Image: David Cook, from the forthcoming book; Jellicoe & Bledisloe.
Photobook/NZ Masterclass 2020
4 & 5 March 2020, College of Creative Arts, Massey University, Wellington
Photobook/NZ is excited to offer a two-day international masterclass in which we will explore the processes of creating and publishing photobooks. Targeted for artists and photographers who have a photo-based project in development, the workshops offer opportunities for each participant to work through the process of how to turn their own body of work into a completed photobook.
Presentations from international and New Zealand guests will explore approaches to concept development, editing and sequencing, design, funding and finding your audience.
Working one on one and in groups, the workshop experience is structured to enable the exchange of ideas and expertise with peers, as well as our international and NZ guests who are experienced photographers, photobook makers, publishers and designers; offering practical advice to support the development of projects and inspiration to progress them in new and surprising ways.
Masterclass teachers and facilitators will work across two groups. Places are limited to 10 participants in each.
Teachers and Facilitators:
Cristina de Middel (Spain)
Matthew Casteel (US)
Perimeter Books (AU)
Daniel Boetker-Smith (AU)
Jono Rotman (US)
David Cook (NZ)
Anna Brown (NZ)
Update: The masterclass is now full, but you are welcome to put yourself on a waitlist in case of withdrawals. Please send enquiries to Jonathan Kay: j.kay@massey.ac.nz
Teachers and Facilitators
Cristina de Middel | Spain
Spanish photographer Cristina de Middel is a prolific and innovative photobook author. After ten years as a photojournalist, Cristina re-invented her practice, producing The Afronauts (2012), which explored the Zambian space program of the 1960s. Cristina’s work has received numerous editorial and arts awards, including PhotoFolio Arles 2012 and the Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography in New York.
www.lademiddel.com | @lademiddel
Perimeter Books | AU
Perimeter is a bookstore (Perimeter Books), distribution house (Perimeter Distribution), award-winning publisher (Perimeter Editions) and platform for various photography, art and design publishing endeavours in Melbourne, Australia. Founded by Justine Ellis and Dan Rule in 2011, Perimeter curates an active program of exhibitions, talks, launches and workshops; co-presents Art Book Fairs and runs two biennial book-related prizes.
perimeterbooks.com
perimetereditions.com | perimeterdistribution.com
@perimeterbooks
Jono Rotman | US
Jono Rotman (born 1974, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand) is an artist working between Aotearoa New Zealand and the USA. He lives in San Francisco. Rotman’s work has been exhibited in the USA, Australia and New Zealand and is represented in collections in the USA and Australasia. He is the recipient of the Prix Du Livre Images Vevey (2018) and The Marti Friedlander Photographic Award (2013).
www.jonorotman.com
David Cook | NZ
David Cook is a photographer and lecturer based at Massey University, Wellington. His published photobooks deal with communities in transition. Lake of Coal: The Disappearance of a Mining Township was a finalist of the 2007 Montana NZ Book Awards. Meet Me in the Square (2014) reconstructs the city of Christchurch through images he made in the central city during the 1980s. River Road: Journeys Through Ecology (Cook, Puke, Valentine 2011) explores the landscape through a bicultural lens. His forthcoming book, Jellicoe & Bledisloe, deals with life in a state housing suburb.
Matthew Casteel | US
American born, Matthew Casteel (M L Casteel) is an award-winning photographer and educator whose work focuses on the perils and triumphs of the human condition. Casteel’s first book, ‘American Interiors’, was published by Dewi Lewis Publishing in 2018 and was shortlisted for the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards: First Photobook Prize. His work has been featured in TIME Magazine, The Washington Post, CNN, and the Guardian, amongst other publications.
www.mlcasteel.com | @mlcasteel
Daniel Boetker-Smith | AU
Daniel Boetker-Smith is an educator, writer, curator, publisher, and photographer based in Melbourne.
Since 2013, he has been the Higher Education Course Director at Melbourne’s Photography Studies College.
He is a regular contributor to the British Journal of Photography, Voices of Photography, Vault, Photoeye, Paper Journal, Heavy, Source, GUP Magazine, European Photography, and other Australian and international publications. Daniel is also the Director of the Asia-Pacific Photobook Archive, a not-for-profit library of self-published and independent photobooks.
dbs.dunked.com| photobookarchive.com @dboetkers
Anna Brown | NZ
Anna Brown is an award-winning designer and typographer. She is known for her collaborative approach to book design, exploring narrative forms. Her personal research interests sit within an established discipline of innovative book design. Through projects with visual artists and musicians, she investigates the concept of the expanded book in a digital age.