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A carousel zine
“boom” is a photozine created by photographer and musician Éric Michel.
The photozine features twenty-four black and white portraits taken between December 1982 and July 2026 on 35 mm analog film. The zine unfolds to form a circle reminiscent of a slide carousel.
Gallery
Who’s looking at who?
A portrait happens in the fleeting moment when two gazes meet — the subject’s, and reciprocally, the photographer’s.
This small book comes as a revelation half a lifetime in the making. The author, initially drawn to the powerful emotional content of photography, gradually becomes aware of a deeper motivation: to better see himself through the eyes of the people he photographs.
The photozine can be seen as a house of mirrors where each photograph represents both an opening onto the world and a new facet of the photographer’s identity.
| Title | boom |
|---|---|
| Author | Éric Michel |
| Published | 2026 |
| Length | 28 pages + cover |
| Illustrations | 25 photographs |
| Language | French and English |
| Dimensions | 5.25 × 7.75 in (13.3 × 19.7 cm) |
| Printing | color, soft cover |
| Publisher | self-published |
| ISBN | 978‐2‐9824695‐1‐8 |
A few words from the author
“In portrait photography, everything hinges on the gaze. There are two dozen of them in this small collection—the gazes of old friends and near-strangers, some dating back to the eighties and others from just last summer. They have a strangely soothing effect on me, perhaps because, in their own way, they resemble me a little. There are gazes one wishes to keep forever.”
“I was fifteen when I took the first of these portraits. I had just discovered that photography was an excellent way to insert myself into the vast world. Little has changed since then; portraits remain a fleeting, almost elusive thing, born from the magical moment when two gazes meet.”
— Éric Rico Michel
