Founded by Victor Sira and Shiori Kawasaki in 2011, with a studio located in the West Village of New York City. Bookdummypress consists of two departments - bdp studio and an online book store.
The Studio is a place for the research, creation,
documentation and distribution of artistically and educational-minded
projects. Collaboration is its guiding principle, with an
approach that brings together the aesthetic and communicative power of
books, art, photography and video. The online bookstore specializes in photobooks, artist
publications, periodicals, rare and out-of-print items and other
in-print titles by noted publishers.
Victor Sira Is a Venezuela-born artist/photographer
whose work has been the recipient of numerous fellowships, including the
Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and the New York Foundation for the
Arts Fellowship. He curated the show Photography Book Dummies at the
School of International Center of Photography. His work has been
featured in solo and group exhibitions, including the Rencontres d’Arles
2005 and the show De l’Europe in Luxemburg 2007. Sira is on the faculty
at the ICP-Bard MFA Advanced Photographic Studies Program in New York,
where he teaches the course The Book: Imaginary Studio, A Non Stop
Process.
Victor's website is HERE and his blog The Book as a Studio as an Idea as an Object
Shiori Kawasaki was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. Moved to New York in 2006 to attend
International Center of Photography and studied Documentary and
Photojournalism. After graduating from ICP, she has been exhibited in
several group shows both in NY and Japan include Sombra Project and 126
Polaroid, which held in Yokohama Museum of Art. Her work is shown in
major Japanese magazines such as Coyote, BRUTUS, GQ Japan, LAST, Tokyo
Calendar, UOMO and more.
Shiori's website is HERE and her blog Draft of Ideas
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