Submissions

Artist and Photographic books

NOTICE: (April 2024)

Due to the immense number of new photobook publications, we need you to submit your submission request to the book reviewer who is most aligned with your publication. Please submit to only one reviewer, otherwise your submission will not be accepted. You can expect a response in three weeks or less. If your submission is not accepted by the book reviewer you contacted, then a second submission can be made to another book reviewer.

For a book submission, please include a low-resolution book pdf or at least six page-spreads, your book’s artist statement and your bio/cv. For our book submissions we are evaluating the criteria of photographic quality, visual and emotional impact, editing, sequencing and layout design, the narrative, presentation of your intent and other book publication attributes. Finally, your book must be published in its final form, as we do not review book dummies or evaluation book and project concepts.

When a book reviewer accepts your submission, you will be provided their mailing address where to send your printed review copy.

Note: We do not review photographic technique or technical (how-to) photographic books.

Submit to:

Hans Hickerson, Editor: Photobooks crafted to take advantage of the book’s potential as a vessel for photographs (and texts) to present narratives, stories, experiences, and themed content. Not as enthusiastic about project-based work or traditional genres of landscapes, portraits, or nudes. Email Contact: hhickerson@hotmail.com

Lee Halvorsen, Assistant Editor; with interests in documentary, personal story or memoir, environment (conservation/preservation), conflict, and street photography. Email contact: leehalvorsen@mac.com.

Gerhard (Gerry) Clausing, Editorial Consultant: Culture, psychology, ambiguity, surrealism. Email contact: gerry@photobookjournal.com

Paul Anderson, Contributing Editor; Computer or software manipulated photography, digital art, camera-less photography, abstract and experimental photography, architecture, cities (especially Asian), trains and subways. Email contact: litespeeddad@gmail.com

Brian Arnold, Contributing Editor: I have a broad interest in a range of photographic processes and styles, but I am now particularly interested in work from Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia. Email contact: briancarnold@gmail.com

Olga Bubich, Contributing Editor: Essayist, visual artist, and lecturer engaged in the topics of memory, language and identity, and interested in long-term personal or history-based transdisciplinary projects that challenge conventional perceptions of both photography and photobooks. Contact: oljabu@yahoo.co.uk

Melanie Chapman, Contributing Editor: Street and Documentary publications, as well as career retrospectives. Contact: melanieachapman@gmail.com

Steve Harp: Contributing Editor: Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, the Holocaust; photographic work with pronounced philosophical, literary or psychoanalytic underpinnings. Email contact: sharp@depaul.edu

Brian O’Neill, Contributing Editor: socio-cultural, environmental; political; historical; documentary; artist books. Email contact: brianfoneill@immaterialbooks.com

Matt Schneider (https://mjschneider.net/) Contributing Editor and a sociology professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. His interests include visual politics, civic engagement, environmental (in)justice, and urban development. Contact mjschneider40@gmail.com.

Rudy Vega, Contributing Editor: Conceptual work, work in a series, time based, typology, portraiture; social, personal, and off beat/ironic/self- reflexive; surreal photography; contemporary academic. Email contact:
rudy.vega@gmail.com

‘Searching for Your Shadow’ is a self-published photobook exploring memory, history and urban geography.
Like my birth and adoptive parents, I am a migrant with links to Ireland, Poland, and France, as well as my home country, Britain. My (adoptive) mother was also the child of migrants, from Poland. She was not born in Paris, but, was always from Paris.
This photobook consists of a recent exploration of my Parisian mother’s home district (the 15th arrondissement). This is one of the most everyday areas in Paris, with little there to attract the tourist or the sightseer. These are also the streets I trod when I spent a week in Paris in 1967, aged 15. I spent a week walking, visiting galleries, observing, and absorbing. I did not have a camera at that time, but I now understand that that week was pivotal to my visual education. I learnt to not passively look, but to actively see.
Later in life I became a photographer.
This project is heavily influenced by the writings of Patrick Modiano (Nobel Prize for Literature, 2014), whose writings are the fragmented, lateral stories of memories, history, and the urban geography of Paris. Crucially, Modiano’s characters usually attempt, and fail, to make some sense of memories of the past. This failure is implicit in their search, as it is in mine.
The fragility of memory is thrown into relief by my mother’s struggles with dementia in the latter years of her life.
This slippage of personal and familial memory greatly informed this search for the intangible.

I am currently crowdfunding to cover the printing costs to make a softcover photobook of the 23 images, two of my mother’s ID cards from the 1940s, and two maps of the arrondissement. Also included, is an authored Foreward (currently being written) and an Afterword (written by myself):

Regular updates are appearing on my Facebook and Instagram accounts.
https://www.facebook.com/chris.rydlewski.5
https://www.instagram.com/chrisrydlewski/

I hope this is of interest to you.
If you need any further information, please get in contact.
Best wishes
Chris Rydlewski

6 thoughts on “Submissions”

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mpetko says:

June 6, 2009 at 11:18 am

linked to your site from “Exposure Comp” blog. Looking for Rss feed for posts to ad you to my feedreader, can only find one for comments…do you have one for posts?

Doug Stockdale says:

June 6, 2009 at 3:25 pm

I know that others are using feedreader for posts, but I will check on my settings, as I did not place any blocks on feedreaders or Rss feeds.

TonyGeotog (@Geotog) says:

June 7, 2012 at 6:58 pm

I would like you to consider listing you photo books on my new photography resource site Geotog.com we need more location based photo books.

eltercerojo13 says:

April 11, 2015 at 4:02 pm

Congratulations for your blog. Do you review photobooks projects that are not yet published?

http://zoltanphotobook.blogspot.com.es/p/fotofun.html?view=classic

1. Doug Stockdale says:
  
  May 2, 2015 at 2:48 am
  
  I prefer not to review unpublished work, but I may provide some feedback on a book dummy. I do not evaluate virtual books or book PDFs, but I am very interested in the book as an object.
  
Chris Rydlewski says:

November 24, 2020 at 7:38 am

‘Searching for Your Shadow’ is a self-published photobook exploring memory, history and urban geography.
Like my birth and adoptive parents, I am a migrant with links to Ireland, Poland, and France, as well as my home country, Britain. My (adoptive) mother was also the child of migrants, from Poland. She was not born in Paris, but, was always from Paris.
This photobook consists of a recent exploration of my Parisian mother’s home district (the 15th arrondissement). This is one of the most everyday areas in Paris, with little there to attract the tourist or the sightseer. These are also the streets I trod when I spent a week in Paris in 1967, aged 15. I spent a week walking, visiting galleries, observing, and absorbing. I did not have a camera at that time, but I now understand that that week was pivotal to my visual education. I learnt to not passively look, but to actively see.
Later in life I became a photographer.
This project is heavily influenced by the writings of Patrick Modiano (Nobel Prize for Literature, 2014), whose writings are the fragmented, lateral stories of memories, history, and the urban geography of Paris. Crucially, Modiano’s characters usually attempt, and fail, to make some sense of memories of the past. This failure is implicit in their search, as it is in mine.
The fragility of memory is thrown into relief by my mother’s struggles with dementia in the latter years of her life.
This slippage of personal and familial memory greatly informed this search for the intangible.

I am currently crowdfunding to cover the printing costs to make a softcover photobook of the 23 images, two of my mother’s ID cards from the 1940s, and two maps of the arrondissement. Also included, is an authored Foreward (currently being written) and an Afterword (written by myself):

Regular updates are appearing on my Facebook and Instagram accounts.
https://www.facebook.com/chris.rydlewski.5
https://www.instagram.com/chrisrydlewski/

I hope this is of interest to you.
If you need any further information, please get in contact.
Best wishes
Chris Rydlewski