4/27 7PM : “PHOTOBOOK REVIEW WITH THE AUTHORS : From Dummy Book Production to Book Award Nominee”
As the final event during the Yoshikatsu Fujii Photo Exhibition “Nagi”, RPS Kyoto Paperoles Talk Event “PHOTOBOOK REVIEW WITH THE AUTHORS : From Dummy Book Production to Book Award Nominee” will be held.
The guests will beYoshikatsu Fujii is currently holding a photography exhibition at RPS Kyoto Paperoles as well as Moe Suzuki, who will hold her exhibition immediately after Fujii from May 3. Their artist books “Nagi” and “Aabuku” were coincidentally both selected as finalists for the “Dummy Award 2024“. We’ll have this talk event at RPS Kyoto Paperoles to commemorate this occasion..
The “Dummy Award” is an award for unpublished dummy photobooks, which was launched in 2010 as the Kassel Dummy Award and newly launched in 2023 in cooperation with the PhotoBook Museum in Cologne. From the entries submitted by photographers from all over the world, juries select a shortlist of about 50 finalists. The shortlisted photobooks will be exhibited in traveling exhibitions around the world, and in addition to the jury’s vote, public and curatorial votes will be taken at each exhibition venue. From these overall results, five finalists will be selected, one of which will receive the PBM/MAS Award. The PBM/MAS awarded dummy book will be produced and published by MAS Matbaa, a Turkish printing company known for the production of photo books, in cooperation with the PhotoBook Museum. The other four winning books will also receive 25% of the printing costs at MAS Matbaa. In October 2023, Dummy Award’s world tour also traveled to Reminders Photography Stronghold in Tokyo and RPS Kyoto Paperoles.
In the 2024 award, 420 books submitted from 44 countries around the world, 51 books were selected as finalists.
©︎RPS KYOTO PAPEROLES / Dummy Award 2023
In this event, the two artists will talk about the trials and errors, twists and turns that led them to the completion of their respective artist books. Both of their previous works have been nominated for and won various photography book awards in addition to the Dummy Award, making this a rare opportunity to hear about their diverse experiences on photobook making.
This will be an unique chance you can purchase a limited number of artist books of both titles at the event. We look forward to welcoming you there!
©︎Yoshikatsu Fujii / Nagi
©︎Moe Suzuki/ Aabuku
“PHOTOBOOK REVIEW WITH THE AUTHORS : From Dummy Book Production to Book Award Nominee”
April 27 (Sat), 2024 19:00〜
RPS Kyoto Paperoles
603 Oimatsucho, Kamigyoku, Kyoto
https://goo.gl/maps/1V5XyJ4kfuDk91F87
(Closest bus stops:Kamishichiken, Senbon-Imadegawa）
Contact: paperoles@reminders-project.org
Speaker: Yoshikatsu Fujii and Moe Suzuki
Moderator: Yumi Goto (RPS KYOTO PAPEROLES CURATOR)
Profile:
Yoshikatsu Fujii
Yoshikatsu Fujii is a photo-based visual storyteller working on long-form projects about memory, family, contemporary events, and history.
His main medium is a hand-made limited edition photobook. His books have been nominated for the Paris Photo Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards 2014, won the Self Publishing PHOTOLUX Award 2015, and won the Anamorphosis Prize 2018. The books are owned by several museums and university libraries, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York Library, National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum London.
Since moving to his hometown of Hiroshima in 2015, he has been creating works on the theme of the history of war in Hiroshima from his own perspective as a third-generation A-bomb survivor.
His works were exhibited at Chobi Mela International Festival of Photography (Bangladesh, 2017), Phantom Pain Clinic (Jimei × Arles International Photo Festival, China, 2017), To Infinity and Beyond (BredaPhoto Festival, Netherlands, 2018), Not standing still: new approaches in documentary photography (PHOTO 2021, Australia, 2021), KG+ SELECT(Japan, 2021) and Lived Happily Ever After(Ever Spring Museum of Fine Art, Taiwan).,etc.
https://www.yoshikatsufujii.com
https://www.instagram.com/yoshikatsufujii/
Moe Suzuki
Born in Tokyo and studied photography at London College Communications, University of the Arts London. Upon returning to Tokyo in 2011, Moe self taught bookbinding and started a career as a visual artist. Her primary medium is photography, which is mixed with archival images, illustrations, research and videos to tell narratives in the books and installations. She engages in visual expression on the subject of memories and landscapes that get transformed along the passage of time, changes in environment, development, disability and relationships within the community. Her latest artist book ‘Sokohi’ has received worldwide recognition, also been exhibited worldwide in Tokyo, Kyoto, Singapore, Australia, Northern Ireland and France.
https://www.banyan-b-i.com/projects
https://www.instagram.com/moesuzuki.bbi/