作為英國「PhotoMonth」攝影節展覽之一、由Imagimage策展的「Photobook As Method」正在倫敦藝術空間FILET展示一系列《攝影之聲》雜誌以及亞太地區的攝影出版品。
這項展覽呼應《攝影之聲》曾製作的專題「攝影書作為方法」，以亞太地區的攝影讀物作為主題呈現，反映出當代攝影與出版的多樣景觀，並嘗試探問攝影書如何作為一種方法，去連結、聚集與交織跨越邊界的視覺文化及出版網絡。
Photobook as Method: Connecting Asia-Pacific Photobook Publishing Practices
日期 Dates: 13–16 October 2025
地點 Venue: FILET Space
103 Murray Grove, N1 7QP, London
A quarter-century after ‘Fotografía Pública’—the first major exhibition and catalogue to recognise the photobook as a medium in its own right—the medium continues to flourish, supported by the rise of art book fairs and growing scholarly attention.
While certain historical periods and regions, such as Japanese photobooks from the ‘60s and ‘70s, have attracted sustained interest from collectors and researchers, much of the history and contemporary practice of photobooks across the Asia-Pacific remains an emerging and dynamic field. Over the past decade, photobook publishing in the Asia-Pacific has gained remarkable momentum. This event gathers recent works by makers, publishers, and practitioners working in, around, and between China, Japan, India, Nepal, and beyond, offering reflections on the current state of photobook discourse across these regions.
The publications featured in the reading room explore themes such as historical and fictional narratives, documentary, vernacular images, freedom and intimacy, print culture, as well as community-building and world-making. Through their respective practices, the makers and contributors behind these photobooks collectively form a rhizomatic entanglement that is the landscape of contemporary photography and publishing today.
Echoing Issues #18 and #24 of the Taiwan-based publication Voices of Photography, the title of this reading room suggests that the photobook is not merely a vessel for images, but a generative form of thinking and making–an epistemological tool as much as an artistic one. This inaugural instalment of the IMAGIMAGE Reading Room inquires into the ways in which the photobook functions as a method for connecting, converging, and intersecting visual cultures and publishing networks across and in between borders.
英文簡介、圖片 | Imagimage提供
發佈日期 | 2025年10月12日
