Coldspot #1

Coldspot #1
Author Gill, Eire
Contact coldspot at yahoo dot ie
Website http://www.flickr.com/photos/gilll_

This is the first art zine I ever read so I'm not sure if I'm its target audience. In fact, I'm not even sure 'read' is the right word: the only words in Coldspot #1 are Gill's contact details at the back. My visual illiteracy means I have been putting off this review for a while now (not including the panic when I thought my brother had put it in the recycling and had to figure out whether I could still write a review of it... fortunately, I found it under my bed).

Coldspot is a full colour sixteen page photography zine, printed on high quality paper and hand bound. Some pages have just one photo on them while others are grouped. A few sets of the grouped photos are by theme; for instance, one page shows a row of votive candles on one side and a crackling home fire on the other. The first thing I thought of when I saw this was coming home from church in the evening and changing into my pyjamas for bed. In fact, the next few photos are of home settings, so this may have been deliberate. I couldn't tell whether Coldspot was meant to be a continual narrative, but Gill's slightly fractured photography style leads me to believe these are parts of her life we're being let in on. Definitely check out Gill's website for more neato art photography.