BPM 2025

Photo book self-publishers

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.

We enter this world of photo books hand in hand with photographers, editors, publishers and organisers of photo book contests, in order to have a global vision.

Surely all of us who create photographic projects with our cameras would also like to be able to see our work on the shelves of a book store, art store, photography store or some photographic market in the form of a book. Perhaps it is a more economical way for people to take our work into their homes rather than buying original prints. Perhaps we can start dreaming that this may be possible, or even win a book award!

This talk will bring together several photographers who have self-published books. They will share their experiences with us, from the choice of the project, the narrative, selection of materials, texts, design, format of the book, financing, and the production of the book. They will also offer advice about what to do once we have the final book in our hands, how to distribute it, how to give it a life and make it visible within Serbia.

The participants are:
Dušan Đorđević
Katarina Radović
Siniša VlajkovićThe conversation will be conducted in English.

Siniša Vlajković

Anachronicles 1995–2020

Having lived in Beirut and Dubai and travelled extensively across the Middle East, Siniša Vlajković began to photographically record his impressions and experiences of this complex, multi-ethnic, multi-confessional, historically layered, turbulent but always inspiring part of the world, and to imprint his memories of growing up in the Balkans.

The title of the monograph Anachronicles”, a neologism created from the terms “anachronism” and “chronicle”, summarises the character of Siniša Vlajković’s photographic opus created during the last 25 years, and presented here in a thematically rounded series titled “Americana” (1995), “Time Regained” (2003–2008), “Genius Loci” (2006–2012), “Substations” (2007-2013), “Balkan Jazz” (2013–2020) and “Largo” (2009–2020).

The monograph contains 75 reproductions, texts by New York-based independent curator, Lara Pan, and art historian and curator, Jovana Stokić, as well as an interview with Siniša Vlajković by the Hungarian art historian Zoltán Somhegyi. 

Vuk Vidor • Weird World
(Analogue Photos for a Digital Age)

Photography has always been a part of my life and of my artistic practice. As a way to fix time and create memories, as a source of images or help for my work with paintings, drawings or installations. Before smartphones, carrying a camera suggested a more dedicated approach to photography. You could use it for touristic purposes or as a way to document your life. An artist tends to use it for “artistic” purposes either in pure photographic terms or for their work. I did both by creating images for record covers or my own visual experiments which were conceived to some extent in a “professional” way, and on the other side by using disposable analogue cameras on a daily basis, small instamatics and the first little digital ones that you could carry in your pocket. These were used for memories, odd snapshots of daily life, events, travels etc.

In those days you would give your films to the photo lab and get the photos back in a box. Often some of the pictures had a sticker on them with the label “Non Facturé”, which meant they were considered by the lab as bad, out of focus, badly framed, overexposed or just mistakes, so you didn’t have to pay for them. This collection of images is based initially on those rejected photos which when put together create strange visual sequences of disbalanced moments and details. By setting them in a left-right layout, a dialogue is created between them and possible stories emerge. These images feature known or unknown people, self-portraits, places from all around the world and they create a strange collection of fragmented moments and memories before everybody became a photographer and started documenting and exposing their own lives on the internet. These fragments from an analogue age are the opposite and in clear contrast to the digital filtered artificial imagery that today’s devices provide to everyone. Somehow the analogue mistakes become more real than the digital perfection. And that way we can maybe return to something more artistic.

This conversation will be conducted in English.

vukvidor.com

Memento mori
Death means oblivion, one is dead when nobody remembers him.

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.

Dušan Đorđević was born in 1966. He studied at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Department of Photography, Film and TV Camera in Belgrade. He gained his professional experience in Copenhagen; worked as a photography editor for numerous magazines in Serbia and abroad. He has built his artistic career through exhibitions, photo monographs and projects in the field of photography

Ratna fotografija je tema o kojoj ćemo razgovarati u bioskopskoj sali UK Parobrod, u ponedeljak 31.5.2021, sa početkom u 18h.

Razgovaraćemo sa tri fotografa koji su u različito vreme prisustvovali različitim ratnim sukobima: Imre Szabó, Marko Đurica i Filip Krainčanić. Moderator razgovora biće Igor Čoko.

Svi ste pozvani, ali maksimalan broj ljudi koji mogu prisustvovati događaju je 37. Molimo vas da potvrdite svoje prisustvo, a ukoliko iz bilo kog razloga na kraju ne budete u mogućnosti da dođete, da nas obavestite u što skorijem roku kako bismo vaše mesto ponudili nekom drugom.

Hvala

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Photography in time of war is the topic of discussion scheduled for Monday, 31st May 2021 from 18:00 in the Cinema room of the UK Parobrod.

We will talk with 3 photographers who have been in different conflicts, in different times: Imre Szabó, Marko Djurica and Filip Krainčanić. The talk will be moderated by Igor Čoko, and will be in Serbian.

You are all invited, but 37 is the maximum number of people who can attend the event. Please, confirm your attendance, and if for any reason you are unable to attend, kindly inform us as soon as possible so that we can give your seat to somebody else.

Thanks

Projekat „This Will Change Your Life Forever” Klaus Pichele je izložen u „Bioskop Balkan”. Umetnik nije mogao doći u Beograd ali u sredu 26, maja u 17 časova imaćemo uživo razgovor sa njim na platformi „Zoom” i na našoj „Facebook” stranici.
Ovim putem vas pozivamo da se uključite u razgovor i da mu postavite neko pitanje. Kasnije ćemo postaviti snimak na naš „YouTube” kanal, gde se nalaze svi ostali intervjui koje smo imali do sada.
Klaus Pichler je austrijski fotograf iz Beča. Razgovaraćemo o njegovom radu, posebno o projektu “Ovo će vam zauvek promeniti život” kojim se domaćoj publici predstavio na ovogodišnjem Beogradskom mesecu fotografije.
Ova izložba realizovana i veliku podršku Austrijiski kulturni forum Beograd, zahvaljujući kojem će austrijanac umetnik Klaus Pichler učestvovati na Beogradski Mesec Fotografije.

https://klauspichler.net/

The project “This Will Change Your Life Forever” by Klaus Picheler is exhibited in the “Bioskop Balkan”. The artist could not come to Belgrade, but on Wednesday, May 26th at 5 pm, we will have a online conversation with her on the “Zoom” platform and on our “Facebook” page.
We hereby invite you to join the conversation and ask her a question or two. Later, we will post the video on our “YouTube” channel, where all the other interviews we have had so far are.
Klaus Pichler is an Austrian photographer based in Vienna, we will talk about his work and especially about his project “This Will Change Your Life Forever” that we presented during this Belgrade Photo Month 2020/1 edition.
This exhibition has been organised through the essential support of Austrijiski kulturni forum Beograd, that supports artist mobility, by which Austrian artist Klaus Pichler is able to participate in Belgrade Photo Month Festival.