William from Photobookshow will be taking part in this coming weekends Photobook Symposium as part of Diffusion Festival in Cardiff.

Sunday 26 May 2013, 11am – 5pm

BOOK TICKETS HERE

Chair: Christiane Monarchi (Photomonitor)

Speakers: Melinda Gibson (artist), Ken Grant (University of South Wales), Harry Hardie (HERE Press), Edgar Martins (artist), Rodrigo Orrantia (Lucid-ly), Emmanuelle Waeckerle (the bookRoom), Thijs groot Wassink (Wassink/Lundgren) and William Sadowski (Photobookshow)

This event will open up creative dialogue and enquiry into documentary and art photography publishing, with a lively programme of presentations and panel discussions. Bringing together photographers, publishers and other industry specialists, debate will centre around shifts in publishing as practice; the mechanisms of production and distribution; legacies, contexts and considering exhibitions of photobooks. Ken Grant will also be back by popular demand presenting new 5 minute Book Reviews.

What is it?

A monthly photobook market stocking a range of self-published newspapers and photobooks.

Where and when is it?
Workflow Studio in Brighton, 1st Saturday of the month.

Thats not very often, anywhere else?
We’ll fill in the gaps if you’ve got a venue for us.

NEXT MARKET
12 – 4pm
Saturday 1 June 2013
@ Workflow Studio, Brighton

May’s Monthly Meet

This month we are joining Brighton Photo Fringe for a drink and talk about photobooks and self-publishing.

First Floor Bar at Dukes at Komedia – 14th May – 18.30 20.00

Along side Photobookshow organisers, Gordon, Hannah and Elin from BPF will be on hand for questions and conversations about anything and everything BPF. We’d love to meet you!

These free Meets are for anyone interested in photography and lens-based media or just wanting to know more and meet lovely people. Photo-socialising, ideas exchange, talks, peer support and much more.

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Here’s a look at the information zine we made for the trip - images here.

Big thanks to Booklet Press for your contributions to the archive (see below), and thanks to everyone that we’ve talked to over there. Your help and advice are a great help, please stay in touch.

If you are in Japan and can help out in Tokyo to set up a Photobookshow, or know of someone that might be interested in submitting a book, please spread the word.

The following are just a few of the photobooks Kevin picked up:

Stay tuned for more news…

What is it?
A monthly photobook market stocking a range of self-published newspapers and photobooks.

Where and when is it?
Workflow Studio in Brighton, 1st Saturday of the month.

Thats not very often, anywhere else?
We’ll fill in the gaps if you’ve got a venue for us.

NEXT MARKET
12 – 4pm
Saturday 4 May 2013
@ Workflow Studio, Brighton

During E Book Show in partnership with Kristianne Darake and Guy Moreton from Southampton Solent University, we ran a student choice award.

Books in the show made by students entered a pool from which 5 favourites where chosen – one by Kristianne, one by Guy, and a top 3 by public vote. Here’s what they had to say…

Daniel Helene, Inside Out
chosen by Kristaianne Drake

Words – Kristianne Drake

Daniel Helene’s Inside Out is a small but perfectly formed hand made photobook.

The size of the book immediately evokes an intimacy between the object and the viewer (and this is before we get to the text at the end which makes a small explanation).

As we open the book we are addressed by the word Avesso, which translates as reverse or backwards, from this we understand that we are being brought into a memory retold through image.

The physicality of the object forces us to get very close to engage with it, and this simple act elicits a sense that we are privy to a very personal story unfolding before our eyes.

If I were to make one small objection it would be that the text at the end, whilst explanatory, is unnecessary, but then this is a student book and students are all about the learning process.

I would also like to make a mention of the book The Analogue World of J.Birkett and Others by Natasha Withøft. This book reminds us that the world is moving forward so fast, we often overlook the nuances of the past that held us together for so long.

The crumbling edges of a book once read and now forgotten, usurped by high-speed data downloads that leave no visible trace for us to return to and eulogize over.

Josephine Dixon, Winter Ponds
chosen by Guy Moreton

Words - Guy Moreton

Josephine Dixon’s lite-touch approach in conceiving this book is a lesson in lyrical and poetic simplicity that transcends the melancholic darkness of inverted trees, reflected in each Malevichian black-square frame of the ponds’ surface, so adeptly observed by Dixon.

Opening this small book, I was immediately taken back to mid nineteenth century; not to photography, but the publication of Henry David Thoreau’sWalden Pond and amongst his dense reflections on the philosophy of solitude, economy and progress, Thoreau’s return to nature and descriptions of Walden, White’s, Flint and Goose Ponds as they change through season; allow the reader to inhabit a thought.

Dixon’s ‘Winter Ponds’ is, in a sense, a meditation on quietness and darkness. To quote Thomas A Clark, Darkness is not closed but open.

Public Vote

Finally, lets see the top 3 books voted for by the good people of Southampton….

1st – Faye Phillips, Twenty

2nd – Logan Riehl, Portraits

3rd – Joe Rose, The Gull Sees Farthest Who Flies Highest

What is it?
A monthly photobook market stocking a range of self-published newspapers and photobooks.

Where and when is it?
Workflow Studio in Brighton, 1st Saturday of the month.

Thats not very often, anywhere else?
We’ll fill in the gaps if you’ve got a venue for us.

NEXT MARKET
12 – 4pm
Saturday 6 April 2013
@ Workflow Studio, Brighton

We had a really good part 1 of the DIY photobook making workshop last weekend, covered Japanesse Stab binding and an 8 page single sheet fold… looking forward to next weekend where we’ll be making books with peoples own work.

There are a few more events coming up:

Wednesday 20 Febuary
2-4pm
Children’s Book Making Workshop – aged 7+

Thursday 28 February
2pm-4pm
Photobooks: a journey through the collection at Winchester School of Art

Booking details and full listings here…

Many thanks to Southampton City Council, and Southampton Solent University, who have supported and funded events at E Book Show

Check out the online article and recordings here…

They are releasing more interviews throughout February and March, sign up to their feed so you don’t miss anything.

Still to come are Margaret Street Gallery, Belfast Photo Factory, Donlon Books, Stag & Deer, Brighton Photo Fringe, Tipitin, Fotonow, Media Space, & Look 2013.

The film will be screened at

John Hansard Gallery Central
9 Civic Centre Road
Southampton
SO14 7FJ