Action Motion goes to @offprint_projects !
Find us this year at Offprint London, with the last copies of Flying Freehold, Dialogues and plenty of copies of Sorties No.1 - in all its 6 cover options 🎲
We’re at 180 Studios
180 The Strand, Surrey St, Temple
WC2R 1EA
Friday, 15 May > 3–11pm
Saturday, 16 May > 12–8pm
Sunday, 17 May > 11–8pm
Looking forward to seeing you there!! xoxo
Sorties is an independent editorial platform and research project exploring how women and gendered bodies are represented across image and text, and how those representations are shaped by power, history, and cultural norms. Sorties proposes a response to the dominance of male-centred visual languages in publishing and art.
Each issue functions as a “living bulletin,” bringing together writing and visual work that questions how meaning is produced, circulated, and understood, while proposing new, more expansive ways of seeing and engaging with gendered experience.
Sorties No.1
This is not just and image. This is not a just image
Edited by @studiomichelazoppi
Published by @actionmotionpress
Designed by @studiomichelazoppi
Text by @kleevans
Display typeface by @selinabernet
Printed in an edition of 500 copies
Distributed by @public_knowledge_books
Sorties first issue, titled “This is not just an image. This is not a just image”, explore how images of women are historically shaped by a male-dominated gaze that positions women as objects of desire. By questioning whether framing gender through oppositional binaries reinforces these very power structures, representation is shown to be non-neutral, as images repeat and reshape meanings already embedded within cultural and ideological systems. The issue embraces both “rich” and “poor” images as politically charged forms that reflect contemporary contradictions and modes of circulation.
A project by @studiomichelazoppi
Published by @actionmotionpress
Designed by @zoppi.michela
Text by @kleevans
Display typeface by @selinabernet
Printed in an edition of 500 copies
Distributed by @public_knowledge_books
Special thanks to Selina for the typeface, and to Katie for the support with the conception of the project, and the spot on introductory essay
Sorties No.1 is now on sale on our website where you can choose between our six cover variations! 🛍️ link in bio!
Sorties No.1 This is not just an image. This is not a just image
Published by Action Motion in and edition of 500 copies
Now online on @actionmotionpress website where you can pick your favourite cover 🤍
Thanks again @studionocturne_ for the brilliant soirée celebrating the launch of Sorties Issue 1, “This is not just an image. This is not just an image.” What a special place the studio is 🤍
There was so much love in the room. We are feeling truly grateful as we look back on such a special night and on the incredible community around us 🙏
Special thanks to
@kleevans for the collaboration on the issue, the encouragement, and the always insightful comments
@the.virgin.vinyls and @dykes_on_decks for the hotel power playlist in collaboration with Katie 🔊
@bek_macgeekie we love the photographs. Thank you.
Images @bek_macgeekie
We hope to see you next Thursday, January 22nd, for the launch of Sorties No.1, This is not just an image. This is not a just image
Sorties is a living bulletin, one with an organic yet periodic cadence. Yet, as a bulletin we find ourselves returning to the roots and truths of the word itself, where bulla first referred to a swelling, an inflation or a knob, a proliferation of bumps and blisters. Sorties is, in this sense, a swelling of sorts: its initial form an accumulation of infested, infected iconography; depictions saturated with a masculine narrative, a sense of history extensively patriarchal.
Sorties is both a collection of stories and a series of counter-responses. There is strategy, and there is an unknown journey set in motion; the two are intertwined, completing one another, never mutually exclusive.
Kindly hosted by our friends at Studio Nocturne, please join us from 6pm at Studio 9, De Beauvoir Workshops, 69A Southgate Rd, N1 3JS.
Sounds curated by Alex Berry from @dykes_on_decks , Lydia Clifford from @the.virgin.vinyls and Katie Evans @kleevans 🔉🔉🔉
Not long ago when our little pop up stand was at Offprint Paris!
We were the one with a funny little signage changing daily 🌞👶🏻 Keep an eye out for the launch of our next publication this January, and find us at Offprint Tate in May for more exciting stuff!
Sorties N.1, our new publication coming out in January, is roughly the weight of a big pebble. This one is a Brighton finest!
Blank dummy here, final object coming soon! Curious to see how it will look like? 👀
Flying Freehold By Mikey Massey
176 pages, soft case with jacket
190 × 265 × 11mm
Published by Action Motion
Edited by Michela Zoppi & Mikey Massey
Designed by Michela Zoppi
Now in stock in bookstores across UK, EU, America and Asia. Soon available to order from our website.
@actionmotionpress@mikey.massey@studiomichelazoppi
Photobook Feature: Dialogues by Clover Green
@clovergreenstudio 's artistic practice is a contemplative exploration of the interplay between object, form, space, and color. Published by @actionmotionpress , Dialogues captures everyday reality through these fundamental tools.
You can discover his book on our new photobook-dedicated section: phmuseum.com/photobooks
#phmuseum #photobook #clovergreen #dialogues
Dialogues is, at its core, a conversation –between Clover and his research into the image; between photography and design; between an audience and its visual history.
It’s also a book built on collaboration: featuring a wonderful type by BST @britishstandardtype.xyz and words that speak to the book, for the book, by writer Charlie Robin Jones @charlierobinjones .
Dialogues by Clover Green @clovergreenstudio
Published by Action Motion @actionmotionpress
Distributed by @public_knowledge_books and available in bookshops across London, Paris, New York—and soon, Seoul.
