On 26 October 2024, we invite you to yet another celebration of the world of photobooks with a special event filled with exciting thought-provoking talks and unique photobooks.
This date will mark the official book launch of our new publication “Talking About Photobooks”, which collects the most important discussions about the photobook from the last ten years of our festival and presents a number of examples of significant photobooks and movements within the photobook medium. It is a characteristic of Photobook Week Aarhus that we have always placed a high value on conversation and discussion about the photobook, and we want to do the same with the publication.
Since we have placed a lot of emphasis on making the book something very special, we have opted to scale down this year’s festival to a one-day event to be held on 26 October 2024, so that we will have time to put the necessary effort into creating and promoting book without having to make compromises with the quality our guests have come to expect from our festival. Here, as in previous years, we will bring together Danish and international photobook lovers for a series of talks, each of which will shed light on photographic art and the photobook medium.
Galleri Image will open its doors at 1 pm, where it will be possible to purchase the book. The talk programme will begin at 2 pm and take place above the gallery in Aarhus Art Academy’s lecture hall.
Programme:
- Welcome with Beate Cegielska, Director of Galleri Image
- ‘Talking about Photobooks’ with Moritz Neumüller, chief curator and editor of Talking about Photobooks
- ‘Talking about Talking about Photobooks’ with K.Chen, graphic designer behind Talking about Photobooks
- ‘Building the Museum from the Library’ with Angel Luis Gonzalez, Director of PhotoIreland, designer, curator, and artist
- ‘To See & Be Seen: Queer Photobooks’ with Debora Moritz, curator at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London about Queer photobooks
Talking about Photobooks.
The book Talking about Photobooks draws on the experiences and learnings of Photobook Week Aarhus, a small festival dedicated for the last ten years to the photographic book as a medium of artistic production. The contributions are based on artist talks, panels, keynote speeches and presentations in the framework of the festival, edited and revisited to reflect the main aspects of the photobook. The brand-new book with contributions by some of the leading experts in the field was published by Photobook Week Aarhus in collaboration with Fw:Books (Amsterdam). It was edited by Moritz Neumüller, together with Beate Cegielska, Jesper Rasmussen, and Anne Elisabeth Toft, with a superb design by Hans Gremmen and Kuan-Ting Chen.
Talking About Photobooks is published with the support of the New Carlsberg Foundation and the Dreyer’s Foundation.
The special photobook event is made possible through support from the Augustinus Foundation.
