September 2014 was an eventful month for Lele Saveri.
“I lost my wallet. I lost my passport. My bike got stolen,” the New York–based photographer and community organizer remembers over Zoom. “All of these things seemed [to be happening at once]. I was like, I wonder if it’s the moon?” He pulled together visual evidence from the month and compiled it into a zine—a practice that’s followed him since his childhood in Rome and led him to co-found the cult art collective 8-Ball Community in 2012—dubbing it Luna. “Once the next full moon came, I was like, Should I make another one?” he continues. “Okay, let’s make another one.”
A decade later, the project is still going; Saveri is downloading images for a new installment as we speak. Over the years, the compilations have mostly fallen into the hands of close friends, though a few made their way onto zine-fair stands or bookstore shelves. This year, Saveri’s time capsules will find a new audience, with Dashwood Books publishing Luna 10 Years, a chronological journey through the zine’s archive, and its ancillary space Dashwood Projects showing a corresponding installation through Feb. 15. Images of eclipse watch parties and fly coitus abut landscape fragments and, of course, the moon in all of her tempers. Below, the photographer exclusively shares a few images from the book. An EMS worker by day, Saveri knows something about the transitory nature of life, and Luna revels in its ephemera.
