Chronotope : Imagining Millbay Residency

Description

Step into the layered landscapes of Plymouth’s Millbay with this beautifully crafted edition of Chronotope, a zine that blurs the boundaries between travel writing, photography, and metafiction. Imagining Millbay Residency is a collaborative narrative experiment that invites readers to explore a place in flux — where history, memory, and regeneration converge.

Through the pens of literary travel writer Clarisse Chicot, the lens of visual researcher Mark Stothard, and academic author Charles Mansfield, this edition of Chronotope captures the poetic tension of Millbay’s evolving identity. From ghostly graffiti and silent boulevards to the vibrant pulse of urban renewal, each page is a meditation on place, presence, and transformation.

Inside, you’ll find:

• Narrative photo essays that turn everyday urban scenes into visual poetry.
• Meta-fictional storytelling inspired by André Gide’s Marshlands, weaving fictional characters into real spaces.
• Reflections from a Paris conference, where themes of ethnography, food, gender, and travel writing intersect.
• A literary and geographic excavation by Dr. Mansfield, who traces Millbay’s transformation through the lens of literary fiction, citizen science, and urban ethnography.
• A call to future residencies, inviting writers and artists to reimagine Millbay through their own creative lens.

Printed with care and designed for collectors, creatives, and curious minds, this zine is more than a publication — it’s a portal into a place where the past lingers and the future is being written.

Perfect for: lovers of literary travel, urban exploration, visual storytelling, and those intrigued by the hidden narratives of place.

Specifications: NEW, limited edition, A5, landscape, full colour, 32 pages containing 14 colour images,  ISSN 2978-0438. Issue 252. 1st edition.

This product will be made publicly available in July 2025. The product image that you see is a pre-production proof sample; the final product may differs.