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With the printed page a key site of photographic circulation, curators and researchers of photographic history often face the question of how to integrate publications into an exhibition. Coinciding with Photo London 2026, this event brings together museum professionals and specialist researchers to identify, discuss and propose solutions to these shared challenges.
The day, which will Read More
L is for Look invites visitors of all ages on an interactive journey of discovery through the history of children’s and young adult photography books, from the early experiments of the 1930s to the present day. The exhibition brings together around one hundred international children’s photography books that stand out for their original and creative Read More
For one weekend in May, ICP welcomes over 80 publishers from around the world, bringing the best in photobook-making to the Lower East Side.
This three-day celebration of photography publishing features exclusive photographer book signings, drop-in workshops, and engaging conversations shaping the future of photobook making.
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There’s More to Life is part of a photobook exchange between Wales and Brazil features self-published or published photobooks and zines that explore personal, social or cultural narratives in relation to the theme There’s More to Life.
There’s More to Life challenges dominant Western, capitalist, ableist and patriarchal ways of knowing by creating space for alternative Read More
Sara Rman’s Where It Remembers, is a series of photographs, objects and an artist’s book. The artist explores a chosen micro-location, and its constituents and building blocks. In doing so, she does not remain merely an observer documenting the existing state, but actively intervenes in the semi-urban landscape, engaging with its materials. The metamorphosis of Read More
The Women’s Art Library, Goldsmiths Special Collections and Archives, Goldsmiths is hosting a book launch for Puérpera, a powerful photobook by Montevideo-born visual artist and photographer Deborah Elenter.
Since 2015, Elenter has been documenting the experiences of people giving birth — work that confronts the historical invisibility of childbirth in contemporary art, reclaiming it as a Read More
Female artists have long employed collage techniques to reflect the ways in which identity is often constructed from conflicting, contrasting, and contradictory parts. Cut Out: A Feminist History of Photo Collage, Montage and Assemblage is a new V&A publication which explores the relationship between photography and feminist collage, foregrounding the use of femmage—a radical reclaiming Read More
The long-awaited and comprehensive catalogue accompanying the Estonian Museum of Photography’s main exhibition of the year of the body, Gendered Lens, has been released. The book bears the full title Gendered Lens. Body, Gender, and Sexuality in the History of Photography in Estonia from the Late 19th Century to the Early 2000s, clearly signalling its Read More
Photography books have long been a source of delight for Sofia Coppola. When the American filmmaker, known for sumptuously atmospheric tales of self-discovery such as The Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation and Marie Antoinette, is in search of inspiration, she browses the photobooks on her shelves.
Coppola traces her love of photography to the fashion magazines Read More
Putting Ourselves In The Picture – Part 2
December 2, 12:45 – 1:30pm
Free in person and online, registration is required
Hawthornden Lecture Theatre, National Galleries of Scotland
Join a panel of contributors, including photographer Anna Fox, to hear about Putting Ourselves in the Picture Part 2: Engaging with Industry. As part of this UK-wide partnership Read More
From One to Another will be a soft cover publication featuring work by the 12 artists in Feminist Photography Network’s 2023 Online Peer to Peer Residency, and three commissioned texts by Dr Charlene Heath, Alexis Kinloch, and Lodoe Laura. It will be published by OK Stamp Press in Montreal and printed at The Gas Company Read More
Blouin Division is pleased to present an exhibition of photographs by Angela Grauerholz for the occasion of the launch of her book The Hundred Headless Woman published by Steidl (Göttingen, Germany).
The book brings together more than 150 portraits of 100 women, some known to the artist, others not, taken by Grauerholz over a period of Read More
Afterimages of Apartheid shows how photographs of the past can be mobilised as a critical tool for understanding the ongoing effects of apartheid in contemporary South Africa.
Through close readings of significant images made during and after apartheid, the book shows how photography works as a means of documentation, commemoration, and resistance. The book considers the Read More
In the summer of 1949, Susan Weil introduced her partner Robert Rauschenberg to the process of exposing blueprint paper at her family home in Connecticut. What began as a playful experiment rooted in Weil’s childhood memories soon transformed into a striking series of large-scale works. Together they laid sheets of light-sensitive paper in the sun, Read More
This full colour publication published by Impressions Gallery is a poignant, and at times, moving body of work that translates Joy Gregory’s intense experience of place.
Translating Place features work created by Gregory during her three month residency in Sri Lanka in 2004 and also includes Narratives of Place an insightful and perceptive essay by Rohini Read More
Patrizia Pulga’s third book on female photographers: Photographs of the present and the past in Africa, Latin America, Asia and Oceania, is a 300 page catalogue of photographers from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Oceania who, together with those covered in the author’s previous volumes, completes the circle on the lives and work of female Read More
Photobook Mania 2025 is the first edition of PhMuseum’s biennial event dedicated to photography and printed matter. Within the 500 sqm natural setting of Serra Madre, located in a beautiful area of Bologna, Photobook Mania brings together a curated selection of international, independent publishers.
Highlights include:
20+ publishers showcasing and selling their titles
Workshop with Aaron Read More
The Traces of the Future research programme is dedicated to expanding the study and visibility of women in photography from Japan. Conceived in close dialogue with an advisory committee, the initiative explores these artists’ practices within a broader historical framework and in the context of contemporary discourse.
Texts for the programme have been commissioned from curators Read More
To celebrate Photoworks turning 30, they’ve teamed up with the University of Brighton to present a day of talks, workshops, and photobook launches exploring the art and practice of photobooks. Engage with leading artists, publishers, designers and curators on topics that span concept to production, including vision, sequencing, design, materiality and reaching audiences.
The day will Read More
In the 1950s the American ideal of the glamourous blonde swept into a war-torn Britain, where it was transformed into something uniquely British – Marilyn Monroe became Diana Dors.
Join author Lynda Nead for a look at the ways in which post-war British class, social aspiration and desire shaped images of women, through a discussion of Read More
Impressions Gallery’s annual Photobook Fair returns with book stalls to enjoy, and a programme of events including talks, book launches, and fun workshops.
The fair will be spotlighting independent, non-mainstream, grassroots and self-published photobooks and zines by photographers and artists.
Featuring Archiving to Remember, a workshop on how to care for your personal and family archives by Read More
With Love. From an Invader. – Rhododendrons, Empire, China and Me is an intensive field study. Every other day for a year, Yan Wang Preston (CN/GB) went to a particular love-heart-shaped Rhododendron ponticum bush and photographed it. The ritual walks offered her time and space to experience, observe, and explore the land from different perspectives. Read More
Two photographers, Fox and Knorr set out in 2016 on a journey of friendship, adventure and collaboration stopping at motels, drugstores, cafes and Airbnb’s. Stopping, walking, getting out to meet people and explore a fractured US society in the age of Trump. Over 150 colour photographs made between 2016 and 2025 focus on small towns Read More
By revealing rituals for “disappearance” that Ribeiro conceives and performs with other women to heal a traumatic experience of love and death she had, ‘Photo-Rituals for Disappearance’ celebrates the ancient, magical way women have to deal with love and remedy. By absorbing the aura of pagan rituals to praise the powers of care and healing Read More
Offprint London returns to Tate Modern for its 10-year-anniversary edition!
From Friday 16th to Sunday 18th May 2025, the book fair will bring together independent experimental and socially engaged publishers in the fields of arts, architecture, design, humanities, and visual culture.
This new edition will feature a dynamic programme of talks, conversations, book launches and signings throughout Read More
Siân Davey will give an artist talk about her photographic practice coinciding with the 2025 MPF exhibition, The Creative Body: Photographs 2014 – 2024. In this new show Martin Parr Foundation brings together a collection of Siân’s works spanning the last decade for her first survey exhibition.
Siân will share images from her key series, including Read More
Uniting International Women’s Day and World Book Day, the weekend of March 6th-9th will see a multidisciplinary group exhibition, accompanied by a programme of events. Seeing a Cameraless Photography Workshop and Photobook displays, brought by Female Artists and Publishers hosted at The Photobook Cafe Gallery.
Featuring works by ten Female artists; Viviana Almas, Claire Sunho Lee, Read More
Landscape, flora and fauna have inspired photographers since the camera’s earliest days. Contemporary artists continue to experiment with the format of the book to adapt to the pressing challenges of our environment today.
Their work reflects an ongoing transformation in how humans understand and impact the natural world. These books are diverse in subject, geography and Read More
Decolonization and Diversity in Contemporary Photography is a powerful collection that celebrates and exhibits the talents of underrepresented artists. Focusing on fine art and documentary photography, this book provides a racially diverse and culturally inclusive version of photography history and its contemporary manifestations.
Who’s documenting the evolution of photography as it is happening now from an inclusive, Read More
The latest Prix Pictet book Collage features new and recent work by contemporary female photographers nominated and shortlisted for the prize since it first began in 2008.
Showcasing some of the finest photographers creating powerful imagery around the world today, Collage features images by 64 women photographers on the theme of sustainability.
Together the images address the Read More
I’m So Happy You Are Here presents a much-needed counterpoint, complement, and challenge to historical precedents and the established canon of Japanese photography. This restorative history presents a wide range of photographic approaches brought to bear on the lived experiences and perspectives of women in Japanese society.
Editors Pauline Vermare and Lesley A. Martin, curator and Read More
BOP – Books on Photography – is the annual photobook festival from Martin Parr Foundation and The Royal Photographic Society, held in Bristol across the second weekend of October. The festival brings together a wide-ranging group of photobook publishers, artist talks, exhibitions, book signings, events, street food, coffee and beer.
BOP 2024 will coincide with the Read More
Photography – A Queer History examines how photography has been used by artists to capture, create and expand the category ‘Queer’. It bookmarks different thematic concerns central to queer photography, forging unexpected connections to showcase the diverse ways the medium has been used to fashion queer identities and communities.
How has photography advanced fights against LGBTQ+ Read More
Alinka Echeverría is a Mexican-British artist, working across moving image, photography and installation. With a background in anthropology, Echeverría challenges conventional narratives around identity and home, offering unique perspectives into a range of cultural contexts through the subjects represented.
In this talk, Echeverría will give background behind her latest projects and the wider political and social issues Read More
We live in a time where the development of trends, technology, and politics is going at a breakneck pace. Moore’s law predicts that the amount of information, the amount of computing power, and the amount of memory power required, will double every other year in our hyper-technological society. This rapid acceleration changes how we interact Read More
Contemporary Photobooks from Australia is an evening of talks celebrating the display New Photobooks from Australia, curated by PHOTO Australia for the V&A’s Photography Centre. This symposium will feature a selection of women and non-binary artists who will speak about their practice and the experience of marking art in Australia today.
With opening remarks by Duncan Read More
A lineup of photobook publishers from across the UK and Europe will be showcasing the latest in photography and publishing at BOP 24, the annual photobook festival from Martin Parr Foundation and The Royal Photographic Society. The weekend will be accompanied by a programme of artist talks, exhibitions, events, book signings, street food, coffee and Read More
In the US, approximately 1000 people continue to die each year in encounters with police. More than any other industrialised nation. My America is an archive of and memorial to victims of these encounters. The photographs, taken at locations where citizens were shot or tasered by law enforcement officers, create a quiet but chilling critique Read More
This new book, published to mark the centenary of Bohm’s birth, showcases the diversity of her work and her profound empathy for the human condition. It contains texts by Monica Bohm-Duchen, Martin Barnes and Rachel Wallace with additional contributions from Maria Balshaw, Katy Barron, Colin Ford CBE, Anna Fox, Lydia Goldblatt, Mark Haworth-Booth, Amanda Hopkinson, Ian Read More
Photographed with an analog camera over 19 years, Karen Knorr’s Connoisseurs & Academies series immerses us in the elaborate world of museums and stately homes, showcasing objects, paintings, connoisseurship, and academic structures. The use of animals as allegorical motifs, first introduced with a chimpanzee as the Genius of the Place, has become a hallmark of Read More
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the AOP f22 group, and launched on International Women’s Day 2024, the group have published diptychs by 30 of its members showing a photograph they have produced alongside a behind-the-scenes image of the photographer at work.
The AOP f22 group was first created in the 1980s and then re-formed in Read More
How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway?
Have your sense of art history overturned, and your eyes opened to many art forms often overlooked or dismissed. From the Cornish coast to Manhattan, Nigeria to Japan, this Read More
A book about mothering and losing a mother, intimacy and distance, told through photographs and writing. Published by GOST Books. The book will launch at Photo London in May with a solo exhibition with Robert Morat Galerie.
To find out more please go to the direct link.
What They Saw project, a touring exhibition accompanied by a publication and series of public programs, is a means to ignite interest in underexposed and undocumented photobooks by women made between 1843 and 1999 and to begin a process of filling in the gaps. The present show is organized in collaboration with 10×10 Photobooks, a Read More
The third Leipzig Photobook Festival is dedicated to the topic of “Protest”. The topic will be researched from different perspectives in exhibitions of historical and contemporary books, a panel discussion and short presentations.
In addition, there will be panel discussions, presentations, exhibitions, book presentations, portfolio reviews, a speed dating event and a get-together.
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A new, revolutionary history of photography from a stellar team of writers and thinkers – Ariella Azoulay, Wendy Ewald, Susan Meiselas, Leigh Raiford, Laura Wexler – that challenges all existing narratives by focusing on the complex collaborations between photographer and subject
Collaboration presents a groundbreaking and multifaceted history of photography which explores photography through the lens of Read More
Shining Lights is the first critical anthology to bring together the groundbreaking work of Black women photographers active in the UK during the 1980s and 1990s, providing a richly illustrated overview of a significant and overlooked chapter of photographic history. Seen through the lens of Britain’s sociopolitical and cultural contexts, the publication draws on both Read More
Radical Film, Art and Digital Media for Societies in Turmoil
Edited by Ursula Böckler, Julia Lazarus & Alexandra Weltz-Rombach
Can radical film practices help to understand a disintegrating world? Can they have a healing effect? How can we maintain structures of solidarity in the field of radical media production for societies in turmoil and transition? And what Read More
How can artists create space in their work to reflect on colonial pasts? Join Mónica de Miranda and Professor Mark Sealy in conversation, and the launch of a limited edition book and print of de Miranda’s work The Island – a rare opportunity acquire work by the artist for only £100.
AUTOGRAPH, LONDON
TUESDAY 3 OCTOBER 6:30PM
KER is a photographic project investigating healing and resilience among female survivors of domestic violence through therapeutic storytelling and experimental photography. Domestic abuse is a cause very dear to Flochel’s heart because it is her personal story, just like it is for 1 in 3 women globally (WHO, 2021).
This project was born out of a Read More
So much is in midair. The daredevil dive from the bridge into the municipal river. A backyard trampoline jump executed with a kid sibling on the shoulders. A skate trick. A trio of grapefruits in the split second before they crash to the floor. A balloon. A BMX rider appearing to soar over the heads Read More
Part of the latest project from Fast Forward Women in Photography, Putting Ourselves in the Picture centres the lived experience of those working to build a home in the UK
In 2016, Vicky fled Uganda. “I moved because my life was no good there, here I have a chance to have a good Read More
Dr. Dawn Woolley will be in conversation with Dr. Jacki Willson to discuss some of the themes and ideas in the book.
Leeds Arts University Postgraduate Hub, Leeds Arts University, LS2 9AQ.
21st October 2022, 17:30 – 19:00
Free entry. Refreshments will be provided.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/consuming-the-body-9781350225299/
Dawn Woolley is an artist and research fellow at Leeds Read More
This collection evokes a mysterious and fragmented cityscape of two places – London and Athens – both of which artist Effie Paleologou has come to regard as almost home. Working nocturnally, when identities become blurred and indeterminate, Paleologou conjures a third fictional staging that she has become all the more attached to. Her images are Read More
Fifty years ago, in January 1971, Linda Nochlin’s essay Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? was published in the American journal ARTnews. Few art historians have been as influential, prolific, and radical as Nochlin. Between 1960 and 2017, she wrote seventeen books and numerous articles examining the social history of women in the arts Read More
A fabulous new book by Justine Kurland is out now published by Mack.
SCUMB Manifesto
SCUMB stands for Society for Cutting up Men’s Books!
Article by Sean Hagan is on line in the Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/apr/23/justine-kurland-a-new-scumb-manifesto-photography-collage-cut-up
A soft gaze at intimacy is an online community that reaches out to real life made of paper and connections; it’s a place to be, a place to sit quietly and a way to get in touch with the vulnerability and history of each person, of each artist. A publication that fuses power with fragility, Read More
In 2019 and 2020 Fast Forward created an annual list of the photobooks by women, which were recommended by various international experts. We aimed to bring more attention to some names and some titles, which deserve to be on the spotlight.
For 2020 we have asked to contribute: Rahaab Allana (Curator, Alkazi Foundation for the Arts), Read More
Traditionally a male-dominated field, street photography is increasingly becoming the domain of women. This fantastic collection of images reflects that shift, showcasing 100 contemporary women street photographers working around the world today, accompanied by personal statements about their work. Variously joyful, unsettling and unexpected, the photographs capture a wide range of extraordinary moments. The volume Read More
Changing forms of representation are fundamental to our understanding of the history of democracy. The Emergency in India – as well as its visual traces – imposed by Indira Gandhi’s Congress Government from 1975 to 1977, is widely held as one of the most controversial moments in the political history of the subcontinent since Independence. Read More
50 Feminist Art Manifestos is an anthology of original texts, edited and introduced by Katy Deepwell
Available from January 2022
This anthology contains the original manifestos of 50 women artists/feminist groups/feminist protests. Introductory essay by Katy Deepwell, with notes on each manifesto.
What is a manifesto? A political programme, a declaration, a definitive statement of belief. Neither institutional Read More
“Becoming Sisters; Women Photography Collectives & Organizations” is an impactful 286-page photobook by editors Aldeide Delgado and Ana Clara Silva that centers around collaborative practices in photography from a feminist perspective. Presented alongside the 2021 WOPHA Congress in Miami, this publication works as a registry and collective manifesto of 40 international women and non-binary collectives Read More
Publisher: 10×10 Photobooks, NYC
Date of Publication: 2021
Editors: Russet Lederman and Olga Yatskevich
Associate Editors: Dolly Meieran and Jeff Gutterman
Presenting a diverse geographic and ethnic selection, the What They Saw anthology interprets historical photobooks by women in the broadest sense possible: classic bound books, portfolios, personal albums, unpublished books, zines and scrapbooks. Some of the books documented are well-known publications such as Read More
Co-founded by Russet Lederman and Olga Yatskevich in 2012, 10×10 Photobooks foster engagement with the global photobook community through the appreciation, dissemination, and understanding of photobooks. The PGH Photo Fair has partnered with 10 x 10 Photobooks on all their previous touring reading rooms, including in 2019 for How We See: Photobooks by Read More
‘Dad is dead, come back home.’
This is how Ioanna’s sister announced the death of their father to her over the phone.
The return to her homeland Greece marked the departure on a journey of understanding death through family, religion, mythology and the self.
Her own grieving process became the lens through which she investigated the collective mourning Read More
SEXISM AT DANISH UNIVERSITIES – THE ACADEMIC #METOO MOVEMENT
Friday October 2nd, 2020, a mail with an open invitation to sign the petition ’Sexism at Danish Universities’ went out from a group of 16 initiators to the entire Danish Academic sector.
The petition arose from a deep personal and professional desire to cast light on the prevalent Read More
“How did the abolitionist movement interact with women’s entry into the field of photography? What does the medium have to do with menstrual taboos? Is there even such a thing as a ‘feminist image’?
Whether working in the studio or on the front line, women have contributed to every aspect of photography’s short history. For some, Read More
“Of all the neighborhoods I’ve lived in since I moved to New York City in 1997, none have affected me like Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. I felt it immediately. Before the moving truck even left the curb I’d made a portrait. That year, in 2015, I started making street portraits of people in Bed-Stuy with my Read More
“I have always loved visiting the homes of others, not so much to see how people lived their daily lives, but in order to try and understand them better, and in my turn feel accepted by them, becoming part of their lives.”
Involved in this narrative there are people who are part of italian society’s collective Read More
He only feels the black and white of it, Berlin Wall 14-07-73 is published by Mörel Books.
Steffi Klenz places a sequence of a 1973 archive press-photograph at the centre: a photograph of a damaged section of the Berlin Wall. The Image pictures East German military guards and border policemen carrying out repair works at the wall. Read More
Le donne fotografe dalla nascita della fotografia ad oggi: uno sguardo di genere / Women photographers from the beginning of photography up to now: a gender insight
crowd funding project
This is a wonderful publisher but out of nearly 40 books on the site only 2 are by a woman – the same woman
the wonderful Trish Porter
http://www.caferoyalbooks.com/?tx=4JG67517UH0031919&st=Completed&amt=9%2e45&cc=GBP&cm=&item_number=
I suggest we all try to get published here
KEN. TO BE DESTROYED. A new publication from Sara Davidmann
Edited by Val Williams
Published by Schilt, Amsterdam.
Ken.To be destroyed began with an archive and a discovery. Sara Davidmann and her siblings inherited letters and photographs belonging to their uncle and aunt, Ken and Hazel Houston, from their mother Audrey Davidmann. The letters Read More
