Arts libris 2014 (photos)

So, after 5 days of art books & zine fair, here comes the resume in photographs. Thanks everybody who come to the desk we were sharing with Desisto, Do the print and Adolfo Press. We are all very happy, also, after receiving the residency of three weeks at the Frans Masereel Centrum in Kastelree (Belgium/Flanders).

Entrance. Nice colours!

Photozines lying on the table.

(From left to right): Ricardo (Desisto), representation of the FMC, Pere (Bad Weather), Margarida (Desisto) and Edgar (Do the print).

Margarida and Edu (Adolfo Press) explaining the different projects of the 4 publishers

Our stand, on the back, had nice views.

Roc Herms came Wednesday and left us some samples of "The first lady of home Fashion".

Lídia Moreno (Moreno & Soria) was one of our neighbours. Super nice!

And thanks, thanks for coming! See you on Gutter Fest in two weekends! (9 & 10 May)

Fotografia Europea 2014 / Reggio nell'Emilia, Italy

Robert (left) from Bad Weather Press and Margarida (right) from Desisto on Arts Libris

Quick update wile we are on the Arts Libris fair (wich opened yesterday) and will remain open until Sunday 27 April. After this event, we are pleased to anounce that our published (and reprinted) work from Carlos Cancela, Natureza, luz, homem, will be exhibited on the "Senza Meta. Il libro come pensiero fotografico" (Without a destination. The book as a photographic thought) and it will be one of the major show of the Festival.
The exhibition will remain open to the public untill 15th of June.

Fotografia Europea is an annual photographic Festival hold in Reggio Emilia, Italy, that this year reaches its ninth edition. The Festival is a cultural project that intends to attain the widest European cultural ambit and takes the cue by the work of the local photographer Luigi Ghirri who was able to create a dialogue between different artistic languages such as photography, architecture, sculpture, literature and music. The festival tries to keep this interdisciplinary attitude inviting artists and photographers from all over Europe and adopting a unique subject for each edition.

Reggio nell'Emilia / Photo from Wikipedia

"Natureza, luz, homem" will be also available to buy on the festival through the Milan photobookstore: Micamera. Also, on Fatbottom Books, Gutter Fest next month and online on the website.

Photo from the Fotografia Europea 2014 site

Arts Libris & Gutter Fest 2014

Hello again! This month, and the next one, we are on fairs! The first one is Arts Libris, is a Artist book fair in Barcelona, organized by Raíña Lupa and Arts Santa Mònica.

Photo: Alicia Gallego

(copy from the web): Arts Libris will take place from the 23rd until the 27th of April in the Arts Santa Mònica Centre. As in previous editions, the opening will coincide with Sant Jordi: the Catalan national holiday that celebrates literature, books as art pieces, experimental graphic design and special editions. In relation to Michel Butor’s quote: “In the future, the few books in which we will be interested, will be the ones considered artworks”, Arts Libris is working for this future to be full of fascinating, pleasant and stimulating editions and books.

Poster by Clara-Iris Ramos, beautiful!

On 9 and 10 of May, we have the D.I.Y. supreme fair on Hangar: Gutter Fest. We went there the last year and was really good! Music, comics, photozines and lots of screenprints. Like in Arts Libris (and as usual on all the fairs we are going), we are going to have music from Orgonomy Records, specially the last cd Blue Birds Dominion.

Pere Saguer (Bad Weather Press) with the zines and cd's next to Carla Besora (Tropèl)

And, don't forget to follow the Zines of the Zone tour! Last photographs we saw, from Budapest, we saw Internet romance and Altres tafaners! Good to see the stuff published travelling around Europe!

Desk on Budapest / Photo: ZNZN

Pilgrimage by Ekaterina Solovieva

A month ago, we published Pilgrimage (ПАЛОМНИКИ), a limited edition photozine in black and white about, yeah..., a pilgrimage. The report and the tracking of all the journeys were made, with a lot of patience, by Ekaterina Solovieva.

Ekaterina Solovieva is from Moscow (Москва́), and after graduating as a journalist at the University of Moscow, he moved to Hamburg, were she stills working with its greatest passion: photography.

You can find ПАЛОМНИКИ at Fatbottombooks, and soon in other bookstores. We are also going to have it at Arts Libris Zine & Artbook fair in Barcelona (if this is the case, mail us so we can keep it for you!). For future information, stay in touch at our twitter and facebook accounts!

BWP photozines in Tokyo!

As we told a few weeks ago, Capitalismo Barbarie and 2pm 6am (both published by Bad Weather Press) are going to be at the F Photobook Show exhibition in the 72Gallery (exart bild. 1F, 3-6-6 Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan 104-0031) or click here.

On wednesday 26 of march, from 19h to 21h (or later…) is going to be the Opening Night and then, until 13 April, you will be able to take a look at the 100 photobooks selected for the occasion.

The super box of photobooks / Photo: Photobookshow

Alongside the show, there will be a variety of events at the venue in collaboration with TIP, Japanese publishing houses, and local photographers. The best way to get in touch with everything is following the Photobookshow twitter or Tumblr accounts.

2pm 6am by Irene Serrano on a ham box

What are you going to see on there? Fantastic photographs from Mateusz Sarello, Irene Serrano, Matt Colquhoun, Nick Ballon, Christoph Soeder, Pierre Liebaert, Aaron Krach, Jason Larkin, Franziska Klose, Marianne Bjørnmyr, Diana Artus, Yuchen Yang, Andreas Oetker-Kast, Lex Thompson & Oliver, McCartney Thompson, Chen Jiagang, Robin Hammond, Zoé Beausire, Christopher Nunn, Jo Metson Scott, Salvatore Santoro, Portrait Salon, Freddy Dewe Mathews, Daan Paans, NASTYNASTY©, Stacy Kranitz, Jocelyn Allen, Liana Yang, Andrew Youngson, Enric Montes, Elin Karlsson, Hannah Darabi & Benoit, Grimbert, Francisco Paco Carrascosa, Sam Seager, Rich Cutler, Lioba Keuck, Normand Rajotte, Lewis Bush, Lydia Goldblat, Marco van Duyvendijk, Tsutomu Yamagata, Lena Grass, Israel Ariño, Carles Palacio, Vitus Saloshanka, Jagoda Wisniewska & Ania Mokrzycka, Gregory Reuben Levitt, Yong Hee Kim, Louie Palu, Mark Purdom, Mike Stott, Andres Medina, Niclas Tilosius, Sanne De Wilde, Erik Schubert, Marja Saleva, Grainne Quinlan, John MacLean, Alys Tomlinson, Martin Seeds, David Adams, Trine Stephensen & Elevine Berge, Gabriele Harhoff, Edward Newton, Gustavo Alemán, Yukihito Kono, Ana Casas Broda, Yukihito Kono, Simona Rota, Katja Stuke, Rick Hekman, Heather McDonough, Lucas Lenci, Oliver Sieber, Jessica Bishopp, Marco Paltrinieri, Mirko Smerdel, Leanne Cunningham, Florian Braakman, Anne-Lena Michel, Philip J Brittan, Tang Ho Lun, Marlous van der Sloot, Piergiorgio Casotti, Bridgette Ashton, Vergílio Ferreira, Julia Mueller, Marco Lachi, Human Endeavour Collective, Sara Rejaie, Johannes Nadeno, James Duncan Clark, Anna Maguire, Carlos Loret de Mola, Dean Hollowood, Michael Fitzsimmons, Roelof Bakker & Jane Wildgoose, Erno-Erik Raitanen, Vlada Krasilnikova, Rasmus Vasli, Pascal Amoyel & Thomas Bouquin, Eva Voutsaki, Zeynep Beler, Jacqueline Butler, Anne Kathrin Schuhmann, Anatomy Projects, Tim Smyth, Save Zine, Paul Gaffney, Laurent Chardon, Deana Kolencikova, Jason Lazarus, Filipe Casaca, The Lost Prairie, Andras Ridovics, Jess Smith and Anne Kathrin Schuhmann.

Capitalismo Barbarie and other fanzines at the Fatbottom bookstore in Barcelona

The exhibition has been possible thanks to the work of the Photobookshow and the TIP (Tokyo Institute of Photography), the Photobookshow is a Brighton-based arts organisation, set up in 2011 by William Sadowski and Kevin Beck to raise the profile of artist-led photobooks.

The Photobookshow aims to hold several exhibitions a year, alongside talks and workshops. The Tokyo exhibition comes after a recent exhibition in Malmö, at the Vasli Sousa (first weeks of February) and paves the way for the next great exhibition G Photobook show in Brighton (England) from the 6 to the 15 of June at the One Eyed Jacks Gallery.

ZNZN: Zagreb!

Zines of the zone are continuing the route. Was nice to see the red cover of Carles Palacio photozine "Capitalismo Barbarie" on the front at the Siva gallery in Zagreb (Croatia)! Click here to see next cities where ZNZN would be.

Photo: ZNZN

There is also a interesting article about the stop in Rome by Francesca Assennato in English and in Italian. he-ho!

Zines of the Zone: Barcelona

The CFD hall

Ana Zaragoza García photobook "La famille poirot 1", we love it!

Yep, so Tuesday we made a short visit to the Zines of the zone event in CFD (Creació de Fotografía Documental) in Barcelona, organized with the Photobook Club Barcelona. We couldn't stay in the they did, but we take a look at the collection and we can guarantee that it's a valuable treasure.

We had the chance to have a look at the Booklet version of "Stories" named "Afterword".

I hope the next city on the tour: Vevey, Switzerland (you can see the full list here), can enjoy our photozines and collage zines, because we left a good pile.