Photobook Masterclass: From Concept to Print with Erik Kessels (Online Learning – Six Sessions)

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This intensive masterclass with renowned artist, curator, and publisher Erik Kessels explores the complete journey of creating a compelling photo book – from the first spark of an idea to a possible printed object. Participants will gain practical insight into every stage of the process, including concept development, image editing and narration, book design, production techniques, and strategies for publishing and promotion. Through lectures and hands-on feedback, the masterclass offers a rare opportunity to learn how to transform photographic projects into powerful and touching books.

Erik Kessels is a Dutch artist, curator and communication designer, with great interest in art and photography. Erik Kessels is since 1996 Creative Partner of communications agency KesselsKramer.

Kessels is known for his experimental use of found photography. He re-appropriates and re-contextualises these images, creating new significance for materials that would otherwise be overlooked.

He has published over 100 books of his ‘re-appropriated’ images and has written the international bestseller Failed It! and Complete Amateur.

He has taught at several Art Academies (Amsterdam, Milan, Toronto, Lausanne, Düsseldorf).

Kessels made and curated exhibitions such as Loving Your Pictures, Mother Nature, 24HRS in Photos, Album Beauty and Unfinished Father. Currently he’s working on a long-term European art project called Europe Archive.

In 2010 Kessels was awarded with the Amsterdam Prize of the Arts, in 2016 nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. Until 2022 his mid-career retrospective is shown in Turin, Düsseldorf and Budapest and he exhibited recently in the SFMOMA. He was called “a visual sorcerer” by Time Magazine and a “Modern Anthropologist” by Voque (Italia).

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Details

• Six Sessions
• Dates: Tuesdays, October 27 – December 1, 9 am – 11 am PST
• Enrollment Limit: 12 students
• Skill/Experience Level: Open to all levels.
• Tuition: $875  (Become a Member today and receive 5% – 20% off!)
• Location: Online

A link for the Zoom class meeting will be emailed to the attendees prior to the start date. Please read the instructions included in the email. If you have additional questions please email info@lacphoto.org.

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