- Notes From Part I - Lewis Chaplain / Sarah Piegay Espenon -

A talk from the members who run Loose Joints in the South of France (Photobook publishing). Here are some notes from the talk and a quick reflection. I will attach the other photographers' links (ones I find) to this blog.

You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)

• Self Published in 2010.

• The first thing was ever done in terms of putting pictures onto a page

• Exploring photography and narrative.

• Born out of curiosity.

• Self-taught using InDesign

• Add to dialogue around contemporary photography.

1419

• A publisher that he ran with Alex Webb (Photographer)

  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/webb_norriswebb/?hl=en

  • Linktree: https://linktr.ee/webb_norriswebb

  • Website: https://www.webbnorriswebb.co/

• Gather photographic talents that stumbled across to bring together

• exhibitions and publications

Minus Five

• Some example of people include:

  • Bobby Doherty

    • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blobbybloherty/?hl=en

    • Website: https://bobbydoherty.net/

  • Maisie Cousins

    • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maisiecousins/?hl=en

    • Website: https://www.maisiecousins.com/

  • Harry Mitchell

    • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/harrymitchell/?hl=en

    • Website: https://www.harry-mitchell.com/

• Five photographers five images

These were the start to:

1. think about:

   1. page

   2. narrative

   3. rhythm

   4. format

   5. materials

Susanna Isaac

• first time think about how material print technique format informs the feeling and atmosphere of a body of work.

• Makes body of work within the landscape in a poetic and associative place.

• use extra elements to give presence.

Sean Vegezzi

• Photographer and his friends explored abandoned and disregarded areas from New York City. More than just traveling around abandoned cities

• More technical details

• Teaching themselves book design

• experience with more book fairs.

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanvegezzi/?hl=en

• Website: https://www.seanvegezzi.com/

Loose Joints

• wanting to further dialogue with a more contemporary artist.

• how the book can nurture and really develop the narrative of certain artists' work.

• start of consideration of design and format coming together

• Side project

• Part-time job

Elemer - Martin Pulaskic

• Hungarian artist

• Began in Budapest

• Collaborative work showing Still Life and fragility and tension.

• How to help Extract work to form a narrative

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/martinpulaski/?hl=en

• Website: https://hoochiekoochie.blog/

Bruises - Samara Scott

• came from conversation

• collaboration with each other

• things that informed her sculpture work

• visual sketch work of her practice

• Playful narrative

Sean Vegezzi - DMYCC

• 625 Pages - Biggest ever published

• Editing down 11000 images

• Giant tunnel underneath the Manhattan bridge

• 10 years in the making

• Documenting everything from recleaning the underground spot

• Using wooden boards for presentation

• The book became the work and the purpose of the design is to represent a secret inspired by the process.

Reflection of work so far

• Seeing how these are made it is good to play with design.

• Sometimes all it takes is to play around with software to learn skills.

• Pages can range depending on the purpose of the work.

• Design is a range of format size communication of work.

• Creatively speaking sometimes discarded work can make a good art piece and stretch the boundary of what society finds normal and create work.

Part II coming soon...