welcOme to sOft spOt

“Soft Spot gives glimpses of true insight into people’s lives, most of these things are the mundane that we walk past and miss every day.”

Soft Spot zine looks into the themes of Nostalgia, Voyeurism, and the Mundane. Looking at and appreciating the simpler things in life, translating this through people’s soft spots.

We wanted our online presence to be completely separate, showing you something new, not just repeating the same information that is in our zine. When initially creating a mind-map about soft spots, one of our ideas was to look at couples. This fits in with the voyeuristic approach, and getting those glimpses into others lives. We wanted to photograph couples of all different ages, interests and cultures; giving a really vast and varied representation.

Its all part of our love for people watching, looking at the relationship of two people, watching as an outsider, the idea of them not knowing that you are looking into their private and personal relationship, analysing and picking it apart, coming to your own conclusions about the way that their relationship works or fails, wondering how they met, how long they have been together, and what they have been through. We love the idea of analysing couples and looking at how they differentiate as well as merge together through their similarities.

Once collecting a good bank of photographs, we began to lay these out and look for social and physical trends, patterns and tribes within them.

It’s a light-hearted, heart warming, fun experiment.