JAY YOUNGDAHL Union Training Center Zines

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Jay Youngdahl

YEAR2021–Ongoing

A series of zines documenting union training centers via abstract and deadpan photographs of the tools and workspaces found in these centers. Youngdahl is a union lawyer and a practicing artist and these zines discuss the craft of industrial work that happens in these training centers. A forthcoming exhibition using the photographs and writings found within these zines will happen in 2025 at the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre in Hamilton, Ontario.

ABOUT
I’m an art director and designer with a background in photography and librarianship. I am currently designing for Morningstar.

Before my career in design I was an academic librarian at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In my spare time I maintain a personal art practice that is based in photography. Since 2017, I have published and edited Challenger, a BMX magazine that takes multiple forms. Its current form is a hiatus.

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Challenger BMX Magazine
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