Photo Book Talk / Matej Sitar, Sanne Katainen and David Molina Gadea
Photo Book Talk / Matej Sitar, Sanne Katainen and David Molina Gadea
UGM Kabinet, Strossmayerjeva 6
Thursday, 22 November 2018, 18:00
moderated by: Andreja Borin, UGM Senior Curator
The UGM welcomes you to a talk on photography and photo books, featuring most interesting guests. Slovenian photographer and publisher Matej Sitar, whose exhibition we recently hosted at the UGM Studio, Finnish photographer Sanne Katainen and David Molina Gadea from Spain will discuss the present situation in their field of work. The latter have just had their first photo books published by Sitar's The Angry Bat.
What is the situation concerning photo books in Slovenia? What about Finland and Spain? How to enter a foreign market with your own photo book trademark, with limited editions? What characterises a well-designed photo book? What are the specifics of material preparation for a photo book, compared to an exhibition? How did their cooperation come to be, and how did it go?
Matej Sitar (1980) is an art photographer of wide-spectrum interests. He works as an architectural photographer for different architects and magazines, publishes limited edition photo-books under his own brand The Angry Bat, presents photo-books by different authors on his The Angry Bat – nice photobooks blog on weekly bases and still finds time to exhibit regularly. Currently he lives and works in Maribor.
His publishing house has produced three of his own photo-books so far: Morning sun, 2015; America, My Way, 2012; Tsuriai, 2010. He was awarded the EMZIN price for his book America, my way, several artistic grants and the prestigious Essl Award for young contemporary artist (2009).
Sanne Katainen (1980) studied at the Aalto University for Art, Design and Architecture and acquired her MA in 2015 at the photography department. In 2008-2009, she was an exchange student at the Buenos Aires University, Argentina. She has been working for various newspapers and magazines as a freelance photographer, as well as working with musicians and artists. She has received multiple grants in Finland for various photographic projects, including one for a photo book in 2016. She lives and works in Helsinki.
On Peace Dance photo book: »When I was 13 years old, my classmates in the sixth grade and I performed a dance we called the Peace Dance. It was a simple dance anyone could do. The photo book Peace Dance celebrates everyday passing encounters, in which we at the same time sense mystery and banality, depth and light, melancholy and shallowness.«
David Molina Gadea (1991) studied art at Massana School from 2009 to 2012. During this time, he had begun to explore photography, and had worked with local Catalan newspapers and cultural organizations. In 2015, he had spent a year in refugee centres in Belgium as part of the European Volontery Service (EVS) Project. He has published this experience in the articles The Long Way Home (British Journal of Photography, September 2016) and The Human Apart. He received a grant as an emerging photographer in 2015; in 2016, he qualified for the Gomma Photography Grant Award. He is the art director at LA NUU Photography Festival in Ruba (Barcelona). He has just published his first photo book Go to Become at The Angry Bat publishing house.
On Go to Become photo book: »The vantage point are nightclubs of Barcelona, where the use of alcohol, psycho-active substances and techno rhythms facilitate a condition in which the innermost instincts in humans awake. The idea of transformation and the desire for change after the great socio-economic crisis were the key in creating this work, and they also gave it a social connotation.«
The event will be held in English language.
KINDLY INVITED!
