#75: Offline Journal Newsletter: 10 Aug '24
Photobooks, zines, events and other news
Hello again
More news on various events and activities relating to photography happening around Wales.
Brian
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BOPFOLIO 2024
Bristol Books on Photography (BOP) festival has announced BOPFOLIO - a new showcase section launching this year and celebrating new photobook dummies, described as…
“…an opportunity for early-career stage photographers based in Britain and Ireland. Selected applicants will have their work displayed in the Paintworks Event Space across the BOP 24 festival weekend, in front of 3,000+ visitors and industry experts”.
The BOPFOLIO submission deadline is 25th August with only a PDF of proposed dummies required initially, although a physical book dummy must be submitted by all successful applicants by 20 September, in advance of the event which runs the weekend of 19-20 October 2024.
BOPFOLIO is an open theme and entirely free to all entrants. Full details for submissions are available on the website page: bopbristol.org/bopfolio-2024
I’m aware of one submission from Wales so far - but hopefully, more photographers will have the confidence to fly the flag!!
If you’re not quite ready to submit this year and have never attended the event before, I recommend going along. BOP is inspiring to see and handle the wide range of creative solutions for photography publishing and self-publishing.
BOOKS ON PHOTOGRAPHY (BOP) 24
Photobook Festival
10am - 7pm Saturday 19th & 10am - 4pm Sunday 20th October 2024
Paintworks site, Bristol BS4 3EH
bopbristol.org
RAW by Bartosz Nowicki
Taking his own sketchbooks and visual ideas into a collected Zine format, photographer Bartosz Nowicki will reveal his new ‘Raw (Scrapbook June – August 2024)’ in coming days.
“It’s the first in a new series of zines made entirely in my notebooks.
Old and new images (photos and sometimes drawings), paints, ink pens and newspaper cutouts are mashed together in the moment. This is about the feelings while making stuff rather than planning an outcome. No editing is done after either. Sure, some of the ideas I share here may be remade in the future, but here and now - I give it to you RAW”.– Bartosz Nowicki
If you’re interested in a copy, contact Bartosz on Instagram
@bartosznowicki
TALK PHOTO at Oriel Colwyn
James Clifford Kent is the next guest speaker for Oriel Colwyn’s series of ‘Talk Photo’ events at the gallery in Colwyn Bay on Thursday 15 August 2024.
Free but limited tickets for this event which starts 7pm, and also for the next talk with Bluecoat Press founder Colin Wilkinson on 28 August, are available via the gallery website.
www.orielcolwyn.org/talk-photo
Wrap at The Workers Gallery
Saturday 24 August should be a busy day at The Workers Gallery in Ynyshir – inside and out – as they show off their new front shutters, wrapped with one of David Hurn’s colour photographs from the Rhondda Valleys.
Helping to promote the new Rhondda Heritage Trail to everyone passing the outside of the gallery, there will also be activity inside on the day with the launch of the Workers Gallery Photobook Club. This new club will have David Hurn’s ON INSTAGRAM book as the subject for exploration and group discussion.
Hurn will also be attending on the day to support the event and sign books, whilst the gallery’s resident artist Gayle Rogers runs a Collage Workshop taking the photographer’s book and Instagram posts as inspiration.
PHOTOBOOK CLUB Launch event
1 - 3pm, Saturday 24 August 2024
The Workers Gallery, Ynyshir CF39 0EN
www.workersgallery.co.uk
SWIFTIES FLY OFF THE SHELF
The recently self-published ‘Taylor Swift’s OUTSIDERS’ zine by David Hurn didn’t last long; with the initial short print run snapped up in the first week of being available. Offline Journal along with RRB Photobooks Martin Parr Foundation had the zine briefly then sold out.
The photographer decided to do a second print run and I’m pleased to say I now have a new limited batch of eight signed and eight unsigned copies available again on the Offline Journal online store at £10 + £3 P&P per copy.
The first eight orders from today will ship as signed copies, after which I’ll ship unsigned. First-come first-served!
BEYOND BARGOED
If you managed to make the opening on 25th May of ‘The Valleys’ exhibition (currently showing in National Museum Cardiff) there’s a chance you’d have bumped into Swedish film director and photographer Kjell-Åke Andersson.
Visiting Wales that weekend to see fifteen of his photographs on the walls of the exhibition that were made during his time living with miners and the local community in Bargoed in the 1970s, some of the images were included in his first photobook Gruvarbetare i Wales published in 1977.
Revisiting his large photography archive in 2023, Andersson took another look at his images from the 1970s, this time made in his native city of Stockholm, with the desire to create a new photobook fifty years on. The resulting book, ‘Kära Aspudden’ (Dear Aspudden) with photographs taken in the then-slum suburb of Stockholm between 1973-75, was nominated for the Swedish Photo Book Prize 2024. Watch the video above on YouTube - and switch on English subtitles.
You can see fifteen of his Bargoed images in THE VALLEYS exhibition in Cardiff.
THE VALLEYS
25 May - 3 November 2024
Museum Cardiff, Cardiff CF10 3NP
www.museum.wales/cardiff
PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP & SHOW
Forty years on, the unstoppable Walter Waygood continues to deliver photography workshops in the local community.
Portrait photography is the theme for his next - running 10am - 4pm over two days 29 & 30 August in the Cynon Valley Museum. Details are provided in the poster above.
The workshop ties in with the opening of Waygood’s MINERS TRIBUTE exhibition also at the Cynon Valley Museum on 17 August and running until 7 September 2024.
Cynon Valley Museum, Aberdare, CF44 8DL (next to Tesco)
www.cynonvalleymuseum.wales