talks, workshops & events
Our talks, workshops & events seek to create frameworks for discussion and knowledge exchange across borders. These have included international panel discussions, workshops by and for student practitioners from different universities, collaborative photobook making from discarded materials, open unrecorded group discussions, and swap-shops for exchanging unwanted resources.
UPCOMING
Developing Ecological Photobooks
5-6 May 2025 / Daily 10-5/6pm
CONTACT Photobook Lab, Toronto
Max 8 Participants
This two day workshop will develop ecological frameworks for the making of photobooks. We will explore the physical aspects of the book (materials, binding, size) and how these relate to methods of circulation. The workshop will combine short talks, practical activities, group discussions, and engagement with the wider photobook ecosystem through conversations with guest speakers, and is facilitated by Tamsin Green.
TALK VIDEOS
Our annual Earth Day talk series, taking place in April each year since 2022. These talks were co-organised by Dolly Meieran and Tamsin Green, to bring together constellations of practitioners for their potential to have dynamic conversations.
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.
Earth Day - April 2023
A panel discussion with Tiffany Jones, Overlapse (UK); Martin Bollati, SED Editiorial (Argentina); Maren Krings, Artist (Austria / Germany); Rebecca Lardeur, Climate and Cities (UK). Moderated by Eugenie Shinkle, Artist & Writer (London, UK).
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).
Supported by Westminster University (Green Fund) and RPS Documentary Group.
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Workshops
Future Photobook Practices – the Next Generation and Sustainability
This workshop was organised by and for photography students, in collaboration with the SPP network. The workshop brought together students from BA photography courses from around the country to explore what sustainability means to them and their practices. Participating universities included Swansea School of Art, Coventry University, Arts University Bournemouth and the University of Westminster. Each student brought their own understanding of sustainability, informed by a variety of circumstances such as their access to materials and resources, local environment and the different styles of teaching on their course. Spread across three sessions, the workshop reflected on and explored the themes, processes and motivations of students’ photobook practices, with the aim of providing cross institutional exchanges of knowledge between students, establishing a network of practitioners, and creating a collaborative zine of their work. The workshop was developed and facilitated by Oscar Dooley, BA Photography Student, University of Westminster.
- Online: May 2024
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.
- Agitate Gallery, Edinburgh: Saturday 1 June 2024 - 9.30-12pm
- 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, to activate a conversation, 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