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Articles, essays and interviews with photographers/artists, designers and publishers, discussing different aspects of the contemporary photobook.

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15-02-2021

Cut to a Photobook >

Tine Guns & Daria Tuminas Rocambolesco from tine guns on Vimeo. Belgian Platform For Photobooks invited the artist Tine Guns and the curator Daria…

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19-08-2020

The (Photo)book: On Potentiality

Natasha Christia   My relation to books, not just (photo)books, provides the point of departure for this essay. Like everyone,…

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29-02-2020

Photobook or Artist’s Book? Where do we draw the line?

José Luís Neves   A book is a sequence of spaces. Each of these spaces is perceived at a different…

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24-08-2019

The paradoxically perfect and utterly imperfect photobook

A three-part conversation with Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa Stefan Vanthuyne (This is the third and final part of the conversation, part one…

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19-08-2019

The paradoxically perfect and utterly imperfect photobook

A three-part conversation with Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa Stefan Vanthuyne (This is part two of the conversation, part one can be found…

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15-08-2019

The paradoxically perfect and utterly imperfect photobook

A three-part conversation with Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa Stefan Vanthuyne In the closing interview in her impressive book The Notion of Family…

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09-05-2018

Mariela Sancari: experimenting with the photobook and the photobook as experiment

Stefan Vanthuyne With her highly praised book Moisés (2015), Argentina-born and Mexico-based photographer Mariela Sancari managed to find an exceptionally strong balance…

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12-02-2018

Jurgen Maelfeyt on why so many designers are running imprints

Stefan Vanthuyne Last October, Ghent-based publishing house Art Paper Editions took up an artist residency at the M HKA in Antwerp….

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05-12-2017

Ron Jude: wrestling with the narrative impulse

Stefan Vanthuyne As American photographer Ron Jude takes us trough a selection of his books, we get to understand his…

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03-11-2017

The photobook as cultural phenomenon

Stefan Vanthuyne Last spring and throughout last summer the CCCB and the Fundació Foto Colectania in Barcelona hosted Photobook Phenomenon. The exhibition…

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11-10-2017

Chance encounter with a woman, her sister and her past

Stefan Vanthuyne Working closely together with her sister Lieve, who wanted to surprise Brigitte for her seventieth birthday, photographer Titus…

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15-09-2017

Rob Van Hoesel: Dutch design for Belgian books

Stefan Vanthuyne 2016 was a good year for Rob Van Hoesel, the Dutch designer running The Eriskay Connection, with three…

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