Presenter Announcement – Jeremy Staples
Jeremy Staples is a Scorpio who enjoys documenting, questioning, promoting community engagement and providing a voice to the voiceless. Turn-on’s include: reading, writing and making people think.
Staples lives and breathes live music, the arts and independent publications. He has worked with everyone from Evermore to Parkway Drive. Jeremy’s current projects include “Whenever I See a Bearded Hobo on the Street, I’ll Think of You and Smile” is a travelogue zine documenting an adventurous three month stay in the land of the golden arches (http://beardedhobo.com/)and retrospective book of the free music and arts Street Zine, Bizoo. (www.bizoo.com.au) After the recent tragedies in Japan, Staples is about to release a bilingual portrait photography zine with all proceeds going to relief efforts titled, ‘Faces of Nippon -日本の様々な顔’ Along with Bianca Valentino and Matt Limmer, Staples formed the Paper Cuts Collective to share the love of everything handmade and printed. www.papercutscollective.tumblr.com Over the past two years, Staples has been researching the future of print media abroad and worked alongside with and met with everyone from Maximum Rock and Roll, Microcosm to Tokyo’s largest English print magazine the Metropolis.
