Events

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,…

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

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…

Independence in Publishing:
RVB Books x Skinnerboox
Why is independence important in publishing? What does it take to stay independent? Project Manager of RVB Books, Miléna Chevillard,…

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
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…