12 x 2024: A Zine Series
This page is dedicated to the zine project known as “12 x 2024”, in which I (Emily Weston) self-publish a photo-poetic zine on a monthly basis all year long.
Each edition has a unique tone reflective of the time in which it was created- seasons, politics, and personal events all impact the language and show up in the photographs. Launched in response to the extreme financial circumstances created by the Hollywood Strikes, 12 x 2024 utilizes the language of film in a way that doesn’t require thousands of dollars to practice it - after all, books, like films, are a time based medium, and these editions use language and image to provoke, inspire, and connect, just like a good movie.
BOOK 1 : STEALING VANILLA
The first edition, published mid January of 2024. It wasn’t until after this one was completed that the idea for the series formed.
BOOK 2: A SNOWDRIFT OF ANARCHISTS
The second edition- the flooded streets of New Orleans, Mardi Gras from inside a box, and notes on invisibility and rage.
BOOK 3: DUBIOUS CARTOGRAPHY
Featuring photographs from a road trip in March 2024 to Texas to see the total solar eclipse, Book 3 toys with the format and leans into the photography.
BOOK 4: TO THE WHORE WHO WRITES MY POEMS
The central subject of Book 4 revolves around a major surgery on my spine. This edition is rife with multiple types of self portraiture in both direct and meta ways. This is the first edition to shift to landscape.
BOOK 5: THIS IS THE PLACE
I spend a lot of time thinking about Marshall Mcluhan’s Medium is the Message and riding the New Orleans Streetcar.
BOOK 6: ODES
An exploration of how other people are conduits for ourselves. Community.
BOOK 7: PROLETARIAT BLONDE
A dissection of super ego as it relates to religion and pop culture through an amazon printed “Book of Hours”.
