Photobook Pack 1

This are the four photobooks we are launching on Big Cartel, let's call it, Pack 1. Very original. Really. Any way, the price for all four zines is 13€ (shipping included). Super promo! The four photobooks are made for four special photographers, some of them, you already know them:

 The 2pm 6am photobook by Irene Serrano is also known as "The Winnie the poo" one. A few problems we had about kids opening the zine... ups. Let's not spam the content. :)

Northwestern Wild is a photobook made and designed by Paula Prats, a Spanish photographer who received a BA from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, in 2011. A few months ago, she published this wonderful booklet.

"Northwestern wild is a compilation of images from an isolated island on the west coast of Canada.

Taken back in 2011, it is my very first series."

Ah, this one is fantastic. Ekaterina really made a nice selection of his documentary work Russian citizens and the pilgrimages to publish our first photobook with us: Pilgrimage. Here a interesting text from Solovieva's website:

Since 2007 I devote my time to studying of the life in Russian province paying special attention to its communal-religious side. As a photodocumentalist I am particularly interested in the topics of pilgrimage, abandoned churches, monasteries transferred to secular purposes, Orthodox communes and communes of other religions. My photozine «Паломники» (Pilgrimage) is devoted to the first of these topics.

Such things as the pilgrimage and processions are very popular in Russia now. In each region of the country there is it’s own, mostly respected saint or saints. Or some special place where something tragic or historically important happened. It is these places or those, where the saints lived, that the processions move to. People come together (the most popular procession in the Kirov region counts up to 50000 people every year) and carrying icons, and singing march on during a few days, stopping for sleeping and praying.
This is a very interesting and positive action, that I love to watch and take pictures of. People reveille themselves in new circumstances, that are impossible in their everyday life – during a prayer in a church, a confession, or a lengthily off-road walk…

Yaroslavl, Tver, Arkhangelsk regions, Russia
2012-201

 

The last of this female photobook pack is Tafelen by Nicoletta Van Doorn, published last year and designed by Pere Saguer using his comic grids. The narrative of the photobook is very personal, like a diary about his journeys in the Iberian regions. What are you waiting? Get the pack here.

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.

New zines! February 2014

Oh! We have new stuff! Some of them were already on the website, but now you can buy them here. The first one was "No saquen las flores" from Pere Saguer and you can have a preview here. The second photozine is our first publication from Irene Serrano, a young photographer from Barcelona and addicted to party.

2pm 6am by Irene Serrano Robredo

The zine has to be seen as a full summer carefree day. And with the nice sunny weather. But we are not very fans of sunny weather, truly.

Glorious Youth!

People, afterparty on Barcelona subway.

Tenderete 7

And yes, tomorrow we move again to València where the Vendo Oro colective organized again the Tenderete Festival. Perhaps the earliest zine comic festival of the year? The festival is going to take place at La Llimera, at Carrer Pérez Escrich nº13 the 4th and 5th of January.

Poster for the festival: tenderete-7 / 4 & 5 January 2014

We are gonig to have two new photozines: No saquen las flores from Pere Saguer and 2pm6am from Irene Serrano, both of them in full colour! And as usual, some music from Orgonomy Records.

"Capitalismo Barbarie" by Carles Palacio, "Caravan" by Robert Roura",
"No saquen las flores" and "Christopher discovered america by mistake" by Pere Saguer

For this edition of Tenderete, Martin is working on a "small press map" of spanish publishers and HERE are our answers (in spanish). The questionnaire is inspired in Anna Ehrlemark and Fijuk team "Small Press Map" project, with the aim of creating a map of European independent graphic scene.

"Christopher dicovered america by mistake" (second edition) and "No saquen las flores" both of them by Pere Saguer