Photobook Fair 2024

During the festival’s last weekend – 14 & 15 September – we will be hosting a photobook fair in Gamle Munch, with invited publishers and partners from Norway and abroad. Come by and say hi to the publishers. Have a browse through the selection and discover both news and classics! The book fair is located in the entrance area and down the corridor to the exhibition space.

Updated program of book fair events

Below you can read more about this year's participants:

89 Books

89books is an independent publishing house based in Palermo, Sicily. Established in 2018 by photographer Mauro D’Agati and curator Kateryna Filyuk, it specialises in photo books and artist books. 89books is committed to the discovery and experimental publication of limited-edition photo books of different forms and contents.  89books draws its inspiration from travels, accidental encounters and thought-provoking dialogues with peers and is largely driven by contingency, curiosity and passion. 

89books.com

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ALBUM

Created entirely from found images, ALBUM is a zine, made from found images from books and magazines collected at fleemarkets around Oslo, begun by Eline Mugaas and Elise Storsveen in 2008. Comprised of full page photographic illustrations, advertisements, and other ubiquitous media images culled from etiquette manuals, cookbooks, travel magazines, craft books, fashion magazines, and sexual manuals, ALBUM reflects the popular imagery found in Scandinavian households from the 1960s through today. The chosen imagery is then arranged across spreads, creating a humorous reading organized by a series of heavy themes such as  the lonely man, femininity, architecture, family, outer space, and nature. While seemingly whimsical, ALBUM provides a sophisticated meta-narrative on the human body, sexuality, and the social lives of images that places the reader in an uncanny arena that showcases how our media likely reads us.

Eline Mugaas is an artist who works in photography and sculpture. Elise Storsveen is an artist who works primarily in collage, and textile. Both artists live and work in Oslo, Norway.

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Ediciones Anómalas 

Ediciones Anómalas is a publishing house devoted to Photography based in Barcelona (Spain) and open to the world as we participate in many international Fairs and our books are in bookstores around the world. We started in 2012 and since then we've published both recognized photographers and the first books of emerging photographers. We publish book-objects with a careful curation of each part of the process.

 edicionesanomalas.es

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F. Books

F. Books is an independent publishing company based in Oslo, Norway – run by photographers Massimo Leardini and Hans-Olav Forsang.  F. Books seeks collaboration with photographers and artists who have high-quality book projects under planning. We can contribute to an overall process from idea to finished book. 

 f-books.com

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Heavy Books

Heavy Books is an artist-run publishing project and exhibition platform based in Oslo that focuses on limited-edition books, zines and curatorial projects. Heavy Books was founded in 2014 by Christian Tunge.

heavybooks.net

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Journal 

The Swedish publishing house Journal, with its focus on photo literature, was started in 1991 by Gösta Flemming. To date, around 180 titles, including various language editions, have been published to high acclaim both in Sweden and internationally. For FFO 2024, Journal will present a selection of new and old goodies as well as regular and limited editions plus rare titles.

journal-photobooks.com

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Kult Books

Kult Books is an independent publishing project run by Janne Riikonen in Stockholm, Sweden. Kult Books publishes photography books and other lens-based visual arts in monographs and artists’ books. Kult embraces a personal artistic approach and visual language. The physical form of the books is of high importance to Kult and every project is designed in detail together with the artist to support the concept of the work.

kultbooks.com

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Multipress

Multipress is a non-profit publisher of artist books and publications based in Oslo, Norway. With an emphasis on photography, it is run as a platform for artists working with publications as an artistic practice. All of the book projects are a result of a collaborative effort, thoroughly working out all the elements specific to each project. 

multipressforlag.com

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NW Gallery

Artist-driven curatorial platform showing international contemporary photography and photographic artist books. The gallery aims to give room for site-specific and unique exhibitions where the artistic process of making, exploration of the medium and method are in focus. The space also offers workshops, mentorships, and artist-in-residency programmes.

nw-gallery.dk

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OEI

OEI is a Stockholm-based magazine for extra-disciplinary spaces and de-disciplinizing moments – experimental forms of thinking, montages of art, poetry, theory, and documents; critical investigations, non-affirmative writing, infrastructural poetics, cultural archaeologies, visual agencies, and historiographies against the grain. OEI, started in 1999, has released 105 issues. OEI editör has published some hundred titles of investigative poetry, aesthetic documents, book works, and essays. OEI is an artistic and literary publishing project run by Jonas (J) Magnusson & Cecilia Grönberg.

oei.nu

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Sailor Press

Sailor Press aims to offer an alternative to publishing restricted by the constraints of institutions or larger publishers. In close dialogue and collaboration with the artists, we develop publications that explore the artist's work as well as the book as a medium. The content of the book and the book as an object are equally important. Sailor Press is founded and run by book designer Matilda Plöjel who wishes to explore the field between art and graphic design.

sailorpress.com

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Shadowlab

My publishing house and practice are exclusively based on publishing books by Morten Andersen. Andersen has since 1999 published 17 books on his own and 10 with other publishers. For the fair, he will bring a selection of all books available.

shadowlab.no

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Skeleton Key Press

Skeleton Key Press, based in Oslo, is an independent publisher of photography and art books established in 2018 by Russell Joslin following his 17 years as Owner, Editor, and Publisher of the American photography journal Shots. Since its debut, Skeleton Key Press has released ten monographs by international and Norwegian photographers (with more in the works), emphasizing quality, attention to detail, and firsthand cooperation with artists.

skeletonkeypress.com

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Spector Books

Spector’s publishing practice is settled squarely in the intersection of art, theory, and design. Based in Leipzig Germany, our publishing house explores the possibilities offered by an active exchange between all parties involved in the book production process: artists, authors, book designers, lithographers, printers and bookbinders. The book as a medium is turned into a stage, a site of encounter for productive exchange. Finding innovative approaches to the medium today calls for a well considered interplay between the content, design, and materiality of a book.

spectorbooks.com

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Sverres Zines

Since 2016, I have been creating Sverres Zine as an experimental gallery for images, showcasing it at various art book fairs. The first five issues focus on double-exposed analog photographs, while issues six through ten explore recontextualized found photos. My primary interest lies in the layout, particularly how two images on a spread interact with each other. The most recent issue/project, Not Alone, was commissioned by Fotobokfestival earlier this year and is part of the exhibition.

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Topos 

Topos Bokforlag is an artist publishing initiative started in 2017 by Arild Våge Berge and Åsne Eldøy, between Oslo and Bergen, Norway. Topos Publications is to serve as a platform for publishing artistic projects and artist books and to express a diversity of practices through the book format. Topos means place, and as publishers, we want to mobilize concepts of place through printed matter. 

topospublications.com

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Torpedo

Torpedo was founded in 2005, as a non-profit Bookshop and Publisher devoted to the promotion and production of artists' publications, art theory and critical readers. Torpedo organize discursive activities, exhibitions and events related to the process of publishing. Torpedo is run by Elin Maria Olaussen, Karen Christine Tandberg and Kim Svensson.

torpedobok.no

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Uncertain States Scandinavia 

Uncertain States Scandinavia is primarily an artist-led project that publishes and distributes a free quarterly broadsheet newspaper showing lens-based art. Formed in 2016 by Tor S. Ulstein, Dagny Hay and Charlie Hay, and in 2023 the team grew with Rasmus Vasli and Deborah Eisinger. The team curate the paper together.

ucsscandinavia.com