The Zine Project

2021 – 2025

Like The Social Media Project before it, The Zine Project began on social media — but where that project was driven by the surprise of the encounter, the gap between who people appeared to be online and who they turned out to be in person, the zines went deeper. Each one was a sustained, intimate exploration of a single person, place or theme, built on trust, time and close collaboration.

Between 2021 and 2025, Dekker developed ten completely handmade zines, each published in a very limited edition. The subjects range widely — from intimate portraits and personal tributes to projects rooted in social urgency. From a vacation in Mexico to LGBTQ+ lives under pressure in Warsaw. From cats and dogs to racism in the Netherlands. Each project found its own form, its own tone, its own reason to exist.

Each zine had sold out within minutes of release. The series concluded in 2025 with an exhibition at TORCH Gallery Amsterdam that brought the entire project together for the first time.