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We're very close to being able to pay the printers for Gratuitous Pictures of Weed, but we need your help to make up the last seventy-five per cent before we can start sending copies out.
Did we mention that each pre-order comes with a free sticker and pressed skunk leaf? Yes, a real one. Secure yours over at the Steamy Press shop.
A play on the popular #GPOY hashtag, Gratuitous Pictures of Weed features work by 19 photographers of everyone's favourite shrubbery.
Printed using risograph stencil machines, each zine has slight imperfections lending a visual trickery and magic-eye effect to the images. It can be viewed as a folded concertina – which doubles handily as a joint rolling tray – or folded out to reveal a long tapestry, and is kept together with a hemp paper belly-band.
Featuring work by Brian Raymond, Caitlin Duquette, Charlie Rubin, Corey Bartle-Sanderson, Eduardo Kissajikian, Jared Gaustad, Jess Bryson, Jesse Untracht-Oakner, Johnny Dee, Kevin Novales, Luke Winter, Levi Mandel, Max Ferguson, Pat O'Rourke, Rosaline Shahnavaz, Sonia D'Argenzio, Stephen Harper, Trevor Powers & Tristan McDonald.
Available for the exclusive pre-order price of £4 in the Steamy Press shop, get 'em while they're smokin'!
Tuesday 24 June @ Westminster Reference Library —-> http://www.westminster.gov.uk/services/libraries/news/wrfexhibitions/
A wee artists' book exhibition on soon.
How many photos do you accept for submissions? Thanks!
For zines and books, it's a good idea to send 5–10 pictures that give a good idea of the project, and should be accompanied by a little description or brief of what the project is about.
For anything else, there's not really a limit, but looking forward to see what you send over!
If you're in Cardiff for the Diffusion Festival this weekend, make sure to check out the OGA boys' table as part of the programme of Diffusion Festival's Publishing Weekend. As well as having a bunch of zines and photo-books to flick through, they'll have some stuff on sale too, with a few bits from Steamy Press.
GET 33% OFF OUR JOHN MALTA TEE!
It's pay day, so to celebrate we're offering 33% off our John Malta tees when you use the code 'PAYDAY' at the checkout.
Visit the shop to pick one up. It's officially t-shirt weather.
What on earth is screen-printing?
Screen-printing is a process for making prints on fabric or paper by forcing beads of ink past a stencil and through a mesh screen. Though completely man-powered, it's still relatively quick and you get some pretty cool results in the right hands.
We worked closely with Horse Zine to develop our John Malta tees, developing a brand new marbling technique and hand-printing each tee. This means that each tee is completely unique and there's not a single one in the batch that looks like the last – they're all different. Add the fact that there was a constant soundtrack of Motown at Horse HQ and you know your tee has got sooooooul.
'You Gots to Chill' tees are available in the Steamy Press shop.
Still accepting submissions for the GPOW: Gratuitous Pictures of Weed zine. Submissions close in exactly 24 hours! Click here for more information.
Photograph by Sonia D’Argenzio
Winter's dying down, spring is hotting up and summer's coming soon. You know what that means: it's almost time to get yer chill on.
John Malta, an NY-based illustrator whose work regularly appears in the New York Times and is a zine heavyweight in his own right, drew this zany dude for us in his trademark style. It oozed weirdness, so we worked with James Hall, screen-printer at Horse Zine, to develop a unique marbling effect with water-based inks. The result is a funky, grungy tee that's lurid, psychedelic and bound to turn heads.
These are destined to fly out pretty quickly, so head on over to the Steamy Press shop now! Available in small, medium and large unisex sizes.
Photography: Tristan McDonald; Model: Roseanna Arroyo.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Steamy Press is now accepting submissions for a zine to be released in the near future. The theme? Everyone's favourite flower: cannabis.
The internet is awash with gpoy (gratuitous picture of yourself) and we're bringing gpow (gratuitous picture of weed) to the world, because who doesn't like a little greenery? To submit, send as many small JPEGs (500 pixels on the longest side) as you'd like to [email protected], titling the e-mail 'GPOW'. Once the selection has been made, the included photographers will be notified.
Submissions close on 20 April 2013 at 4.20 p.m..
Reblog, spread the word, and bless!
Photograph by Sonia D'Argenzio
In what looks to be set for a huge year for Saul Leiter, Steidl have issued a fourth reprint of the popular Early Color, just in time for a deluge of screenings of Tomas Leach's In No Great Hurry: 13 Lessons in Life with Saul Leiter. It's the perfect time to purchase this highly sought after volume of Saul's work, as previous stock has sold out in a flash.
Pre-orders are being taken now and the book ships from Steidl on 11 March 2013. And, due to popular demand, a second screening of the documentary at Fishbar Gallery has been scheduled for 14 March. Get your tickets here.
'NOP (Not Our Publication) is a reporting code used by publishers to identify books that are not their own but are held within their warehouse.'
This weekend, we launched our online printed collection, offering everyone the chance to peruse through our library of titles printed by other publishers and artists. The aim of the website is to showcase the multitude of content regularly published by independents such as ourselves, and serves as an inspirational springboard for like-minded creatives. Submissions are welcome and gratefully received.
For more information and to visit the collection, please visit http://www.steamypress.co.uk/library
ONE GIANT ARM 'WHITE AND BLACK'
One Giant Arm are taking submissions for a new group zine, themed as ‘White and Black’
‘White and Black’ is a new open call for submissions for any analogue photographic series or project shot in Black and White. Deadline is March 31st. The submission of projects/series are welcome at [email protected] or messaged to their Facebook page.
Click here for more details.
Something else worth getting involved in.
POLE STAR BOOKS 003
LUKE BYRNE: TASMANIAC
Follow Australian photographer Luke Byrne and his girlfriend Natasha on a van trip around Tasmania, wandering the lonely boardwalks, climbing the loftiest mountains, gazing at the serene sunsets and eating wallaby sausage pasta.
All photographs © Luke Byrne 2012
* 44 pages
* A5
* Full colour
* £10 (includes postage)
Get it in the shop.
More from Pole Star Books...
They've been working on this for a while, so you should definitely pick one up. Luke Byrne's consistently good style never lets you down, and he's an avid traveller, capturing the moments you really want to remember. In fact, you can often be left rather jealous of the awesome sights he's seen.
ZINE REVIEW 003 - EVERYTHING SUCKS
I dont know much about Stephanie Mill, but i do know that Steve Messer over at Steamy Press has good taste, so i quickly snapped up his latest publication. I gather it sold out pretty quick, so i thought she must be doing something right. Like having a good time? Even though she apparently reckons that everything sucks, it seems she knows where the good shit is - laughing at blood and pain, jumping around, see what is over the garden fence, acting your age. It is simply put together, but then the photos are unpretentious and fun - the best way. Steamy Press’s ambition may be to ‘educate and motivate youths’, but it doesnt look like he needs to with Steph. Steve’s done a good job on this one. The fun shines through. This doesnt suck. Head over to Steamy Press.
A big thanks to D.B.C. over at Pole Star Books for this kind review of Steph's work. Trying to gather the resources to reprint this zine, which you can pre-order here.
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Tee design for the London based publisher Steamy Press. Available soon!
You're probably wondering when this sweet-ass John F. Malta t-shirt will be ready.
The countdown is set for T-minus two weeks. For real. Save ya pennies!
SPLASH&GRAB - You’re the head honcho at Steamy Press right? Give us the lowdown…
STEVE MESSER - That’s right. It’s just me at the moment, a one-man operation, but I’m looking forward to getting some more folks onboard. Having come from a strictly editorial background in publishing, it’s quite refreshing having to deal with the other side of the business – sales, marketing, publicity, design, production, etc. – but it also means that I’m having to edit my ideas, as there’s only so much time. Money’s pretty limited too! But the basic idea is to publish affordable books in a range of formats; I enjoy the production of a book as much as the finished product. In fact, I just got back from a seminar with Clive Philpott, and he said he didn’t think digital books or ebooks were books at all. That’s a perception I think will change, and it’s kind of antithetical to profess your interest in art books being about accessibility and then disregard digital books entirely. The current project, Fourth Creation, is going to explore that by being released as an ebook before it’s printed – if it’s ever printed. And so that’s the ethos of Steamy Press, really, just providing objects for our generation to engage with, perhaps consult, or admire, but ultimately to inspire: to make everyone go ‘Hey, I could do this too…’
I can relate to your love of books, but you’re a photographer too, is this what drives you to keep producing photography publications for people?
Yeah, I mean it’s definitely a medium I relate to better than most, on a personal level, but I’m interested in publishing literary works too. There’s a couple of books I’m working on that are purely text, and I like comics too, but I’d definitely say I’m more visually inclined despite my background in creative writing and literary fiction. The only thing that dictates the list is narrative. Does it have a story to tell? or Can it teach me anything? I didn’t study art, or art theory, so until someone with that knowledge comes along, everything will be steeped in narrative! And that sequentially of an art book forms the perfect frame for telling a story in pictures – which as something I’ve not experimented with a huge amount is very appealing. And then you add text to the picture book, make the two features intertwine, and that’s a whole new level of elucidation and extrapolation.
All these exciting projects in the pipeline, but you also offer an open submission policy. What can you offer to up and coming photographers/graphic novelists & writers?
It depends what they want. The formation of a printed product, and the editing, is one of the most exciting and creatively demanding periods for a publisher – so the open submission policy is really just to feed my addiction to that! I jest, because really I think the opportunity for comment can be as educational for an artist as an editor. So all I can truly offer is my comment, and my opinion, and a platform for their work to be seen. Collaboration is such an enjoyable experience, though, I suppose that’s the backbone of it all.
Collaborations are great, and can multiply exposure to projects. Who’s out there smashing it at the moment, who inspires you, any shout outs?
Oh jeez, there are so many people! Do I really have to name them all?
Name who you want, as few or as many shout outs as you like.
Fuck it I will!
First and foremost, the biggest shout to my girlfriend, Alice, for agreeing that me leaving the best job I’ve ever had to go it alone was a good idea. Leading on from that, everyone at Jonathan Cape, but especially Alex Bowler and Mark Holborn. Mark was the one that changed it all for me – it’s not often you come across some luminary that helps you to decide your path in life, but he’s such an inspiration for me and working with him was a true honour. The BOTY boys for working hard and never hustling; Alex Webb and Lewis Chaplin for being the most envy-inducing young bastards in the game; the Glasgow homies for their endless support – that’s David Cooper, Benji Cluness, Jamie Shaw and Joe Skilton – and for killing it whatever they do; Tristan McDonald and Mike Mitchell for constant props; Matt Martin; Stephanie Mill for her patience; Luke Winter for taking thousands of photos, each of which I wish I’d taken, and his boundless enthusiasm for life; Tomas Leach for his gung-ho approach; Aki Schilz, an incredible poet and ultimate dollface; James Hall of Horse Zine for figuring out that marble ting; John Malta for his kindness; Alex Sinclair for not being afraid to write about photography; Jonathan Cherry for Mull It Over; Winslow Laroche for Je Suis Perdu; Joe Cooke for binding all those books; Paul Nelson; the OGA boys; Romke Hoogwaerts; Joscha Bruckert; Igor Termenon; Simon Marsham; Bruno Ceschel, the most intense character that ever lived; and lastly all the artists I’ve had the pleasure of speaking to! So, yeah, the whole scene basically. It’s a list I’m looking to extend.
Big shout outs to everyone on your list, It’s been a pleasure hearing what you have to say. I can’t wait to see what comes out of Steamy Press, is there anything you’d like to add?
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Wee interview with Max Ferguson of Splash & Grab.
