Unboxing Dev Samaddar’s ‘Twice Around the Sun’

It’s definitely 27Zine… I’m swimming in zines right now, to my absolute glee. One of the newest arrivals is Dev Samaddar’s Twice Around the Sun: a two-year photo journal. It’s a collection his favorite mobile phone photographs from, well, the two trips around the sun he enjoyed during the period between December 28, 2014 and December 26, 2016. https://youtu.be/nW0m-pbOK6w

Unboxing Nate Matos’s ‘Blandscapes’ and Littlefields #15

The Blandscapes are a series of 4 (at time of writing) small, economical, easily reproducible and open editioned, quarter-fold zines from Nate Matos. They’re quite different from his Serif & Silver  series and Compendium, but no less inspiring. Littlefields is, for me, a beautifully strange sort of photo magazine from Jim Clinefelter. Each ‘issue’ consists of a random selection of 10 …

Unboxing Wafaa Bilal’s ‘168:01’

In 2003, looters burned the library at the College of Arts at the University of Baghdad. 70,000 texts were lost. Wafaa Bilal put together ‘168hrs. 01sec’ to memorialize the cultural and historical losses in Iraq, symbolized by the installation of a library of blank, white books at the Art Gallery of Windsor, ON earlier this year. I contributed some money …

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Hi. I’m James… photographerphotobook enthusiasthusband I photograph… Um… I photograph… what? Whatever I want, mostly, I guess. Eh. I mostly just play with cameras. I also collect photobooks, make unboxing videos, and write reviews of books, lenses, cameras, film stocks, developers, techniques and the software I use, and I blog about all kinds of stuff: my …