Memento Mori
Memento mori is a reminder of the inevitable nature of death. The exhibition is a kind of homage to the memento mori direction in renaissance painting. Death means oblivion, one is dead when nobody remembers them.
Photo exibition and special dummy edition.
(8 photos 120x85cm, lightbox)
Siv I – The Time Capsule
The time capsule is a historic cache of important goods or information intended as a method of communication with future generations. Most often it is a small metal box buried or put aside to be opened or accessed many years later. Numerous capsules were buried marking historic events, placed in corner-stones of important buildings or even sent into space. They are to be opened on a day in the distant future. The time capsules are meant to help future generations understand the world of a bygone time.
These photos are part of the bigger exhibition about the Federal Executive Council and the book.
(6 photos 135x90cm)
Fuego BooksGustavo Alemán, editor at Fuego Books, will talk about his experience of becoming an editor after being a published photographer. From small personal stories, to international homages to David Lynch, he will explain the philosophy and the books of Fuego Books.
Publishing photobooks is a complex affair. Choosing the right project to publish, assembling a team, and dealing with all the aspects of bookmaking. This is a complex web of decisions that spans from the design and sequencing of the photobook, its pre-press and printing, to the distribution and showcasing of the final work. In this talk, Spanish editor Gustavo Alemán will recount his experiences and offer practical advice in all the phases of the process to those photo enthusiasts and future editors that are interested in following a similar route.
This presentation has been organised through the essential support of Embassy of Spain in Belgrade and the Instituto Cervantes in Belgrade.
Witty Books is an independent publishing house founded in 2012 (previously named Witty Kiwi) with the intention of promoting contemporary photography and visual culture. In fact, in addition to publishing, it pays considerable attention to image education through workshops and masterclasses. During almost ten years of activity Witty Books has collaborated with young and established artists, from all over the world.
Tommaso Parrillo (1989) studied photography at the Fine Arts Academy in Naples. In 2012 he founded the publishing house Witty Books and in the 2015 he become co-founder of Jest, an exhibition space about photography. He currently lives in Turin and work as a publisher, curator and educator.
This presentation has been organised through the essential support of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Belgrado.
This conversation will be conducted in English.
The Missing Eye
Mattia Parodi and Piergiorgio Sorgetti
Curator Tommaso Parrillo
Recent studies published on Cognitive Brain Research have demonstrated, using instruments that measure dream activity, that people blind since birth dream in images. Several hypotheses suggest that these representations are a result of the collaboration between the activity of the visual cortex and the activity of other sensory organs, however it isn’t excluded that the human being has an innate visual memory, parallel and pre-existing to that which develops through the retinal system. Some images seem to be independent from the visual apparatus and even though they appear in dreams, it is still possible to see them.
With which eye do we perceive them?
The Missing Eye is a research that turns the photographic device to visual projections that aren’t deduced from our immediate experience of reality but are the result of the combination of different cognitive paths in which all senses participate in sight. The gaze dissolves itself and the eye becomes a changing object of our perceptions, an abstract organ capable of processing images beyond retinal impulses. The photographic gesture captures the visual mechanism and transcends it, bringing attention to the typical transfigurative mental visions of the dream, sunk in memory and relegated to the unconscious.
Thank you to the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Belgrado for their help and support.
The Ph. Series is a collection of monographs dedicated to contemporary Portuguese photographers published by Imprensa Nacional (Portuguese Official Printing Office) and directed by Cláudio Garrudo . These books aim at divulging the work of these artists by showcasing the expanded and multiple territories of photography and being further enriched with texts written by specialists.
The titles already published in the collection are: Ph.01 Jorge Molder, Ph.02 Paulo Nozolino, Ph.03 Helena Almeida, Ph.04 Fernando Lemos, Ph.05 José M. Rodrigues, Ph.06 Ernesto de Sousa and Ph.07 Jorge Guerra. The latest book release is Ph.08 Daniel Blaufuks, and this will be introduced for the first time at Belgrade Photo Month Book edition 2022.
This conversation will be conducted in English.
Thank you to the Embassy of Portugal in Serbia and Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua for their help and support.
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Between Pages – Self-published photo-books from Austria
Presented by Vreni Hockenjos and Thomas Licek
Vreni Hockenjos and Thomas Licek will talk about Reflektor, a Vienna based platform for self-published photobooks, and show an example from a series of video interviews with authors.
This conversation will be conducted in English.
Singular Visions – Image, Text and the Photographic
What we might call “The Photographic” encompasses much more than just the use of a camera.
Printed materials combine images from many different sources, often together with text – to bring a wide range of creative possibilities.
Footnote Centre for Image and Text was established in Belgrade as an independent space, in which the relationship between images and text informs its publications, workshops, presentations and residencies. Our aim is to support writers and practitioners in communicating their ideas and giving shape to their productions.
We are in the process of assembling a curated collection of printed material by artists, collectives, writers and photographers in our reading room and we will be giving an idea of this resource in the presentation, and how we hope it will develop.
Pure Land is a publishing initiative set up in 2015 to produce small independent publications relating to Art and Photography. Founded by Allan Parker.
What is the use of a book, thought Alice, without pictures or conversations?1
Allan Parker has a degree in Fine Art from The University of Reading and a PG Dip from Central Saint Martins, London. He is a founder member of Footnote Centre for Image and Text in Belgrade.
His artworks, books, designs and installations have been shown in a range of spaces in London including the National Portrait Gallery, the V&A and the the Museum of Childhood,. as well as at venues in Tokyo, Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, Athens, and Belgrade.
He was a senior lecturer (.5) on the MA and BA in Photography at the University of Westminster until 2019 and continues teaching as a visiting lecturer at The Camberwell School of Art, London and at Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Tech in Bangalore, India.
1 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia
Creation of Photo-books • Image Narrative and Visual Storytelling
What is bookmaking? What is visual storytelling? What is visual dramaturgy? How do you establish a professional network of industry contacts? How to understand the photobook market across Europe. How to read images and how to tell your story with photography. What is the role of graphic design in the book and why is it essential? Why make a photo-book? The online lecture will focus and open discussion on all these topics and explain what a photo-book is and show examples that can be helpful in the photo-book creation process.
Lecturers:
Olja Triaška Stefanović, photographer, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava Slovakia
Juraj Blaško, graphic designer, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia
This conversation will be conducted in English.
GRAIN
The “GRAIN” association was founded in Belgrade in 2015 with a special emphasis on the promotion, development and production of documentary hotography, based on society and social engagement. Grain Association has organised several exhibitions by photographers and published a number of photo books.
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Igor Čoko – Subverzivna estetika ulice, 2017
The aesthetics of the street from the perspective of a visual anthropologist that evokes the turbulent struggle of the metropolis and the province to the last drop of sweat.
Colour, 104 pages, 22×20 cm, hardcover, digital reissue.
Igor Čoko – Karaburma moj geto, 2019
Belgrade Bronx, Little Colombia, visual aesthetics of the street, the end of the restless spirit in a new, supplemented reissue over an increased number of pages.
Monochrome, 128 pages, 25×20 cm, hardcover.
Igor Čoko – Living Behind Bars, 2020
The story of the life of a convict behind bars in Belgrade’s central prison, published in English. Original books published
in 2016.
Monochrome, 128 pages, 25×20 cm, hardcover.
Igor Čoko – Štekovi, 2021
The story of migrants traveling through Belgrade during the years 2015-21, and their stay in all imaginable and unimaginable forms of rat holes, shelters and barns, while on their way to the EU.
Monochrome, 128 pages, 25×20 cm, hardcover.
Imre Szabo – Godine zapleta, 2021
A important photo-book on the topic of our downfall from Kosovo, Croatia, Bosnia and again to Kosovo. Lessons from which we learned nothing. A doyen masterpiece of newspaper and documentary photography.
Monochrome, 128 pages, 25×20 cm, hardcover.
Neven Grujić – JHaria Burning, 2022
Direct transmission from one of the largest and most polluted mines in India and on the planet. When you see these scenes, you will want to go to Bor on vacation. No kidding!
Monochrome, 104 pages, 25×20 cm, hardcover.
Miloš Stošić – Ljudi govore, 2022
I will not curse you out loud, I will make you read this book of thoughts drawn on the walls in which the whole vortex of madness of the brains of the local state of consciousness is hidden. This will be an important historical book in the future.
Colour, 128 pages, 20×20 cm, hardcover.
Miloš Cvetković – Bilo jednom na Azurnoj obali, 2022
Once upon a time, there was a seemingly free world and we as a nation were a part of it. Uncensored, directly from the crowd, the legendary Cvele recorded the freedom, decadence and hedonism of the Cote d’Azur in the early 1980s through the Cannes Film Festival and the Grand Prix of Monte Carlo, Formula 1 races. This historical photo-book provides a break before the upcoming book about Bosnia, after which you will really not be well.
Monochrome, 128 pages, 25×20 cm, hardcover.
Nemanja Ledenski – Sirovi rezovi, 2021
If a book describes the brutality of the street, it is Nemanja’s masterpiece. Escaping from the shackles of the capital, these images faithfully evoke the charm and raw immediacy of provincial life, striking between the horns and below the belt. This book will make your eyes bleed.
Monochrome, 64 sides, 20×20 cm, hardcover.
This conversation will be conducted in English.
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