‘Wasted Youth’ Zine, 2018

During the mid 70’s the youth culture were not seen to be ruining the conventional uses and inventing new ones, but rather as enemies. So the zines emerged as a way to share information and ideas, make a statement, and to make people think. It was a way to inspire discussion with other youth who followed the punk subculture, but also express their counter views that society marked as ‘wrong’.

Mixed with cut-up snippets of articles, magazine pictures, drawings and poetry, doodles or directions, ‘Wasted Youth’ tells stories of the early punk zines that were growing rapidly from this period. This publication follows a concept of self-expression and rebellious ‘youth revolution’, bringing back the nostalgia and excitement that comes with being able to write and do anything you wanted, and having imagination as the only limit really.