Photobook Practices
Talks & Conversations
Adam Meeks and Ray Meeks In Conversation
Photography and cinema make different claims on the viewer’s time. The medium of the photobook is related to both, but also introduces its own notion of a timeline. The filmmaker Adam Meeks, son of the photographer Raymond Meeks, grew up immersed in photobooks – not only the objects, but the process of their making. Now, father and son, both LTP faculty, talk about Raymond’s new book, The Inhabitants (Mack, 2023), and the related upcoming show, Immersion at ICP in New York, and about their time together in France as Raymond was making the work. They unpack a certain tension that arose between them during that time regarding their differing approaches, perspectives, and ways of working. They also talk about their teaching philosophies – what they gain from teaching, and what they hope to offer.
Artist Talk: Dayanita Singh (online)
Dayanita Singh (b. 1961, India) uses photography to reflect and expand on the ways in which we relate to photographic images. Her recent works, drawn from her extensive photographic oeuvre, are a series of mobile museums that allow her images to be endlessly edited, sequenced, archived and displayed. Stemming from Singh’s interest in the archive, the museums present her photographs as interconnected bodies of work that are replete with both poetic and narrative possibilities. Publishing is also a significant part of the artist’s practice: in her books, often published without text, Singh extends her experiments on alternate forms of producing and viewing photographs.
This talk will be moderated by Jenia Fridlyand.
In conversation: Ricardo Báez & Hans Gremmen (Online)
Hans Gremmen is a graphic designer, based in Amsterdam. He works in the field of photography, architecture and fine arts and has designed over 300 books, and won various awards for his experimental designs. Among them a Golden Medal in the Best Book Design from all over the World competition. In 2008 he founded publishing house Fw:Books; a publishing house with a focus on photography related projects and books. He recently initiated ENTER ENTER, a space for books; a project space in the centre of Amsterdam which explores the boundaries of the book.
Ricardo Báez is a graphic designer based in Caracas. He focuses on editorial and book design. Ricardo is the co-founder (with Andrea Gámez) of the design studio called Tipografía Báez®. He has received several awards including: 1st Prize Dummy Award Kassel 8, Kassel Fotobook Festival (2016); The Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation “First Photobook” Award (2017); and “Best Book Design from All Over the World”, Honorary Appreciation, Stiftung Buchkunst (2018). All these mentions associated with the book design of Monsanto®: A Photographic Investigation by Mathieu Asselin. He has also been nominated to The Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards “Jurors’ Special Mention –Books About Books–” shortlist for the book Printed Photography in Venezuela by Sagrario Berti.
Artist Talk: Tim Carpenter (Online)
Tim Carpenter (Illinois, 1968) is a photographer and writer who works in Brooklyn and central Illinois. He is the author of several photobooks, among them Christmas Day, Bucks Pond Road (The Ice Plant); Local objects (The Ice Plant); township (collaboration with Raymond Meeks, Adrianna Ault, and Brad Zellar; TIS/dumbsaint); Bement grain (TIS/dumbsaint); Still feel gone (collaboration with Nathan Pearce; Deadbeat Club Press); Illinois Central (Kris Graves Projects); The king of the birds (TIS books); and A house and a tree (TIS books). Local objects was included in the 2018 exhibition “American Surfaces and the Photobook” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and was listed for the Kassel Photobook Award 2018. Tim received an MFA in Photography from the Hartford Art School in 2012, and in 2015 co-founded TIS books, an independent photobook publisher.
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This talk is presented as a public component of the Image Threads & Penumbra Foundation Long Term Photobook Program.