Bookdummypress is a publishing company and an online bookstore specializing in artist publications, our studio is located in the West Village of New York City, founded by Victor Sira and Shiori Kawasaki in 2011. In addition to its own titles, the online bookstore stocks periodicals, artworks, artists’ editions, rare and out-of-print items and other in-print titles by noted publishers.
Boookdummypress aims to be a place for the research, creation, documentation and distribution of artistically and educational-minded projects by setting collaboration as its guiding principle.With an approach to book design that brings together the aesthetic and communicative power of art, photography and the moving image. Books whether openly and actively, or in subtle, subliminal ways, talk to us, they accompany societies progressive movements, even its more violent processes, pursuing those plans and trends, which increasingly determine the present. When the best of them are brought together they form a reference library of their society’s perception, customs and sensibilities of the time of their production. They free space, improve our surrounding, order vision, unburden our faculties, and awaken the human consciousness to the power of the senses.
Bookdummypress has collaborated with culture institutions such as The International Center of Photography, Printed Matter and The New York Art Book Fair.
Victor Sira: www.victorsira.com / blog: The Book as a Studio as an Idea as an Object
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.
Shiori Kawasaki: www.shiorikawasaki.com / blog: Draft of Ideas
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.