Hello everyone,

This is my very first handmade zine project. It's in French, but I'll explain the whole thing to you.

The material: For the photos, I used a small book of photographs and poems (I'd picked up in a throw-away box in town). I rearranged them as I wanted to make sense. For my text, I didn't use the same book but a 10-year-old photography magazine.

My objective: I'd just gone through one heck of a self-examination the day before about how much several processes had altered my self-esteem. So the day before I set about making some profound changes. When I woke up, I wanted to make a zine that would leave a trace of this. I wanted it to be fully creative and an expression of me, turned towards me and not a teaching zine or one that would explain what I'd done the day before.

What helped me: I didn't want to write in my own handwriting, I just wanted to cut and paste and superimpose. So I couldn't write everything I wanted because my words weren't in the magazine or the book. I had to get the message across in a different way.

First page: "Intensive care, the path."

Self Esteem Zine - image 1 - student project

Second double page: I say that I (the hand) want to beat the traps (represented by the man with his rifle) complex, multiple and triggering several words: noise, reactivity, explosion, drama, flashes, control, unstructured collision (the woman from behind)

Self Esteem Zine - image 2 - student project

Third double page: I say there are lows and abysses

Self Esteem Zine - image 3 - student project

Fourth double page: I imply that there are also highs (the word in French is made up of five letters in the plural, so I added the S on purpose to make it clear that there will be several highs).

Self Esteem Zine - image 4 - student project

Last page: I say the way to go is to hold it tight!

Self Esteem Zine - image 5 - student project

None of the photos were associated like that in the little book and I didn't use all the photos but I can't see them again other than in this zine now.

It did me so much good. This zine is me.

thank you so much for reading me.

swänn

Swänn Atrema

Feminist Author in Kanaky, Oceania

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