Inspo: Rubbish Famzine

Rubbish Famzine is a zine series by family design collective Holy Crap from Singapore. Above is the first ever edition: Google Translating Tokyoto. The zine chronicles the families visit to Japan and Kyoto, armed with six film cameras and solely relying on Google Translate to communicate with the locals. The result is an endearing collection of poems, screenshots, and film photographs.

The zine was such a huge success that the family have produced 9 to date - all on different topics like their collective love of food, or chairs. And each is designed beautifully in their eclectic and quirky style. There is always a physical element to the zines. For each edition they have creatively packaged the zine in some sort of unique, out there way. As each edition only has 300 copies - they tend to include hand finished elements, like paper clips, stamps, stickers etc. to make the zines more authentic.

The family actually did an interview with Lomography where they expressed their love for point and shoot analogue cameras. In art school, I took a year in photography, although I was under very good lecturers, "I did not like the technicalities behind photography so I did not pay special attention to it. After I graduated from art school, I landed a job as a junior art director and I started art directing photo shoots. The truth was, nobody realised I knew nothing about photography. But visually I knew exactly what I wanted, just that I didn’t know the technical aspects. I just simply told the photographer that I need the image to be tighter and giving comments like “the background seems a little too sharp now, softening the background will bring out the subject better” etc. Years passed and I enjoyed art directing shoots and one day, a fellow colleague introduced me to the Russian Lomo LC-A in 2009 and that totally got me hooked to film photography."

Their seventh issue: Flash and Blood, is all about their love for analogue photography. Featuring repurposed boxes of Kodak Ultramax 400, cyanotype paper, film negatives, clips, and an assortment of old family Polaroids, this issue is a loving ode to analog photography from the Lims. 

This electiveness is something I have not really thought about in terms of my own publication, however - I really like the idea. I like how both of these famzines include a lot more than just photos - they're basically  big 3D collages with packaging, poems, quotes etc. I think that the attention to detail is beautiful, and this could link to the idea that Lomography is a lot more than simply taking photos, it's a 'lifestyle'.

http://neocha.com/magazine/what-a-load-of-rubbish/

https://www.lomography.com/magazine/324662-holycrap-collecting-rubbish-analogue-memories