margin.

An independent quarterly
about overlooked places

The Low Water field map An abstract river winds through layered sediment lines, ledger marks, and small orange survey points.
Field map no. 14River / memory / record

Current issueAutumn 2026

Issue 14

Low
Water

A quarterly journal about overlooked places, and the lives that make their maps.

Inside issue 14

Notes from
the in-between.

Three more ways into the places a city leaves behind.

Night Bus Atlas

Tomás Iriarte

The unofficial geography drawn by cleaners, nurses, bakers, and drivers while a city's daytime map is asleep.

Concrete Orchards

Meera Das

Residents tend fruit trees in the unfinished floors of a financial district, negotiating shade, ownership, and the patience of roots.

A Language for Empty Pools

Hana Mori

Photographs and short notes from public baths retired after the last swimmer, where tile patterns keep directing bodies that no longer arrive.

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