I got a new job! I'll be traveling up and down the Mississippi River for a year. I want to make a zine centered around that experience and the river and it's people. I grew up in Memphis so the topic feels like coming home in a way.
I am working on a series for a zine/book where I photograph my local park over a period of one year. I have been walking my dog in this park for over 10 years and became a little blind to it’s beauty and changes. This project made me observe the changes over the seasons more closely. Taking your camera with you almost every day is an interesting challenge for me and really made me reconnect with that park on a different level.
I've been toying with the idea of making zines around a series of images of 'construction work' (it's hard to describe the exact subject, often it's smaller objects, imagine streetlanterns wrapped in tape) i've been shooting in my city Rotterdam. Or a poetry and photobook around 'mapping a childhood', combining my writing studies with my photography practice.
My plan for this year is to start a series of zines about each of the counties in my home state of Maine. There are only 16 counties so it shouldn’t be too hard. The backbone of the process is going to be to search for creative people in each county for portraits and grow the stories from there.
I've been working for a while taking photos of handmade traffic signs, especially with no parking signs. This is a pretty much common thing here in Brazil and it's peculiar the way which place decides to show this kind of information. So the idea is share the varieties of signs that I've noticed this past few years.
The affordability of housing is an increasing problem here in the UK. I've just started working on a long-term project where I document people living in unconventional homes, caravans, tents, living rough... I'm still working on the details.
Back in 2018 I started making street portraits. It wasn't a conscious decision, and I'd only picked up a camera a few years before following some setbacks in life. I didn't think of it as a project, even after someone saw what I was doing on the street and asked, "what's your project?" And it sort of dwindled away during the pandemic.
Though I've shown some of the portraits a couple times since then, I feel like I really ought to wrap it up, and a 'zine might be the right way to do it, and allow me to move forward from it.
Looking forward to follow along. I already have 3 film cameras, but would love to add the Pen-F. I think it would help me loosen up and get used to pressing the shutter button more and not waiting for the perfect image!
I love your approach - looking for the things that might be overlooked is something that’s been at the heart of my work as a choreographer and walking artist for decades.
I have been wanting to self-publish a small book pairing photos I took during 2020-2022 (or maybe up to 2023) with writing describing dreams I had during the same period. I tend to have wild vivid involved dreams and many of them felt like they touched on what maybe many people were/are still feeling. I started a practice doing morning pages every day around that time so I documented many of my dreams. The photos would be a mix of both street scenes and images taken at or around home, taken with my Hasselblad 500C, that I was finding to comfort myself and my anxiety (like the writing) and trying to capture an inner world. I also want some of it to be funny, not completely precious!
Wesley I could not agree more, the PEN f's are great story telling cameras, in my case with 40mm f1.4. just reviewing my contract sheets from last year's holiday, they story tell themselves and is also my daily walkin around camera. Of course only one film ADOX HR-50, a beautiful all round film. With it's fine grain it can easily be enlarged to 8x10 without problem, plus with an r72 filter, it is good for infrared. Preparing it now for my nearing break ready to story tell and publish a zien on return.
I want to make a volume II of my zine, Overlook, which depicts a year of hikes up Overlook Mountain where I live. And remake volume I which was my first zine.
I got a new job! I'll be traveling up and down the Mississippi River for a year. I want to make a zine centered around that experience and the river and it's people. I grew up in Memphis so the topic feels like coming home in a way.
I am working on a series for a zine/book where I photograph my local park over a period of one year. I have been walking my dog in this park for over 10 years and became a little blind to it’s beauty and changes. This project made me observe the changes over the seasons more closely. Taking your camera with you almost every day is an interesting challenge for me and really made me reconnect with that park on a different level.
I've been toying with the idea of making zines around a series of images of 'construction work' (it's hard to describe the exact subject, often it's smaller objects, imagine streetlanterns wrapped in tape) i've been shooting in my city Rotterdam. Or a poetry and photobook around 'mapping a childhood', combining my writing studies with my photography practice.
My plan for this year is to start a series of zines about each of the counties in my home state of Maine. There are only 16 counties so it shouldn’t be too hard. The backbone of the process is going to be to search for creative people in each county for portraits and grow the stories from there.
I've been working for a while taking photos of handmade traffic signs, especially with no parking signs. This is a pretty much common thing here in Brazil and it's peculiar the way which place decides to show this kind of information. So the idea is share the varieties of signs that I've noticed this past few years.
The affordability of housing is an increasing problem here in the UK. I've just started working on a long-term project where I document people living in unconventional homes, caravans, tents, living rough... I'm still working on the details.
What 'zine would I like to make?
Back in 2018 I started making street portraits. It wasn't a conscious decision, and I'd only picked up a camera a few years before following some setbacks in life. I didn't think of it as a project, even after someone saw what I was doing on the street and asked, "what's your project?" And it sort of dwindled away during the pandemic.
Though I've shown some of the portraits a couple times since then, I feel like I really ought to wrap it up, and a 'zine might be the right way to do it, and allow me to move forward from it.
Looking forward to follow along. I already have 3 film cameras, but would love to add the Pen-F. I think it would help me loosen up and get used to pressing the shutter button more and not waiting for the perfect image!
I love your approach - looking for the things that might be overlooked is something that’s been at the heart of my work as a choreographer and walking artist for decades.
This is really cool for you to share with folks. Important as well.
To follow the concept and process to your next book will be fun and instructive.
Thanks for doing this.
I'm working on a book (or zine, haven't defined it yet) documenting winter darkness in my city, Gothenburg.
This series of posts about the process will be super welcome and useful to me! I'm looking forward to the next editions. :D
I have been wanting to self-publish a small book pairing photos I took during 2020-2022 (or maybe up to 2023) with writing describing dreams I had during the same period. I tend to have wild vivid involved dreams and many of them felt like they touched on what maybe many people were/are still feeling. I started a practice doing morning pages every day around that time so I documented many of my dreams. The photos would be a mix of both street scenes and images taken at or around home, taken with my Hasselblad 500C, that I was finding to comfort myself and my anxiety (like the writing) and trying to capture an inner world. I also want some of it to be funny, not completely precious!
I have the idea to create a collection for a zine based around the sights of Brittany's seaside towns.
I’d love to make a zine with photographs I’ve taken in the Turkish region of Izmir over the last couple of years.
Wesley I could not agree more, the PEN f's are great story telling cameras, in my case with 40mm f1.4. just reviewing my contract sheets from last year's holiday, they story tell themselves and is also my daily walkin around camera. Of course only one film ADOX HR-50, a beautiful all round film. With it's fine grain it can easily be enlarged to 8x10 without problem, plus with an r72 filter, it is good for infrared. Preparing it now for my nearing break ready to story tell and publish a zien on return.
I want to make a volume II of my zine, Overlook, which depicts a year of hikes up Overlook Mountain where I live. And remake volume I which was my first zine.