RAMADAN IN YEMEN

by Max Pam

Reviewed by Sarah Rhodes Ramadan in Yemen is Max Pam’s latest travelogue, crafted into a limited edition photography book, aimed at the collector. Pam employs his trademark journal style, writing a diary, making sketches and sticking ephemera around his black and white photographs to document his three-month trip to Yemen in 1993.

It is the first photography book for French publisher Pierre Bessard under the imprint ‘Editions Bessard’. The publishing house employed a multilingual typographer to make Arabic markings around the images to create a tactile finish, and give the

COPYRIGHT-FREE, BONNIE/A PICTURE BOOK/AM I NOT HERE?

Guan Rong

The film is called Am I Not Here ? Directed by Mike HJ Chang, visual artist currently based in Singapore and Guan Rong. It is an autobiographical documentary film about his life in the U.S. as an artist and as a person in general. 50 min.

There are two books come together with the film as a set. Copyright-Free, Bonnie, is a collection of self-selected notes, writings, short stories, homework, and letters from 1997 to 2008 by Guan Rong. It contains writings in both English and

PHOTOBOOK DUMMY AWARD 2012

5th International Photobook Festival in Paris

Submit your unpublished photobook for a chance to win a complete book production. A preliminary jury will select the best 50 dummies from all entries. The winners will be chosen from this selection.

The 50 exhibited books will be selected by a pre-jury. This pre-jury comprises Markus Schaden (Bookseller, Publisher, Cologne), Sebastian Hau (Le Bal Books, Paris), Inga Schneider (International Photobook Festival, Cologne), Laurence Vecten (Lozen Up, Paris), Dieter Neubert (International Photobook Festival, Kassel).

The main jury comprises Gerry Badger (Critic, Photographer, London), Todd Hido (Photographer, USA), Markus Schaden

WE WOULD LIKE

to wish you a great New Year !

We thank everyone for numerous supports that we received last year.

We are now preparing 2012, in Joy.