RPS KYOTO PAPEROLES EXHIBITION : 2022 PHOTOBOOK AS OBJECT EXHIBITION [PART 2] 4/22-5/1

02/19/2023

We are pleased to announce the 2nd exhibition of the year at RPS Kyoto Paperoles, the 2022 Photobook as Object exhibition [Part 2], opening in April 2023. Photobook as Object workshop has been held at Reminders Photography Stronghold by Jan Rosseel and Yumi Goto since 2014.

2022 Photobook as Object workshop

The upcoming PHOTOBOOK AS OBJECT exhibition will feature a selection of several participants’ work and the progress of the photobook each made and developed during the initial photobook making workshop (held at Reminders Photography Stronghold last September) as well as the continued development and evolution of each participating artist’s project since.

The initial approach of the workshop is to develop the artist’s photographic project into photobook form by first delving deeper into the narrative of their work. Participants then look at how employing various perspectives, visual approaches, and design techniques might better tell these stories to a broader audience in the in-depth and nuanced way that the photobook form allows.

The workshop allows participants the space to learn new techniques and ways of thinking from the productive, constructive criticism of the workshop’s tutors and their peers with this process ultimately helping each photographer eventually create a photobook that tells their story in the best way possible. Many photographers arrive at the workshop with one idea for their photobook and leave with a dummy that is almost entirely unrecognizable from the initial concept they had arrived with.

In 2022, after a few postponements due to the Pandemic, participants in the PHOTOBOOK AS OBJECT workshop were more international than ever with photographers hailing from countries such as the United States, France, Belgium, Mexico, and Japan. All participants worked together, sharing their unique worldviews and insights into each other’s projects, helping participants to strengthen their storytelling and make it more accessible to international audiences.

Learning from both the tutors and from each other, participants were able to discover elements of their narrative that might be unclear or entirely missing from their book. They learned about various presentation styles they might have not previously thought about or been introduced to. This whole process ultimately strengthened each photographer’s initial dummy and gave them the tools to further develop more fleshed-out dummies after leaving the workshop.

A half year has passed since the workshop participants said goodbye to one another. Since then each has continued working on improving their rough dummies using the skills they learned in the workshop and has pushed themselves closer towards the final photobook they want to make and publish; their own ‘PHOTOBOOK AS OBJECT’.

The artists will continue to work on the creation of their handmade photobooks within the gallery space throughout the exhibition period. We hope this will give visitors a unique insight into all the hard work that goes on behind the scenes in creating intricate bodies of work such as these.

This exhibition is selected as a part of KG+, Kyotographie 2023, Japan’s biggest photo festival. Enjoy this show alongside other exhibitions held throughout Kyoto city, starting from the 13th of April.

Dates:
April 22nd (Sat) to May 1st (Mon) 2023
1:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Open daily

Events:
The opening reception + artists’ talk, and other related events will be announced soon.
Dates to be confirmed.

Admission is free, and no reservation is required.
No food or beverages will be served at the opening reception or the artists’ talk.

Venue:
RPS Kyoto Paperoles
Please search by
603 Oimatsu-cho, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan
or
603 Itsutsuji-agaru, Shichihonmatsu-dori, Oimatsu-cho, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan
Link to google map is
https://goo.gl/maps/xiFJCrikwkdLQazGA
Nearest bus stop: Kamishichiken or Senbon Imadegawa

Artists:
アンナ・ベディンスカ / Anna Bedyńska
イザベル・モレノ / Isabel Moreno
ヴィケシュ・カプーア / Vikesh Kapoor
カトリーヌ・ロングリー&セシール・ユパン / Katherine Longly＆Cecile Hupin
クレア・コカノ / Claire Cocano
佐藤丈公 / Tomohiro Sato
柴田早理 / Sari Shibata
菅井里恵 / Lieh Sugai
ナタ・ドラチンスカヤ / Nata Drachinskaya
ユスティナ・チエシリョフスカ / Justyna Cieślikowska
横山快 / Kai Yokoyama