-A photo zine is a self-made, printed issue built of photos and captions. The term comes from the word “magazine”, as zines follow the style of magazines with headings, text, and illustrations put on a grid. An important feature of a photo zine is visual storytelling.

-A photography zine is a tool that photographers can use to tell a visual story, to inform an audience about a specific topic or issue, to showcase and advertise a new idea or simply create a preview of an ongoing project. 

Inspiration

Cover:

I like the idea of a colour theme (except I was thinking about using black and white. I also like the border to add detail and how it draws attention the small photograph in the middle. The small photograph causes the cover to be minimalistic and give a taste of the zine without revealing too much. I think this is something I will do for my own zine, however I would like to include a title.

Inside:

I like the use of blank space and how the photos don’t use up the entire page. However, I might use writing like quotes to slightly fill up the space without making it too crowded.

I think this is also a successful layout option as the slightly different image sizes look very effective.

Photos that fill up the entire page also look very good, the white border left around it drawing attention to the image in the middle. I will use this layout technique for some of my favourite images. Instead of the white background however, I will make it black.

I want my zine to be quite minimalistic and simple, with some bits of writing and pages with various layouts. I want my layout to be quite meaningful, arranging the photos using the composition of the photo itself (for example, positioning a photo of a person walking to the left of the image on the left side of the page). I want the reader to notice these small yet meaningful choices and how it ties all the photos together.