A Zone

by Jonathan Walker

This twenty-eight-page zine is a photographic survey of the neighbourhood where I lived from 2018–21 – close to Glasgow city centre, in the shadow of the Kingston Bridge and M8 flyover. Everywhere pictured can be reached on foot within forty-five minutes from my old flat, and the photographs were taken from March to October 2020.

This area includes a wide variety of different sites: the various tributaries and slip roads of the M8 and M74; the ‘leisure complex’ of Springfield Quay arranged around an enormous car park; budget hotels; several retail or industrial parks; brownfield areas and construction sites; small offices for businesses of the sort that don’t need or attract walk-in customers; a couple of car dealerships; a homeless shelter in a nineteenth-century building that used to be a public library; takeaway restaurants; and so on.

Not a neighbourhood then: a zone.

This zine is printed in full colour on heavy, coated paper.

28 pages, Paperback

Published May 13, 2024

About the author

Jonathan Walker is the author of Pistols! Treason! Murder!: The rise and Fall of a Master Spy, and three novels: Five Wounds, The Angels of L19 and Push Process. He also makes photo zines, and has published a number of academic articles on the history of Venice. He has doctorates in European history and creative writing. On Bluesky and Instagram, his username is @NewishPuritan.

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