Libros que son fotos, fotos que son libros

This title is the name of the exhibition on the Centro de Documentación y Biblioteca del Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (The Archive and Library center from the National Art Museum Queen Sofía). The exhibition is curated by Horacio Fernández  and coordinated by Alicia Martínez.

The exhibition shows about 150 photobooks published in Spain since 2000, specially the last 4 years. The ones selected for this special ocasion are just a small part of the original and queryable archive of the Museum Library, with more than 1000 photobooks, specially from Spain and Latin Amèrica.

Federico Clavarino. Ukraina Pasport. Fiesta Ediciones / Cuadernos de la Kursala 26, 2011

Part of the exhibition shows the donation of the large photobook collection from Bookip (Book in porgress) to the museum. Now Dalpine photobooks.

Aleix Plademunt. Almost there. MACK / Ca l'Isidret Edicions, 2013

The exhibition will end on September 2014, this means there is a lot of time to visit this incredible archive of photobooks. You will find "Stories" from Fábio M. Roque published by Bad Weather and also, “Almost there” from Aleix Plademunt and published by Ca l’Isidret Edicions this year.

Tagging day at La Dispersa

We have been working in new zines we hope we can show you in the next days. During this time, we went to help La Fanzinoteca Ambulant (16th November) to tag the stuff they have in the library. In this ocasion, the second, we meet at La Dispersa, a occupied space that belonging to an illegal Aparthotel in the south-east side of Raval (Barcelona).

You can have a look at the archive, and other pictures of the day, here. The photographs below belong to la fanzinoteca ambulant.

PD: Congrats to the organitzation and for the fantastic paella.

Choice Warehouse

Just a quick post to remember we are going to be at the Choice Warehouse, in Centro de arte Mutuo, in Barcleona. From 19:00 to 23:00! We are going to have all our latest zines. :)

(from the web)

CHOICE WAREHOUSE es una fiesta y un encuentro colaborativo que tendrá lugar en el Centro de Arte Mutuo éste viernes 15 de noviembre.
Al programa: 1 bandas en directo, djs, performance audiovisual, una instalación en proceso y una mesa de fanzines para invitarlos a disfrutar y compartir este sitio mágico del centro de Barcelona.

En complemento con los artistas que presentamos y el ambiente chill out donde hay lugar para todos, tenemos el honor de contar con el apoyo de Blu de San Miguel.

Nos vemos el viernes ! Todos invitados =)

Don’t be late ! Cerramos puertas a las 23:00h!

BWP in México!

On the south east of metro Insurgentes (Distrito Federal, México), better known as Colonia Roma Norte we have two fantastic places where you can now but some of our latests titles:

Gallery entrance / photo: Conociendo la Roma

Galería OMR is a contemporary gallery founded in 1983 with a very interesting list of exhibitions and a currently fantastic one called “Ojo por diente” by Pablo Rasgado. The gallery has a small library where you can find some of Bad Weather Press photozines.

Just a corner after OMR we have the second library, Casa Bosques (Calle Cordova 25), a project from Savvy Studio and a very nice place with sofas and plants (and a friendly girl called Katya).

Casa Bosques is currently working in the first exhibition/selling point curated by Jorge de la Garza.

FLIA 2013: Photographs

Nearly a month later (better than never, no?) we share some photographs we took at the FLIA this year at Vallcarca neighborhood in Barcelona.

Early in the morning, with the two new fanzines: Internet Romance by Sergi Serra on the left, Capitalismo Barbarie by Carles Palacio in the middle and the last Manhattan by Pere Saguer on the right.

People came in the afternoon, after the hangover.

Sergi Serra had a very great idea promoting his last fanzine and the first published with us. Cacaolat is one of the best chocolate drinks in the world, like the zine, which includes digital art, webcam beauties and Internet paleontology. (Ok, yes, Moritz beer is very good too).

Robert Roura swaging.

Yeah, video too. Here one from RagulGrad.

And to finish, our friends from Estudi Tropèl with the Havaneres fanzine, very nice. (on the photo, Clara and Júlia talking about something) 

World Photobook Day

Monday, 14 October was the Internacional Photobook day. We didn't knew that untill we saw the poster from Photobook Club Madrid. We copy the information from there to understand the why of this day:

This date is a direct homage to the first photobook known: Photographs of British algae. Cyanotype impressions of Anna Atkins. Since we do not know the date of publication, we have taken the date of entry in the catalog the copies for the British Library.

This year marks the 170th anniversary of that date and we’d love you to join this celebration and turn that day into a global event organizing an event related to the Photobook in your respective cities. (The news continues here).

We didn't go to Madrid, and we couldn't go to the activity the Photobook Club Barcelona did the day before at the "Observatorio" (photographs here), but we did a small chat to some master students at La Massana school of Art and Design. We talked about the photozines we published on Bad Weather and we add other phtozines from the Fanzinepaper collection.

Before starting.

Robert presenting my "California" mini-photozine

A girl looking the collage project "Are you?" wile we are discussing on the back.

If you want to keep celebrating the #photobookday you can buy our latest photozine "Capitalismo Barbarie", a one year work from Carles Palacio shooting social movements and manifestations in Barcelona and Girona.

Instagram shoot

FLIA 2013: Barcelona

This saturday 28, in Vallcarca (Barcelona) we are going to be on the FLIA selling two new zines, some Manhattan, Food Chain, Collage Age and Gonzalo's Fanzine (the ones left on Fatbottom Books). As usual, we are going to have some new music from Orgonomy Records AND A ZINE from Leonardo Amico, so come at 10:00 o'clock in the morning if you want some because there are only a few left!

Hope see you all there!