Impromptu
Past events
15–22 MAR ‘24
Online
Conner Gordon, USA – ‘After Cassandra’
Ira Kostyuk, UKRAINE/ITALY – ‘You Are Here’
Louis Chavez, USA – ‘New Intimacies’
Michele I. Arazi, USA – ‘Land of’
Russ Thompson, USA – ‘The Image & the Likeness’
Ruth Lauer-Manenti, USA – ‘4 Sides of the Table 2 Sides of the Table’
Stefan Frank, GERMANY – ‘Habitat’
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‘
→ ‘“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
12 books & zines were produced in 6 days at ISSP in the center of Riga.
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’
→ ‘The Snow Abides’, ‘Hidden’, ‘Like Me’, ‘Stray Dog’ and ‘Champs Libres’ were shortlisted for the Dummy Book Awards at Istanbul Photobook Festival.
9 zines were produced in 4 days before the festival and later all of them were presented during the 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.
