Eighteen Years Old
Tabloid newspaper with hand-assembled art print
Photographs of broken trees and writing without punctuation recall the evening a gang of queer bashers set out to attack a young man out cruising alone ‘looking for a friend’ in the early 1980s. Eighteen Years Old functions as a document of violence but also as a means to pay tribute to a ‘queer saviour’ forty years later.
‘I watch as a group of men a gang of about ten come towards me from the road ahead some carry baseball bats others have clenched fists at the ready to deliver a blow’.
Adopting the tabloid newspaper format to tell a personal story printed on fragile newsprint, the photographs in the newspaper were taken near the location of the attack at Park Zypendaal, Arnhem, the Netherlands. The text also functions as a spoken word piece.
Published by Negative Press London, 26 October 2024.
Launched at the Small Publishers Fair London.
Book - 16pp, 28.9cm x 37.5cm, newsprint, EU Ecolabel and FSC certified, ink free from solvents and VOCs.
Artwork - FSC-certified board and Kraft stock. Glossy photograph with mono text to rear, Kraft photo corners
In the collection of The National Poetry Library.
Available at https://www.neg-press.com/product/eighteen-years-old
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