This issue marks the end of the first year of JPG Magazine. To celebrate, we cast off the shackles of our usual theme and invited submissions on any topic. Just send us your favorite shot of 2005, we said.

But the funny thing is, themes emerged anyway: everything from water to family to youth. But the overall theme seemed to be memory. Whether it's remembering the fallen or just marking time, photography is all about remembering. Why else do we click the shutter than to say, this is a thing I will not forget?

Memory means more than simply recording. Our memories are fuzzy and subjective. That's why we asked Kevin Meredith to be our featured photographer for this issue. His photos are as saturated and evocative as our own favorite memories.

For this issue's interview, we decided to talk to Youngna Park and Zach Klein about their photographic and social experiment, Candy Cane for Your Portrait. Their experience shows that when you're making memories, you're rarely alone.

The magazine is 64 pages, 6 inches wide, 9 inches tall, perfect-bound, 20-pound white interior paper, full-color CMYK interior ink, 100-pound white exterior paper, full-color CMYK exterior, contains 0 ads, and looks a little something like this inside.

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Participating Photographers: Bjarte Alvestad, Mark Armbruster, Damon Armstrong, Bryan Boyce, Mark Burdett, Veanne Cao, John Carleton, Robert Dow, Duane Dugas, Andrew Emond, Paul Fong, Martin Fuchs, Enid Grempler, Jamie Goodridge, Mary Hockenbery, Alex de Jong, Bill Keaggy, Deborah Lattimore, Demetrice Ledbetter III, Agata Lenczewska-Madsen, S. Liu, Sirio Magnabosco, Fritz Mayhem, Patrick Power, Justin Ouellette, Rudolfs Osins, d R, Tom Reeves, Damion Rice, Shannon Richardson, Alexandre Rito, Mike Salrin, Chris Smart, Justin Ulmer, and Bill Vaccaro.