Saturday 25 & Sunday 26 January 2025
ANALOGUE PHOTO BOOK MAKING WORKSHOP
This is an all-analogue workshop; no knowledge of editing programs is necessary.
We will concentrate on the following aspects of bookmaking: theory of editing, editing combined with exercises, designing the layout of a dummy, introduction to bookbinding, sawing exercises, introduction to papers, designing the cover, introduction to printing techniques, and introduction to publishing.
Participants are required to bring a set of images in 3 different sizes, which will be used for editing as well as developing a dummy. Participants will be asked to bring their own tools.
Aimed at: photographers with projects developed that they want to turn into book dummy, artists intending to turn their work into the form of a book; and those who wish to create an artist's book as a medium of expression.
Participants are required to send by email about 30–40 pictures as well as text describing their project. Before the workshop, the project will be discussed to find the best design solution for developing it later. The aim is that each participant will finish the workshop with a physical draft dummy that could be developed further. We will also cover some technical aspects of making books with practical exercises.
Detailed schedule :
25 January SATURDAY start 10:00
10:00 - 10:30 -- introduction of the tutor, introduction to
photobook making, samples of handmade books
10:30 - 11:30 -- short introduction to the projects of each
participant
11:30-12:30 -- Editing and visual narration introduction
12:30 - 13:30 – lunch break
13:30 - 17:30 – editing (group and individual)
26 January SUNDAY start 10:00
10:00 - 11:30 -- stitching exercises
11:30 - 12:30 -- individual work on a book dummy
12:30 - 13:30 -- lunch break
13:30 - 15:30 -- individual work on a book dummy
15:30 - 17:30 -- final presentation of each person
Tomasz Laczny is a visual artist and bookmaker who loves to teach and learn about the process of creating photobooks. Since 2015, he has been creating and publishing photo books. He works as a book artist and, most recently, as a book designer for (M)edition and Ibasho Gallery.
His recent photobook, "Erna Helena Ania'' is part of the MoMA collection library. The book won a silver medal at the 2021 Tokyo International Foto Awards, a bronze medal at the 2021 International Photographers of the Year, and has been a finalist for the 2021 International Photobook Award. The project is a winner of BUP book competition organised by Blow Up Press (2020). He is a winner of the Reminders Photography Stronghold Grand (2020). His previous books have been nominated for numerous photography awards and exhibited internationally. His first photobook "40/place which does not exist," received an honorable mention at the Kassel Dummy Award in 2016. His recent designed book "Absentee" (author Sayuri Ichida) has been shortlisted for Prix Nadar Prize 2022. He has organised workshops about the subject of photobook making internationally.