Hi everyone,
I hope you’re having a great summer!
This month I’m excited to present a zine-making session in place of our usual August LIP Photofusion bookmaking group.
Saturday 29 August, 10.30am–1pm
We will start with a brief introduction to zines and their history. I’ll bring a selection of zines, spanning 50 years, from my zine archive to inspire you!
We will look at different approaches to layout and zine form.
During the session we’ll experiment with cutting, layering and collage, to create limited edition, handmade zines that could also be thought of as handmade artist books.
We’ll take inspiration from Fiona Rogers’ new book Cut Out, Justin Kirkland’s SCUMB Manifesto, The Rose, and other collage artists. (See link below).
Photofusion has generously offered to supply scissors, paper, coloured paper, glue and bone folders.
(If you have cutting mats and book making tools, you may want to byo).
Please bring 10–20 images you wish to work with. (Note: A5 is the typical size for a zine page). These can be colour or black & white photographs, cyanotypes, family or found photographs, or images from a project you’re working on. You can also bring text and magazines.
If you can’t print out your images, you can email them (maximum eight A4 pages), to info@photofusion.org and they will do A4 laser jet prints for you. Please do this before Saturday, and you need to mark them ‘FAO Liz, prints for LIP workshop’.
Places are limited, so please RSVP to let me know if you’d like to come. It would be great to see you there!
Best wishes,
Héloïse Bergman