Reading Photographs Notes #04
What happens when a body of photographs becomes a publication? In Reading Photographs Notes #04, five photographers take us through four recently published works, opening up conversations around editing, sequencing, collaboration, materials and production. Through their different approaches, we look at how the decisions made beyond the photograph can shape how a body of work is ultimately seen, held and experienced.
The Film Awakens: More Than a Book Launch
Last Saturday, we gathered at Zontiga KL for the launch of FOTM 2025: The Film Awakens : the second book to emerge from our Film of the Month programme. More than a book launch, the afternoon brought together talks by CameraSmallBoy and Wan Arman, recognition of our FOTM 2026 participants, a community photowalk, and, most importantly, the people who have helped FOTM grow into a community around film photography.
Reading Photographs Notes #03
The third Reading Photographs Notes explores three works that challenge a familiar assumption: that a photobook must behave like a book. Together, they prompted conversations about material, memory, authorship, and how the form of a book can become inseparable from the photographs it carries.
Reading Photographs Notes #02
The second Reading Photographs Notes gathers conversations inspired by three photobooks that approach family from very different perspectives. Together, they prompted reflections on memory, inheritance, and the ways photographs sometimes help us begin conversations that are otherwise difficult to have.
Reading Photographs Notes #01
Although Reading Photographs has been quietly taking place for several months, these are the first notes we’ve chosen to leave behind. They gather together conversations inspired by three photobooks and the people who made them—an evening of shared observations on quietness, memory, books, and the many ways photographs invite us to slow down and look.