A Household Affair: How Garbage Famzine Is Made Up
Back in 2011, the Lim family founded an art collective called Holycrap after taking inspiration from random doodles drawn by their son Renn. "We thought it was a waste not to put them together properly," says Claire Lim on behalf of the family. "Pann also went to Singapore schools very often to give lectures and lectures, and he felt guilty for not doing enough “creative education” for our two children. "
The Singapore-based collective consists of mother Claire, father Pann, son Renn and daughter Aira, and it wasn't long before Holycrap embarked on his largest and longest project to date. “When we traveled to Tokyo and Kyoto as a family for the first time in 2013, the four of us, armed with a point-and-shoot camera, shot more than 100 rolls of film each. When we scanned the negatives, we realized that these wonderful memories needed to be archived and put into a publication, ”explains Claire. “This is how Rubbish Famzine started. It was pretty sudden and it was quick. "
Above: Detail of the inside of the cover sheet, garbage famzine No. 2. Above: Cover famzine No. 1. All images: Holycrap Collective
The name comes from "garbage", a word that is often used cheekily at home, such as "don't talk garbage" or "that's good garbage". For Famzine it is the playful interpretation of the word Fanzine by the family, since it is a publication with niche topics. “Renn describes It differs from other magazines because it shows our very personal experiences and what we do as a family at all times, ”says Claire. "This is simply our way of putting together stories and memories that matter to us. "
What began as just one issue to accommodate holiday memories has now grown to include ten individual issues, each unique and a love letter to the craft and the publication of magazines. “To be completely honest, of course we started this journey with the hope that we could go on for as long as possible. I don't think anyone would want to start something for a short time. But we didn't want to impose unnecessary expectations or stress on ourselves or the children, ”reflects Claire.