RPS photobook making workshop “Photobook as object” 2019 CALL NOW CLOSED!

12/14/2018

RPS photobook making workshop “Photobook as object” 2019 CALL NOW CLOSED!

The Photobook As Object workshop with photographer Jan Rosseel and curator Yumi Goto was held in 2014 – 2017 in Tokyo, Japan. It was such a success over the years that in 2018 it was held in ISSP, Latvia.
The 6th edition workshop has been scheduled at Reminders Photography Stronghold, Tokyo in May 2019!!
Now we are accepting applications and look forward to your participation!

The workshop will focus on understanding the process of storytelling with a personal vision – exploring ways to incorporate your personal experience and voice into your work. We will work on the editing process, conceptualizing ideas and presentation, and the physical process of creating a photobook or publication.

We will explore the process of generating ideas and refining concepts in the pursuit of presenting a successful photographic series in printed form. Through individual and group discussions and critique, the students will examine the strengths of their ideas and intentions, develop skills to better conceptualize coherent projects as well as materialize the potential of their ideas as a publication.

The students will arrive with one (or more ideas) they’d like to work on. The first days will be spent examining and deconstructing those ideas, editing, deciding which ideas are viable and which are not. The second part of the workshop will focus on layout, material and the final presentation in the form of a book or a publication.

Constructive criticism, honesty, and fairness towards each other will be the keys to a successful group process. The participants should expect to spend long hours, push their boundaries and explore new ways of storytelling, to share their ideas and knowledge and be inspired by their peers. Experimentation and openness are encouraged.

The outcome of the workshop will be a photobook dummy as well as new reflective tools and ideas to continue working on current and future projects.

Dates: May 17 fri / 18 sat / 19 sun / 24 fri / 25 sat / 26 sun 2019 total 6 days. **From the 20th to 23rd there will be days for informal self reflection, group discussions and further development**
**17th and 24th from 6pm to 9pm, all other dates from 11 to 7pm (There may be cases in which the schedule/time is changed without advanced notice)
Location: Reminders Photography Stronghold, Tokyo / Japan
2-38-5, Higashimukojima, Sumida-ku, Tokyo 131-0032
The workshop is limited to 10 participants.
Deadline: February 10th. (Japan Time)
Cost: ¥75,000 plus 8% tax = ¥81,000 (¥70,000 plus 8% tax = ¥75,600 for RPS membership holder)
Instructor: Jan Rosseel and Yumi Goto (RPS)

RPS photobook making workshop “Photobook as object” 2019 CALL NOW CLOSED!

What to prepare:

Participants shall prepare a personal story. This story can be your own personal story but it might also be a story of someone else, visualized by you or a fictional story.
The aim is to create a compelling story in a condensed way. Photography, (found/archival) objects, documents, letters can all be used. If you are using text, please have them translated in advance (English and your language).

Bring a selection of the pictures you would like to use printed (approximately A6 size). These may be used for the first layout of the dummy. Bring as many as you would like to potentially include for your book (Please be sure to bring JPEGs of all potential photographs and other materials (i.e. found/archival objects, documents, letters etc.).
Prepare a selection portfolio images (i.e. images that you would like to include) as well as an inspiration folder. Also bring a book that inspires you.

There will be more to prepare. Accepted applicants will be directly notified.

Program:

During the workshop, we will be working on the creation of a concept, editing and different bookmaking techniques that can be done by hand.

The first day (evening) there will be a presentation about the possibilities of photobooks. We will talk about material, concept, and technique. Participants will also introduce their work briefly.

The second day we will be working on editing the stories in small groups and start with the layout of the books. We will produce the first dummy with the printed pictures.

The third, fourth and final day we will finalize the layout and work on the production of the books. Every participant will produce at least a dummy to take home. Participants who manage to make a few copies will get the opportunity to exchange or sell the books through Reminders Photography Stronghold.
The final results will be showcased at the Reminders Photography Stronghold.

Requirements:

Participants should bring their own laptop with Adobe InDesign installed. Basic photographic application skills are preferred. Photoshop, Lightroom, InDesign, Illustrator etc. You should also bring basic tools such as needle and thread and a selection of the images you would like to use.

See also Facebook album.

2014 https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.470326259735713.1073741873.272539266181081&type=3
2015 https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.651984961569841.1073741960.272539266181081&type=3
2016 https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.796077343827268.1073741993.272539266181081&type=1&l=7aa48f51a0

2017 https://www.facebook.com/pg/Reminders.Photography.Stronghold/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1054619214639745

Jan-Rosseel-portret-1 About Jan Rosseel.

Born in Brussels, Belgium (1979).

Jan Rosseel studied documentary photography at the Royal academy of arts in The Hague, The Netherlands and photojournalism at the Danish School of Media and Journalism in Aarhus, Denmark. He

was the first artist to be awarded a research fellowship at the

Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and

Social Sciences.

His work is best described as visual storytelling, between narration and documentation. He works as a collector of memories using photography, video and objects. The starting point of his research-based projects are historical events and the notion of memory. Stories that do not only reconstruct historical events but stories that also ask questions about the reliability of our memory and our brain. He works as an investigator using methods of scientific research and journalism to build a narrative where fact and fiction coexist.

He is a lecturer at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague and a guest lecturer at the Master of Photography AKV St. Joost in Breda and the MA Photography at Luca School of Arts, Brussels, Belgium.

In 2014, in collaboration with Yumi Goto and the Reminders Photography Stronghold they started the Photobook As Object workshops in Tokyo.

http://www.janrosseel.com/
http://www.belgianautumn.tumblr.com/

Belgian Autumn. A Confabulated History.

In the early 1980s a group of unknown criminals committed a series of extremely violent crimes, amongst these were several raids on supermarkets. Twenty-eight people were murdered. My father was one of them. Based on objective information from police reports, files and newspaper clippings as well as eyewitness accounts the story is a visual research, leaving more questions than answers. To this day the case is still unsolved and remains one of the greatest enigmas in Belgian history.