Trying to Find the Ocean has been selected for exhibition at the Phoenix Museum of Art on behalf of InFocus’ international juried Self-published Photobooks exhibition. The show opens August 23rd and runs through September 28th.
From the jury: “We asked for books of any subject including retrospective, project-based, souvenir albums, fictional narrative, exhibition catalogues, poetic, biographical, or children’s books, and welcomed collaborative or collective books in addition to those by a single author. We found that in a well-crafted book, the artist considers every element of the book’s design, and uses each to enhance the finished product. Among the selections are noteworthy selection of paper weight and surface; cover material; printing method and reproduction quality; font style, color and size; text placement and justification (centered, aligned to the right or left); endpaper and title page design; binding (spiral bound, hard bound, paperback); size and placement of the images; sequence of the images; and inclusion (or exclusion) of and placement of the caption information.”
Submissions ranged far and wide from 15 countries in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia. The array of photobooks is wild . . . all photographers, with links to their book(s), can be seen here: InFocus Photobooks Exhibition, 2014
