A Small Boy in Other People’s Worlds - A Visual Documentary Zine

A Small Boy in Other People’s Worlds is a visual documentary zine about a childhood lived in silence—waiting at doors, running after cars, hiding inside books, surviving in rooms filled with arguments and breaking sounds. It traces the quiet, aching years when a small boy had to learn the world on his own: observing, guessing, imagining his way into meaning because no one explained anything to him.

These images and texts move through the earliest departures, the wars inside the home, the aching solitude of school mornings, and the first moments of connection that softened something inside him. They follow him into the years when he learned alone, into the first lights of love and creation, and into the growing of a self that could finally breathe.

This zine does not offer neat conclusions. It is a record of movement—of memories that once felt like ghosts learning to pass through the body without staying, of pain gaining an exit, of grief finding somewhere to go, of a life slowly clearing space to exist.

This is not arrival.
Not an ending.
But it is freedom.