Publishing Your Photobook: The Photographer's Guide (Jun 8-Aug 17)
Dates: June 8 - August 17, 2025
Meetings: Sunday, 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM CST (10 Sessions)
Location: Online Zoom Classroom
Cost: $690 (HCP members can receive a 10% discount)
Instructor: Sanne De Wilde
Skill Level: Intermediate - Advanced
How do you turn your photo project into a photobook? How do you develop an innovative and relevant, yet affordable, book design? How do you collaborate with graphic designers and book publishers? How do you negotiate a book deal?
This course encourages students to undertake the journey of creating a photobook and guides them through the process. Together, the class will examine the different options to get their work published and create strategies to make your book come to life. Students will learn to filter through projects, create a mood board and written book proposal, cherry-pick through edits— highlighting the essence of your project, and find new ways to amplify your photographic voice in book-format. Participants will understand the lifecycle and challenges of photobook publishing from the photographer’s perspective and will apply the course’s material to their personal work.
Objectives:
Identify projects that are best suited to be published in a book format
Review technical aspects to consider while designing your book
Distinguish yourself using different strategies for effective storytelling
Apply best practices for creating a powerful sequence
Understand the importance of a book dummy
Create your own book dummy using authentic visual language/composition
Consider the practicalities of finding a publisher successfully
Prerequisites:
Students must be proficient in Adobe software such as Photoshop or Lightroom and understand printing or portfolio revision processes. Proficiency in Adobe InDesign is a plus but not mandatory (book dummies can be handmade).
Course Prep:
Please prepare a selection of 10-20 images representative of your photographic work. In addition, please be ready to propose two book ideas to work on during this course to be discussed in class.
Dates: June 8 - August 17, 2025
Meetings: Sunday, 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM CST (10 Sessions)
Location: Online Zoom Classroom
Cost: $690 (HCP members can receive a 10% discount)
Instructor: Sanne De Wilde
Skill Level: Intermediate - Advanced
How do you turn your photo project into a photobook? How do you develop an innovative and relevant, yet affordable, book design? How do you collaborate with graphic designers and book publishers? How do you negotiate a book deal?
This course encourages students to undertake the journey of creating a photobook and guides them through the process. Together, the class will examine the different options to get their work published and create strategies to make your book come to life. Students will learn to filter through projects, create a mood board and written book proposal, cherry-pick through edits— highlighting the essence of your project, and find new ways to amplify your photographic voice in book-format. Participants will understand the lifecycle and challenges of photobook publishing from the photographer’s perspective and will apply the course’s material to their personal work.
Objectives:
Identify projects that are best suited to be published in a book format
Review technical aspects to consider while designing your book
Distinguish yourself using different strategies for effective storytelling
Apply best practices for creating a powerful sequence
Understand the importance of a book dummy
Create your own book dummy using authentic visual language/composition
Consider the practicalities of finding a publisher successfully
Prerequisites:
Students must be proficient in Adobe software such as Photoshop or Lightroom and understand printing or portfolio revision processes. Proficiency in Adobe InDesign is a plus but not mandatory (book dummies can be handmade).
Course Prep:
Please prepare a selection of 10-20 images representative of your photographic work. In addition, please be ready to propose two book ideas to work on during this course to be discussed in class.
Dates: June 8 - August 17, 2025
Meetings: Sunday, 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM CST (10 Sessions)
Location: Online Zoom Classroom
Cost: $690 (HCP members can receive a 10% discount)
Instructor: Sanne De Wilde
Skill Level: Intermediate - Advanced
How do you turn your photo project into a photobook? How do you develop an innovative and relevant, yet affordable, book design? How do you collaborate with graphic designers and book publishers? How do you negotiate a book deal?
This course encourages students to undertake the journey of creating a photobook and guides them through the process. Together, the class will examine the different options to get their work published and create strategies to make your book come to life. Students will learn to filter through projects, create a mood board and written book proposal, cherry-pick through edits— highlighting the essence of your project, and find new ways to amplify your photographic voice in book-format. Participants will understand the lifecycle and challenges of photobook publishing from the photographer’s perspective and will apply the course’s material to their personal work.
Objectives:
Identify projects that are best suited to be published in a book format
Review technical aspects to consider while designing your book
Distinguish yourself using different strategies for effective storytelling
Apply best practices for creating a powerful sequence
Understand the importance of a book dummy
Create your own book dummy using authentic visual language/composition
Consider the practicalities of finding a publisher successfully
Prerequisites:
Students must be proficient in Adobe software such as Photoshop or Lightroom and understand printing or portfolio revision processes. Proficiency in Adobe InDesign is a plus but not mandatory (book dummies can be handmade).
Course Prep:
Please prepare a selection of 10-20 images representative of your photographic work. In addition, please be ready to propose two book ideas to work on during this course to be discussed in class.
Images: Sanne De Wilde
