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WORLD PHOTOBOOK WEEKEND

A Photobook Club Australia World Photobook Day activity for 2019

The Ballarat International Foto Biennale was proud to host the World Photobook Day during the festival between Saturday 12 October and Monday 14 October. The call-out was to Celebrate World Photobook Day with other photography enthusiasts by attending 4 photobook events over the weekend.

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Doug meeting with Aaron Bradbrook

The back story for the BIFB’s World Photobook Weekend is that in March Vicky and I visited the BIFB in its home the National Centre of Photography. In a conversation with Associate Curator Aaron Bradbrook we pitched the idea of a photobook event to coincide with World Photobook Day.

In followup conversations with the BIFB Creative Director Fiona Sweet a series of four events became part of the program. The events were: a keynote talk, a forum, a photobook fair and a birthday celebration.

With BIFB Creative Director Fiona Sweet

In the months that followed we worked with Fiona, refined the event focus and the people who could be involved. We then followed through with our side of the necessary preparations and promotion of the event.

This series of Blog posts provides a report on the four events as well as an opportunity to present a commentary on the Australian and New Zealand photobooks that was the topic of the talk I presented on the first day of the weekend.

To navigate through the events just ‘CLICK’ on the title tab. At the end of each post there’s a ‘RETURN to the HOMEPAGE’ link.

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SATURDAY 12 OCTOBER

Doug Spowart + ANZ Photobooks

TALK BY DOUG SPOWART

Many Tribes: The Australian And New Zealand Photobook

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SUNDAY 13 OCTOBER

Book Fair participants

PHOTOBOOK FAIR

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Forum Panelists

FORUM: Photobooks – Getting Published & Getting Collected 

with Patrick Pound, Sarah Walker, Heidi Romano and David Wadelton. Moderated by Doug Spowart

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MONDAY 14 OCTOBER

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World Photobook Day Birthday Celebration

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PARTY!   Celebrating 176 years of photobooks

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