Book days Publisher

Founded by Bruno Ceschel in 2010, the London-based Self Publish, Be Happy (SPBH) helps photographers to self-publish their books. It also holds a librar y of 3,000 publications donated by self-publishers, and promotes self-published photobooks through an ongoing program of workshops, events, and on/offline projects, including at Tate Modern and The Photographers’ Galler y, London; C/O Berlin; and MoMA, New York. In 2012, the company set up SPBH Editions to publish photography books by artists including Broomberg & Chanarin, Cristina de Middel, Mariah Robertson and Lorenzo Vitturi. The SPBH Book Club sells publications as part of a yearly subscription; Self Publish, Be Naughty (SPBN) publishes books of intimate pictures. Ceschel’s Self Publish, Be Happy: A DIY Photobook Manual and Manifesto was published by Aperture in 2015. SPBH publication Fire in Cairo by Matthew Connors won the Artist’s Book Award at the 2016 Infinity Awards in New York.

www.selfpublishbehappy.com

SAT 1 OCT, 3:30 pm
LIVE PRESENTATION

Live Presentation Lucas Blalock + Peter Puklus

Spector Books publishes books at the intersection of art, design and theory. Between 2001 and 2008, it published the magazine Spector cut+ paste. Today it represents artists such as Andrzej Steinbach, Michaela Melián and Tobias Zielony with limited-edition monographs. Its publishing program focuses on the publication of contemporar y art and photography as well as contemporar y book design. Spector Books has won numerous awards for its publications, including the Sächsischer Staatspreis für Design. In 2016, its two publishers Anne König and Jan Wenzel curated the f/stop photography festival in Leipzig. The publishing house is based in Leipzig and is run by partners Markus Dreßen, Anne König and Jan Wenzel.

www.spectorbooks.com

SAT 1 OCT, 1 pm
LIVE PRESENTATION / SIGNING

Presentation Helmut Völter, The Movement of Clouds around Mount Fuji, Susanne Kriemann, P(ech) B(lende): Library for Radioactive Afterlife, followed by book signing at Spector Books table

Štokovec, space for culture was founded in 2008 by curator and cultural manager Zuzana Bodnárová and artist Svätopluk Mikyta. Since 2009, Štokovec has run the residency program and arts centre BANSK A ST A NICA Contemporar y within the still active train station in Banská Štiavnica. Here, contemporary art projects emerge beneath 1950s socialist chandeliers in the station waiting area. Art books made locally have international success.