I made this one as a birthday present to myself for my 18th birthday. Looking back, it feels like a strange but important marker of the moment when I was stepping into adulthood.

2021 was a year full of rebellion, which is probably best represented by the cover of this zine. The photographs are much darker, more raw and more emotional than in the first edition. At the same time, I was moving out of my parents’ house and beginning to navigate adulthood on my own. It was a difficult year, but it taught me a lot about myself, independence and the person I wanted to become.

At the time, I wrote a short note in the magazine thanking my mum and my friends — especially Mikołaj, who had already managed to instil in me a lot of common sense and artistic sensitivity. I had been somewhat absent since November, and honestly, things weren't exactly colourful for me either. Finishing this magazine was my way of saying that I was finally getting back on track and that the old Tommy was coming back.

The second zine was another step towards developing my own visual language. I became increasingly interested not only in what I was photographing, but in the way I could look at it and present it.

Automotive photography started to overlap with documentation, editorial aesthetics and personal observation. I wanted the photographs to be more than simple records of objects — I wanted them to have their own atmosphere and character.

This was also when I started treating the zine as a space where I could work differently from the way I did in commercial photography.

For me, this edition is a record of a difficult transition — from being a teenager to becoming an adult. It is imperfect, dark and sometimes angry, but that is exactly what makes it honest.