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.
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.
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
Photographic tribute to “Summer nights, walking” by Robert Adams
This is the second time that Бартcелона POP UP has organised a tribute exhibition to one photo book. The first tribute occurred last year when we organised an international group exhibition that referenced the unique photo book “Twentysix Gasoline Stations” by Ed Ruscha. The results were very satisfying and we decided to take the opportunity of arranging a similar exhibition as part of the 1st edition of BPM book, 2022. The selected book for this exhibition will be: “Summer Nights, Walking” by Robert Adams.
“Summer Nights, Walking” is an essential photo book that has been hailed as a classic. The first edition, simply titled “Summer Nights”, was published by Aperture in 1985, and included 38 images of nocturnal scenes taken in the region of Longmont and the Rocky Mountains in Colorado.
A re-edited version of the book was co-published with Aperture in 2009 and titled “Summer Nights, Walking”. For this revision Robert Adams added an extra 39 previuosly unpublished photos. May 2022 will see a new enlarged version of the book published by Steidl, an international publisher of photobooks based in Germany.
For our tribute, we did not ask for photos that were taken in Colorado, or for square format photos, but we wanted to keep the the theme of black and white photography and the essential spirit of the book, but with a wider geographic spread.
This exhibition includes work by:
Constance Langrand (France)
Dany Vigil (El Salvador) @danyvigil.lab
Dario D’Alessio (Italy) @dario_dales
David Alexis Jainz Aguiñaga (Mexico)
Max Klebl (Austria) @maxklebl
Olivera Radmanović (Serbia) @olja_radmanovic
Ray Knox (Great Britain) @rayknox_photography
Telmo Pinto (Portugal) @telmojgp
Véronique Van Meerbeek (France/Belgium) @ateliervvm
* Galleries and exhibition spaces retain the right to change the date and time of the exhibitions and other events
