Book Launch

On 26 October 2024, Galleri Image presented yet another celebration of the world of photobooks with a special event filled with exciting thought-provoking talks and unique photobooks. This date marked 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 the 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.

The special photobook event in 2024 was made possible through support from the Augustinus Foundation.

Besides the day event in October in Aarhus, Talking about Photobooks has been promoted in 2024  through talks and other events  in Japan, France, Poland and Austria.

March: Photography Stronghold, Tokyo
April: Softcover Bookshop, Vienna
June: Institut pour la photographie, Lille
September: Festiwal Fotografii W Ramach Sopotu FFWRS, Photo Festival, Sopot
November:  Paris Photo, Polycopies and Offprint Art Book Fair, Paris

More information on Galleri Image’s Website.

Beate Cegielska, Director at Galleri Image, welcomes everyone at the launch of Talking about Photobooks (Photobook Day Aarhus 2024). Photo credit: Hanna Hrynkevich.

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

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.