KZOO FILM PHOTO ISSUE 09 IS OUT NOW!
It’s #DiabetesAwarenessMonth–support a diabetic guy and buy a sick zine! It is available here. (If you’re a zine subscriber, you’ll be getting it in the mail relatively soon).
OTHER SUPPORTIVE ACTIONS:
† subscribe to DIABETICGUY.ORG
† watch our sick documentary, CYANOTYPE
† share CYANOTYPE with all of your friends
† buy something from my store
† browse my website/blog DIABETICGUY.ORG
† ride bike with me this month and help with zine distro
† seriously, any of the above would mean the world to me
† black / white film photography
† digest size (8.5×5.5 in)
† 20 pages
† 100lb yellow cover
† staple bound
† printed at Rad Riso
watch the doc:
CYANOTYPES
selfie (2) and (3) (2024)/ …
film photography/ cyanotype on diabetic test strip boxes and insulin fact sheets/ 11 x 14 and 14 x 11 inches/
vials (2024)/ …
film photography/ cyanotype on insulin fact sheets and coroplast/ 34 x 26 inches/
..i., (1) (2024)/ …
film photography/ cyanotype on insulin fact sheets and coroplast/ 34 x 26 inches/
INKJET PRINTS
untitled prints [fronts/backs] (2024)/ …
film photography/ inkjet prints on diabetic medical supply boxes/ various sizes/
below are samples from 40 photographs that I printed onto various diabetic medical supply boxes, then strung from the cieling using fishing line, throughout the gallery at the Care Before Profit installation. here you can view the digitized print along with the boxes onto which they were printed, creating a similar visual impact as they did inside the gallery.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
[…] Those, like myself, whose lives are dependent on medical technology, are forced into the losing end of a consumer-producer relationship wherein the only way to survive—to literally stay alive—is to constantly pay the devastatingly high price of so-called-healthcare. Even those with health insurance pay high prices, often to the end of rationing insulin and supplies to a catastrophic effect: diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), coma, or death. The test strip signs are representative of the greater problem of runaway profiteering while patients continue to suffer. Read more
vials (2025)/ …
pinhole photography on direct positive paper/ developed in 20 ml insulin / 5 x 4 inches/
(20 ml of insulin is the equivalent of 2 vials, and the amount of insulin thst I need to stay alive for 30 days. two vials of insulin has a list price of $660*
*source: my goddamm, no good, greedy, so-called health insurance company.)
CYANOTYPES (cont.)
..i., (3) (2024)/…
film photography/ cyanotype on diabetic test strip fact sheets and coroplast/ 16 x 20 inches/
leslie gultch (03) and (02) (2024)/ …
film photography/ cyanotype on diabetic test strip fact sheets/ 20 x 16 inches and 12 x 10 inches/
the pacific, s. of the klamath (2024)/
film photography/ cyanotype on diabetic fact sheets and coroplast/ 34 x 26 inches/
unknown falls (1) (2024)/ …
film photography/ cyanotype on insulin box and insulin fact sheets/ 19.25 x 15 inches/
[digitizations of exhibition artwork provided by Jake Girolami at Unit Zero Media]
KZOO FILM PHOTO ISSUE 07 (the diabetic issue):
it’s literally sick!
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