September 2015
PHOTOGRAPHER FOCUS: Brian Sergio + EMERGING TALENT: Czar Kristoff and Dennese Victoria
An intimate screening of Dennese Victoria’s personal image series, Birds, Curtains, and Objects; to be followed by a conversation with the artist.
Find out more »Visiting Artist: Michelle Dizon
Join us for a Meet-and-Greet with multi-disciplinary artist Michelle Dizon visiting from Los Angeles. She will be giving a talk and presentation about her works and practice. A conversation with the artist follows.
Find out more »ON TOUR : Philippine Photobooks at the NEW YORK ART BOOK FAIR 2015
Courtesy of The Office of Culture and Design (PH), Thousandfold's Philippine photobooks selection : "Fugue" by Czar Kristoff, "Hunt & Gather, Terraria" by Wawi Navarroza (5 Ports/Hardworking, Goodlooking), "Lighght" by Dago Santos, "MONO nº1 & nº2" by Erin Nøir, and "The Last Tattooed Women of Kalinga" by Jake Verzosa (Silverlens Galleries) will be on view at the New York Art Book Fair at PS1 Museum of Modern Art. 18-20 September.
Find out more »Film Screening: CONTACTS.3 Conceptual Photography
This is the Volume 3 of a collection of short films that uncover the artistic processes of the greatest photographers from an original perspective: using images (contact sheets, proofs, prints, or slides) with commentary by the artists themselves, the program utilizes an original perspective to uncover the artistic processes of the greatest contemporary photographers.
Featured Artists: JOHN BALDESSARI, BERND & HILLA BECHER, CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI, ALAIN FLEISCHER, JOHN HILLIARD, RONI HORN, MARTIN PARR, GEORGES ROUSSE, THOMAS STRUTH, WOLFGANG TILLMANS
Find out more »Workshop: “Get Your $#!+ Together: Organization for Photographers”
Making compelling images is only 10% of a photographer’s life. New York photographer Mike Ricca’s no-nonsense workshop will help the creative/photographer navigate the other 90%. Subject will cover photographer’s workflow, filing conventions, data protection & management to client contracts, releases, and more.
Find out more »Photographers’ Salon: Print Potluck
For this first edition, “Print Potluck” (aka “Edit Party”) will celebrate hard copies, proof photos, mockups, small prints from participating photographers. Aside from individual edits, the group will collectively edit, experiment and make impromptu collaborative photozines.
Find out more »October 2015
Workshop: “PHOTOBOOKS 101 & THE PHOTOGRAPHER AS AUTHOR”, Part 1 of 2 of Wawi Navarroza “IN PRAISE OF PHOTOBOOKS” series
Artist/photographer Wawi Navarroza, also the founder of Thousandfold, introduces the basics of the contemporary medium of Photobooks as a unique platform for photographers to present their own bodies of work and stories, and the evidential rise of the Photographer as Author. The session will illustrate and examine “photobooks” vis-a-vis “artist books,” monographs, and handmade photozines through a mix of lecture, show-and-tell and visual exercise. The attendees will be exposed to a fertile variety of content, design, and techniques applied by different authors and publishers. Throughout the afternoon, everyone in the class will be walked through seminal photobooks and a short history how the Photobook came into resurgence. This is a good opportunity to get started and be in the know with the current world-wide phenomenon of Photobooks.
Find out more »Workshop: “SELF-PUBLISHING YOUR OWN PHOTOBOOK/ARTIST BOOK”, Part 2 of 2 of Wawi Navarroza “IN PRAISE OF PHOTOBOOKS” series
Wawi Navarroza, artist/photographer and author of 2 photobooks “DOMINION” and “Hunt & Gather, Terraria”, will teach a 2-day intensive weekend workshop to image-based artists and photographers wishing to build/publish their own photobooks/artist books. Applying the visual vocabulary gleaned from PART 1, the participants will be guided on both content and technique. Content : how to edit, sequence, and present their collected material (photos, texts, etc) into the shape of the author’s voice. Technique : they will be taught types of paper, ink, binding, pagination, and design to aid their own choices as what best fits their work. The class will be a blend of theory and applied practice. Guided by a mentor, the goal is to hack away the superfluous to make a solid piece of work true to the intentions of the artist. The students will also learn the rudiments and value of editioning and the current marketing/modes of distribution for self-published books. In class, the students will use their own laptops to layout in InDesign or similar software. At the end of the workshop, the participant will have made a comprehensive photobook mockup/dummy or a fully realized handmade photozine.
Find out more »World Photobook Day in MNL: The F-A-Q Photobook Party!
Along with the rest of the world, Thousandfold, as the first photobook library in Manila, invites you to join in celebrating The Photobook, born in 1843. October 14th marks the anniversary of the purchase by the British Museum of the first known photobook: Photographs of British algae. Cyanotype impressions, by Anna Atkins.
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