"crap zine is a queer magazine exploring fetishisation of garments thematically linked through colour. It’s a platform for community and collaboration. crap zine is held in international archives including Bibliothèque Kandinsky at the Centre Pompidou, Paris / the Menswear Archive, University of Westminster, London / the Tom of Finland Foundation Archive, Los Angeles.
Cover: Lea Colombo
Contributors: Andreas Larsson / Patrick Waugh / Ricardo Fumanal / Marc-Aurèle Debut / Louis Blue Newby / Joe Bobowicz / Åsa Johannesson / Pancho Assoluto / Miguel Flor / Scott Ramsay Kyle / Oli Raptor / Dominic Myatt / Slava Mogutin / Thomas Dozol / Stuart Sandford / Damien Blottière / Alex Foxton / JJ Guest / Lea Colombo / Lukas Städler / Posh Arthur / Tom Ivin / Michal Polak / Robert Escalera/ Florian Hetz / AWK3000 / Sophie McElligott / Helias Doulis / Alexander Campbel / Jordan Wake / Gemma Rolls-Bentley selects Ross Head / Jack Taylor Lovatt / Alexander Ekholm / Peter Aluuan / Paul Toner / Ashish Gupta / Alastair Strong / Ori Paul Levi / Ann-Maleen
“The responses in issue 4 Camouflage are characteristically diverse and fearless. Some artists have deconstructed the very patterns themselves, creating new visual languages from the fragments. Others have explored deeper themes of concealment and revelation, the codes we use, the spaces we create, the ways we recognise each other even in hostile territory. There's humour here and pain and defiance and joy. Camouflage can be both armour and declaration, both shelter and stage. Don’t blend in. Stand out. Fight back. Show up. Now you see us…”"