Imagimage, ‘Photobook as Method: Connecting Asia-Pacific Photobook Publishing Practices’ Filet

A quarter-century after Fotografía Pública—the first major exhibition to recognise the photobook as an artwork in its own right—the medium continues to flourish, supported by the rise of art book fairs and growing scholarly attention. While certain historical periods and regions, such as Japanese photobooks from the ‘60s and ‘70s have attracted sustained interest from collectors and researchers, much of the history and contemporary practice of photobooks across the Asia-Pacific remains an emerging and dynamic field.

Over the past decade, photobook publishing in the Asia-Pacific has gained remarkable momentum. This event brings together makers, publishers, and other practitioners working in, around, and between China, Japan, India, Nepal and others to reflect on the current state of photobook discourse.

The inaugural instalment of the IMAGIMAGE Reading Room explores the ways in which the photobook functions as a method to connect, converge, and intersect visual cultures and publishing networks across borders.