Tarde, an ethnographic zine

Tarde, a handbook of minimal and irrelevant urban entanglements, was a DIY ethnographic zine that I created and edited to explore the everyday fragments of urban life. From the beginning, the project moved in deliberate tension: both do-it-yourself and professional, independent yet sometimes connected to institutions. At its core, Tarde was never a polished academic publication or a glossy cultural magazine. It lived in-between spaces—where ethnography became tactile, accessible, and provisional.

My idea with Tarde was to create a small and unfinished collection of topics that reflected the minimal and irrelevant elements of the urban. They worked like ephemeral layers that together provide a bigger picture of the more-than-human life in the street.

Each issue of Tarde is a fragment—standalone yet interconnected. You can read them as you would flip through a stamp album or a cabinet of curiosities: one entry leads to another, small objects and observations accumulating into a textured image of urban life. Rather than a linear argument, the issues invite you to drift, to notice details, and to follow unexpected associations.