I am very happy to announce my next Developing a Creative Book workshop with Medium Photo for March, 19-22, 2020. The slight change for the workshop is with all of the great feedback from those who have attended is a consensus that two days was just toooo intense for the material we needed to cover.... Continue Reading →
2019 LACP Book Competition
I have the pleasure of being one of the two judges, along with Gerry Clausing, Associate Editor of PhotoBook Journal, for the Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP) first Photo Book Competition. Cool! There are two basics & very broad photobook catagories: 1) Self-published (blurb, lulu etc) and all hand-made artists books 2) Published works... Continue Reading →
Book workshop with Medium Festival – revised dates & special Discount available
Guide book-dummy, 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale First; my Developing a Creative Photo Book workshop dates for Medium have been changed to March 23 & 24th, 2017. Thus the workshop has moved to bit later, one weekend exactly, from what I had announced last month. This should still be a wonderful spring weekend to spend in San... Continue Reading →
10 years of photo book inspirations
Guide to Self-Publishing an Indie Artist Book, 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale As many of you know, in addition to writing this photo-blog in which I discuss my photographic projects and other odds and ends, I am also the Editor of The PhotoBook Journal. I started The PhotoBook Journal (TPBJ) shortly after starting this blog back in... Continue Reading →
Book workshop with Medium Festival of Photography
Guide book dummy, 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale I am very excited to announce that I will be providing my Photo Book Design Workshop in conjunction with the Medium Festival of Photography next March 23 & 24th (rescheduled, was 16 and 17th), 2019. This two day workshop will take place in San Diego at the Lafayette... Continue Reading →
Introduction to PhotoBook Design – October LACP workshop
Introduction to Photo Book Design workshop Los Angeles Center for Photography Next month, October 7th and 14th, I will be repeating my popular two-day workshop in conjunction with the Los Angeles Center for Photograph (LACP). This workshop focuses on the fundamental development of a book; understanding the artists intent and how that then translates into a book object... Continue Reading →
Intro to Photo Book Design workshop outline – Second Edition self-published
Introduction to Photo Book Design workshop outline, 2017 Copyright Douglas Stockdale In the middle of last month I wrote about updating my workshop outline for Introduction to Photo Book Design that I lead for LACP. Thus this last weekend, with the help of the workshop class, we self-published the second Edition of this awesome course... Continue Reading →
L.A. Street photography last weekend
Los Angeles street graffiti 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale While in Los Angeles this weekend to lead my Intro to Photo Book Design workshop at LACP, I thought it pure serendipity that some street graffiti of a shadowy book reader would be right in my pathway. Especially after I had posting a couple of photographs on... Continue Reading →
Introduction to Photo Book Design workshop – class work-book edits
Introduction to Photo Book Design, self-published 2017, Douglas Stockdale In preparation for the next two-day workshop Introduction to Photo Book Design that I will be leading for LACP, I am in the process of making the edits to my first self-published work-book that I use for this workshop. This will soon become the Second Edition of... Continue Reading →