Deadline to Apply: 7th July 2025
Dates: 23rd – 24th July 2025
Location: Offset Projects Studio, B-85, Okhla Phase II, New Delhi
Cost: Free of charge (in-person participation required)
PhotoSouthAsia and Offset Projects invite submissions for a one-on-one photobook review with editor and curator Brendan Embser. This is an opportunity for photographers and artists working with the book as a form, offering individual, in-depth feedback to help guide and refine their projects.
Requirements:
Participants must bring a photobook dummy (a physical mock-up of their book project) to discuss during the session. This can be a work-in-progress or a completed draft. The focus will be on providing thoughtful, constructive critique to support the development of each project.
Note:
Sessions are limited and will be confirmed via email by the Offset Projects team.
Only in-person reviews will be conducted at the Offset Studio in New Delhi.
Each participant will receive 15-20 mins of discussion for the review.
Thank you Dayanita Singh @photobookregistry for helping us make this happen!
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Photograph © Brendan Embser
Brendan Embser is senior editor at Aperture. He is editor of Aperture books by Louis Carlos Bernal, Arielle Bobb-Willis, Chloe Dewe Mathews, Ethan James Green, Deana Lawson, Philip Montgomery, Ming Smith, and Wendy Red Star, and managing editor of Aperture Conversations: 1985 to the Present (2018) and To Make Their Own Way in the World: The Enduring Legacy of the Zealy Daguerreotypes (copublished with Peabody Museum Press, 2020). He was the cocurator of the Aperture Summer Open exhibitions from 2018 through 2020. Brendan has served on the jury for the Addis Foto Fest, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Changjiang International Photography and Video Art Biennale, Chongqing, China; Foto Tallinn, Tallinn, Estonia; Sony World Photography Awards; and WMA Masters, Hong Kong. He is also the cocurator, with Sophia Greiff, of the traveling exhibition Tyler Mitchell: Wish This Was Real. Formerly director of exhibitions at the Walther Collection, New York, he has contributed essays and interviews to Apartamento, Contemporary And, n+1, Objektiv, and the New York Times. He holds an MA in Africana studies from New York University, and a BA in English from Haverford College, Pennsylvania.
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