Inside a New Photography Zine Inspired by Afrofuturistic Merfolks
Lucie Rox, as her second self-published zine WATER••COLOUR is released. “I came to a point where I needed to do something for me.” A world away from her first zine SIGNS, published in 2019, which represented a warm, documentary-style portrait of Japan, WATER••COLOUR is an immersion into a highly-stylised underwater fantasy Rox conceived of with her friend and collaborator, make-up artist Crystabel Riley. Rox found initial inspiration for the story in Rivers Solomon’s Lambda Literary Award-winning novella The Deep, which depicts a utopian underwater society populated by wate...