ, and The Times Literary Supplement, been interviewed by ones like Newsweek, PRI, Monocle, The Art Newspaper, and the CBC, and seen his articles republished in a wide variety of languages.

Throughout his adventures in journalism, Bekhrad has interviewed Ronnie Wood, John Malkovich, Paul Smith, Zandra Rhodes, Dries Van Noten, Kenzo Takada, Isabel Marant, Anna Sui, Johnny Marr, Salma Hayek, John Varvatos, and Terry O’Neill, amongst many other luminaries.

His articles aside, Bekhrad is the author of ten volumes of poetry, a translation of a classic of medieval Persian verse, a novella, a novel, and a collection of stories. He is also the recipient of an International Award for Art Criticism from London’s Royal College of Art and holds degrees from Columbia University, City, University of London, and York University.

* To learn about his work in strategic communication consulting, please visit Lanceis.com.

Elsewhere

Alan Edwards, author of I Was There: Dispatches from a Life in Rock and Roll