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Unseen Dummy Sessions

 
Celebrating the opening / book launch of Ubuntu by Rebecca Fertinel (Unseen Dummy Award 2018 winner), Unseen Dummy Award offered an educational programme dedicated to dummy-making. Mediators, designers and past jurors of Unseen Dummy Award came together to talk about their practice, spotlighting a few photobook cases, and giving feedback on participants’ dummies and book funding proposals.

4th May / Design Session / 11:00-18:00 -SYB- (Sybren Kuiper)
5th May / Funding Proposal Session / 11:00-16:00 Taco Hidde Bakker & Frank van der Stok
Both sessions took place at Unseen Amsterdam Studio, Keizersgracht 520-H, 1017EK, Amsterdam.

-SYB- is always looking for new ways to transform the reading of a (photo)book into an experience. Apart from a strong approach to editing/sequencing and a keen eye for the use of text, he utilizes all the physical possibilities and characteristics of the book format itself, sometimes deceptively simple, sometimes neglecting and stretching the boundaries of bookmaking.

Taco Hidde Bakker works as a writer, translator, editor, researcher and lecturer and as sparring partner for artists. Bakker's writings about art and photography have been published in catalogues and artist’s books, and in magazines as Camera Austria International, Foam Magazine, EXTRA, British Journal of Photography, The PhotoBook Review, Objektiv, and others. His first volume of essays (and other writings about photography and art), The Photograph That Took the Place of a Mountain, was published by Fw:Books in 2018.

Frank van der Stok is a curator, editor, tutor, advisor and author. His current main activity is to be involved as an editor/curator in all levels of the whole process of bookmaking, from the initial editorial and conceptual set-up, via managing, coördinating and curating the content development and the funding, to the final execution and positioning of the artist’ book as a coherent and dense form of representing one’s artistic output with the highest degree of meaningful (visual) significance.

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