After creating three zines this became my next photo project to work toward printing. My zine titled Moving Forward is now available in print: you can check it out and order here. The images in this collection didn’t even start out as a photo project. It began as an attempt at survival and trying toContinue reading “Photo Project: Moving Forward—Zine Available for Order, Surviving and Coping while Healing from Trauma”
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Photo Project: in the moment | collection 2–Available for Order and The Personal Impact of this Photo Project
Several weeks ago I completed and printed my “in the moment | collection 2” zine. The zine is now available in print for you to order. You can get your copy here. And I’m offering this zine for $5 off for the first 5 days—through 1-20-2023. This collection of images is in color—my first collectionContinue reading “Photo Project: in the moment | collection 2–Available for Order and The Personal Impact of this Photo Project”
Photo Project: in the moment | collection 2 – Layout and Sequencing Process
After recently finishing my “in the moment | collection 1” zine, I was looking forward to compiling the images I’d already selected for collection 2 of this series. This was a project I found myself naturally drawn to and unintentionally creating while my mental health struggles were very intense. I used my phone—because the bestContinue reading “Photo Project: in the moment | collection 2 – Layout and Sequencing Process”
Photo Project: in the moment | collection 1—Zine Available for Purchase
I’d like to share with you that “in the moment” collection 1 is now available for purchase. This photo project has been very meaningful and helpful with my efforts to cope with my own intense, moment to moment mental health struggles. It is my hope that perhaps there can be something beneficial, encouraging or inspiringContinue reading “Photo Project: in the moment | collection 1—Zine Available for Purchase”
Photo Project: in the moment | collection 1 – Creative Coping
I have several ongoing photo projects in the works at various stages and due to my intense mental health struggles being extra challenging I naturally gravitated toward this new project—in the moment—as a way to try to help myself cope. It was important and helpful for me to make photographs as a way to stayContinue reading “Photo Project: in the moment | collection 1 – Creative Coping”
Photo Project: Clouds—Story
As I faced (and continue to face) very intense, life-long mental health struggles that can be very disabling, challenging and disturbing for me, I remember spending many evenings outside at home just watching and photographing the sky as a way to try to help myself stay alive and survive. Seeing, watching, taking note of, andContinue reading “Photo Project: Clouds—Story”
Photo Project: Clouds—Broken Heart
This cloud project is very personal to me. In a way, I feel it tells my own life story without words. To me, my story often feels unspeakable, as though there are no words to adequately express it. And what I see in these images can be very relatable to the experience of my ownContinue reading “Photo Project: Clouds—Broken Heart”
Photo Project: Clouds—Printed Zine Available for Order
It is challenging for me to believe I finally get to share this with you: my CLOUDS zine is now available for order! In previous posts I’ve shared about the individual steps in the process that led me to the final print of this photo project. It took me approximately a year once I beganContinue reading “Photo Project: Clouds—Printed Zine Available for Order”
Photo Project: Clouds—My Zine Layout and Sequencing Process Using Prints
In previous posts about my CLOUDS zine I’ve shared how the project is coming together as I work through the entire zine creation process. I’ve recently finished my layout and sequencing process AND ordered my copy of what I hope will be the final version of this printed zine which includes 132 pages of imagesContinue reading “Photo Project: Clouds—My Zine Layout and Sequencing Process Using Prints”
Photo Project: Clouds—Zine Test Print
In my previous post I mentioned that I’d reached an exciting milestone in my Clouds photo project: ordering my test print of a small portion of this project printed in zine form. This printing was just a small selection of some of my cloud images to check how photos would print and make sure IContinue reading “Photo Project: Clouds—Zine Test Print”
Amanda Creamer Photography 