Self Publish, Be Happy

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Self Publish, Be Happy
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StatusActive
Founded2010
FounderBruno Ceschel
Country of origin UK
Headquarters location Ridley Road, Dalston, London
Publication typesBooks
Nonfiction topics Photography
Official website www.selfpublishbehappy.com

Self Publish, Be Happy (SPBH) is an organisation founded by Bruno Ceschel [1] in 2010 that aims to help aspiring photographers to self-publish their own books. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] It does so through workshops, talks, exhibitions, live events, on/offline projects and publicising of books. It is based on Ridley Road, in Dalston, London, where it keeps a library of some 2000 donated self-published zines and books. [7]

Contents

Since 2012 Self Publish, Be Happy has also published photography books as SPBH Editions. [2] [8] Ceschel is its director and Antonio de Luca its art director. It has published books by Broomberg & Chanarin, Cristina de Middel, Mariah Robertson, Lorenzo Vitturi and others.

SPBH produces various series of publications—SPBH Book Club, which are sold as part of a yearly subscription as well as sold separately; SPBH Pamphlets, pamphlets with photography and text, including one by Anouk Kruithof; and Self Publish Be Naughty (SPBN), books of intimate pictures of people by their romantic partners. [5]

In November 2015 Ceshel's book Self Publish, Be Happy: A DIY Photobook Manual and Manifesto was published by Aperture. [6] [9] [10]

Reception

Parr and Badger include Self Publish Be Naughty (2011) in the third volume of their photobook history. [11] [12]

Critic Sean O'Hagan, writing in The Guardian , said "An accurate measure of SPBH’s importance to the contemporary cottage industry is the array of photobooks they have featured that I would cite as contemporary classics." [10]

Publications (selected)

Events

Awards

Awards received for Self Publish, Be Happy publications:

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References

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  4. ↑ "Self Publish, Be Happy: DIY zines and books are shaking up the publishing industry". Huck. 28 October 2014. Archived from the original on 28 May 2017. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
  5. 1 2 O'Hagan, Sean (14 April 2013). "How photographers joined the self-publishing revolution". The Observer . London: The Guardian . Retrieved 10 October 2015.
  6. 1 2 "A Manifesto to Self-Publishing Your Own Photobooks". Time . 21 September 2015. Retrieved 22 October 2015.
  7. 1 2 Christiansen, Hanne (23 September 2015). "Want to publish your own photo books? Here's how". Dazed . Retrieved 22 October 2015.
  8. ↑ O'Hagan, Sean (25 July 2012). "The DIY photobook phenomenon". The Guardian . London. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
  9. ↑ "Self Publish, Be Happy: A DIY Photobook Manual and Manifesto By Bruno Ceschel". Aperture Foundation . Retrieved 7 November 2015.
  10. 1 2 O'Hagan, Sean (25 November 2015). "Self Publish, Be Happy! The DIY saviours of photography". The Guardian . London. Retrieved 26 November 2015.
  11. ↑ Parr, Martin, Badger, Gerry (2014). The Photobook: A History Volume III. London: Phaidon. p. 103. ISBN   9780714866772.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  12. ↑ Nicholson, Geoff (26 April 2014). "Geoff Nicholson on The Photobook: A History Volume III". Los Angeles Review of Books . Retrieved 12 October 2015.
  13. ↑ "Self Publish, Be Happy Weekend". Photographers' Gallery . Retrieved 10 October 2015.
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  16. ↑ "Compilation Tokyo: Remix". Aperture Foundation . Retrieved 12 October 2015.
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