Got a Great Idea for a Printed Photo Book?
Publishing printed photo books is something that many photographers have as a goal, but getting published isn’t always as simple as you might think.
All photo books start out with a great idea. Take this one for example:
(source)In Fashion At The Edge, Caroline Evans looks at the experimental and the transgressive in fashion design, presentation, and photography in the 90s with a heavy dose of London. It’s a neat trick to knit together considerations of fads in fashion photography for violence, dissolution, and transgression (Corinne Day doing Nan Goldin in The Face plus loads of photos from Dazed & Confused…oh, and remember “heroin chic”) with chapters considering the deeply intellectual work of Martin Margiela and Hussein Chalayan.
That’s the description of a photo book that does have a publisher; you’re idea might not quite be at that point, but there’s nothing that should stand between you and your dreams - why not self-publish?
Self-publishing your photo book puts you in control. You won’t have to worry about an editor telling you that you can’t use a photo that you really want to include. You won’t have to worry about having much of your research end up on a cutting room floor because “the chapter doesn’t seem relevant” to the critic your agent passed it off to.
Simply put, when you self-publish printed photo books, you’ll find that you’re able to be in charge, to layout and design your book your way and tell the story in the way that’s right for you.
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