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Leaklist

2026 – Zine
Leaklist is a visual autopsy of the democratization of the file, situating itself within the MP3 blog era as the peak moment when the hierarchy between artist and listener was permanently broken by the bootleg. The project treats the low-bitrate, "leaked" file not as a degraded copy but as a physical relic, applying the reverence of high-art vinyl to the pixelated debris of the early web.

The zine is organized around the life cycle of a leak, moving through a States of Matter framework: from corporate solidity of protected vaults, to the kinetic friction of Napster, into the democratization of the blog era, and finally into bit-rotted files. Across 60 pages, Leaklist spans a narrative of the era where compression became culture, turning the technical flaws of shared audio into a visual telling of music distribution.

This project was made and printed for
The 2026 Heavy Manners Zine Fair

– Self Published