From October
2021
to March 2022
Language
English
9 seats
+1 scholarship
Dedication
50+
Hours
Wednesday 8 June 2022 PhMuseum hosted the online presentation
of the works produced by the 12 participants of FOLIO, PhMuseum 2nd edition of the online photobook
masterclass.
As a conclusive act for this process, Allan Salas was selected by Tommaso Parillo as Book Prize Recipient.
His work has been published as a book under Witty Books main catalogue. The volume has been fully funded by
Witty Books, with the support of PhMuseum. Rewatch the live stream to discover the projects of Marcel Top,
Allan Salas, Julia Vandenoever, Nicole Schwartz, Nasrah Omar, Luca Iovino, Edward Nurton, Simone Padelli,
Sam De Buysere, Danit Ariel, Vincent Bezuidenhout and Giulia Vanelli.
Discover the work of the 11 photographers who attended the second edition of the International Photobook Masterclass.
Photographer
Photographer
Vincent Bezuidenhout is a South African born artist whose work spans image-making and investigative documentary practices. He has been awarded grants and fellowships from The National Arts Council of South Africa, The Goethe Institut, The Tierney Fellowship, Oppenheimer Memorial Trust, School of Visual Arts - NYC and the National Research Foundation of South Africa. Residencies include the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris and Photoglobal at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Bezuidenhout holds a Master’s Degree in Fine Art from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, is a published writer, and has lectured widely. Solo exhibitions include Separate Amenities and Fail Deadly. Recent group exhibitions include Powerplay, Arebyte Gallery, London and The National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Imagined Communities, Nationalism & Violence, Rubber Factory, NYC, and Addis PhotoFest, Ethiopia, 2018.
Photographer
My work is mainly focused in the relationship between the space and human being, trying to create a sort of relation among the elements that belong to photography, to develope an atlas that want neither to inscribe the structure nor outline the borders, it wants to explode them and unsettle our certitude creating spaces for a new exploration.
Photographer
Edward Nurton is an author and educator who works with the photographic medium.
His work is an exploratory journey of the self that revolves around the motifs of nostalgic longing for the past and anticipation of the unknown future.
Nurton’s photography is both real and unreal: reflected in mundane objects and experiences, it evokes the eternal and existential, through its attention to detail. Its unreal-ness is formed by its ephemerality, a dream-like journey into the unconscious, while its realism is reflected through the use of archive images.
Revolving around the themes of chimeric family heritage, childhood memories, and identity, Edward’s work approaches subjectivity both as the main theme and as a transformative process that connects the artist and the audience.
Photographer
Nasrah Omar (she/her) is an artist working with photography, AR/VR and collage. Through imaginative world-building, her work probes narratives of mythologization, ritual and cultivation of digital paracosms with liberatory potential.
Nasrah's work interlaces layered experiences of the South Asian diaspora, material culture and syncretism, employing color as an agent of contamination and to convey the otherworldly throughout her photographic vernacular. Mediated through carefully crafted, lurid tableaus, she explores pathways to decolonial futurities; traversing the realms of the sensory, simulated and sublime.
Nasrah holds a BFA in Photography from School of Visual Arts.
She lives and works in Lenapehoking territory (NYC).
Photographer
Photographer
Photographer
Nicole Schwartz received her MFA in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2017 where she was awarded the T.C. Colley Award for Photographic Excellence. She is an Assistant Professor of Photography at County College of Morris. In 2021, Nicole received an Individual Artist Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Her work circles around themes of identity, memory, and family.
Photographer
Photographer
Julia Vandenoever is a photo-based artist whose work is generated from a personal perspective exploring themes of memory, identity, place, and home.
Raised in New England, she received a BA in Art History and a minor in photography from Smith College. Her career began working for Wendy Ewald’s Literacy Through Photography program where she cemented her love of storytelling. Next, as a photo editor, she helped shape the visual aesthetic and storytelling for iconic magazines including Backpacker, Skiing and Outside for more than a decade. Now Julia is a full-time freelance editorial, commercial and fine art photographer.
She has served as a visiting artist at Guttman College in New York City and was recently awarded a Colorado Artist Relief grant and Boulder Arts Week grant. Julia has exhibited at The Humble Arts Foundation, The Griffin Museum of Photography, The Center for Photographic Art, Colorado Photographic Art, Boulder Creative Collective, SE Center for Photography, and Center for Fine Photography. She had a solo show at the Center for Photography at Woodstock of her project Still Breathing. She was a 2021 and 2022 Critical Mass finalist.
This past year Julia was an artist-in-residence at the Boulder Creative Collective where she had a solo exhibition of her work, while I wait. Her first monograph, Still Breathing, was published in 2022 and reviewed by Lenscratch, PhotoEye and PhotoBook Journal. It was acquired by Smith College Rare Books Library.
Photographer
Under the guidance of Witty Books publisher Tommaso Parrillo and designer Federico Barbon a group of photographers will be followed through the advanced phase of their projects with the goal of concluding the work and have it ready for publishing. At the end of the 6-month masterclass, all participants will be ready to present their work to an international audience in the form of a dummy or a photobook. Furthermore, Witty Books will select one of the participants’ work to be published as a 500 edition photobook as part of its catalogue. Production will be fully financed by Witty Books, with a contribution from the PhMuseum Lab.
The program will be conducted online, with one final gathering at PhMuseum Days International Photography Festival (Italy) where photobooks and dummies will be shown.
To apply, simply fill in the form with your personal details, insert a link to your project and submit for free. If your application is successful, we will notify you and you will then be able to Enroll in the Program.
During 3 online 5-hour group classes Tommaso Parrillo and Federico Barbon will give you a general grounding in the contemporary photobook world, editing strategies and design technique to develop your project into a photobook.
With these 2 online 60-min individual sessions you will have the time to engage in specific discussions aimed at working on your ideas and improving your method.
To grant you a further insight we have also organized 5 interactive studio visits’ with guest artists, curators and gallerists to let you know about their practice and get a better understanding of their approach and role in the photography industry. More info soon.
At the end of the program, all the dummies produced by the participants will be presented and displayed at PhMuseum Days. Witty Books will select one work to be published in the form of a book. All participants will still benefit from dissemination opportunities through PhMuseum editorial initiatives and its network.
Tommaso Parrillo from Witty Books and Designer Federico Barbon will guide you through the exciting scene of the independent photobook publishing. Beyond offering you a clear picture of how things work, you will be granted access to practical strategies and personalized feedback to complete your work and have it ready for publishing. Plus and most importantly, they will select a project among those of the participants to be published and added to the Witty Books catalogue! A rare opportunity that can grant your career international visibility, prestige and the distribution channels through Witty Books and PhMuseum networks.
Founder of Witty Books
Tommaso Parrillo is an Italian publisher and founder of Witty Books, a publishing house founded with the name of Witty Kiwi in 2012, that aims to promote photography and visual arts. Since 2016 he is also co-founder of JEST, an independent space dedicated to enhancing culture and photography in Turin . He also teaches photography in institutions as IED Torino, private school and workshops.
Graphic designer
Federico Barbon is a graphic designer focusing on web and editorial design. He studied at Bauer school in Milan, Italy (2013) and graduated from ECAL in 2019. He worked at Studiopaola (Milan), Navone Associati (Milan) and Lamm & Kirch (Leipzig). He's now working as a book designer for a number of publishers (Witty Books, Humboldt, Yoffy Press, Skinnerboox) and collaborates with ECAL.
With FOLIO we grant you a behind the scene access to the studio of recognized practitioners. A way to enrich your experience and get relevant insights. Each session comprises a presentation plus an open Q&A session to facilitate interaction.
Curator and Founder Archipelago
Magali Avezou is an independent curator and founder of a r c h i p e l a g o, a curatorial studio focusing on visual culture and art publications. Her projects explore the intersection between photography and other media such as installations, videos, web… archipelago has conceived projects for Flowers Gallery (UK), Les Rencontres Photographiques d’Arles (France), Manifesta (Netherlands), Peckham 24 (UK), PH Museum, Ensba (France)… She is the artistic director of Polyptyque, Marseille Photography Fair. She contributes regularly to photography Magazines. She is an Associate Lecturer at Ace Po (France), Istituto Europeo di Design (Italy) and London College of Communication (UK), and has given lectures and workshops at Royal College of Arts (UK), Southampton University (UK), Escola Massana (Spain) and Instituto Marangoni (It) among others.
Artistic Director of East Wing Gallery
Peggy Sue Amison, is Artistic Director of East Wing a platform for
photography founded in Doha, Qatar (2015 - present). As curator, writer, producer, and
consultant, Peggy Sue collaborates with numerous emerging and established photographers,
festivals and publications internationally. She has curated exhibitions in multiple
locations in Europe, the United States, and China. She also writes for photographic
publications and artist catalogues. Prior to her work with East Wing, Peggy Sue was Artistic
Director of Sirius Arts Centre in County Cork, Ireland and Board Member of Belfast Photo
Festival in Northern Ireland.
With a history of mentoring artists on long-term photographic projects and
supporting the development of new and innovative photography, Peggy Sue has been a long-time
supporter for photographers on project development, distribution and strategies for
promotion both through her work with East Wing and as a free-lance curator. Originally from
the United States, Peggy Sue lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Writer, translator, teacher and curator
Taco Hidde Bakker is a writer, teacher, translator, and curator in the field of the arts, specializing in photography. He studied at two art schools before obtaining an MA in Photographic Studies at Leiden University (NL). He has contributed his writing to numerous artist’s books, catalogues, and magazines, including Camera Austria International (AT), Foam Magazine (NL), British Journal of Photography (GB), and TRIGGER (BE). Bakker is the author of the text collection The Photograph That Took the Place of a Mountain (Fw:Books, 2018). He teaches theory to Photography students at Utrecht University of the Arts (HKU) and collaborates as a writer and curator with the art platform Radical Reversibility.
Visual Artist & Curator
Sofia Borges is a visual artist who graduated in Visual Arts at the
Universidade de São Paulo in 2008, receiving this year five art awards for her artistic
research and production. From 2009 to 2011, Borges presented seven solo shows in Brazil, was
selected by Rumos Itaú Cultural, was highlighted by the Bolsa Iberê Camargo, won the Premio
Porto Seguro de Fotografia, was nominated to the Foam Paul Huf Award 2010 and in 2011 her
work featured the Modern Art Museum of São Paulo. In 2012 Sofia was the youngest artist
invited to the 30th São Paulo Biennial. In 2013, she was nominated to the BES Photo Award,
once again to the Foam Paul Huf Award, granted with the acquisition prize of Centro Cultural
São Paulo, and also presented solo shows in Mexico City, Madrid, Paris, Lisbon and São
Paulo, besides having works featured in Rio de Janeiro, Denver and Oslo. In 2014 the artist
was, for the third time, the Brazilian nominated to the dutch Foam Award and presented her
works in London, Los Angeles, Lyon, São Paulo, Doha and Beijing.
In 2015, Sofia
developed "No Sound", her first experimental project as a curator. Since then, she has been
engaged in developing her research about the image in collaboration with writers,
philosophers, musicians and other artists, transforming, even more, her exhibitions in
spaces of investigation. In 2016 Borges presented solo exhibitions in Vienna and Amsterdam
and won the British First Book Award with her authorial project "The Swamp", inspired by her
exploration of the prehistoric caves in the South of France. The book was launched together
with a solo show at PhotoLondon 2016. In 2017 she presented a solo show in Athens and was
granted the Bolsa ZUM from Instituto Moreira Salles with her research about tragedy. In 2018
Borges presented her work at "Being: The New Photography Exhibition" at MoMA and was engaged
as curator at the 33rd São Paulo Biennial. In 2019, she presented a solo exhibition at
Galeria Mendes Wood DM, in São Paulo, and was nominated as one of Foam Talents 2020. In 2020
Borges presented the solo show at Galerie Kandlholfer, received the Jerusalem International
Fellows' Israeli Award and is engaged with new series including performances and assemblages
to be presented in December 2020. In October and December, the artists present new works in
Berlin and Amsterdam as the result of the Foam Talent Award 2020.
Photographer
Hoda Afshar. Born 1983, Tehran. Lives and works in Naarm
(Melbourne), Australia.
Hoda Afshar explores the nature and possibilities of
documentary image-making. Working across photography and moving image, the artist considers
the representation of gender, marginality, and displacement. In her artworks, Afshar employs
processes that disrupt traditional image-making practices, play with the presentation of
imagery, or merge aspects of conceptual, staged and documentary photography. Recent
exhibitions include; WE CHANGE THE WORLD, National Gallery of Victoria (2021), PHOTO
International Festival of Photography in Melbourne (2021), Between the Sun and the Moon:
Lahore Biennale (2020), Remain, UQ Museum of Art in Brisbane (2019), Beyond Place Museum of
Photographic Arts, San Diego CA, USA (2019), Primavera 2018, Museum of Contemporary Art in
Sydney and Waqt al tagheer: Time of Change, ACE Open in Adelaide (2018). In 2015, she
received the National Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, in 2018 won
Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, Australia and in 2021 she received the
Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship for outstanding talent and exceptional courage. Hoda is
represented by Milani Gallery in Australia.
This masterclass offers you the concrete and unprecedented opportunity to have the work of 1 participant published and fully founded. All the participants will also see their project become a ready-to-print dummy.
Engage with a selected group of peers and professionals from around the world, who can become a resource also for your future. Take advantage of PhMuseum and Witty Books international networks.
This program grants you a first-hand experience encompassing both a theoretical and practical approach to photography, editing and design with the specific goal of a photobook in mind.
In this unstable period you can engage in a program that will happen no matter what having the chance to learn from home while working or studying.
Enjoy a high end program at our launching price, one of the most competitive on the market. If you don’t have the resources, you can also apply for 1 fully-funded scholarship.
Just click on apply now and send us your portfolio and main info before 10 September 2021. If your application is successful, you will then be able to enroll in the program.
All the applications will be reviewed by Tommaso Parrillo and PhMuseum’s Team. What we will consider is the potential of your ongoing project, the strength of your ideas and the coherence of your portfolio.
30 July - If you apply by this date you can be eligible for the full scholarship. Please take care of sending a motivational paragraph that addresses why you would benefit from attending the program.
31 August - If you apply by this date you can be eligible for the Early Bird Fee of €1,500. All applications submitted for the scholarship will be automatically eligible for the Early Bird Fee.
10 September - If you apply by this date you can join the program paying the Regular Fee of €1,650. The seats are limited, so we recommend you to not wait until the last day.
Please note, in case you will be offered a place, PhMuseum will be happy to provide you with a supporting letter when you try to secure any external funding opportunities. For example, in previous editions of our masterclasses, the fee of candidates has been fully funded thanks to the generous support of IWMF Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists or other national programs.
All the online classes are held on ZOOM. We will grant you a specific link each time and you’ll need to connect at least 15 minutes before.
To attend them you will need:
Mac OS x 10.11 or higher or Windows 7 or higher.*
A stable internet connection
A quiet environment
Access to Google Drive
Drop us a line at rocco@phmuseum.com.