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Romka : Zineland
by Antoine Soubrier
Irina Yulieva — Russia I started out taking pictures of my daughter regularly three years ago, when she was twelve years old. Later, when looking at all these pictures, I realized that she has become a young woman. I understand that this is a very important moment in our lives and thus continued to take pictures.
Taiyo Onorato — Germany Suffering from fear of flying quite a bit, I took this as a sign and slept through the rest of the flight
Gábor Arion Kudász — Hungary We don’t even remember when this happened exactly, but this bruise was probably the result of a collision my son Momo had with his little sister. The pain and self-pity on his face is so touching, so we started to look at this picture more and more often… we do prefer it over the “healthy” ones. Playing is a dangerous business and our hero is constantly in trouble.
Nicolas Turlais — France We were out camping in the mountains with two friends of mine for four days. That day we got lost in a scary, dense fog. We walked for about thirteen hours, blind, exhausted, and lost, before finding a place to sleep. I’ve never felt so vulnerable.
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Romka Magazine
Irina Yulieva — Russia I started out taking pictures of my daughter regularly three years ago, when she was twelve years old. Later, when looking at all these pictures, I realized that she has become a young woman. I understand that this is a very important moment in our lives and thus continued to take pictures.
We discovered the fanzine Romka in early 2011 with the release of its fifth issue, a limp-bound A5 from Germany that gathered the favorite photos of its contributors. Released in November 2012, Romka No. 7 is slightly bigger and sturdier, but the objective is the same: put together a collective photo album. Figures like Alec Soth, Laurence Vecten, Onorato & Krebs and fifty others each contributed an image along with their commentary.
Love, holidays, childhood, slums, accidents... nothing out of the ordinary, but the artistic direction of Romka keeps things fresh. It’s like a composite person coming together before our eyes, someone who has traveled everywhere, producing pictures ranging from the grandiose to the banal, like the writer who said of his pen: “There are in me, literally speaking, two distinct persons: one who is infatuated with bombast, lyricism, eagle flights, sonorities of phrase and lofty ideas; and another who digs and burrows the truth as deeply as he can, who likes to treat a humble fact as respectfully as a big one, who would like to make you feel almost physically the things he reproduces.”
Antoine Soubrier
Romka n°7
112 pages
18,2 x 22,5 cm
1 500 copies
November 2012
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