Who’s afraid of the dark? Amid bleak times, the Shadow issue  of Dazed delves deep into the repressed parts of the brain we’d prefer  to look away from, both as individuals and societies. Through its pages,  a fearless rollcall of creatives making sense of the world by confronting its darkness head-on. 

Fronting the issue, Adolescence star Owen Cooper leans in to his  love of dark characters in a cover shot by seminal fine art photographer  Justine Kurland; Rachel Sennott takes the weight of a generation’s anxiety  in a surreal moment caught on camera by Alyssa Kazew; rap’s sad-boy  enigma Yung Lean leads us down to the sunken place with photographer