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Montevideo launches on 22nd May

After a week in which I have attempted some sort of stocktake of the numerous Photobook Clubs around the world, it is great to hear the Photobook Club Montevideo has set its first date – 22nd May. See the note from organiser Federico Estol below and head to the facebook page here.

And for those interested – there are now 49 active clubs who have held over 340 meetings so far!

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The first event of Photobook Club Montevideo is the 22 of may in the Contraluz Art Hostel Montevideo. Will be presentation of local publications and co working to plan new photobooks. Also will be the talk of professional of the editorial process.

– Federico Estol

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The Box of Dummies in Alicante

Awesome to see a detailed report from José Carlos Robles of the Photobook Club Alicante about the box of dummies event held recently. A section of the piece is shown below along with several images but for the full article, head here. 

The box didn’t leave anyone indifferent. As usual, we met at the MACA’S (Museum of Modern Art) llibrary were  we could enjoy the amazing work of remarkable artists. We started a brief summary of the works and subsequently we gave a brief time for everyone to carefully observe them.

With great astonishment and why not  certain dose of criticism, I must say, the books were passed from hand to hand  until with great emotion. After the meeting we all gathered at the “October Press Café” to continue the chat , a place highly recommended for further discussions photographically for obsessive minds like we are.

I must say that it could be risky to highlight the most admired books. However, we can not ignore GALAND FLORENCE’S book entitled “ARBRE. PIERRE. NUAGE “, a gorgeous specimen. We also want to highlight the work of DAVID MCBRIDE entitled “THE ANOMALIES”. The author reveals that the story, told in a way of abstraction key, speaks about the time he  spent caring for his father, RICHARD BERNARD MCBRIDE. The period of time during which he was diagnosed with Alzheimer, the  care he gave hime, his memory loss, mood swings, problems with language and inability of reasoning until his death, constitute a marvellous tribute to his father. We are sure he will have been proud of his son.WONDERFUL!

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The Photobook Club Reykjavik’s Inaugural Meetup…

Whopppaateee! Lot’s of people came to visit the kickoff meeting of the Reykjavík Photobook Club. We briefly introduced the phenomenon ‘photobook’ and ‘photobook club’ and than we enjoyed a bunch of nice books that people brought along. Unnamed Roads from Jungjin Lee, Disko by Andrew Miksys and Rob Hornstra’s Sochi Project were a few books among many. Already eager for our next meeting on May 20th.

– PBC Reykjavik Team

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The Photobook Club Reykjavik Launches!

Great news from Iceland in the form of the first meeting of the Photobook Club Reykjavik. Information on the branch and on their innaugral meeting is shown below…

twitter: @photobookrvk
email: photobookclubrvk@gmail.com
facebook: www.facebook.com/photobookclubreykjavik
location (at least for first meeting):
Samband íslenskra myndlistarmanna (SÍM)
The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists
Hafnarstræti 16, 101 Reykjavík, Iceland

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The Box of Dummies in Alicante!

The Box of Dummies, which has been touring for over 6 months now, will be in Alicante on April 8th with the Photobook Club Alicante and the Photobook Club Granada at the Contemporary Art Museum of Alicante. If you can get to the meeting you will be able to get your hands on these great prospective works and if not – check out the website with video flick-throughs.

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Thanks to José Carlos Robles and Carlos Aguilera who are organising the event for the details and the images of previous meetings shown below…

 

PLACE : MACA  (Contemporary Art Museum of Alicante)
Date: April , 8.
Hour: 18:30 p.m.

You can check the latest news in our web in this link.

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The Comic Book Club!

Really fantastic to see a Comic Book Club launch in Coventry recently. The club, which has already met several times was founded and is run by Nadhirah Nadzri and Charlie Smith-McMahon. Really excited to run a joint club with Nadhirah and Charlie which will investigate the narrative structures of photobooks and comic books and graphic novels together.

Images are thanks to Adam Tieghe.

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First Meeting of the Photobook Club Mexico City!

Great news from Mariela Sancari of the Photobook Club Mexico City…

We had our first meeting a couple of days ago! It was really good! We still have to adjust some logistics details but it was great.

We had Alex Dorfsman as our first guest and he showed and talked about his 5 published books. Really interesting! We did a skype with the participants in Monterrey 🙂 it was fun!

Here are some pictures of the event.

I will let you know the date for the next meeting soon!

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Photobook Club M1 Junction 29 – report

Thanks to Jim Reed for the following report and notice of next meeting’s activities (Dec 17). If you are in the vicinity – maybe Sheffield, Derby, Nottingham etc, this is a great location.

Our meet on the 26th November, we looked at books by Jackie Higgins her ‘Why It Does Not Have To Be In Focus’ and in it these words, “A fixed definition of the term “photography” has become impossible.” And also a book of Edward Weston’s photographs and Fay Godwin’s “Land”. Two of us brought homemade photobooks one a book of reflections made mostly in Stamford and the other some work in progress.

I will be doing a little demo of how to make books like this one using the Japanese 4 hole stab binding technique, I was surprised at the strength of it.

Our next meeting will be on the 17th December please see the website: http://www.m1ju29photobookclub.co.uk/

Cheers – Jim

 

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Photobook Club Auckland and the Asia-Pacific Photobook Archive

Thanks to the PBC Auckland’s organiser Anita Totha for sending through this report form a recent event along with some images…

Photobook Club Auckland held a great evening with the Asia-Pacific Photobook Archive. Founder Daniel Boetker-Smith paid us a visit in Auckland and brought more than 50 photobooks from the Archive representing various Asia-Pacific photographers and bookmakers. Daniel spoke about the Archive and encouraged New Zealand photographers to submit their own photobooks. The archive already includes photobooks from Robert Zhao, Cristina De Middel, Anne Ferran and Rinko Kawauchi and some great titles from photobook makers all over the Asia-Pacific region.”

– Anita Totha

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Photobook Club Lima – Images and Report

Thanks to Eneka Fernandez for sharing some thoughts after the first meeting of the Photobook Club Lima and also for sending through a few images…

Hi Matt

I want to tell you about our first Photobook Club Lima. It was a great evening!

The event was a presentation of the format and so the subject was open, I presented my website Fanzinant also, so fanzines and self-publications were the protagonists.

Around 40 people came to the event, some of them with their own publications to share.

We want to make the next meeting in december, this time with a little group and everyone carrying a book. I’ll tell you about it.

Some pictures here of this first meeting.

best,
Eneka