Barbershop Zines

“I am a traveler of the earth and constantly recording every aspect of my life by taking photographs, from grand landscapes like urban buildings, the sun, the moon and the mountains to the smallest fragments such as crystal dew and the moment a butterfly lifting its wings. Whichever scene I come across means a mini trip. The name ‘Earth Traveller’ came from a whim in my college days. As almost all of these photos were took by phone, the unique picture quality and its convenience attract me. It allows me to shoot anywhere, anytime. I was able to capture many images that could be too late for a camera to capture. Earth Traveller consists of such images. Hope you will enjoy it on paper media.” - Hangsheng

“When three members of my family passed away, I missed the opportunity to see them one last time. The intense regret and remorse that had endured over the years became too much for me to let it go. The instinctive response to pain is to run away from it, but perhaps facing the wound will be the only cure. It wasn’t until I started talking to friends about the loss of those three that I realized that most people, like me, avoid dealing with the pain of losing the people they loved as a way to forget its existence. Maurice Maeterlinck expressed a view about death in his The Blue Bird: There are people who have died, but as long as someone still misses them, they will live on as happily as ever. I began to visit the places where they spent the last days of their lives more frequently, talking about them more often, looking for traces of their lives, and eventually those traces and feelings that were recovered became a bond between the three of them and me. These bonds will eventually become the undercurrents of their existence in my world, flowing continuously.” - Yan Jialin

"I spent many years dreaming about French Guiana. I left my small town of Régina at the age of 2, heading to Alsace. For 23 years, Guiana kept on existing through family albums and movies my parents filmed when we would go back for the holidays. In 2019, I packed my bags and moved back home. I used a small compact film camera to document my reunion with this country that now felt as familiar as foreign. Where to begin ? Homecoming also meant questioning my gaze, belonging and identity. I was back home, and paradoxically I felt lost. So I started with what I knew. I went back to the river, and I followed it." - Nathyfa Michel

Billy's photos amplify the most ordinary aspects of what we today perceive as the beginnings of a cultural scene: sound systems. They also reveal a shady element of Cayenne that Billy was the only person willing—or daring enough—to photograph. A rare, raw and brilliant testimony.

Gilles Larvor, was born in the Parisian suburbs, and immersed himself for 15 years in the Val Nord. At that time he was a young photographer, not yet professional. He started to photograph the ZUP of Argenteuil in 1984. [...] Very close to his subjects, he wanted to allow them to be part of something. To give them an opportunity to tell their story and build a memory. He captures images of intense poetry giving an echo to young people proudly saying: "We live with concrete in our heads, it's our story".