A year in film photography! by Marley Jeranko.

This zine made great use of its 40 pages, with 5 chapters: ride, climb, home, with you and self.

“having grown up in the digital world, my relationship to social media & these devices my mind is deeply attached to & hands ever wrapped around is always in flux.

on one side, i love the connection it offers me. i regularly feel inspired by the wealth of creativity & progressive thinking. i learn constantly & am encouraged to expand & heal myself in ways i didn’t know was even possible.

& on the other, i resent it. even those seemingly “good” things come without rest. & the connections, at a certain point, they feel hollow. i’m angry when i don’t hear from friends organically.

ultimately, what keeps me coming back is wanting a place to share the images i produce. my dedication to film photography is amplifying with every roll i develop & has become a precious way for me to show the people i cross paths with that you are seen & so beautiful. for me, it’s an energy exchange, similar to that of sharing a home-cooked meal or hearing the words “i love you, too” roll off a tongue in your direction.

that exchange would remain incomplete without my final gift to you. because no matter what, it starts & ends with you.

& yet…

doing so in a digital space no longer fulfills that circuit. i’m dissatisfied watching these photos that mean so much to me live & die quicker than it takes to press the shutter & pull the lever. you all deserve more than that.

& so, that brings me here.

i’ve been wanting to make something in print for a long, long time now. my perfectionism getting in the way, mostly.

let this be my starting place. no, it’s not perfect, (far from it) but it’s just for you. & that means more to me than the illusion of perfect our digitized lives beg of us to uphold.

thank you for receiving it. i don’t take it lightly: you, sitting wherever you are, reabsorbing the light i saw in you. that’s all photos are anyway—light. & you, are the brightest.

with love,

marley”