I got my copy of Hours Zine last week, complete with logo-stamped packaging. The internet rocks for browsing through photos on sites like flickr and tumblr, but there's nothing quite like receiving a neatly packaged booklet through your door, laden with printed images in all their Technicolor glory.
The plan is to give a camera to a different person each month, to be handed back at the end of the day, with every photo taken on the film printed in the next month's issue.
The pictures aren't curated at all, and it is this randomness that is integral to the purpose of the zine. This is what makes it a proper celebration of analogue photography, with the photographer capturing off-guard moments that they can't then delete or correct. By publishing the pictures instead of circulating them online, it also means that print is being celebrated; another format which is being succeeded by digital.
The zines cost just £1 each (although I believe I may have gotten one of the last copies of issue one - there are only 100 of each issue available!) and can be bought from here, or at the monthly launch party. The next one is for issue three and is at Buffalo Lounge on the 23rd of March.
If you want to spend a day shooting for Hours, email your name to hourszine@gmail.com.
If you want to make your own zine, watch this illustrative video (via Hours Tumblr).
Hours Zine, in case you've missed the local buzz about it, is a project by Molly Rooke and Matthew Shearer, two art graduates living in Cardiff. They came up with the idea of documenting an entire day - 24 hours - with one film of an analogue camera, and road tested the idea last December on a cold but sunny day. The results became the first issue, an unadultered visual diary of a daytrip around Barry Island, full of saccharine yet edgy images with colours that pop out at you from the zine's pages.
Like this one.
Like this one.
The plan is to give a camera to a different person each month, to be handed back at the end of the day, with every photo taken on the film printed in the next month's issue.
The pictures aren't curated at all, and it is this randomness that is integral to the purpose of the zine. This is what makes it a proper celebration of analogue photography, with the photographer capturing off-guard moments that they can't then delete or correct. By publishing the pictures instead of circulating them online, it also means that print is being celebrated; another format which is being succeeded by digital.
The zines cost just £1 each (although I believe I may have gotten one of the last copies of issue one - there are only 100 of each issue available!) and can be bought from here, or at the monthly launch party. The next one is for issue three and is at Buffalo Lounge on the 23rd of March.
If you want to spend a day shooting for Hours, email your name to hourszine@gmail.com.
If you want to make your own zine, watch this illustrative video (via Hours Tumblr).
how to make a zine from nicki sabalu on Vimeo.
Will you be snapping away?
ReplyDeleteNahhh, I need some more practice with my analogue cameras. I bought a Holga one on sale not so long ago. Also really want to get a good digi one for south korea!
ReplyDeleteWhen are you off, Career (Korea) girl?
ReplyDeleteSmooth pun! Am thinking of doing a mini-blog on Korean style and may actually call it Korea Girl. Hmm. I was toying with ROK & ROLL (republic of korea) but it seems it's already taken.
ReplyDeleteI'll be off when my visa comes through, could be two or three weeks, could be less!
This is so interesting. So much effort for such a small price though. Wow.
ReplyDeleteI think the £1 is just to cover costs, it's more of a non-profit artistic project than a money-making scheme.
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