https://photobookcafe-archive.co.uk/files/original/a1d66232a6162e4add6ba2100aaf535d.jpg 33bc647913ee66f1b0ab76116d8bfb0a Zine A small-circulation self-published work of original or appropriated texts and images, usually reproduced using cheap printing methods. Zines are often the product of either a single person or of a very small group, and are popularly photocopied into physical prints for circulation. Issue Title ON THE LINE Issue Number 1 Editor Editor Mellissa Heane, Tashi Samuels & Simon Hackart Designer Designer Tuhin Chandra Dimensions Dimensions of object in cm 148mm, 198mm, 4mm Number of Pages Number of Pages 60 Place of Publication Place of Publication LONDON Website Website https://tuhinchandra.net/ Where to buy Where to buy https://www.tuhinchandra.net/category/zine Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource ON THE LINE Description An account of the resource As the UK grows increasingly hostile toward immigrants, ON THE LINE engages what Fred Moten and Stefano Harney describe as “the refusal to be refused” (2013). From Jabalpur, India, Tuhin Chandra portrays the lived reality of an immigrant navigating London’s unforgiving cityscape: long hours in a fast-food restaurant alongside the urgent necessity of creation. With limited time and resources, Chandra uses his immediate conditions as material. This is not escapism, but an act of refusal and resilience. The photographs are produced covertly, in defiance of company policy. Taken on the production line, they transform the prohibition of image-making into a political gesture. Here, mustard, pickles, grease, and exhaustion converge with questions of identity, survival, and expression. The fast-food kitchen — anonymous, repetitive, hostile to individuality — becomes a site of clandestine creativity. The series invokes the line both literally and metaphorically: the assembly belt of burgers and fries, the immigrant artist on the verge of burnout, the refusal to remain confined within prescribed limits. In resisting linearity, the work affirms the spiral of lived experience — cyclical, messy, non-linear — in which suffering and joy remain inseparably intertwined. This is a love letter to expression when everything else feels unlivable. It’s a reminder that even in a kitchen full of noise, grease, and anonymity, the human spirit is still capable of saying something true - Tuhin Chandra. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Perfect (PUR), Full-colour printing, 60 pages, 115gsm Silk Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2025 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Self Published