Secret Pleasures (Zine)

Previously available solely with Somesuch Stories #7, because we loved this zine so much, we printed an additional run.

Secret Pleasures' narrative was co-written by artist Jenkin van Zyl and author Brittany Newell, during the development of van Zyl’s film, Surrender – which was presented to feverish acclaim at London’s Edel Assanti gallery in 2023.

The zine’s story is inspired by 1930s American dance marathons and European depictions of Danse Macabres.

van Zyl then created illustrations to echo the graphic textures of the printed materials he discovered while conducting research at the Bishopsgate Institute into 20th-century sexual countercultures and secretive meet-ups.

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Product Details

Text by Jenkin van Zyl & Brittany Newell

Artwork & Graphic Design by Jenkin van Zyl

Somesuch Editions, 2025

A5 format, 18 pp content + 4pp cover 

Printed by Colt Press (UK)