I've been to sweet sixteens, 21st birthday blowouts, and big bashes for friend and family turning ages 30, 40, 50, 60 and each decade after that. But, I've rarely commemorated age thirty-four in any context, especially not by way of photo zine.

The eleven different covers of zine, Get Off My Lawn

Leave it to Geoffrey Ellis to fuse photographic minds around the unifying theme of the artist being age thirty-four or older, which he writes is "a tongue-in-cheek response to the calls for entry, contests and publications that require “emerging photographers” to be somewhere between the ages of 18 and 34." These eleven artists come together from both coasts and everywhere in between in his new zine, Get Off My Lawn, featuring a breadth of landscapes, portraits, open vistas and several montages of urban life. The publication comes with eleven different covers, each by a different artist, and closes with a back cover photograph of a solemn and open grave with the artists' names hovering above it, eliciting a chuckle on behalf of these humored-and-oh-so-old photographers.

As Geoffrey writes to the young-folk out there: "We can no longer be in your club, but soon enough, you will be in ours…"

For those out in San Francisco, there will be a zine release party tomorrow night:

Sad Kids Zine Release Party
July 1, 2010, 6-9 p.m.
Casanova Lounge, SF
with DJs Utrillo and Forest Love
(RSVP here)

Get Off My Lawn is also available for purchase online for $10 here and here. It's 7"x7", color laser printed, and available in an edition of 222.

The zine features photographs by: Noah Beil, Geoffrey Ellis, Grant Ernhart, Alan W. George, Liz Kuball, Sarah Lacy, Ian Lemmonds, Jennifer Loeber, Dalton Rooney, Andrew Martin Scott and Justin Visnesky.