talks, workshops & events
UPCOMING
re.think | re.use | re.work: approaching sustainable photobook making
Saturday 1 June: 9.30am-12pm
Agitate Gallery, Edinburgh
Booking coming soon...
This workshop involves the collaborative development of photobooks using re-purposed materials. Each participant will bring something they have discarded as part of their own photography process, for example: images, materials, test prints, text. The workshop makes space for play in thinking through and adddressing environmental issues.
The workshop will be facilitated by SPP network founder Tamsin Green.
TALK VIDEOS
Earth Day - April 2024
A panel discussion with Tanya Busse, Mondo Books & Arctic Art Book Fair (Tromsø, Norway), Michelle Dunn Marsh, Minor Matters Books (Seattle, USA), João Pedro Lima & Alix Breda, Selo Turvo & Lovely House (São Paulo, Brazil), Emily Sheffer, Dust Collective (Boston, USA). Moderated by Delphine Bedel, curator, keynote speaker and writer (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Supported by the University of Westminster Sustainability Fund (London, UK)
Earth Day - April 2023
This event (04.04.2023) brought together exhibitors from 'The Sustainable Photobook' exhibition at FORMAT23 to answer topical questions on sustainable design and production. The speakers; Tiffany Jones, Overlapse (UK); Martin Bollati, SED Editiorial (Argentina); Maren Krings, Artist (Austria / Germany); Rebecca Lardeur, Climate and Cities (UK) were joined by Eugenie Shinkle who moderated the discussion.
Supported by Format Festival
Earth Day - April 2022
10x10 Photobooks and the Sustainable Photobook Publishing Network present a panel discussion with Lewis Chaplin (Loose Joints), Catriona Gourlay (National Arts Library, V&A Museum), Tamsin Green (manual.editions, SPP Network) and Paul John (Jan van Eyck Academie, Endless Editions). Moderated by Amelie Schüle (FOAM) and Daria Tuminas (FOTODOK).
Support provided by Westminster University (Green Fund) and RPS Documentary Group.
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Workshops
re.think | re.use | re.work: approaching sustainable photobook making
This workshop involves the collaborative development of photobooks using re-purposed materials. Each participant will bring something they have discarded as part of their own photography process, for example: images, materials, test prints, text. The workshop makes space for play in thinking through and adddressing environmental issues. The workshop was developed by Ed Sykes, Sayako Sugawara and Tamsin Green, and is facilitated by different members of the SPP network.
- Impressions Gallery, Bradford: 28 October 2023 - 2-3.30pm
- FORMAT23, Derby City Lab, Derby: 18 March 2023 - 10:30 - 13:30
Swapsies
This event brings together book makers to swap items of value that they no longer need as part of their own practice. Bring along your unwanted treasure and swap! Bits + pieces like: LEFT-OVER PAPER | OFF-CUTS | TOOLS | MATERIALS | PHOTOBOOKS + ZINES | ALBUMS + SCRAPBOOKS
- Photobookcafe, Shoreditch, London: 6th March 2024 - 6-9pm
Sessions
A series of open and unrecorded discussions where sometimes we invite speakers from different parts of the photobook ecosystem:
- Open SESSION: 17 October 2023 - 6pm (Online)
- SESSION: with guests Harry & Stewart, FOLIUM: 13 December 2022 - 7pm GMT (online)
- SESSION: with guest Victoria Forrest, VIKA BOOKS: 17 November 2022 - 7pm GMT (online)
- SESSION: with guest Marc Fischer, HALF LETTER PRESS: 28 Sept 2022 - 7pm BST (online)
- SESSION: with guest Sarah Boris, artist + designer: 28 June 2022 - 5pm BST (online)
- SESSION: with guest Matt Ford, GF Smith: 25 May 2022 - 6.30pm BST (online)
- SESSION: with guest Eliza Kavanagh, Publishers Association: 23 March 2022 - 7pm GMT (online)
- SESSION: with guest Paul Hewitt, Generation Press: 23 February 2022 - 7pm GMT (online)
- SESSION: with guest Hannah Fletcher, The Sustainable Darkroom: 12 January 2022 - 7pm GMT (online)
- Open SESSION: 1 Nov 2021 - 7pm (Online)
- Open SESSION: The Photobook Cafe, London: 16 November 2021 - 7pm
- Open SESSION: 27 Sept 2021 - 6.30pm (Online)
- Open SESSION: 23 Aug 2021 - 6.30pm (Online)
- Open SESSION: The Photobook Cafe, London: 26 July 2021 - 6.30pm