I had made a lots of photo book for myself, before I decided to give a go to self publish one. Today, I had successfully published 「Penang Record 2015」and recently a photo zine 「 Home Town」. And now I recalled, how far the journey was, to have a courage to self publish a photo book. I remembered at that moment I decided to publish one, I persuaded myself, “Give a go or give up!” And I give a go.
在我還沒有開始發行攝影集之前，我為自己製作了很多攝影集。今天為止，我成功自己發行了『Penang Record 2015』和剛剛才發行的『Home Town』攝影誌。現在回想起來，我到底走了多長的路，才鼓起勇氣去發行我的一本攝影集？記憶猶新，當我決定製作要發行的攝影集時，我是這樣告訴自己的。『豁出去或放棄！』，我豁出去了。
I decided to go with zine format for my photography works, but why? If you don't know what is zine, zine is a self-published reading material usually produced in a small amount, small in size, less pages and small-circulation. The regular form of a zine is, staple bind a few piece of A4 papers, and fold them to make a A5 size booklet. Zine can be in variety of formats, such as printed or hand-written text, comics and photographs. The person who produces zine call themselves zinester. Zinester have a saying, "Zine making for love, not money", that quote strike me. Yes, I did it because I love doing it, the keyword "Love" is a very important element in zine making.
我決定我的攝影集用zine的形式詮釋，為什麼？ 如果你不知道什麼是zine，zine 是一種小型的自製出版讀物，體積小，頁面少，流通量也低。製作zine可以很簡單，把幾張A4尺寸的紙釘了、折成A5尺寸的書就可以了。zine有很多形式，可以是文字的（印刷或手寫），漫畫或攝影。zine製作者稱自己為zinester。zinester有種說詞『製作zine，為愛，不為錢』，它打動了我。沒錯，我製作zine因為我享受其中，“愛”是製作zine的一個重要元素。