Collaborative Zines and the Art of Image Sequencing
Juan Madrid and Veronica Melendez
Saturday, July 8 – Sunday, July 9, 2023
10:00 am – 5:00 pm
In this workshop, artists Veronica Melendez and Juan Madrid will guide attendees through the process of making a collaborative zine, hosted at a Kingston-based print shop. Using their own photographs, students will work together to create a cohesive and unique sequence of their works that will be designed and printed as a small edition publication to be released at the first ever CPW Photobook and Zine Fair!
Veronica and Juan will share examples from their own libraries of collaborative published works alongside their own collaborative publishing projects. They will lead discussions and exercises going over how to conceptualize zines and sequence images. The goal for the first day is to work together to make a rough sequence of the collaborative zine and print a book dummy.
On the second day students will continue to sharpen the sequence and work on the design and layout. We will print a small edition of the zine, taking care to examine how different materials and bindings can change how a publication feels. Students will be provided with printers, scanners, computers, paper and toner, and staple binders. Everyone will leave with a few copies for their own library and the publication will be available at the upcoming CPW Photobook and Zine Fair, part of the First Annual Kingston Photo Festival, scheduled for July 21–23.
What to bring: Digital image files (on a flash drive or phone) or printed/collaged artworks under 8.5 x 11 inches.
Juan Madrid is a photographer and book artist based in the Hudson Valley of New York. He earned his BFA in Professional Photographic Illustration from the Rochester Institute of Technology and was the lab manager at the Center for Photography at Woodstock. He has worked as a freelance photographer for clients including VICE, Bloomberg Businessweek, Topic, and Society Magazine (France) and teaches workshops centered around zine and bookmaking. He is one of the members of the publish-ing collective Los Sumergidos, whose first collaborative photo-text book Los Sumergidos was shortlisted at PHotoESPAÑA and Les Rencontres d’Arles in 2019.
Veronica Melendez is a photographer, illustrator, and curator based between Washington D.C. and Troy, NY. She is founder of La Horchata, an arts publication highlighting creatives from the Central American diaspora. Her work has been featured in the Washington Post, NPR, VICE, and Hyperallergic among others. She received a BFA from the Corcoran College of Art and Design and MFA from the University of Hartford. She is currently the Technical Instructor of Photography at Bennington College.
Class limit: 8
Tuition: $500 / CPW Members $400
Scholarships are available for tuition assistance. Please email education@cpw.org for details.