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• theoretical works that engage with a broad and diverse spectrum of photographic discourses and debates

• artistic practices that use photography as a primary medium

our interests

IAPT Press is interested in experimental publishing proposals that further challenge the boundaries and possibilities of photography, its practices and material applications. IAPT Press is also interested in various publishing forms such as books and monographs; edited volumes, exhibition catalogues, artists’ books and collectors’ editions, and keeps an open mind towards new and innovative publishing models.

our process

Our publishing projects are handled as unique objects, supervised by an experienced team of researchers, academics, artists and book designers. Publications are individually designed from concept through to completion. All aspects of our books—content, design and book materiality—receive equal consideration, but we are particularly interested in exploring the interdisciplinary nature of emerging publishing practices.

PHCOMMISSION

The International Association of Photography and Theory is introducing the IAPT PHCOMMISSION project; a biannual activity which invites artistic proposals that investigate contemporary perspectives in photographic practices and experiment with the idea of the book as an alternative platform of artistic intervention. IAPT PHCOMMISSION envisions to foster the creative development of contemporary photographic practices, to increase the latter’s presence and visibility in the local and international context and to compile an experimental bibliography that responds and refers to the field of Photography.

IAPT PHCOMMISSION will oversee and design a series of activities around the selected projects, primarily a curated exhibition and an autonomous publication. Establishing a platform of collective creative engagement by bringing together a network that includes artists, curators, writers, and designers, each project will be approached individually and afresh, in an effort to bring forth further understanding of the work, and offer innovative and diverse perspectives regarding the art book as a vehicle of critical discourse.

In line with IAPT Press philosophy, the IAPT PHCOMMISSION project seeks publications where the book format is primarily viewed as an unconventional exhibition space, while the two-dimensional field and its ability to echo three-dimensional space relations is examined and challenged. The aim of these publications is not to document or represent the artists’ works as they are possibly presented in the exhibition space but rather to re-evaluate their meaning and qualities within various parameters of the book format such as layout, materiality, sequence, rhythm and objecthood. In respect to the artists’ vision, the publications aim to achieve an alternative reading of the works as a comprehensive body where essence and meaning is conveyed within the book format. The publications include relevant theoretical texts, curatorial notes, research references and processes that shed light into the artists’ work, but most importantly the works themselves are curated afresh, within agreed and given book prerequisites such as size, paper, binding and book format. It is within this scope of understanding that the publications are approached as unique artists’ books.

EDITOR/ CREATIVE DIRECTOR

Artemis Eleftheriadou