Jamie Maldonado Photography

Mail memories: 1995. I was 15, and Gen 13 was my favorite comic. I wrote some short fan letter about some pages falling out of my Issue 3 (?) and Gen 13 Editor Sarah Becker sent this nice postcard, also signed by (I think?) and … It would begin a lengthy pen pal friendship that would continue until about 10 years ago. I was crushed when I heard that she had died last year … so sad. I have more to say about that very foundational friendship, but it’s going to wait until i find the rest of my hand-written correspondence … RIP, Sarah.

Wanting the perfect poem —
lines to capture
whatever it is
we’ve lived
through these gathered days.

Finding none
I turn to light.

Triptych with (the light).

Birthday trip to Oklahoma with was wonderful. It didn’t matter what happened at the casino because I had already won. :)

Second zine outtakes, the lockdown project, from that time in 2020 when an incredibly incompetent, irrational, mentally unstable man child nearly drove us into the ground with mismanagement and idiocy. I guess it was fun enough to do again! All photos of various screens, mostly on a Pentax 645N and Canon A2 with various film. Zine is sold out and i don’t have money to make another printing … but i’ve got like 1,000 photos from this to play with.