The Photobook Club at the RPS: Martin Salter

The Photobook Club and the RPS present a monthly series of talks from photographers and artists. Curated by Tom Broadbent the series features members of The Photobook Club during the course of 2022. Books, zines and postcards from 26 Photobook Club members are available from the RPS at each event and during normal opening hours. Each speaker will be signing books after their presentation. 

This event is live and online. Book here

Martin Salter has an extensive photo book collection and has recently published Memory Lane. He will be talking about how to go about making a photobook, the process of getting a photobook in to the marketplace, setting it within a wider history of the photobook and collecting.

He will be drawing on both the history of the photo book, how this influenced his own photographic practice and how this in turn led up to the publication of Memory Lane some years after he had moved away from photography as his central creative practice. Martin Parr commented when he saw an initial edit of the book "Where has he been hiding all these years". He will be giving some context to this.

Martin will use Memory Lane as a key example, looking at the sequencing, design and print stages which was done in collaboration with the young designer Tom Booth Woodger and the publisher and street photographer Matt Stuart. Val Williams, in her introduction writes: 'To spend time with Martin Salter’s Memory Lane is to enter into a kind of meditation. It is a narrative of strangeness, of chance encounters, mysterious occurrences against the flimsy solid background of ‘ordinary’ Britain. His photographs pose the question about ‘who we are’ and ‘where we are’, how we dwell within our urban, rural and coastal landscapes, the patterns of existence we make.'.

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