After the third online talk last Thursday I decided to take a break till mid-January at least, but not because something is wrong with them. No. — These talks bring a lot of value and interaction within the community. Help to learn, raise questions, build some exciting connections, and drive quite a lot of interest despite their poor quality to some extent. The quality of such meetings is based on having both a spontaneous and open conversation…

We have just launched “Collections” on The Phooks to showcase self- & indie-published photobooks and zines by genre, topic, or subject matter. With the growth of our library, we see how it becomes really complicated to dig through all the available titles. The books are getting lost in the catalog and do not get enough attention so we started to work on more flexible categories, filters and search.

I’m excited about the whole concept of Revers Editions ran by Elsa Seignol since the moment I’ve seen them for the first time about a year ago. And I must finally share my thoughts on this. Revers build a highly interesting series of publications about France, printed zines. Small, “individual”…

With the “People. Not Pages” mini-interview series The Phooks invites you to learn more about people who stand behind the medium of self- & indie-published photobooks, and zines. — Today we talk to Patrick Murphy, a lifelong photographer, enthusiastically following his passion since childhood till now. Patrick has never been a professional photographer, and photography wasn’t his only occupation, which didn’t stop him from being published and exhibited in Europe and the U.S.

With the “People. Not Pages” mini-interview series The Phooks invites you to learn more about people who stand behind the medium of self- & indie-published photobooks, and zines. — As soon as I hear something like “My work is not spectacular and I do not take photographs to please” from a photographer, I expect to see photos which will make me sit with them for some time to calmly watch, feel and think.

With the “People. Not Pages” mini-interview series The Phooks invites you to learn more about people who stand behind the medium of self- & indie-published photo books, and zines. — Today in the People Not Pages interview series, we welcome Liam Ashley Clark. Born In Ipswich, Suffolk, 1990 Liam currently lives and works in Norwich, Norfolk. He was selected as a 2019 Bloomberg New Contemporary and included in the Saatchi Art Rising Stars report of the same year. Liam works…

With the “People. Not Pages” mini-interview series The Phooks invites you to learn more about people who stand behind the medium of self- & indie-published photobooks, and zines. — Today we welcome Fabio Miguel Roque, a photographer, publisher, and curator. Born in Lisbon and based in Sintra, Portugal. On his work, we can notice a clear duality between documentary photography and also intimate and personal projects.

With the “People. Not Pages” mini-interview series The Phooks invites you to learn more about people who stand behind the medium of self- & indie-published photobooks, and zines. — Based in London and Berlin, Dennis Schoenberg is a renowned fashion and portrait photographer with occasional stints as a creative director. He rose to prominence after assisting photographer Steven Klein, managing Wolfgang Tillmans’ studio and working for magazines such as i-D, Vogue, Exit, L’Officiel, Hero and Acne Paper among others…

After our “People. Not Pages” interview we are eager to go deeper into the artistic practice of some of our artist. Today we have a Close-Up with Marc Steculorum, a photographer and curator based in Antwerp, Belgium. We talk about his “Whereabouts” photobook. Interviewed by Jaime Molina. Few words from…