Sunday Zine Review #92: Small Town Stories by Emma Ahlqvist

Today's first review is Small Town Stories by Emma Ahlqvist. Emma is an Illustration graduate from Edinburgh College of Art who started working a few weeks ago at the digital marketing agency where I used to work until last week.

Emma is from Sweden and this comic book is composed of three short stories all set in a small Swedish town: Amerika, Girls Play Ball and The Subject.

I must admit that I'm not a huge comic reader, but Emma's storytelling ability and sense of humour make Small Town Stories a really enjoyable zine. The characters from the three stories are great and I wish they were even part of some bigger stories - maybe in the future!

Small Town Stories is available to purchase at Emma's website along with other comics and zines.

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Marta

Took these photos of my friend Marta in April when I went back to my parents' house in Spain. I've known Marta for over 10 years now, we met in high school and I've been probably taking photos of her since she was 21 or 22 years old.

Sunday Zine Review #91: I leaned on the wall and the wall leaned away by Sannah Kvist

SEE Project is an online gallery and publishing house based in Seoul, South Korea. They recently sent me a few zines to review, after having collaborated with them for the zine festival they organised a few months ago called Zine Pages, where Girls on Film was exhibited.

The first zine I've decided to review is I leaned on the wall and the wall leaned away by Sannah Kvist. Sannah is a Swedish photographer who is also a train driver! Taken its title from the lyrics of The National's song "Slow Show", this photo zine documents Sannah's life during this last year.

What first attracted me about the zine was the warm colours and the use of light in Sannah's photos. After flipping through its pages, I checked her website and saw that it is something quite recognizable in her work.

With all the beach images, sunset moments and yellow tones, I leaned on the wall and the wall leaned away is the perfect photo zine to welcome June!

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Sunday Zine Review #90: Kievbound by Mariya Ustymenko

Antler Press is an independent publishing house based in the UK. A couple of weeks ago, Antler Press messaged me to see if I'd like to review one of their zines. They sent Kievbound by Mariya Ustymenko, the first zine from their Antler Document series which focuses on documentary photography.

Mariya Ustymenko is a Ukrainian visual artists who currently lives in England. I spoke about her recently when I reviewed Adventitious, the zine that Mariya and Carlos Cancela Pinto have started to put together.

In Kievbound, Mariya documents daily scenes from her life in her native city, Kiev. Mariya describes these images as "a very personal perception of her surroundings that convey a state of mind rather than document a certain place or time".

Mariya protrays her friends, the buildings and animals of the city where she grew up. There's some sense of decadence in Mariya's images, but she states that "beauty or ugliness is beyond equation here. The story, I guess, is about the humanity of its characters".

Kievbound is published in a limited edition of 50 copies and is available at Antler Press' online shop.

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Sunday Zine Review #89: Dienacht 13

This is the second time I review dienacht here on the Sunday Zine Review. Last February, I wrote about the magazine's 12th issue and today I'm talking about their latest issue, which has been released one month later than usual but that has been definitely worth waiting for. 

For those of you who haven't heard about dienacht, it is mainly a photography magazine although there's also space for illustrators and graphic designers. Each issue usually features the work and series of a selection of artists coming from very different photography genres, a couple of graphic design and illustration portfolio showcases and a final section with zines, books and magazines reviews.

Issue 13th features the work of New York-based photographer Chad Moore, whose book "Between Us" I reviewed here last year. It also showcases the series "Nature Morte" by Ingar Krauss, the nocturnal landscapes of Daisuke Yokota, Francesco Merlini's black and white work, Verena Brandt's daily life images and Johan Bäuman's Albino project amongst other features.

dienacht 13 is a limited edition of 1,000 copies and is available at the magazine's online shop.

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After School

A couple of months ago, I shot this editorial and short film here in Edinburgh. It was great to work again with stylist Katherine Whyte - every time I've worked with her the result has been amazing!

Ciara Rafferty @ModelTeam and Sophie Crooks @Colours were lots of fun and were great both on the pictures and the video. Also, Caron Tait (MUA and hair) did an amazing job.

If you want to check the whole editorial, you can do it on my website:

http://www.igortermenon.com/After-School-Contributor-Magazine

Sunday Zine Review #88: Accidentally on Purpose by Ben Richards

Sometimes accidents in photographs can turn them into something special. One of my favourite photographs is an image I took a few years ago and that is almost completely overexposed due to the fact that I opened the camera without realising that the film wasn't over.

In Accidentally On Purpose, graphic arts and design student Ben Richards has compiled photographs he took and that at the the time of development were not desired. Ben has created a a series that show how these once unwanted images can also be beautiful.

From light leaks and expired Polaroids to accidental shutter releases and errors during development, Ben shows how these unwanted images can be more desirable than technically perfect, staged photographs.

Ben Richards has released two volumes of Accidentally on Purpose that have now sold out, but keep an eye on his website for future releases!

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