Developing a Creative Photo Book
with Douglas Stockdale
March 5 - 6 and 12 - 13, 2022
It has been said that making a book can be overwhelming, and a different experience + skill set than making original works of art. This workshop is designed to bridge that gap, allowing the inspiration of other photo books to guide and inform the process from start to finish. Working with a seasoned book designer and artist, each workshop participant will gain a clear understanding of the process and leave with a limited edition artist book made during the workshop. This is not a software driven class (lots of hands-on stuff), this is a workshop about making a physical book dummy that provides the tactical feel for the book you are wishing to design.
The cost of this four-part online workshop is $595, Medium Photo members pay $495
Let Me Fall Again, Stiffcover book, handsewn binding, stitching, inserts, gate-folds, First edition of 239, hand-made in Russia
Julia Borissova, ©2018
March 5-13, 2022
Online
This four session workshop takes place by Zoom on two consecutive weekends, Saturdays and Sundays from 9am-12pm (Pacific time) It is an opportunity for artists in all media (not just photography) currently working on, or planning to start a project that will result in a book publication. Whether you plan to pitch book submissions to a publisher or self-publish your artist book, this workshop is meant to help you create a book that meets your artistic vision. A small body of photographs to work with: 15 – 20 small images is required to help the participants to work towards their publishing goal.
Artist monographs and hand made books are an increasingly important component to a robust creative career and a powerful marketing tool for any artist working today. This four-day workshop is an opportunity to develop a working book dummy while exploring the creative possibilities of the art book market. Each book produced by participants will be a useful model whether you intend to self-publish or work with a publisher to produce a larger print run.
Refunds are available until December 5, 2021, after which time our Cancellation Policy guides refunds.
Guest presenters
Participants in the workshop will enjoy the perspective of two career publishing professionals: Elizabeth Avedon and David Chickey (Radius Books). Avedon and Chickey have decades of combines publishing experience and will share insights about typography choices and elements of design when developing a photo book.
Melissa Lazuka, Song of the Cicadas
Outcomes
The goal of this workshop is to create a book dummy, the real first step to publishing an art book or monograph. We will discuss each artist’s vision, mission and objectives for publication, and then to gain an understanding of how these conceptual aspects translate into a book object. Fundamental to the book development process is learning aspects of the editing, sequencing of the body of work and in the context of a book design to shape and narrate a story. The purpose of this workshop is to provide artists with the building blocks to move from a complex unorganized mass of images into a refined edit and subsequently sequence to create a pre-visualization of their book concept.
About Douglas Stockdale
This workshop will be led by Douglas Stockdale, an internationally-recognized book artist and Senior Editor/Publisher of the PhotoBook Journal, an online platform highlighting contemporary photo books and publishing. His work has been published by Edizioni Punctum in addition to self-publishing three artist books and two photographic how-to books. He is represented by Fabrik Projects in Los Angeles. Learn more about Douglas’ work on his website.
