32 pages Edited by Hainemy 29,7 x 21 cm Language: French Paperback Publisher: Self-Published 2000
A raw, self-produced Parisian train-graffiti fanzine, released in 2000 — on the eve of the police crackdown that would reshape the French scene. Circulated with no postal address and carrying the standard legal disclaimer citing articles 322-1, 322-2 and 322-3 of the Code Pénal, its 36 pages are given over almost entirely to the metro: twenty-seven pages on the Paris network (discreetly rendered as "RTAP" to keep the RATP unnamed) and a nine-page extension on the SNCF ("SNEF"). Photography carries the whole thing, credited to a roll-call of contributing writers — FREZ, SAMSEY, HULK, OGRE, CID, DJY, SWIK, TURN, THER, POCH, SMOL, SILVIO and KOFIE — captioned and image-led rather than editorialised.
More than a photo record, the zine is a document of a specific and fraught moment. Within a year of its release, the railway police would launch the two-year investigation — famously triggered by the seizure of a train-graffiti fanzine and the thousands of photographs found with it — that grew into the landmark "Versailles" case against dozens of writers, running in parallel to the SNCF's lawsuits against the graffiti press. Metro-saturated, anonymous and legally hedged, Hainemy is exactly the kind of publication that sat at the centre of that storm: open it and it is easy to see why such material so exercised the investigators of the day. A primary artefact of the Paris scene at the precise turn before the clampdown.
