I am very happy that after being shortlisted for this year’s Dummy Award of the 5th International Fotobook Festival my „Pelikan“ book has now been selected by Photobookshow to be shown at Book Show D hosted by the Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki from August 31 till September 2!
See a short video of the book here:
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Joel Meyerowitz on his practice and on his upcoming monograph with Phaidon.
Before the festival opening.
I am very happy to be part of the group exhibition „Kammerspiel“ at Spinnerei Leipzig during f-stop Festival from June 23 till July 1, opening reception Friday June 22, 19 h at Spinnerei Halle 18. The bookworks of the participating artists were all shortlisted for this year’s dummy award. So not only my Pelikan dummy will be shown during the festival, but also images on the wall. Stop by if you’re in the area!
This weekend I took a course in bookbinding at Buchbinderei Altona. We learnt how to make a book from scratch: from cutting the paper sheets to saddle-stitching to making the cover. I don’t plan to bind endless books in the near future, but it’s interesting to learn your way around paper and books. Highly recommended if you’re interested in the medium!
dpunkt Verlag has made the pdf version of Marc Altmann’s book on Lightroom 3 available as a free download (German text). The new version covering Lightroom 4 will be published by the end of June.
The winning book „Passengers“ of this year’s dummy award has now been published. During a 4 month stay in wintery Poland photographers Dagmar Keller and Martin Wittwer (congratulations to both!) discovered a bus station where passengers where waiting for numerous regional busses. See the whole book HERE.
My bookwork from the Pelikan series has been selected for the shortlist of the Dummy Award of this year’s International Fotobookfestival to be shown at Le Bal in Paris from April 20 till 22.
You can preview the book in this short video:
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In case you haven’t seen it yet, Joerg Colberg published a piece on photobook making on Conscientious extended, starting off with this essential thought:
„Most photographers spend literally thousands of dollars on their work – expensive cameras and materials. Add to that the countless hours that go into producing the images (taking them, processing them, etc.). When making a book is there any reason for doing it cheaply and quickly? What would be the point of that? If the photographs are the result of a long, arduous process, the end result should reflect that. You (literally) owe it to yourself (and not just the people who, you hope, will buy your book). Imagine taking a cheaply and quickly made book out of your bookshelf years later: Is that really how you would want to remember all the hard work?“
Read the whole article HERE.
Harvey Benge just published a great post on editing and sequencing a book HERE.
We arrived in Kuching (Malaysian Borneo) yesterday and are slowly trying to adapt to the heat and the different timezone. I hope I can post some pictures in the next few days.