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SIPF Portfolio Showcase
In a famous metaphor Henry James explains experience: experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an…

Boomers
Meet the Korean equivalent of the Japanese salaryman — the ‘Ajeossi’. The term refers to middle-aged men from their 40s…

Mars on Earth
It is humanity’s penchant to always seek out new, undiscovered frontiers. In the realm of space travel and exploration, the…

Where Does the Sun Rise; Where Will the Moon Shine
In an uncertain era plagued with global crises ranging from the pandemic, heightening geopolitical tensions, to the issue of environmental…

Under the Night of the Unseen Stars
Artificial lights have always taken center stage as subjects in Toni Cuhardi’s photographs. He prefers thinking of photography as not…

Dwelling
Through montage and multiple exposures, Matthew Cronin re-imagines home furnishing catalogue photographs by J.C. Penney, an American department store chain…

Ground Truth, or How to Resurrect a Tree
Ground Truth, or How to Resurrect a Tree illustrates the state of ‘seeing something when there is none.’ Following the…

Unperson | Portraits of North Korean Defectors
In George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984”, an “unperson” is someone who has been vaporised, whose record has been erased. Similarly,…

SEPARATE HIDDEN RULES
Masquerading as glossy product advertisements, Makoto Oono’s vivid still life imagery draws viewers in hook, line and sinker, before sensations…

Red Flowers 红花
When one reaches a bottleneck in life, looking back may be the way forward. Red Flowers is a tribute to…

11,565 Kilometre Project
Since 2018, Beichen Zhang has been investigating the history and circulation pathways of Chinese artefacts in American museums, in an…

How to Pickle an Adder
In 1983 when an inquisitive fisherman picked up a rock and threw it up the steeply-shelving beach at Cell Howell…

Ghost Island
Suffused with the enigma and otherworldliness of dreams, Ghost Island is an endeavour at building visual metaphors and frameworks for…

Living Under the Volcanoes
Located on the Pacific Ring of Fire, Indonesia ranks third in the world with the most active volcanoes, after the…

of solongs and ashes
of solongs and ashes is a visual stream of consciousness reflecting the deluge of memories swirling in Min Ma Naing’s…

The Witch Stage
Liza Ambrossio’s art is inseparable from her life, mirroring her experiences as a woman of mixed ancestry born in a…

Room no.2 and Sunset on Unnamed Lanes (2020)
“Room no.2” examines the interiors of the homes of Khlong Toey, one of Bangkok’s largest slums, with a straightforward and…

Wandering, Wondering
Wandering, Wondering is a story of us all growing up as adults, being accustomed to social norms, and living in…

Post
With a background in web creation, Soushi Tanaka became intrigued by the transmission and transformation of visual data via optical…

Work naming has not yet succeeded
From 2019 to 2020, a social movement surged in Hong Kong opposing the government’s highly controversial amendment of the legislation…

A Visitor’s Book
The Ajeeb Ghar Archive is a research project on museums in India, constituted of photographs of exhibition galleries and comments…

Cornucopia
CORNUCOPIA is about abundance in times of pandemic isolation and restrictions. The content of CORNUCOPIA a is formed around the…

Eat A Chili《吃辣椒》
Eat A Chili: A Photo Novella In this hybrid fiction, the human consumption of chili pepper has surged beyond the…

Elusive Rainbow
Our lives are shaped by history. We can also shape history. In this book I overlay with a projector on…

Empty Forest
‘Empty Forest’ is about a woman called Emma Hauck who was committed to a psychiatric hospital in Heidelberg (Germany), where…

Ground Truth
What is the relation between what we see and what is there? Ground Truth observes the evolution of visual technology…

Hayal & Hakikat: A Handbook of Forgiveness & A Handbook of Punishment
The photographs in this work depict the hands of prisoners from the early 20th century Turkey, drawn from the photograph…

Hijack Geni
In 2003, when the so-called “It’s me scam” was first becoming known to the public, this crime was perpetrated by…

Hiroshima Graph – Everlasting Flow
On an early midsummer morning, from a clear, pure blue sky, a single bomb was dropped. In an instant, the…

How to Raise a Hand
How to Raise a Hand is a work shaped by mourning and by the finding of a box containing 313…

How to store your stuff in nature
I stayed in Thailand and Indonesia for a year and a half. The new flora in the tropics brought me…

How to Look Natural in Photos
How to Look Natural in Photos is a book about a totalitarian system which uses photography for its purposes. It…

Instagrampier
The Instagrampier is a public cargo pier located on the west side of Hong Kong Island. Every day, a great…

Laws of the Haystack
“Laws of the haystack” is an investigation into the hidden shapes and meanings of 1 photo. During a holiday in…

Materiality of Grief
Materiality of Grief is a visual manifestation of loss following the artist’s grandfather’s death. With the use of autoethnography, the…

Polder VIII
Polder VIII Tuindorp Oostzaan is a special neighbourhood in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It was built 100 years ago on the…

Quatre Mains / Zonder Handen
After my father died, I started emptying his house and found a box with old polaroids in. They were taken…

Room no.2
Room no.2 (2020) is a project exploring Khlong Toey – the largest and most densely populated working-class community in Bangkok….

SOMMERSPIELE (Summer Games)
The last real summer I can remember was the one in 2016. Warm, sweet, full of promises, so many festivities,…

The Ditch
The Ditch recounts the story of a forgotten defence line built on Öland, a small island on the east coast…

The Good Place
“The Good Place” is my observation of Varanasi, one of India’s Holy Cities. Varanasi “The holy land,” as they called…

THE LAST SUMMIT
My father died in a slip-and-fall accident on July 15, 2017, at Mt. Ryokami in Chichibu County, Saitama Prefecture. At…

The Quarantine Report
‘The Quarantine Report’ is a body of work I started when the COVID-19 pandemic hit Thailand in March 2020. The…

The Quickening
The Quickening explores the transformation and lived experience of a woman in her motherhood/matrescence and postpartum depression/anxiety. The work interrogates…

The Verdict: The Christina Boyer Case
The Verdict – The Christina Boyer Case is a multi-layered case study of the U.S. Criminal Justice system and mass…

Two Thousand Words
‘Two Thousand Words’ is a photobook that analyzes the active resistance, but eminently peaceful, that was carried out in Czechoslovakia…

Undo Motherhood
Undo Motherhood explores the reasons why a significant number of women around the world today regret becoming mothers. The women…

Utaki
Ricardo is a produce of the Okinawan immigration to Brazil and he carries the mixture of three cultures in his…

We are Made of Grass, Soil, Trees, and Flowers
The title “We are made of Grass, Soil, Trees, and Flowers” adds the word “flowers” to the title of Yamamoto’s…

We Were Farmers
My family have been farmers for generations, from the 1960s till 2020. “We Were Farmers” is a personal project documenting…

Masterclass: The New Forest
The New Forest is a five-year collaboration between The Institute of Critical Zoologists (ICZ) and SIPF, unfolding across a series…

Masterclass: Designing Artist’s Books
Designing Artist’s Books is a 3-day workshop for artists, designers and bookmakers who are keen to explore methods and approaches…

Seminar: Photobook Clinic
Photobook Clinic is an intimate 3-hour photobook dummy review session with Yumi Goto, an independent art and documentary photography curator,…

Seminar: Translation into Concept and Form
Translation into Concept and Form is a 4-hour seminar concerned about the ways in which visual content is expressed in…

Portfolio Review
with Industry Experts
The Portfolio Review was introduced in 2008 during the inaugural edition of SIPF. Since then, it has grown in its…

Photobook Makers’ Weekend
with Independent Publishers
The Photobook Makers’ Weekend is a two-day gathering of independent publishers from different cities, with a focus on exchanging knowledge,…

Books As Micro-spaces For Research with K. Verlag
How do we build a synthetic editorial-design process that insists on the mutuality of content and form, allowing us to…

The Ecosystem of Independent Publishing:
Skinnerboox x Witty Books
The permutations in making a photobook are countless, varying from artist to publisher, designer to print house, editing to sequencing,…

Publishing as Practice:
Perimeter Books x Temporary Press
Perimeter Books from Melbourne and Temporary Press from Singapore are separated by continents, yet connected by multiple commonalities — they…

References from Korea (The Reference / IANNBOOKS)
with Kim Jeong Eun
References offer a direction for attention, and particularly in the context of books, they give recognition to existing titles that…

Developing Photobooks
with Reminders Photography Stronghold
Four Japanese artists — Kazuhiko Matsumura, Kenji Chiga, Shu Watanabe and Yoshikatsu Fujii — each present their photobook developed together…

A Different Reading
with THEBOOKSHOW
A Different Reading is a project by THEBOOKSHOW that attempts to open up new dialogues and synergies between 5 artists…

Personal Stories in Indonesian Photobooks
with Caron Toshiko and Andi Ari Setiadi
Storytelling is a means through which we make sense of the world. Co-founders of Gueari Galeri, Caron Toshiko and Andi…

Contemporary Photography in Taiwan Through The Lens of DEAI
A non-profit photography library in Taipei open to public for free, Lightbox is committed to preserving, disseminating and advancing Taiwanese…

Cuttings
SIPF Satelllite Cuttings presents new commissions by six Singaporean artists inspired by the natural world. The exhibition considers interactions with environments…

The Salt of the Earth
The Salt of the Earth is a group exhibition that explores the way in which family and the ties that…

Worlds and Spacing 世界与空间
Worlds and Spacing – 世界与空间 presents a selection of photographs from three bodies of work created by Chinese artist Maleonn…

Hawaii Nights
Presenting a selection of photographs from Aik Beng Chia’s series The Night We Never Met within an atmosphere that complements…

Listen…don’t ask what bird is singing
Listen…don’t ask what bird is singing brings together a group of photographers whose contemporary images continue to encapsulate a similar…

Modes of Publishing (Makers’ Dialogues)
Modes of Publishing revolves around the photobook as a dynamic object of creative chemistry, mass circulation and extended practices. Speaking…

Developing Photobook Literacy in Asia (Makers’ Dialogues)
Developing Photobook Literacy in Asia takes a trip around the continent to understand how ground-up initiatives can advance photobook and…

Spring Odyssey
The current technological machine of information and communication operates at the centre of human subjectivity, not only in the depths…

How Things Dream
An ongoing project blending texts, imagery and audiovisual material, How Things Dream is based on an imaginative, post-democratic future, dominated…

KASSEL DUMMY AWARD 2022
The KASSEL DUMMY AWARD of the FOTOBOOKFESTIVAL KASSEL for the best unpublished photo book design of the year, has been…