The Photobook Lab Presents: Structure and Sequence
Instructors: Cristian Ordóñez and Kate Schneider
RESCHEDULED: Friday, Nov 1 – Sunday, Nov 3, 2024, 10am–5pm
CONTACT Photography Festival, 80 Spadina Ave, Suite 205, Toronto
$200
Applications are now closed; thank you for your interest.
Created to help emerging and mid-career photographers realize their book projects, this three-day workshop led by artists Cristian Ordóñez and Kate Schneider will guide participants in the clear direction of a photobook that they can propose for grants and publishers.
The workshop will include sequencing and layout activities, peer-led critiques, and conversations with guest photographers, editors, and designers of recognized experience.
– Ben Freedman (lens-based artist)
– Birthe Piontek (artist and Associate Professor of Photography, Emily Carr University of Art and Design)
– Lauren Wickware (graphic designer)
This workshop, held at the CONTACT office in downtown Toronto, is subject to an application process. It is free to apply; successful participants will be notified by Wednesday, April 17, 2024 and invoiced for the workshop fee.
Please provide the following in one (1) PDF to [email protected]:
– 10-15 images from one project or series
– Statement about your project and how you envision it in photobook form
– What you are hoping to learn from this workshop ie. best design practices, how to sequence your project, etc.
Successful participants are expected to bring at least two copies of 20-30 small prints from one body of work or series, and a laptop with InDesign installed. Previous design experience is not required, but a working knowledge of InDesign is a plus. No additional materials will be required.
Instructor Bios:
Cristian Ordóñez (b. 1976, Santiago de Chile) has been based in Toronto since 2008. He is an independent graphic designer, photographer and publisher. These three practices constantly merge within his process. With his photographic work he has won the Urbanautica Institute Award (Italy), the Burtynsky Grant, the OMNE – Osservatorio Mobile Nord Est Land residency program prize 2023-2025 (Italy); has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Art Council; shortlisted by Getxophoto (Spain) and nominated for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award (Germany). Ordóñez has taught workshops in collaboration with VU Photo (Québec), OCAD University, Gallery 44 and Toronto Metropolitan University. His publications are collected at libraries including the National Gallery of Canada, the Museum of Modern Art, San Telmo Museum, the Art Gallery of Ontario and the National Library of Australia, among others. He divides his time working with photography and graphic design, and as a photo editor and design director for the Vermont and Toronto-based publisher of artists books and ephemera Another Earth, which he has been a part of since 2020
Kate Schneider (b. 1980, Cleveland, Ohio) is an artist of settler ancestry living in Tkaronto (Toronto). As a life-long resident of the Great Lakes region, her artistic practice considers her personal and ethical relationship to her home and environment during a time of climate crisis. She has received funding from the MacLaren Art Centre’s John Hartman Award (2020) and the Ontario Arts Council. Kate’s works have been shown extensively throughout North America in such galleries as the Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art (Toronto), Harbourfront Centre (Toronto), Spellerberg Projects (Texas), and the Great Plains Art Museum (Nebraska), and published in numerous books and publications, such as PDN’s Photo Annual, Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA), and What Makes a Lake by Another Earth Press. Kate’s first book, How to Understand a Rock, was produced through the Penumbra Foundation’s Risograph Publication Residency (2023).