2026 04 03

Making a Photozine

In classic universe-talking-to-me fashion, I sat down to write this post and checked my email one last time (procrastination!). By sheer chance, there was a Substack post hot off the digital press from a recent favorite of mine: Cate Hall.

I think people are so hyped up about agency because they are looking for an answer to the loss of control they feel spreading across their lives — economic, political, technological, professional. People are trying to get a handle on how to adapt to a rapidly changing world, how to respond to metastatic uncertainty about the future, and they think that agency holds the key.

While the topic of agency in the above quote from her post is a bit off-topic here, the post was actually a worthwhile breakdown of her current process of writing a book about the subject (agency does play a factor for me but not one we’ll focus on here). I wanted to attempt to vocalize some of my own thoughts about the process of making a much-lower-stakes photobook. Why I’ve chosen to focus on it and some of the steps involved in the process as I prepare to release my second zine Daily Bread. My aim is to make it helpful to others also considering a project like mine. I know there are a lot of you out there because I hear from you often at our Realm Books popups!