Tisch DPI Alum Erwin Chen '24 is releasing his debut zine, "Tears", on Nov 12th, 2026. The launch is set at Thayer at 99 Ave B, New York, NY, from 6-8PM.
Tears is a collection of photographs of torn posters. Be it commercial, political, or artistic, the remnants of the many layers, now ripped down and apart at various levels by time and chance, come together to forge a visual symphony.
Tears calls upon the collage tradition of Dadaism which reconfigured and reinterpreted magazines and newspapers into original art; and meshes it with the documentarian heritage of street photography, where images are discovered and captured out in the real world, not staged in studios. It praises the unintentional beauty of the layers of posters, collaged by chance and encountered by chance. Tears is published by ROMAN NVMERALS, an independent imprint based in Catskill, NY.
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