The 9th SIPF Photobook Showcase features the 48 photobooks shortlisted in the 9th SIPF Open Call, as well as travelling photobook showcases from Lightbox Photo Library [TW] and Three Shadows Photography Art Centre [CN].
The SIPF Photobook Showcase will be on exhibit from 18 to 27 October 2024 at the National Design Centre.
20 October (Sun), 11am to 12pm
Presented by Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, this showcase features 24 selected photobooks from “Space on Paper – Jimei x…
Based in Taipei, Taiwan, Lightbox Photo Library is a non-profit organization specializing in books focused on the discourse and appreciation…
Produced amidst Europe’s largest war since WWII, “Photography Firmly Enters the Everyday” preserves and illuminates popular photographic practices in 20th-century…
Celestial lore and mythical tales converge in the project, “Ovid’s Fasti”, an ethereal journey where the beauty of the present…
This series focuses on traces of the hyperinflation that hit Zimbabwe in 2000s, mixing my analogue photographs of the area…
When I was two years old, my father went into the woods, with the intention of never coming back. Peter…
“Nightshade” is a restrained and poetic exploration of a particularly difficult and confronting subject – domestic violence and coercive control….
This book is a record of the holes and nails in the walls of the exhibition hall during the three…
This work back and forth between the present and the past, between imagined landscapes, and quietly speaks of gratitude for…
Three summers ago, I was photographing the work and daily routine of agricultural workers. Every morning, I would take a…
This book contains the photographs of “Mementos of Happiness,” the 4th series of my Fukushima project. Based on this series,…
At the age of four, my mother left by jumping onto a stranger’s motorcycle. Since then, it has been difficult…
On December 12th 1935, a programme was initiated in Germany to provide the Third Reich with the new generation of…
“Landing” is a collaborative photo-documentary project that looks at the purposeful escape skateboarding provides to a handful of Palestinian skaters—including…
This is a personal project originating from a recent discovery about Kyugoro, my great-great uncle, who emigrated to the US…
“Klara and the Bomb” is a photographical and historical work that charts connecting threads between the invention of modern computers,…
The images that appear to be fixed-point observations are of Japanese “tourist attractions” which have been depicted at different times….
The site next to my workplace with its neatly manicured lawn surrounded by a high fence, is still not under…
“I’ll Bet The Devil My Head” is a visual fable in which urban foxes are the protagonists to tell the…
“Hunting in Time” is based on an exhibition trilogy by artist Ronit Porat, displayed in different venues between 2016 and…
I don’t think this work is a project at all. This is more of an introspection, a peak into my…
“Hidden Book” is a tragicomedy of 20th century social and political life, a choral story of a grieving and resilient…
When I travel alone in Nanfang’ao for a week in spring, there are two things I want to do: paint…
The intricate and complex construction hidden within its bland, untitled cover unravels the life of my grandmother, Ha Ja, which…
Building on her A-level coursework, the photo artist adopts a conceptual approach to gently uncover the concealed aspects of her…
“Are you a communist?” a Dutch citizen asked me in a heated debate. I didn’t know how to react, I…
With vintage press clippings, letters – correspondence between two fiancés – and photographs, the artist Kurt Tong tells the life…
The first book of the Rhythm Series is Daegu était un grand étang (DAEGU USED TO BE A GIANT POND)…
“D-AI” refl ects on the manipulation of reality through the media and social networks, and how artifi cial intelligence can…
The collection guides viewers on an exploration of Harit’s early work. It compiles photographs, notes, and diary entries from his…
“Chernobyl” is a document of the communities who inhabit and pass through the exclusion zone—an area covering approximately 2600 km2…
Tuan’s debut book, “Castle,” delves into the personal toll of urban redevelopment, where the government seizes vast tracts of land…
I am Bang, and Hsien is my big brother. We are only a year apart in age. When we were…
The forest, which in Slavic mythology is a space where our world and the otherworld cross, also is a space…
In 2020 I became a father for the second time, and I moved back to Milan after living in New…
The cabinet looks empty — I take a step towards it, my breath fogging the glass. Keeping my gaze fixed,…
This is the story of a young man from the countryside of the Tohoku region of Japan who entered the…
In 1912, Japanese explorer Nobu Shirase attempted to become the first person to reach the South Pole, but had to…
“1 2 3 2 1” is a 304-page photo novel, that juxtaposes images created during and after Nagakura Nami’s pregnancy…