9th Annual Self-Published Photobook Exhibition is an annual competition open to photographers in the United States and abroad who have self-published a photobook. This competition is offered by Davis Orton Gallery in Hudson NY for the nineth year. The competition results were exhibited at Davis Orton Gallery and thirty-four photobooks are now traveling to the Griffin Museum of Photography. Karen Davis, co-director of the Davis Orton Gallery in Hudson, NY and Paula Tognarelli, executive director and curator of the Griffin Museum of Photography were the jurors for the 9th Annual Self-Published Photobook Exhibition.

9^th Annual Self-Published Photobook Exhibition  is featured in the Atelier Gallery at the Griffin Museum April 11 – June 2, 2019. An opening reception with the artists takes place on April 11, 7 – 8:30 p.m.

An informal gallery talk by Paula Riff will take place on April 11, 2019 at 6:15 PM

A book talk by Mary Virginia Swanson will take place on April 13, 2019 from 2-4 PM

For the 9th Annual Self-Published Photobook Exhibition, jurors Karen Davis and Paula Tognarelli chose 34 Photobooks to be exhibited at the Griffin Museum. The photobook authors are:

Meghan Boilard  Press Enter To Search
Sheri Lynn Behr  Be seeing you
Vera Benschop  Fingerprints In The Dirt
Leslie Hall Brown  Muse
Lucinda Bunnen  Gathered
Jo Ann Chaus  Sweetie & Hansom
Clara DeTezanos  Piedra-Padre, Universo
Daniel Drake  The Mystery Of The Jewish New Year Valentines
Melissa Eder  Fake Foods/Fake News
Kev Filmore  21 Magnolia Rd.
Kay Kenny  Mirrors Of The Moment, Casting Shadows
Roddy Macinnes   Family Album
Amanda Marchand  Because The Sky
Linda Morrow  Looking For Bobby Clackett
Jeremy Olson  Grotto
Robert Pacheco  Sun And Cellophane
Louise Pedno  Hair Matters
Antonio Perez Rio  Masterpieces – Obras Maestras
Allison Stewart.  Bug Out Bag: The Commodification Of American Fear
Britland Tracy  Show Me Yours
Sara Anthony/Meghan Bollard  The Somerville Collection Agency
Clarice Barbato-Dunn  The Spaciousness Project
Michael Callahan  What Battle Exactly
Andrew Cohen  Fuel Islands
David Curtis  Auto-Reflections: Metropolis
Geoff Delanoy  Trees
Jeff Evans   Jeff Evans’ Guide
Arnold Clayton Henderson  Urban Illlusions
Kevin Jones   Nuestro Cometa
Sandy Lloyd   Requiem For A Son
Dan Mccormack    The Nude At Home – Pinhole Camera Images
Bruce Morton   Forgottonia – The Suburbs
Thomas Pickarski   Floating Blue
Thomas Whitworth   Constructed Realities

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There are growing options available for self-publishing a book such as on-demand (blurb, lulu, viovio, iphoto, etc.); small run offset or web printing/publishing firms, binderies. For the competition if photobooks submitted had been hand-made/bound, they had to be available in multiples of at least 25. Entrants could submit up to three different titles that are self-published photography books of any size, format, or style: hard cover, soft cover, case-wraps, landscape, portrait, square, color, black and white. Submissions were judged on the basis of: cover design, strength of the photography, subject matter of the book, page layouts, editing and sequencing and emotional impact of the overall book. All Submissions had to be original works of authorship created by the photographer who submitted the book.

“A photobook relies on the image to form visual sentences,” says Paula Tognarelli, executive director and curator of the Griffin Museum of Photography. “A photobook that is produced well can transport us in time and place just as any book produced with the written word.”