A Collaborative Photo Zine
People in a city receive a single theme and send back photos — whatever catches their eye. I collect these different perspectives and put them together into a zine. When it’s ready, we meet, look at what we each saw, talk about it, and take a copy home. It’s about paying attention to where we are and finding belonging in it together, through each other’s eyes.
About the project
The prompt is simple and open.
There are no rules about what makes a good photo. Phone snapshots are welcome. Nothing needs to be polished or composed.
What matters is the looking itself: what catches your eye, what you choose to frame, what a single word makes you notice that you might not have noticed otherwise.
The gathering is as much a part of the project as the zine itself — a reason to sit with people, slow down, and pay closer attention to the city we share and to each other.
Why
The idea comes from a belief that the people around us see things we miss. We share streets, supermarkets, and daily routes, yet we each move through the city inside our own attention.
This project is an attempt to open that up, to collect the different ways people look at the same place and hold those perspectives side by side.
At its core, this is a project about belonging — Many of us arrived in the cities we live in from somewhere else. The places we inhabit don’t always feel like ours. But I think that looking is one of the ways we start to belong. And doing it together, seeing through each other’s eyes, makes that feeling stronger.
“From Here” starts in Amsterdam, but it’s built to move. The same practice can take root wherever there are people willing to look and share what they see. The name means two things at once: from this place and from this person’s point of view. Every issue holds both.
This is a crowd-sourced, collaborative zine. It doesn’t belong to me but to everyone who contributes. I just hold the shape of it.
Issues
Each issue is shared physically with contributors. Any wider digital release is a collective decision. Not every issue will be, and that’s by design.
Issue 01: Amsterdam – Neighborhood
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