Looking back / looking forward Issue 1 has been curated by the guest curator Harold Diaz (photographer and collagist based in Brooklyn, New York). The coordinator and editor is Piotr Drewko (curator based in London), founder of Impossible Colour Collective. The book contains a selection of photographies of contemporary photographers, an interview with Harold Diaz and an essay by Ryan Whatley.

Looking back / looking forward project is a strictly photographic idea – it deals with current tendency in photography to produce more and more images and fill the world with them. Proposing a challenge to make a coherent conglomeration of the visual we can encounter every day became a base for the project.

Moritz collaborates with the event so we’ll have free Moritz for everyone!

Facebook event.

Photographers who collaborate with the book:

Matthew Smithee, Jack Lovell, Ryszard Auksztulewicz, Daniel Dueckminor, Axel Stevens, Zach Kidd, Ian Claussen, Delaney Allen, John Vetrano, Simon Kossoff, Facundo Pires, Aaron Macdonald, Harold Diaz, Mike Feswick, Alyssa Kazew, Yenisbel Rodriguez, John Vetrano, Jeremy O’Sullivan, Lena Nasibulina, Lukasz Wierzbowski, Mikaylah Bowman, John Vetrano, Sean Ripple, Andrey Bogush, Ekvilina Milaševiciuteė, Taylor Radelia, Nico Krijno, Connor Creagan, Aaaron Macdonald, Kyle Smith, Walter C. Hulburt, Mate Ugrin, Harley Weir, Kim R. Reisenbichler, MBARI, Yenisbel Rodriguez, Florencia Caterina, Traci Matlock, Simon Kossoff, Rafael Bonilla y Daniel Dueckminor

With Moritz support:

Some “Zine Pages Fest” photos:

- * (Poemes d’Emma Llensa il·lustrats per Úrsula Brage), December 2010

- Unlimited Sobrassada, by Jaume C. Pons Alorda & Cristòfol Pons, August 2011

We don’t know yet which poems we’ll publish as we have given FULL freedom to Anna Gual and Bianca Tschaikner… But we have been able to see some of the illustrations that will be part of the book:

in collaboration with ATEM BOOKS
invites artists from
Bilbao, Pisa, Hamburg and Girona

on the topic
“Myself, elsewhere”
Deadline: 20th march 2012

Atem Books is collaborating with a-cross, a non profit organization dedicated to promote emerging artists who work in the fields of multiculturalism.

Contemporary art is the first of Across’ paths to explore the change of society and its needs. Across believes in shared art, which gives space and time for comparison.

Art expresses, explores, photographs, mirrors the reality of European territories, characterized by constant migration, crossed every day by men and people carrying cultural patterns, historically structured and different one from the other: from language to religion, from clothes to culinary traditions, from music to folk customs.

Across seeks dialogue and mutual understanding through visual and multimedia art, such as cultural and social urgency, looking for a higher awareness of the present and a new sense of belonging to a common society as vast and complex as it is today.

 

They have now opened a call in which they ask artists from Bilbao, Pisa, Hamburg and Girona to send their works on the topic of multiculturalism. They will celebrate an “ACROSS DAY” in Bilbao next 13th April held on 13rd of April 2012 at the Museo Marìtimo Rìa de Bilbao, an event dedicated to cultural migration which is part of the “7th Conference of International Migrations in Spain – Human Mobility and Social Diversity” (11th – 13th April) organized by the Basque Country University – Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea.

Artists must be related somehow with these 4 cities: Bilbao, Pisa, Hamburg and Girona.

Atem Books and Ubicuo Studio will publish the digital catalogue of the works selected from this open call. The catalogue will be available to download (for free) at the App Store (iPhone/iPad) – and Across is also looking for sponsors to be able to make a printed version.

More info: a-cross.eu

Download:

Across Day Bilbao Open Call 2012   -   Open Call 2012 ENTRY FORM

Thanks Anna Pahissa!

• Synchrodogs 2011, Synchrodogs
• Nude Sensitivity, Sasha Kurmaz
• Nodoby is nowhere, Lara Alegre
• Orgy, Steingrim Veum

When we attend to fairs, a lot of people asks us for our catalogue. We never had published any catalogue as we couldn’t spend money doing it, so we have decided to create a digital Atem Books catalogue.

Besides this, recording videos of the books has obliged us to see the books again (and we totally love them!), page after page. We think Multimedia catalogues are the best way to give people the most accurate information about the real books.

We’ve uploaded some of these videos to youtube:

Le tissage de la forêt, Cendrine Rovini

We are blind people made of colors, Emma Llensa

After the wind, Li Hui