Impromptu
Past events
15–22 MAR ‘24
Online
→ ‘Land of’ was shortlisted on Kassel Dummy Awards 2023
7 books were produced in 8 days.
16–23 FEB ‘24
Online
Éva Szabó, HUNGARY – ‘Swallow Song’
Giulia Mangione, ITALY – ‘The Fall’
Lena Holzer, AUSTRIA/NETHERLANDS – ‘A Shadow in the Shape of a House’
Lisa Gervassi, FRANCE – ‘Ring Around the Rosie’
Meta Boschma, NETHERLANDS – ‘But the dark embraces everything’
Siri Kaur, USA – ‘I pretended to be Carey Grant until finally he became me’
6 books were produced in 8 days.
21–30 JAN ‘21
Online
Joanna Epstein, USA – ‘Isolation (Self)’
Laila Nahar, USA/BANGLADESH – ‘Songs from Mist and Fog’
Maya Louhichi, TUNISIA – ‘Et dans la terre, je me souviens’
Michael Swann, ENGLAND – ‘Noema’
Monika Jia Rui Scherer, SWITZERLAND – ‘Stranger Days Ago’
Sarah Pfohl, USA – ‘Flora Imperfecta’
Tereza Kozinc, SLOVENIA – ‘Finding Stenli’
Vincent Es-Sadeq, FRANCE – ‘Le Monde Merveilleux’
→ ‘Noema’ was in the Top 10 of Self Publish Riga 2021
→ ‘Isolation (Self)’ was shortlisted on Self Publish Riga 2021
8 books were produced in 10 days.
02–10 OCT ‘20
Online
Fiorella Del Castillo, PERU – ‘Scab Over’
Giannina Urmeneta Ottiker, PERU/BELGIUM – ‘We kept on dancing like it didn’t matter’
Giovanni C. Lorusso, AUSTRALIA/ITALY – ‘Luce Vacua’
Ivan Tomasevic, CROATIA – ‘Quietus’
Kevin Convery, USA – ‘A bird never flew on one wing’
Maria Koumianou, GREECE – ‘Girl on Woman’
Norberto Fernandez Soriano, SPAIN – ‘Hythloday’
Steffi Drerup, GERMANY – ‘Ichfolgedessen’
→ ‘Ichfolgedessen’ was one of the winners at Belfast Photo Festival Book Dummy Open Call
→ ‘Ichfolgedessen’ was shortlisted on Self Publish Riga 2021
→ ‘Ichfolgedessen’ was shortlisted on Kassel Dummy Awards 2021
8 books were produced in 8 days.
02–07 MAY ‘20
Online, by ISSP
Arta Kauliņa, LATVIA – ‘Galda Runa’
Evita Ķestere, LATVIA – ‘A Sense of Decadence – And the unlikelihood of a new understanding’
Iveta Gabaliņa, LATVIA – ‘Roll, Roll, Morning Dew’
Laura Sokolovska, LATVIA – ‘Poligons’
Linda Kletniece, LATVIA – ‘Face Times’
Linda Vigdorcika, LATVIA – ‘Knots’
Sanita Andiņa, LATVIA – ‘Stop the Train. I Want to Get Out.’
7 books were produced in 6 days.
01–06 MAY ‘19
Riga, Latvia
At ISSP
Adelina Kalnina, LATVIA – ‘Look at me‘
Benjamin Pfau, GERMANY – ‘Isthmus‘
Bjargey Ólafsdóttir, ICELAND – ‘Rófurass‘
François Junquet, FRANCE – ‘Forage’
Hayley Austin, USA – ‘The Springs‘
Inta Lankovska, LATVIA – ‘I never learned to swim‘
Krystian Karnia, POLAND – ‘Beef Noodle Soup‘
Linda Boisakova, LATVIA – ‘You don’t belong here more than anyone else‘
Loïc Seguin, FRANCE – ‘Half-Light’
Paula Jansone, LATVIA – ‘Seat 68‘
Peter Petersen, DENMARK – ‘The stuff that dreams are made of‘
Vinita Vilcane-Krilova, LATVIA – ‘“A Quest for Freedom” Vol. 2‘
12 books & zines were produced in 6 days at ISSP in the center of Riga.
→ ‘“A Quest for Freedom” Vol. 2’, was shortlisted for the Kassel Dummy Award 2020.
→ ‘You don’t belong here more than anyone else‘ was shortlisted on Self Publish Riga 2021
27–30 APR ‘18
Istanbul, Turkey
At Istanbul Photo Festival
Alice Hamon, FRANCE – ‘Champs Libres’
Anı Ekin Özdemir, TURKEY – ‘Summer Was Over’
Berna Tepe Yüksel, TURKEY – ‘Delactation’
Cevahir Akbas, TURKEY – ‘Hidden’
E. Ismet Örs, TURKEY – ‘Like Me’
Melike Kocak, TURKEY – ‘Sometimes I feel like a potato bag under the ocean’
Melis Cantürk, TURKEY – ‘,’
Nina Viviana Cangialosi, ITALY – ‘The Snow Abides’
Sevil Alkan, TURKEY – ‘Stray Dog’
9 zines were produced in 4 days before the festival and later all of them were presented during the festival.
→ ‘The Snow Abides’, ‘Hidden’, ‘Like Me’, ‘Stray Dog’ and ‘Champs Libres’ were shortlisted for the Dummy Book Awards at Istanbul Photobook Festival.
08–10 SEP ‘17
Punta Secca, Italy
At Gazebook,
Sicily Photo Festival
Alessandro Terni, ITALY – ‘Scattered Traces #0’
Nicola Avanzinelli, ITALY – ‘C.G.N. - 504582’
Yuri Ichioka, JAPAN – ‘Impromptu’
3 zines were produced during 3 days of the festival.
