![]() ![]() If you use a service that sends it straight to the customer, you can’t add any personal touches. When you send your zine in the post, you can sign it, add a handwritten letter, Instax prints, stickers, film, anything you like. ![]() You buy a stack of zines and tell everyone about them. Many people seem to just share their Blurb or MagCloud link, not selling their zine directly. You can do that with Blub and MagCloud too, but these services offer printing on demand, where they print a book or zine and send it straight to the customer. Typically with Mixam you will send them your zine and buy a stack of them to sell. Mixam are a printing company with offices in UK, USA, Canada and Australia. These are just my thoughts from my understanding of these services, I’d encourage you to do your own research and see what works for you. I chose Mixam as my printer and Adobe InDesign as my design software. I’ll outline some of the pros and cons of these choices and I’ll do that by comparing those choices to using online book publishers such as Blurb and MagCloud. Build ties with your community: there are many ways to build ties with the analogue photography community – through social media, through podcasts, through photowalks, and also by publishing your film photos in a zine.It’s a brilliant way to showcase your photography: a zine brings together your photos as a collection in one volume for people to appreciate.Some of the skills involved include design, editing, writing, and marketing. Grow your skills: you will learn a lot when you put together your first zine.It’s a creative challenge: you will get an amazing feeling of accomplishment putting together a zine of your film photography.Many people still think of zines as lo-fi photocopied and stapled books. But the term zine has come to mean any self-published booklet of photography and text. These days the term zine can be a little bit confusing. Zines were usually put together by hand, then photocopied and stapled. In the 1970s that there was a huge surge in zine production, when punk music ruled the airwaves and photocopiers became place in offices all over the world. The first fanzine was ‘The Comet’, a science fiction fanzine launched in 1930. Fanzines date back to the 1930s, when fans of a particular movement in popular culture produced unofficial booklets about their favourite sports team, band music genre, comic or science fiction book. The word zine is derived from the words magazine and fanzine. You can get your own PDF copy of my first film photography zine Every Summer by buying me a coffee on Ko-Fi – this also helps to support the running costs of the show, win-win! What’s a zine?Ī zine is a self-published booklet of images and text produced in small print runs. You can listen above or read the summary below. In episode 32 of Matt Loves Cameras I talk about the creative process of putting together a film photography zine with Adobe InDesign and Mixam printers. ![]()
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