Photobook – A Look at the Diversity of a Medium | Lumix Festival für jungen Bildjournalismus

Fri, 26.06.
Photobook – A Look at the Diversity of a Medium

What advantages are offered by the photobook medium? In the digital age, is the photobook still relevant? How has the photobook changed over the past years? How do things work between the photographer and publisher, and is this collaboration strictly necessary? Are there disparities within international publications?

Within the framework of the digital Lumix Festival 2020, we will answer these questions with help from experts. We will examine why the bound presentation of photos on simple, white paper is no longer in keeping with the times and what possibilities can arise from playing with various materials and layouts within a book. With current examples of professional photographers and photography students from around the world, we will examine whether an international trend can be evinced, and how we can draw distinctions between them.

Podcast From the Idea to the Publication. In Conversation with Klaus Kehrer

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Klaus Kehrer is a German photobook publisher and founder of the eponymous publishing house. Our conversation with him will take us behind the book cover to answer questions such as when exactly a photo story has the potential to be published as a book, and what possibilities this can present to photographers. We will give visitors a closer look at the creation of a photobook and offer photographers support in implementing and publishing their own projects.

Video lecture by Felix Koltermann Newsprint and the Documentary Image

For a long time, newspapers have been the main medium to publish journalistic images. Nowadays the internet replaced newspapers in their role as the most important mass medium which led to the current crisis in photojournalism. But parallel to that development, changes in newspaper printing techniques opened up new opportunities for the use of the newsprint medium. As a consequence, today we have the newsprint photobook as a medium between the classic photobook and the newspaper as a mass medium which is used by photographers and photojournalists especially in the self-publishing scene. In the video talk “Newsprint and the Documentary Image”, Felix Koltermann presents projects from his Newsprint Photobook collection that are devoted to the documentary image.

All Lectures are free of charge. But you can make a donation for the festival. Any sum is welcome. Please donate.

Live Talk moderated by Sophia Greiff Laia Abril in conversation

In her projects multidisciplinary artist Laia Abril is making hidden stories visible and putting complex ethical and moral issues up for discussion. Her photobooks, such as ‘The Epilogue’ and ‘On Abortion’ are often referred to as ‘research-based photobooks’ and have received great critical acclaim.

Laia Abril, from the book The Epilogue, Dewi Lewis Publishing, Stockport 2014.

Investigating topics that are intimate and uncomfortable, sometimes illegalised, relating to taboos and stigma, she divides her long-term projects into chapters, using photography, text, archival materials, video and sound to create different experiences for diverse platforms and audiences.

Session was hosted by VII Photo Agency.

All Live Talks are free of charge. But you can make a donation for the festival. Any sum is welcome. Please donate.

Laia Abril

Sophia Greiff

Thekla Ehling, Paul Spehr and Frederic Lezmi in conversation with young photobook creators. Best of the Photobookclass

In five short interviews, Thekla Ehling, Paul Spehr and Frederic Lezmi will present extremely interesting photobook projects created by their students:

Jan Richard Heinicke with “Cornutopia”
Helena Lea Manhartsberger with „Eat, Sleep, School, Fight”
Daniel Niedermeier with „Als ich noch fliegen konnte”
Chantal Seitz with “Boubou Business”
Patrick Junker with “3804 Tage”

All the dummies to be presented were produced from 2018 to 2019 in the photobook class offered at Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts. This course stands at the interface of documentary photography, visual storytelling and book design; for photography students in Hanover in particular, it provides vital momentum to the development of their own work. The conversations with these photographers will analyse each respective dummy, go over the creation process and explore important ideas in conceptualisation, design and implementation.

The five 15-minute episodes will be published on the Festival website and our YouTube channel during the Lumix Festival.

All Live Talks are free of charge. But you can make a donation for the festival. Any sum is welcome. Please donate.

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