2023 : POLYCOPIES

participants / exhibitors :
5UHR30.COM - Germany / 89BOOKS - Italy / AREA BOOKS - France / ARTPHILEIN - Switzerland / BEIJING SILVERMINE - THOMAS SAUVIN - France - China / BJP / BLUECOAT PRESS - UK / BLOW UP PRESS - Poland / BREADFIELD PRESS - Sweden / BUCHKUNST BERLIN - Germany / CRP HAUTS-DE-FRANCE - France / CESURA PUBLISH - Italy / CHARCOAL PRESS - USA / DALPINE - Spain / DANILO MONTANARI EDITORE - Italy / DEADBEAT CLUB - USA / DEPART POUR L’IMAGE - Italy / DIENACHT - Germany / DISKO BAY - Danemark / EDICIONES ANÓMALAS - Spain / ÉDITIONS IMAGES VEVEY - Switzerland / ÉDITIONS LAMAINDONNE - France / ÉDITIONS LOCO - France / ÉDITIONS SUR LA CRÊTE - France / FALL LINE PRESS - USA / FOTOHOF - Austria / FRAGLICH PUBLISHING - Everywhere / GERRIT RIETVIELD ACADEMIE - Netherlands / BRING YOUR OWN BOOK - Netherlands / GNOMIC BOOKS - USA / GWINZEGAL - France / HALOGENURE - SATURNE - LE MULET - EMULSION - France / HYDRA - Mexico / IMAGE TEXT ITHACA PRESS - USA / IMAGELESS STUDIO - China / IN)(BETWEEN - France / ISIA - Italy / JANE & JEREMY - United-Kingdom / JIAZAZHI PRESS - China / JOURNAL - Sweden / KABK - Netherlands / KAUNAS GALLERY / LITHUANIAN PHOTOBOOKS - Lithuania / KOMINEK BOOKS - Germany / KULT BOOKS - Sweden / LA MAISON DE Z - France / LE POINT DU JOUR - France / LECTURIS - Netherlands / LIGHT MOTIV ÉDITIONS - France / LOS SUMERGIDOS - Latin America / MAGNUM FOUNDATION / AFAC / ADPP / MAGNUM PHOTOS - Everywhere / MILLION BOOKS - Germany / MOME - Hungary / NAZRAELI PRESS - USA / NEAREST TRUTH EDITIONS - USA / NOUVEAU PALAIS - France / ORIGINI EDIZIONI - Italy / OVERLAPSE - United-Kingdom / PAÏEN - France / PALAIS BOOKS - France / PALM* STUDIOS - United-Kingdom / PIERRE VON KLEIST - Portugal / RED HOOK EDITIONS - USA / SETANTA BOOKS - United-Kingdom / SKINNERBOOX - Italy / SOBOL BOOKS - Danemark / SUPER LABO - Japan / TALL POPPY PRESS - Australia / THE ERISKAY CONNECTION - Netherlands / THIS BOOK IS TRUE - Spain / TIPI BOOKSHOP - Belgium / TIS BOOKS - USA / VERNACULAR SOCIAL CLUB - France / WITTY BOOKS - Italy / XYZ - Portugal / ZATARA PRESS - USA / ZEN FOTO - Japan / ZERO EDITIONS - Brazil / ZOETROPE ATHENS - Greece /

pop-up & guests :
B-B-B-BOOKS - Sweden / CÉ ÉDITIONS - France / CLASSE MOYENNE ÉDITIONS - France / IIKKI - France / L'ÉDITEUR DU DIMANCHE - France / FUTURE FORMAT - Greece / MANUAL EDITIONS - United-Kingdom / MILDA BOOKS - Baltic / NEW DIMENSION - United-Kingdom / OBJEKTIV PRESS - Norway / RICARDO CASES - Spain / SAILOR PRESS - Sweden / TRUE PHOTO JOURNAL - United-Kingdom /

spotlight :
FOTOBUS SOCIETY / FOTOGRAF MAGAZINE / FUTURE FORMAT / GROWING PAINS / KIDS LOVE PHOTOGRAPHY / MARIE QUÉAU / MUMU / REVUE EPIC / STERNTHAL BOOKS / YANNIS STOURNAS/ BÖHM KOBAYASHI / BROMIDE BOOKS / ÉDITIONS CONTREJOUR / EXTRA EXTRA / FISHEYE EDITIONS / GALERIE ECHO 119 / GUEST EDITIONS / HAPAX MAGAZINE / LEPORELLO BOOKS & GRANI EDIZIONI / MILANEUM / OLIVIER KERVERN / RAINWORLD ARCHIVE / RHEA KARAM / SIMPLE ÉDITIONS /

tables rondes / conferences :
1/ The Inhabitants
Raymond Meeks in conversation with George Weld, presenting the new book The Inhabitants, MACK, followed by a book signing.

2/ Sex, Books & The Welfare State
Objektiv has invited three artists who will discuss the production and status of photography & photobooks in the welfare state in the nordic countries, and how their publication sheds light on various challenges faced by people in the region. Fryd Frydendahl (DK) presents the book Salad Days, Andrea Gjestvang (NO) their book Atlantic Cowboy and Oslo-based Ayo Akinsete (NG/US) brings an as-yet-untitled project.

3/ Photos de famille, photos intimes
Avec Marie-Hélène Lafon, écrivaine, Guillaume Geneste, tireur et photographe, David Fourré, éditeur. Discussions et lectures autour de la nouvelle collection Poursuites et Ricochets aux Éditions Lamaindonne.

4/ Construire un journalisme d'idées
Sandra Maunac en conversation avec les photographes Abdo Shanan autour de son livre 'A little louder' sur la révolte en Algérie et Rehab Eldalil avec son livre 'The Longing of The Stranger Whose Path Has Been Broken'.
Sandra Maunac dirige les Rencontres et Prix Méditerranéen Albert Camus de Minorque (Iles Baléares, Espagne).

5/ Collectionner les Tombes
Avec André Chabot, photographe, Lia Pradal, artiste et éditrice, et Sylvain Besson, directeur des collections du Musée Nicéphore Niepce, édité par Païen, lauréat de l’aide à l’édition Polycopies &Co.

6/ Polycopies &Co
Présentation de l’association de collectionneurs Polycopies &Co autour de projets lauréats, parmi lesquels :
'Hard times are fighting times' de Alice Proujansky, Gnomic Book (US); 'How to drive' de Katerina Moschou, Zoetrope (GR); 'Tourism in the climate change era' de Marco Zorzanello, André Frère édition (IT/FR); Hassan Kurbanbaev 'One head and Thousand years'; 'Impasse' de Chris Dorley Brown chez Nouveau Palais (FR/GB)

7/ KidsLovePhotography (Photobooks for Kids)
Jan von Holleben (photographer & editor at Little Steidl) and Laurence Le Guen (Phd in French Literature and specialist in children's photo books) will open the treasure chest of rare books by well known artists and also widely unknown yet highly prolific authors. The conversation is about the overlap between children’s, artist’s and photobooks - overlapping historical and contemporary cases as well as the narrative and experimental approaches. Guests will include : Charles Fréger (photographer and author of photo books), Carine Picaud (Collection of rare books, Bibliothèque nationale de France), Claire Dé (photographer and author of photo books).

8/ Growing Pains
Agata Bar, Daria Tuminas and Zhenia Sveshchinskaya present their new project Growing Pains and their first publication In pieces, commissioning 5 Ukrainian artists to work on a photographic project aimed at children.

9/ Noctambule
Dutch photographer Bart Koetsier presents his new book featuring ten years of night photography in Amsterdam, Paris and other metropoles.

10/ Mike Slack and Tim Carpenter in conversation 'To Photograph is to learn how to die'.

11/ TIS book artists Raymond Meeks, J Carrier and Jenia Fridlyand will be in conversation to discuss their recent projects: what they learned from failed starts, how they go about discovering a place, and what draws them to peripheral spaces.

12/ Factory Photobooks
Bart Sorgedrager presents his book on the history of Company Photobooks.
'With Factory Photobooks we have an entire section of the photobook world that has remained hidden and unloved. So sit back and enjoy the many years of research that Bart Sorgedrager has invested to now produce a totally new chapter in the history of the photobook.' [Martin Parr]

13/ La photo vernaculaire est-elle soluble ?...
Soirée de lancement du VERNACULAR SOCIAL CLUB
Lancé en 2023, le Club a pour but de promouvoir le document vernaculaire sous toutes ses formes, dans une approche sociétale et politique.
- Présentation du Club et conversations autour de la photographie vernaculaire, avec Jean-Marie Donat, Lukas Birk, Anne Delrez, Erik Kessels, Thomas Sauvin, Lucy Sante et Christophe Thiebaut.