Photo-books • Bazzar • Foto-knjiga
During BPM book 2022 we will be presenting several talks based around the theme of photo books. In addition to these presentations on books, by both authors and publishers from across Europe, there will be a fantastic three-day workshop and a photo book market.
This is the first time that we have presented a photo book market in Belgrade and for this very special occasion we have invited several publishers to participate: The Angry Bat (Slovenia), Fraglich Publishing (Austria), Fuego Books (Spain), Grain (Serbia), Pure Land/Footnote (UK/Serbia), Witty Books (Italy) and various people who have self-published their own books, including: Dušan Đorđević, Inés D’Orey, Katarina Radović, Siniša Vlajković, Vuk VIdor and more to be added!
The photo book market will take place at Dorćol Platz in Koska Bar and will be held over a full weekend 21/5 – 22/5/2022, from 12:00 to 17:00, as a closing event for this first edition of BPM book 2022.
Thank you to the Embassy of Austria in Belgrade, Austrijski kulturni forum Beograd, Embassy of Spain in Belgrade, Instituto Cervantes de Belgrado, Istituto Italiano di Cultura Belgrado for their help and support.
The Angry Bat is a publishing imprint created by Slovenian photographer Matej Sitar in 2012. The presentation will focus on the publications of the publishing house, the workflow and also the Maribor photo-book award, which is being organised by The Angry Bat biannually.
The Angry Bat is the publishing trademark of Slovenian photographer Matej Sitar. Its goal for the future is to publish as many limited edition photo-books as possible.
The Angry Bat aims to bring much joy to all book-lovers who value independently produced artist books of beautiful quality.
The conversation will be conducted in English.
Inês d’Orey
Beograd Concrete
In addition to exhibiting at Belgrade Photo Month 2021, Inês d’Orey participated in an artist residency in the Serbian capital at the Footnote Centre for Image and Text, where she developed the series “Beograd Concrete” based around the modernist and brutalist architecture present in this region of the world. The residence was supported by the Embassy of Portugal in Serbia. “Beograd Concrete” book is published by Galeria das Salgadeiras, with the support of “Garantir Cultura” programme by the Ministery of Culture from Portugal and “PORTO” city hall programme. The book was designed by Leonel Duarte and the editorial coordination of Cláudio Garrudo.
The research proposed for this residency, which is deeply in line with Inês d’Orey’s artistic work, is related to architecture and the identity that this gives to the territory where it operates, as had already happened in other cities such as Lisbon, Porto, Copenhagen and Tokyo. In the case of Belgrade, she was particularly interested in the mixture of styles and architectural references she found in the city, where public buildings built between 1946 and 1980 and other housing or office buildings dating from the First World War, when Yugoslavia was formed, intersect.
In the book of the same name, curator Andreia Garcia says: “In this journey through images, let us understand ourselves as passive subjects, just like the architects of the past, without losing the sense of the gaze, but reinforcing it over the gaze from the photograph that takes away the current and factual point of view about the definition of time, one that does not start from the tabula rasa, that does not go back to zero to understand or write what happens, but rather announces the changes that allow for advancement.” By crossing recent events in the history of this country, which now has Serbia as its name, it is also possible to understand, or try to understand, the impact that political programmes have, or can have, on the identity and architecture of its cities.
This conversation will be conducted in English.
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