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Aaron Guy: Working with the Archive

This post will be featured in the open undergraduate photography class ‘#phonar‘ shortly but I thought it would also be of interest to readers here, especially when we consider the increasing interest in archive material within photographic publishing in all it’s guises.

Aaron Guy works at the North of England Institute of Mining where he has the daunting task of digitizing much of the institutes artefacts as well as transforming, categorizing and publishing them in new forms. Here Aaron takes us on a brief tour of the Institute and answers questions on the transformation of this great archive.

Below the photofilm/tour/interview you can see the stunning ‘Working, Void’, a piece produced by Aaron in response to much of the material he has been working with at the institute…

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World Photobook Day – A quick Roundup

The inaugural World Photobook Day was instigated by the Photobook Club Madrid but quickly became a collaboration between many Photobook Club branches, publishers, bloggers, writers and photographers. The love shown by photobook enthusiasts was quite incredible and bodes well for a bigger and better event next year (mark your calendars).

Toowoomba Celebrates World Photobook Day

To see what went on during the day, head over to www.photobookday.org or have a look at just a few highlights here:

The Photographers Gallery celebrate with a great interview featuring Aaron Mörel as well as offering money off in the Gallery bookshop.

The Photobook Club Alicante launches during Photobook Day

Thirty attend Photobook Day celebrations in Toowoomba, Australia run by Victoria Cooper and Doug Spowart.

Perhaps the best gauge of discussion on the day is via the twitter hashtag – #PhotobookDay which reached over 65,000 folks in 600+ tweets. A few featured below:

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World Photobook Day

World Photobook Day is here and it pains me that on this most joyous of days for the photobook enthusiast, I am not with one of the many celebrating groups but instead am at my desk until nightfall.

Perhaps this has some benefits though as it allows me some time to spend with those photobooks I have both treasured and largely ignored over the past 2 or three years. one book I will certainly be exploring further today is the ‘10×10 American Photobooks‘ publication which fell through the letterbox this week. Other books will include ‘William Eggleston’s Guide‘, Lester B. Morrison and Brad Zellar’s ‘House of Coates‘ and Jem Southam’s ‘The River, Winter‘.

Wherever you are this World Photobook Day, enjoy yourselves and remember to read responsibly.

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Photobook Club Campo de Gibraltar

Great news from Angel Luis Duarte Sastre about an event on Monday which will see the launch of a new regularly meeting branch..

Finally we’ve the pleasure to announce that the Photobook Club Campo de Gibraltar will start activities next Monday 14’oct on Intrrnational Photobook Day!

We decided to run our first encounter with the presentation of a book by his author, 20:00h at the Public Library in Los Barrios (Cádiz).

The agenda will be:

#1. Presentation of the Photobook Club Campo de Gibraltar.
– The original idea from Matt Johnston, Spanish Photobook Clubs, activities and reasons to be.

#2. Presentation of the book ‘Nomads of The Strait of Gibraltar’ by his author, Fernando Barrios Partida.
– The author is a renowned photographer and ornithologist from Algeciras and has a lot of photographic works published including magazines like National Geographic Spain and BBC Wildlife UK. He is also co-author of The EBCC Atlas of European Breading Birds, The Spanish Atlas of Breading Birds and The Spanish Red Book of Birds.

Angel Luis Duarte Sastre

 

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World Photobook Day brings new cities to the Photobook Club

World Photobook Day, instigated by the hardworking and generous folks who run the Photobook Club Madrid (Bonifacio Barrio, Juan Cires and Ricardo Garrido) has acted as a catalyst for new cities to launch book clubs and gauge interest for the format.

You can see all of the planned events on photobookday.org and below are some of the events being put on by new cities, all run by passionate photobook enthusiasts…

Vitoria, Spain
Alicante, Spain
Toowoomba, Australia
Campo de Gibraltar
Cislan technical college, Langreo, Spain

If your are in the area, show your support and perhaps following these events, there will be a new group of clubs holding regular meetings.

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The Box of Books continues to get further from home

It wont be too long before the Box of Books starts to come round the far side of the world and return home, but for now it keeps traveling away. It’s latest stop was with the Photobook Club in Kuala Lumpur who have also kindly offered to repackage the box as it is starting to look very ‘well loved’! The box has already traveled more than 20,000km so it is no surprise!

The box is currently in transit but will soon land in the hands of the Photobook Club Tokyo before heading on to Australia.

All images Faisal Aziz

The box of books notebook getting some action
What an estate agent might call ‘well loved’

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Rock Your Dummy! Call for submissions

” Rock Your Dummy! ”  

Exhibition 15-17 November 2013

Deadline Thursday 5 November 2O13

The Photobook Club network and Food For Your Eyes invite you to submit your photobook dummy to feature in ” Rock Your Dummy! “, an exhibition presented within Le PhotobookFest programme hosted at L’Ancienne Imprimerie/Picture Tank, 11 rue Bisson 75020 Paris.

Le PhotobookFest is a three days event focused on the photobook, from Friday 15 to Sunday 17 November 2013Launched by the Paris Photobook Club, this first edition mainly supports the young publishing scene with independent publishing houses as well as self-published and DIY books.

More Infos about Le PhotobookFest :  www.parisphotobookclub.wordpress.com  / The Photobook Club Network:  www.photobookclub.org

 

We are particularly keen to receive, showcase and support mock-up, hand-crafted, self-published, limited edition photobook, DIY, photozine, from all over the world !

Deadline for submissions is Tuesday 5 November 2013

 

Fill in the  Submission Form  here  and send us your dummy for the exhibition.

The dummy is a work in progress but also a significant waymark on the route to publication in one form or another. It seemed appropriate that while we look to celebrate the beauty of the dummy as an artefact in it’s own right, we should also acknowledge it as a work yet to be fully realised and so seek to support it’s author in that realisation.” Matt Johnson, Founder ,The Photobook Club 

 

 

Le PhotobookFest with “Rock Your Dummy!” Open Call and Exhibition aims to support authors with a photobook project in the making in offering them feedback and advice from an assembled team of photobook enthusiasts and experts  ( photographers, publishers, writers, critics, designers) * – The list of our  team of experts is bellow  

 

 

  • “Rock Your Dummy Prize” :

    All selected photobook dummies in the exhibition will run for the “Rock Your Dummy Prize”. One winner will be selected by the main jury (to be announced soon) at Le PhotobookFest awards presentation on Sunday 17 november. The winner of the “Rock Your Dummy Prize” gets the opportunity to be accompanied and received support from the team of photobook experts. The one-to-one meetings with each photobook expert would be arranged through Skype or in person.

  • Box of Dummies :

    As a result of the public vote and the jury vote,  Photobook dummies (maximum 10) will be selected to be included in the “Box of Dummies”, a traveling showcase through the branches of the Photobook Club network all over the world –

    More info about the Box Of Books project www.photobookclub.org/index.php/box-of-books 

Contact:   

Nathalie Belayche:  nb@foodforyoureyes.com  

 Emilie Hallard/Pablo Porlan: parisphotobookclub@gmail.com

 

*Advisory board members of “Rock Your Dummy Prize” :

Elinor Carucci     Carucci is a photographer living and working in New York. Her intimate work focusing on her family and relationships has been the subject of numerous group and solo exhibitions as well as three photobooks. Her latest book ‘Mother’ has just been published by Prestel and is likely to become as well­known and loved as the precious ‘Diary of a Dance’ and ‘Closer’.

Wayne Ford    A designer and creative director, Ford comments that he has both a professional and personal interest in photography. His interest in photography and photobooks is perhaps best known by his writing found at wayneford.tumblr.com. Ford played a vital role in the editing and sequencing of Bertil Nilsson’s critically acclaimed ‘Undisclosed: Images of the Contemporary Circus’.

Hans Gremmen    A highly sought­after designer, Gremmen’s work with the photobook can likely be found in your nearest Photobook store, if not on your own bookshelf. Recent works include 2 shortlisted Aperture first book awards (Singular Beauty and Cette Montagne C’est Moi) and Rinko Kawauchi’s latest publication ­ Ametsuchi.

Taco Hidde Bakker    Bakker works as a writer, translator and researcher based in Amsterdam, NL. His written work can be found in the likes of Foam magazine and Camera Austria International among others. Between 2007­10 Bakker worked extensively on the photobook, web documentary and exhibition that was ‘The Last Days of Shishmaref’.

Larissa Leclair    A curator, collector and writer,  Leclair is responsible for the hugely successful ‘Indie Photobook library’ which seeks to champion the spirit of the 21st century indie publishing scene. As a writer, Leclair has written numerous reviews for the Photo­eye booklist and as a curator a co­authored event with Andy Adams of Flakphoto saw the exhibition ‘100 Portraits’ projected onto the side of the Corcoran Gallery of Art as part of FotoWeek DC.

Lesley A. Martin    Martin is publisher of the Aperture book program and of The PhotoBook Review, a newsprint journal dedicated to the evolving conversation surrounding the photobook. Martin has edited over 70 books including Joan Fontcuberta’s ‘Landscapes Without Memory’ and has been voted one of the fifteen most influential people in photobook publishing by the Photo District News.

Iris Sikking    Sikking is a curator, editor and project manager currently working at Paradox and the self founded ICON Foundation (Images in Context). In 2011 she curated and produced the thematic project ANGRY: Young and Radical and in 2012 the book and audiovisual installation Poppy­Trails of Afghan Heroin by Robert Knoth and Antoinette de Jong.

Douglas Stockdale     Stockdale will be familiar to many as the founding publisher and editor of ‘The PhotoBook’, a highly regarded space for photobook reviews and critique. Stockdale also acts as an independent curator and has published 4 books of his own. Stockdale has just released his latest work, ‘Pine Lake’ ­ a hand­made artist book ‘sequenced as a semi­fictional story about an American multi­generational summer rite, the fishing trip’.

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Le PhotobookFest 15-17 November in Paris

Le PhotobookFest is a 3 days event with a focus on the photobook, from Friday 15 to Sunday 17 November 2013 in Paris. Launched by the Paris Photobook Club, this first edition mainly supports the young publishing scene with independent publishing houses as well as self-published and DIY books.

Le PhotobookFest is hosted at L’Ancienne Imprimerie/Picture Tank and Le bar Floréal. Those venues are located in the neighborhood of Belleville, home to one of Paris’s lively Chinatowns, a burgeoning artist quarter and a dizzying array of cultures.

Le PhotobookFest is a collaboration between the Paris Photobook Club, Madrid Photobook Club, Food for Your Eyes and Matt Johnston who are joining to curate this event. We are glad to invite you to attend the following activities:

– Rock your Dummy ! Open call, Exhibition & Award

– Workshop Do It Your Zine with Akina books

– Photobook DJ sessions

The box of books : a hitchhikers guide to the galaxy

–  Meeting PBC #6 with Independent Publishing House, Special Guest: Akina Books

– Bookshop corner with l’Ascenseur Végétal

– And more …

When?

From Friday 15 to Sunday 17 November 2013

Opening Friday 15 November 18.30 to 21.00

Where?

L’Ancienne Imprimerie/Picture Tank > 19 rue Bisson 75020 Paris (Metro station : Couronnes)

Le bar Floréal > 43 rue des Couronnes 75020 Paris (Metro station : Couronnes)

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The Photobook Club arrives in big D

Some news to soften the blow of Sunday’s crushing loss in big D:
Oil and Cotton‘, a artist’s exchange and learning hub in Dallas, will host a Photobook Club event next week organized by Rachel Rushing.

If you would like to attend, there is a Facebook event found here or you can click on the image below to see a PDF flyer of upcoming events at Oil and Cotton.

Oil and Cotton
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The PBC presented at the European League of Institutes of the Arts (VIDEO)

In June of 2013 I was invited to present the Photobook Club at the ELIA ‘Preparing the Artist of Tomorrow’ conference held in Utrecht and Amsterdam. I spoke about the projects birth, how it has enhanced my students learning and how, through the removal of my own authorship, the project has taken off all over the world.

Matt Johnston presents The Photobook Club at ELIA Confeence from Photobook Club on Vimeo.

More on ELIA – elia-artschools.org/