SOFTCORE ZINE

SOFT CORE

published 2026

LIMITED EDITION

Soft Core follows her through the quiet rupture between youth and adulthood—where nothing cleanly ends, and nothing fully begins. It traces the weight of learning how to exist alone, to earn, to endure, to make sense of a life that no longer feels guided, only carried. Across these pages, the last few years unfold without censorship. Not as a narrative, but as fragments, late nights, working hours, empty rooms, brief moments of connection, and the constant negotiation between survival and self. There is no attempt to soften reality here. Only to hold it as it is. The body appears throughout as both subject and witness. Not idealised, not hidden, just present. A site of labour, of intimacy, of detachment. Human sexuality moves through the work in quiet, unspoken ways: in proximity, in tension, in absence as much as in touch. It is neither performed nor explained, simply existing as part of the atmosphere these years have been lived in. This is not a story of resolution. It is a study of becoming under pressure of adapting, fracturing, rebuilding. Of finding a kind of care that is not gentle, but necessary.

Technical details: Printed in the UK

Edition: 200 copies

100 pages

Format: A5