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Monday, 24 November 2014

Salford zine library

On the 12th of November I went to the Salford Zine Library in the basement of the Nexus Art Cafe in Manchester. The first thing I felt when I walked in was that I was an outsider, I felt really awkward walking in just to look at the zines.




After wondering around and not being able to find where the zine library was I asked the guy at the counter. The salford zine library was through a door I assumed was staff only. 

When I got into the room there were shelves and shelves of zines stacked haphazardly on top of one another.


Not sure why this picture is sideways but this was a very small zine, probably one of the smallest in the library. The zine is called disintegration. 


I really loved the crudeness of this zine.

There was also some more lining the walls on small shelves.





This one was mostly in what in spanish (I think) and I really like how hand made this one looked.


From what I remember this one was screen printed and I really liked the limited colour palette.
I like how this one has been drawn, again rather crude.



Another crude one.





This one seemed to be portraiture based. 

I really liked the idea behind this one but not so much the execution, this zine was made from sand paper and held together with clips. I didn't like how the pictures were just stuck on and just seemed to be floating in space. 








The zine library gave me a lot of ideas to experiment with.


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