Editor. Journalist. Author.

Chris Cotonou is the founding editor of A Rabbit’s Foot and the author of Columbia Pictures at 100, published by Assouline.

He writes and edits independently, and his work has appeared in The Financial Times, The Guardian, and GQ among other places. He also creates commercial content and consults as a copywriter for international luxury brands and private clients.

Chris started his career at an advertising agency in London before living abroad and becoming a freelance journalist. He is originally from London’s East End, studied in Lyon and Paris, and now lives between Kent and Tunis.

A Rabbit’s Foot is a leading independent film and culture magazine, with a readership that has grown globally since inception in 2022. Chris has been across the publication’s activities beyond the editorial, including events, marketing, and sponsorship.

Before his publishing career, Chris worked as a pot-wash in his local pub, sold hot dogs at the O2 Arena, and served coffee at Pret a Manger.

These are some things Chris likes, in no certain order:

Matchbooks; fishermen’s knitwear; old things; old things that smell of old things; new things that smell like old things; 6pm, Los Angeles; beautiful, effortless tailoring; Summer nights spent with friends in a pub-garden; Snickers bars; photos of my Cypriot grandfather; French pocket knives (in another life, I’d have been a gardener); fly-fishing; Orwell’s essays; pie, mash, and jellied eels; Hanoi, always; Paris, forever; Beirut, sometimes; Pretending to be Hemingway on holiday; Dunhill cigarettes (look, yes, I know); writing as a job; writing as an impulse. OK, that’s quite enough of that, thank you!