zug press

zug press is an artist collective focused on independent publishing. Driven by passion, experimentation, multidisciplinarity, and collaboration, zug press approaches publishing as a site of care, craft, and play, extending its practice into forms of community engagement, editorial work and curatorial research.zug press is founded by Zhu Gaocanyue and Zuya Yang and based in Brooklyn, NY, Providence, RI and Hong Kong.

Allie Tsubota, Ching-Wei Wang (Way), Aghigh Afkhami, Kannetha Brown, Tif Ng, Tidal Issue 1: Shoreline, zug press, 2025 © Allie Tsubota, Ching-Wei Wang (Way), Aghigh Afkhami, Kannetha Brown, Tif Ng

Tidal Project engages in supporting women artists working across photography, moving image, performance, installation, and other experimental approaches across Asia and beyond. Beginning with a publishing series, Tidal flows into artist monographs and extends to collective, curatorial, and discursive practices.

The first issue of Tidal, Shoreline, traces the shifting boundary between land and sea, using this imagery to explore the fluidity of histories, identities, memories and representations. By Reimagining photography as a site of resistance and care, this issue gathers artists who work with archives that drift between the weight of history and the triviality of domestic life.

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Sha Luo, Sugar Water, zug press, 2025 © Sha Luo

Sugar Water 糖水 is the first issue of artist Sha Luo’s zine series. Beginning with mysterious and uncanny imagery, the publication extends the tactile dimension of her photographs through intimate sequencing and material details. Guided by careful observation and intuitive response, Luo captures fleeting everyday moments that hover between tenderness and unease, exploring the ambiguous boundary between reality and fantasy.

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TOUCH IT – Where We Call Home is part of a thematic series by zug press that transforms artworks into tactile publications through artist interview zines and risograph/inkjet prints. The first issue features lens- and video-based artist Sydney Howard, exploring how family history and material objects shape memory, healing, and artistic practice.

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