1ST PHOTO BOOK AWARD • THE EYES • Aïnata by Alaa Mansour published by Macaronibook
Very excited and proud to share this wonderful news with you! My friend and talented artist Alaa Mansour is the winner of the 1st Photo Book Award from The Eyes • The Eyes Wide Open with the support of the SAIF of the Ministry of Culture for her photobook Aïnata that we will publish with Macaronibook !
” Aïnata is a place, the village of my parents, and the territory of my childhood located in the south of Lebanon. Aïnata is the story of 25 years of Israeli occupation and multiple wars and offensives. It is also the story of multiple resistances and a dream of liberation.” Aïnata is initially a film project made by two hands between the end of 2011 and the beginning of 2012 and is part of a history of occupation, resistance, wars and transnational struggles that never cease to generate unfulfilled memories. It is not a question of making a book about the film, but of extending the very space of the film to the book. Like a rhizome, it is a question of mapping within the book the different strata – visual and textual – that make up the body of Aïnata, of giving an account of the multiplicity of forms of memory and of the discourse of and on History.
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I’m delighted to share Frederic Martin’s accurate, sensitive and political words in 9lives Magazine about the book Immigrazione violenza dell’anima by Camille Carbonaro published by Macaronibook.
“And on each page of this book, in the form of interconnected fragments, this question: who am I when I am no longer at home ? And what is home now ? (…) Composed of small leaflets, inserts, it resembles a patient embroidery around the questions of identity, reconstruction, the position of the immigrant. Each page takes us into a fragmented territory, sometimes uncultivated, like so many detours, loops of the soul. Immigrazione violenza dell’anima is a multiple, complex book, as are the stories it evokes.”
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I am very happy to be a portfolio reader at Circulation(s) Festival on Saturday 1st April from 14:00 to 18:00. Registration is online – 10euros for 20 min of presentation and exchange with professionals of your choice to be guided in your artistic practice and to have constructive opinions on your work. – +
I’m pleased to participate to Marché de l’Image Imprimée: Mauvais Caractère Bonne Résolution by Icescreen in Brussels surrounded by great artists ! Opening 2th december from17:00 to 21:00 + 3 & 4 from 11:00 to 20:00 at Smart. Free event +
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Our books’ll be on sale in Les Petits Formats organised by the Arthotèque Wolubilis at La Médiatine in Brussels on Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 December 2022 from 14:00 to 18:00 surrounded by 50 wonderful artists. I will present the White Whale Collection published by Macaronibook on Saturday 3 from 14:00 to 15:00 in the presence of the photographer Erell Hemmer who will talk about her book ‘Why am I unable to go to my father’s grave? published by Macaronibook.
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Very happy and proud to announce that the photographer Erell Hemmer’ll be signing her book Why am I unable to visit my father’s grave? published by Macaronibook at the TIPIBOOKSHOP’s table on Saturday 12 November from 16:00 to 17:00 on the POLYCOPIES boat during PARIS PHOTO. +
I’m delighted and proud to share the fair and sensitive words of journalist Fabien Ribery about Erell Hemmer’s book Why am I unable to visit my father’s grave? published by Macaronibook.
“One may not be able to visit the grave of a loved one, but succeed in constructing for him, in an artistic form, a superb tomb. From the slides of her father, François Hemmer, and from personal images, his daughter has imagined, in collaboration with Camille Carbonaro, a book made of white spaces and long silences.”
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Proud and happy to share the article by curator Carine Dolek in REPONSES PHOTO about La Cambuse by Martin Gallone published by Macaronibook.
“With a rare sensitivity and quality, “La Cambuse” by Martin Gallone brings together archives and interviews about a lost father, a luminous and borderline partygoer restaurateur.”
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I’m delighted and very proud to be part of the Photobook Hub publishing fair as part of PhMuseum Days photography festival in Bologna from Friday 30 September to Sunday 2 October from 10:00 to 22:00 at Spazio Bianco. Macaronibook’ll be surrounded by the best Italian publishing houses ! • Spazio Bianco, DumBO Via Camillo Casarini 19 – 40131 Bologna • + d’infos
On Thursday 22 September at 18:00, delighted to be invited to the gallery L’Enfant Sauvage to present Collection Baleine Blanche in the presence of the artists Martin Gallone, Erell Hemmer and Camille Carbonaro. All four publications ‘ll be available for sale at the gallery. Many thanks to Pauline Caplet for the invitation. + d’infos • Rue de l’Enseignement 23, 1000 Bruxelles