Author: Pierre Bessard

Editions Bessard is a paris-based independant publishing house created by pierre bessard in end of november 2011. Focusing on working with artists, writers and curators to realise intellectually challenging projects in book form.
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Yong Xu NEGATIVES (Collector’s edition- few copies available), signed c print include) a text by Markus Schaden, founder of The PhotoBook Museum.: The current decade, only half past, deserves a look to the current score. The photobook has achieved popularity, quality and quantity unexpectedly high dimensions. All the more important content and the digital world calls for and the digital photo book. But maybe the right way is indeed in between. This shows an outstanding concept of the Chinese photographer Xu Yong with his brilliant photobook NEGATIVE! A hybrid between analogy and digital. What demands Xu Yong? The viewer can or must reverse the printed in negative colour photographs with his smartphone and thus becomes a (positive) developers in their own digital darkroom. The theme: politically explosive: The China still taboo recordings of the protests on the Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1989. Fantastic and pioneering. The photobook has arrived in the new decade.

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BEST PHOTOBOOKS Renowned Experts selection 2017 Kassel #FotobookFestival EDIT BEIJING by #GuyTillim design #SybrenKuiper aka SYB Invitation to join the #Kassel #Photobook #Award 2017 – The book is only made of portraits in the street, and some pages offer triad views. What is your purpose in this photobook ? Hard to say what the purpose of the book was except, as you can see, to make street photographs. The location could have been Rome, or Moscow say, and I would have been just as happy… #photobook « #EditBeijing #LimitedEdition 500 – #Signed C Print €75 #editionsbessard #photography #china #SouthAfrica #ArtistEdition design by the Dutch Artistic Director #SYB Few copies available on our website… #photography #Photographer #photographie #ArtOfPerfection #Art #contemporaryart #collector #collectors #Beijing

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Anna Ehrenstein ‘Tales of Lipstick and Virtue’ published by Editions Bessard A few weeks ago I published my first monograph together with the well respected publishing house Editions Bessard from Paris. It is a BeSpoke Artist Collection, – very limited – to 250 Copies and comes with a C-Print signed by me. You can purchase the book through the following link. https://editionsbessard.com/…/tales-of-lipstick-and-vi…/

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‘Tales of Lipstick and Virtue’ published by Editions Bessard A few weeks ago I published my first monograph together with the well respected publishing house Editions Bessard from Paris. It is a BeSpoke Artist Collection, – very limited – to 250 Copies and comes with a C-Print signed by me. You can purchase the book through the following link. https://editionsbessard.com/product/tales-of-lipstick-and-virtue-limited-edition-250-copies-signed-c-print/

News and Events / 2017 hitherto.
2017 has been a busy year so far and I’d love to share with you a bit of what I’ve been doing.
Solo Show at Galerie Lichtblick

This year started with a show of my current work at Galerie Lichtblick in my former hometown Cologne. It was a great possibility to transform the spatial experience of the Gallery with my ideas relating to the contemporary material culture in society, experimenting with various dimensions and the actual materiality of a photograph.
A big thank you goes out to curator Tina Schelhorn and photographer Wolfgang Zurborn, who celebrated their 30th year of existing recently, for their full support of my work.
‘Tales of Lipstick and Virtue’ published by Editions Bessard

A few weeks ago I published my first monograph together with the well respected publishing house
Editions Bessard from Paris.
It is a BeSpoke Artist Collection, – very limited – to 250 Copies and comes with a C-Print signed by me. You can purchase the book through the following link.

Tales Of Lipstick And Virtue (Limited Edition 250 Copies + signed C print)


Projection @ Riga Photomonth

My work was selected for the projection “Facts and Clarifications” during Riga Photomonth in Latvia, which took place in May 2017. Dealing with the paradoxical states of contemporary society the program offered works between tragic, complex as well as comic situations.
PhotoIreland in Dublin

It was an amazing opportunity to take part in the group show “The Recount of Conflict” at Pallas Projects in Ireland, as a part of the PhotoIreland festival. Thanks to curator Ángel Luis Gonzalez my book now is also part of the Library Project in Dublin; under the following link you can find a more detailed review of the show.
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In Conflict @ Fondazione Studio Marangoni

As a finalist for Visible White Photo Prize 2017 my work was part of a group show at the Fondazione Marangoni in Florence in Italy, organized by Celeste Network. A show experiencing a broad approach and interpretation of conflict, may it be personal, social, economical, political. Grazie a Laura Serani for curating.
Les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles 2017
This year my work was part of the program of the Rencontres in Arles, I exhibited at the Papeterie Etienne, as part of BYOP, during @ #nuitdelanee.
It was a excellent week in the south of France, that was accompanied by a book signing at Place Voltaire, talks with superb Pierre Bessard and Stefano De Luigi at Cosmos and as always lots of old and new friends.