This new zine is distributed within the urban environment leading to a chance interaction of artist and viewer. The work is an exploration and response to the volume of visual messages experienced everyday; a confusion and bombardment of text, numbers, adverts, symbols, and printed ephemera. The work explores the effect of these visual messages and modern urban daily life upon the human condition. This includes factors such as technology, politics, fashion, TV, bills, receipts, street signs, graffiti, and the thousands of other products and visual stimuli which are consumed and processed daily.

The low tech aesthetic in the work becomes a defiance and refusal of the apparent inevitability of technology, and the authority it holds upon everyday life, along with its implications of an implied narrative upon the experience an individual has on a day to day basis.

Next time you are waiting for a bus or pushing a trolley around your local supermarket, you might find a zine.

Steve White.

Paper Thin contains original photography and writing... and is created by Ben Rathmell.

I" have always been into the punk attitude of d.i.y and loved the old photocopied 'zines i'd seen for years. A few months ago i was searching for an outlet and remembered the idea i had to do my own. If what you want doesn't exist then you have to do it yourself. I love traditional photography, film, books, everything that seems to be old-fashioned about photography, so i decided to call myself Paper Thin".

The first issue was a limited run of 30 copies and has all but sold out. Paper Thin is distibuted through book shops Leeds, Brighton and little paper planes based in L.A.

Paper Thin issue1 is available to buy at little paper planes for just £1.

Issue2: "Once more with feeling" has just been released, get your copy by emailing: