Look What I’ve Brought You: The UK Selection | Ramon Pez

Look What I’ve Brought You: The UK Selection | Ramon Pez

Ramon Pez

26.05.2023, Friday 19:30

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Look What I've Brought You: The UK Selection continues with Ramon Pez!

London based creative director, designer and curator Ramon Pez will be the second guest in Ka’s, Look What I’ve Brought You: the UK Selection book talk event series.

On Friday, Mayt 26th, we'll get together and discuss the photobooks Ramon has designed over the years. We'll talk about the book designers' relationship with the author and the publishers, designers' importance in photobook/artbook making and their influence. As well as that, Pez will also share his experience as he is currently driving the art direction of Thames & Hudson art trade books and creating experimental workshops on books & visual narratives.
- Open Call
On, Saturday 27th, we will get together with the chosen photographers and designers for a portfolio review.

Application Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/u/2/d/1xcV2VFWqj33jsJCWMU1TA74ZBHFwuJ14mRbLFNuOv-g/edit

Don't forget to review the conditions for the open call via the link in the bio, apply and check out the detailed CV about Ramon Pez!

Events will be held in English with consecutive Turkish translations.

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Ramon Pez

He has collaborated with many publishers & institutions, including

Steidl (Germany); RM Verlag (Spain–Mexico); Dewi Lewis Publishing (UK); Aperture (USA); Delpire (France); Thames & Hudson (UK); Les Rencontres De Arles (France); Musée De L’elysée (Switzerland); Festival Images Vevey (Switzerland); La Fabrica (Spain); Editions Bessard (France); Artiere Editions (Italy); Twin Palms (USA); The Photographers’ Gallery (UK); The Walther collection (Germany); Le Bal (France); Magnum Photos (USA–UK); Tinta da China (Portugal); Quartz (USA); Goethe-Institut (Germany); FotoEvidence (USA); Skira (Italy); Editions Loco (France); Uitgeverij Water (Netherlands); Actes Sud (France); Bemojake (UK); Sagmeister & Walsh (USA); Cinecittà (Italy); Fabrica (Italy); Museo Archivo De La Fotografía (Mexico); Macba Barcelona Museum Of Moder Art (Spain); CCCB Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (Spain).

The most recent projects include:

• The Unseen Saul Leiter (Margit Erb and Michael Parrillo, 2022);
• Santa Barbara (Diana Markosian, 2020); Mitclan (Joan Fontcuberta, 2020);
• Catálogo (Miguel Calderon, 2020);
• A History of Misogyny – On Abortion (Laia Abril, 2019, Paris Photo / Aperture Photobook Award + nominated: Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, Kreszna-Krausz Book Award, Recontres d’Arles Photo-text Book Award, Kassel Photobook Award + Honorary Mention 2018 Photo España);
• Oscurana (Antoine D’Agata, 2019);
• Libyan Sugar (Michael Christopher Brown, 2017, ICP Infinity Award + Paris Photo / Aperture Photobook Award);
• Ponte City (Mikhael Subotzky & Patrick Waterhouse, 2015, Deutsche Börse Photography Prize + nominated Paris Photo / Aperture Photobook Award, Kassel Photobook Award);
• Flat Noodle Soup Talk (Pieter Hugo, 2015);
• The New Colonists (Monica Alcazar-Duarte, 2017, Bartur / The Photographers’ Gallery PhotoBook Award);
• The Epilogue (Laia Abril, 2014 nominated: Paris Photo / Aperture Photobook Award),
• Back To The Future (Irina Werning, 2014, nominated: Paris Photo / Aperture Photobook Award),
• Afronauts (Cristina de Middel, 2013, ICP Infinity Award + nominated: Paris Photo / Aperture Photobook Award, Deutsche Börse Photography Prize).

From 2011 to 2013, he was in charge of the Artistic direction of the COLORS magazine (Art Directors Club Award 2012 & 2013, USA).

His being the curator & designer of several exhibitions, among others:

• Yo Soy Fidel, Michael Christopher Brown (Les Rencontres d’Arles 2018, France);
• On Abortion, Laia Abril (Les Rencontres d’Arles 2016, France, first prize award, Madame Figaro); Lobismuller,
• Laia Abril (Images Vevey Festival 2015 Switzerland); Colors (Design Museum 2012, London UK / Guangzhou China / Florence Italy / Lisbon Portugal).

Alongside these collaborations, he lectures and does international workshops in various countries. Among the others are Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Bejing (China); Elisava School of Design and Engineering, Barcelona (Spain); IED Istituto Europeo di Design, Madrid (Spain); Magnum Photos, London (USA-UK); CFC Bilbao (Spain); Screen Lab, New York City and London (USA-UK); Fotobookfestival Kassel, (Germany); Getxophoto Festival, Bilbao (Spain); La Máquina Escuela de Fotografía, Madrid (Spain); Shakespeare & Co., Paris (France); Incubadora Hydra, Mexico City (Mexico); ABA Accademia di belle Arti, Udine (Italy), LCI Escuela Superior de Diseño, Monterrey (Mexico); 6Pt Book Design Conference, Vilnius (Lithuania); Atelier Noua Book Seminar (Norway).