Location: Landskrona theater
We welcome everyone interested to Landskrona Theater for three intensive days centered around the photo book. The market takes place in the theater’s upper foyer, in conjunction with Landskrona Photo’s on-stage program. Publishers as well as individual photographers will be participating, all presenting and selling their publications. Visitors will have the opportunity to discover new titles, immerse themselves in contemporary photobook literature, and meet the creators behind the books.
At Matscenen restaurant, selected photographers present their book projects and share insights into their creative processes and ideas during lunchtime. In conjunction with the market, exhibitions are also on display, including the Swedish Photographers’ Association’s annual photobook award.
The Photobook Days aims to promote interest in photography and the photobook as an artistic and publicistic medium. As in previous years, a meeting place is created where publishers, photographers, and the public can meet, converse, and exchange experiences.
This year’s edition also places a special emphasis on the reading experience. A dedicated reading area will be set up in the café at Landskrona Konsthall, where visitors can explore a selection of titles from various publishers. The café will be open throughout the festival, offering visitors the opportunity to enjoy photo literature across a range of genres and styles in a peaceful and relaxed setting.
B-B-B-Books is a publishing platform that engages in methods of narration and visual culture. Founded in Stockholm in 2011 by visual artists Klara Källström and Thobias Fäldt together with designers 1:2:3.
The projects focus on the production of knowledge, exploring media issues, historical narratives, and the depiction and perception of political events. Over the years, B-B-B-Books has produced a number of works relating to places undergoing paradigmatic changes and seeks to activate historical layers and notions of uncertainty and chance in order to draw attention to the gap between what is visible and what is told.
Read more about the B-B-B-Books here.
Blackbook Publications, a publisher and artist collective, was established in Gothenburg in 2009. Since then, they have published approximately 30 books and other printed materials by Scandinavian contemporary photographers. Their aim is to create books that are works of art in themselves, not merely printed reproductions. Members of Blackbook Publications have received numerous awards and exhibited their work at major institutions worldwide.
Read more about the Blackbook Publications here.
Breadfield Press is a Malmö-based independent publishing house. The focus of Breadfield Press is most often on smaller projects. They do not restrict themselves to specific themes or areas but explore the field between photography and the book as an entity. They are particularly interested in multilayered works, projects with solid foundations in strong ‘stories’ but with unique attitudes. They are also the founder and caretaker of the Landskrona Foto & Breadfield Dummy Award.
Read more about Breadfiels Press here.
bt:st verlag is a self-publishing initiative based in Kiel, Germany, dedicated to documentary projects realized as photobooks. Founded in 2012, the press has published nine titles of its founders’ own work, as well as one title by an affiliated artist. Its publications have been presented at festivals including the Leipzig Photobook Festival and Photobook Week Aarhus.
At the upcoming edition of the Photobook Days, bt:st verlag will present two titles published this year: We See You by Angelika Oetker-Kast, documenting the relationship between humans and non-human animals, and Tavisupleba I Freedom by Andreas Oetker-Kast, examining the democracy movement in Georgia, created in collaboration with Georgian artists. The press will also present earlier publications, including Tamar, Where Are You?, Cyprus Paradise, and come, see true flowers of this painful world by Otar Karalashvili.
Read more about bt:st verlag here.
FAMN Publishing is a small Malmö-based (Sweden) publishing house focusing on photography and visual art. Experimental. Curious. Small editions. In close collaboration with the artists.
Read more about FAMN Publishing here.
Fragment is an independent online book shop specializing in photo books. Fragment is born out of a passion for photography and the book as an ideal medium for realising photographic projects. Fragment sees the photo book as an individual art work and not a collection of images in a book. It’s all about photography, sequence, print, paper and design as a whole.The book format also gives a unique possibility to experience the art in depth, again and again in both a tactile and visual way.
Read more about Fragment here.
HDK-Valand Photography Students presenting publications produced throughout the years.
Read more about the academic programmes in photography here.
KATALOG is classic and timeless – in print for 37 years, twice yearly, 96 pages of high-quality printing put together by a flexi-board of editors, in-depth articles in English and Scandinavian in parallel, world-wide distribution. Issue # 107 has just been published – going out to i.a. Harvard, V&A Museum, Getty, K*MoPA Japan, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Tate Britain, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Stedelijk Museum, Centre Pompidou, Sackler at Oxford University, Calouste Gulbenkian Lisbon, Glasgow School of Art, and of course Landskrona Foto.
Read more about KATALOG here.
Null & Void Books creates books about contemporary phenomena in art and culture. The publishing program is focused on projects made in close collaboration with artists, writers and designers. The published work acts as foundation for a longterm working-platform for book projects produced and presented in specific contexts. The publications are avaliable at selected bookstores, museums, art book fairs and via the worldwide web. Null & Void Books is based in Lund, Sweden and was initiated in 2014.
Read more about Null & Void Books here.
Sailor Press aims to offer an alternative to publishing restricted by the constraints of institutions or larger publishers. In close dialogue and collaboration with the artists we develop publications that explore the artist’s work as well as the book as a medium. The content of the book and the book as object are equally important. Sailor Press is founded and run by book designer Matilda Plöjel, and wishes to explore the field between art and graphic design. Sailor Press also distributes critical writings on design, craft and art.
Read more about Sailor Press here.
Skavank is an independent publisher and collective operating in the cracks between art, politics, and poetry. We make space for what rubs—for voices that generate friction rather than resolve into smoothness. Our publications are as much objects as ideas: distinctive, experimental, and persistent.
Read more about Skavank här.
This year’s edition is organized by Null & Void Books in collaboration with Landskrona Foto.
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