spiralbound zine

I really enjoy home printing images, it’s quick, cheap and easy. It’s great having physical copies of images, they don’t have to be professionally printed.

I’ve made DIY zines before with sketchbooks, which is good fun. But I’ve found it’s really hard stapling them back together, and getting everything perfectly aligned, even with one of those staplers with comically long arms.

I thought, why not try with a spiralbound sketchbook, as that can be taken apart and put together by hand, without any fiddly stapling. `To be honest it’s still a fiddly process, and I managed to get myself really confused at one point figuring out the exact order that each page and both covers have to be threaded back in.

I’m pleased with the end result, it’s feels good to have a physical record of the photos I’ve taken in the past couple of years, as I take them, view them on a screen, post them online (which more and more feels like I’m just throwing them into the bottomless pit of content) and then they get forgotten about.