Girls To The Front
Issue #3
Available now for pre order.
Shipping Monday Feb 5th
Here at Girls To The Front zine we’re all about supporting and uplifting women and gender non conforming people.
We want to listen to and share others personal experiences in life and in art through music, stories, interviews, photographs and collages.
We love to celebrate artists and individuals that have the Riot Grrrl spirit.
Meet our contributors
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Ilana Rose has worked as a professional photographer and photojournalist for over 25 years.
During this time Ilana has worked for some of the most respected media outlets, including as a Foreign Correspondent in England. Ilana’s work has appeared in most Australian major publications, while clients have ranged from Victorian Government Departments, NGO’s, to art’s organisations, film companies and private clients.
As a photographer, Ilana is passionate about story-telling, social justice issues and subcultures and is currently working on her latest commissioned work, to photograph youth homelessness across Australia for Youth Development Australia. Her first book was launched in November 2019 by Pan Macmillan ‘This Chicken Life: stories of chickens and the Australians who love them’.
Ilana’s work has been exhibited in Australia, China and New York and collected by galleries and arts organisations including The Powerhouse Museum Sydney, The Victoria State Library and the City of Melbourne.
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Jessie Dinan is a photographic artist based in Melbourne, and the creator of “Girls to the front” zine. Her love for photography is centered on analog processes and printing in the darkroom, predominately in black and white. Her work is focused on the people she meets and observes in everyday life, as well as documenting subcultures and those that view the world through a different lens to societal norms.
Jessie has exhibited in the UK, Brazil, Australia and the United States, most notably the inaugural women’s street photographers exhibition in NYC, and as an exhibiting finalist in the San Francisco international photography awards for analog.
She has been involved in many zine collabs over the years, which has led to her passion for creating and editing zines and now launching the first issue of “Girls to the front”.
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Katelyn Slyer is a Wollongong-based photographer who grew up in the ‘burbs’ of Sydney. Her earliest memories were helping her father, a commercial photographer, in his studio above their family home. Photography has been ingrained in her DNA and has always been part of her story.
Later in life, Katelyn's family relocated to Wollongong, NSW, and she began to travel extensively. Katelyn spent some of this time living in London, which had a formative impact and resulted in a large body of work.
Her experiences overseas led to the eclectic nature of her work, which can be defined in terms of a 'creative realism' -- equally documentary and artistic. Katelyn aspires to capture the defiance and vulnerability of her subjects.
Her images showcase the visceral reality of human experience, while also capturing their subjects' charm, refinement, and grace. They also foreground various countercultures, undergrounds, and alternative world views that most people aren't exposed to. The work is always un-staged, honest and raw, and it is inevitably drawn to the beauty in everyday life.
While the majority of her work might appear to fall into a documentation of early 2000s punk culture, the core of her work embodies the heart of human experience. Kate is a visual narrator, a documentarian and a collector of images, memories and souls. She shoots life as it otherwise was.
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https://www.instagram.com/pam.powder
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https://enolaenola.bandcamp.com/album/all-is-forgiven
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https://privatewives.bandcamp.com/