I think I am over making zines. I love designing them but I hate cutting them down and assembling them but I love the final product which these are:
PORST 135 S REWORK
I decided that the Porst 135 S book needed to be reworked as the photos were some of the best photos and most interesting images I took overseas last year. I felt that they could be a real folio piece, which it has turned into, I very happy with the end product.
These are some of the photographs that make up Porst 135 S. The majority of the images that are in the book are from my second time in Berlin last year, but other the cities that are in it are Krakow and London. All these images are from Berlin.
TRANSPARENT
Transparent is made up of images that came from a roll of E6 Transparency film I shot before I went overseas last year. I completely forgot about the roll of film, so when I got it developed I was really excited to see what was captured on it, it was a huge let down on first inspection they were not interesting. It felt that I just ran out of time so I just began to wast film buy shooting anything. But as I scanned in images I found ones that really worked together. I used tracing paper to mimic the feeling of slide film.
148 x 210 mm / saddle stitched / tracing paper/ 16 pages / Edition of 3
INTROVERTED BOOK TWO
INTROVERTED BOOK TWO is an insight into my visual diary, each time I finish a visual diary I make a zine out of the best bits. It takes me a while to finish a visual diary. Black on Black front cover.
148 x 210 mm / saddle stitched / Optix Black front cover, Reflex White pages inside/ 20 pages / Edition of 3
DISPOSABLE UNITS 01
DISPOSABLE UNITS 01 comprises of images taken on a disposable camera I got from Coles at the end of 2009, just because they were selling them for like $4.00 instead of like $26.00 or whatever ridicules price they usually sell them for. The images are from the end of 2009, and the start of 2010, the zines starts in Melbourne then I went to Sydney for a weekend and then back to Melbourne.
148 x 210 mm / saddle stitched / Reflux Sand paper / 40 pages / Edition of 6
DISPOSABLE UNITS 02
DISPOSABLE UNITS 02 was shot over three days. The first day was a birthday party in St Kilda, with friends from high school. It was cool getting the film developed because I do not remember that night. The second day was when Jack got home from being overseas for five and a half months, so we went to Duke Street and drank gin n tonics because Jack bought like 2-3L of Gin duty free. The third which is the final shot is in St Kilda Botanical Gardens when Jack Emily and I drank beers. The whole zine is just documenting nights fueled by alcohol.
148 x 210 mm / saddle stitched / Reflux Yellow paper / 40 pages / Edition of 3
148 x 210 mm / saddle stitched / Reflux Pink paper / 40 pages / Edition of 3
BLACK & WHITE
TIMOTHY COGHLAN
TWENTY ONE EXPOSURES
BLACK & WHITE is the documentation of images that were captured on Kodak Professional 400 T-Max Black and White Film. It took four days at the end of January to finish the roll of film. Lachie and I decided to start going on missions to take photographs of places that interested us, the first place we went to was Altona where there are all the large oil refineries , that was day two of the roll of film. I have made a five copies of BLACK & WHITE my copy is section sewn book that I use in my folio, while the other four and just saddled stitched zines, to be given to people.
BOOK
176 x 240 mm / Section Sewn / Envior Care / 48 pages / Edition of 1
ZINE
176 x 240 mm / Saddle Stitch / Envior Care / 48 pages / Edition of 4
ZINE
The zine comes with a yellow slip jacket
ISO 125
ISO 125 is based on time, I had just seen Gaspar Noé’s film Irréversible and at the end of the film in massive Helvetica letters flashes the words Le Temps Detruit Tout, which translates to Time Destroys Everything, I like this idea as it is so true, time will prevail over us. ISO 125 is about documenting abandon buildings around Melbourne. It also is the second mission that Lachie and I went on. We got into a massive abandon ware house out in the docklands, it took us almost four hours to explore it. It was full of rubbish but also old rowing boats, cars, bob sleds, nautical equipment, industrial saws, car engines. Also with this roll of film it became clear that the camera I use is broken, it can not tell the speed of the film, which results in images being under exposed or over exposed. It creates cool effects some times but other times I lose whole shots, I now have to look into getting a new film camera.
176 x 240 mm / Saddle Stitched / Envior Care / 48 pages / Edition of 5
A JOURNEY WITH KAREL MARTENS
I was very fortunate to partake in a work shop with Dutch designer Karel Martens the other week. It was 3 x 4 hour classes with him. in the time we were all contributing 8 pages to a publication about a journey, that would be that produced on a Risograph Machine then perfect bound. My journey was about my six month trip overseas last year, it felt cliched at first but I had to do it because the trip was such a significant event in my life. My idea was to select certain events that would not be common to anyone else’ trip overseas. When I landed into LA I had every intention to keep a journal after three days I gave up, so instead I would collect everything, keep receipts, and take thousands of photographs (in the end I took 80 gig worth of photos-I am still yet to go through them all). My eight pages have inspired me to get a move and start making a book or books about my time overseas last year (this will be the next project I start and hopefully finish very soon).
All images were photgraphed using 35 mm film and then scanned in, no digital imagery in these books/zines.
I think I am going to just make books for a while.
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