Aimé Dabbadie

Lost and Found Press is a one-person press run by Aimé Dabbadie, focused on documenting queer underground culture through zines and small-run publications. The press grew out of Aimé’s earlier project Xem Skaters (2016–2021), a community-led genderqueer skateboarding zine, and continues to center queer and trans voices through accessible, print-based projects.

Most publications are photographic zines that document drag, punk, and the DIY performance scene, especially in Berlin. Alongside self-initiated projects, Lost and Found Press hosts workshops in collaboration with local archives and queer collectives. These workshops often result in collaborative zines and are designed to demystify publishing and support people in starting their own zine-making journey.

The press also restores and reprints out-of-print queer publications from the 1960s to the early 2000s. Many of these were produced and shared outside formal channels and have been excluded from institutional archives. Reissuing them is a way to keep this history in circulation and accessible.

Lost and Found Press is informed by the radical history of queer small presses as tools for survival, resistance, and community building. Zines and underground publications have long been used to connect people across distance, share knowledge outside mainstream media, and preserve queer memory in the face of ongoing erasure. The press continues this tradition by treating publishing not just as documentation, but as an active political and cultural practice.