emonome | photography zine
Stories don't just connect us. They unite us.
emonome is a monthly, print-only photography zine. Each 40-page issue weaves together my photographs, short fiction, poetry, and illustration around a single theme. It's where my deep love of visual storytelling flourishes.
For the past decade and a half, I’ve photographed over 800 stories for The New York Times and major media clients. But this zine is different. emonome is where I bring together all that shapes me: storyteller, observer, seeker. In a world that rewards the conventional, familiar, the automatic, emonome is my independence from gatekeepers masquerading as tastemakers — my art, my way.
Plus, nothing compares to connecting with readers who share how emonome inspires them to revisit their love of photography.
How to choose: Browse below and pick a theme that resonates with you. Or explore to mix and match your own custom bundle. I sign every copy.
*Issues 001 - 005 will go out of print once current batch is sold out. Bundle prices after the previews below.
Latest - Issue 014
Issue 014 is about being green with enthusiasm living a multi-hyphenate life. It's about being in constant call-and-response with the world, failing in the most interesting ways, and building your own stage to perform on. About loving being a square peg in a round world.
September, 2025. 40 pages.
Issue 013
No. 013 marks the beginning of year two of this zine. This issue is an ode to luck. Not the finger wagger, but the one holding the "One More Mile To Go" sign at the end of every difficult trek.
It's about making a pact with luck: as long as I hold tight to that insatiable hunger to create good work, it will always be there.
It's about being lucky to have readers like you be a part of year one.
August, 2025. 40 pages.
Issue 012
Issue 012 marks the one-year anniversary of emonome. We like to think a journey should build toward a clear destination. But maybe enlightenment comes from the resolve to build without guarantees. To play without a fixed goal. This issue is about showing up not because we know what comes next, but because we don’t.
July, 2025. 40 pages.
Issue 011
No. 11 is emonome’s first all black-and-white photography issue and closes a complicated chapter in my relationship with making images in black and white. This issue neither seeks affirmation nor pays homage to the medium’s supposed role in truth-telling. It’s my expression of gratitude to two colors, without burdening them with an assignment.
June, 2025. 40 pages.
Issue 010
A decision's worth lies in the dilemma it defeats. When both options seem equal, but only one pulls at who you are, that's where growth lives. This issue explores beauty in uncertainty and the courage to serve what matters.
Features the short story Naghma and the Umbilica.
May, 2025. 40 pages.
Issue 009
None of us is guaranteed a tomorrow. Yet we obsess over the "Big Win" while overlooking quiet daily triumphs that sustain us. One day you win a sentence. One day you land that chord. A meditation on expectations and finding meaning in life's smallest victories.
Features the short story Syncopated.
April 2025. 40 pages.
Issue 008
We shrink ourselves to fit the choir until we become white noise. This issue celebrates dissonance, the note that breaks cycles, the voice that goes solo to parse signal from noise. On embracing what makes you “weird.”
Features the short story A Thousand Cardigans.
March 2025. 40 pages.
Issue 007
Our best ideas emerge from contradiction. Where opposing thoughts clash, something new sparks. This issue thrives in paradox for those who find fuel in life's beautiful contradictions rather than seeking resolution.
February 2025. 40 pages.
Issue 006
What about a vague idea? Sometimes the most powerful concepts start shapeless. A reflection on pursuing big, undefined ideas and the delicate balance between chaos and clarity. This issue celebrates welcoming unplanned successes and rediscovering the simple joy of making.
January, 2025. 40 pages.
Issue 005
Everything exists to cross a threshold and become something else. An exploration of endings, how they shape who we are and create room for what's next. Finding gratitude in a year of plans that didn't succeed but unplanned successes that defined everything.
December, 2024. 40 pages.
Final 18 copies
Issue 004
The lines that define identity and place, exploring these boundaries through photography, poetry, drawings, microfiction, and collage. Stories in this issue follow characters navigating physical, cultural, and personal borders, while other pieces challenge the societal labels that divide us. This collection explores connections that transcend separation, offering a vision of unity and self-definition
November, 2024. 40 pages.
Final 16 copies
Issue 003
A meditation on reflections, finding quiet revelations in the mundane through a blend of photography, poetry, drawings, collage, and microfiction. What begins as a routine morning in a Northern Manhattan park becomes a journey of self-discovery. A dialogue explores the dualities of self and shadow. This issue explores the complexity of human connection and invites readers to see wonder anew.
October, 2024. 40 pages.
Final 13 copies
Issue 002
A dive into the duality of self and shadow, blending surreal encounters with personal histories through photography, poetry, microfiction, drawings, and collage. A man separates from his shadow for a day, while another piece recalls a missed connection. This issue delves into the tension between who we are and who we hope to become, capturing those shadowed parts of identity in a mix of humor and vulnerability.
September, 2024. 40 pages.
Final 16 copies
Issue 001
The debut issue reintroduces my blog emonome as a tactile collection of storytelling across photography, poetry, drawings, collages, and microfiction, all exploring resilience and memory. From a character’s fall in a Manhattan apartment to reflective dialogues with past selves, this issue invites readers to linger on the details, using art and words to hold onto what we can’t keep and to transform memory into meaning.
August 2024. 40 pages.
Final 15 copies
PRICES
Single Issue: $15
Any 3 Issues: $39 (code 3Z)
Any 5 Issues: $60 (code 5Z)
Any 10 Issues: $110 (code 10Z) + $0 shipping in the U.S.
*All bundle orders shipped to U.S. and International destinations are packed in rigid envelopes and include tracking information.
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