As many of you know, I have just returned from participating in Bursa Foto Fest in Turkey, where I gave a lecture entitled ‘Searching for Truth in the Photograph’. My lecture introduced five Japanese photographers, including photographers we will feature in upcoming RPS events. We will host Eriko Koga for a curatorial talk on October 15th, and Masaru Tatsuki for another talk session on November 17th. Here on the RPS blog, I would like to share what I said in my lecture.

Svetlana Bachevanova is a photojournalist, photo editor, curator and publisher.She is the founder and publisher of FotoEvidence, a publishing house for documentary photography focused on social injustice.

The course provides an overview of the development of the Book Dummy as an idea and as an object. We will examine and develop Book Dummies to prepare photo-books for publication.

Yumi Goto, a curator, will start holding a talk session with Photographers entitled “Curatorial Talk” at random times from October 2012. The first two guests are the two award winners of this year’s Photo City Sagamihara Award, Ying Ang, who won the Asia Award, and Eriko Koga who won the New Face Incentive Award.