Seven Hundred Metres fanzine (2024) is about the urban tribes of Havana that gather around the city’s 35 Wi-Fi hotspots, as most homes still have no or very limited internet. On Calle G or on the Malecón, on the waterfront promenade, on Paseo del Prado or in John Lennon Park, where they go to be together. They listen to hip-hop, have rap battles, shoot TikTok videos, take photos and videos for Instagram, skateboard and rollerblade, dance and talk.
The material selected for the fanzine is about young people who are about to break free or are already breaking free from bounded ways of being, from certain characteristic forms of oppression and restriction. It examines the desires of the groups of young people, at what they perceive as the points of reference and orientation for their attachment to (or inherently separation from) each other, groups, communities, tribes. What happens when there is no revolution but there is information – information that reaches these groups in the simplest form, the most accessible, i.e. the image of mass culture, sport, consumption, the material world that is manifested in it as a desirable ideal.
Photos © Lilla Szász
Designer: ©Réka Neszmélyi
Publisher: ©INDA Gallery
Printing preparation: EPC Printing House
ISBN 978-615-02-1017-9
2024, Budapest
The fanzine can be purchased at:
INDA Gallery – https://indagaleria.hu/en/
Írók Boltja – https://irokboltja.hu/konyv/seven-hundred-meters/
ISBN + könyvesbolt – https://www.isbnbooks.hu/books/szasz-lilla-seven-hundred-meters/
Ludwig Museum Shop – https://www.ludwigmuseum.hu/ludwig-muzeum-shop
Mai Manó House of Photography – https://www.maimano.hu/konyvesbolt/konyvesbolt-informacio-mai-mano-haz
