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| Status | Active |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2010 |
| Founder | Bruno Ceschel |
| Country of origin | UK |
| Headquarters location | Ridley Road, Dalston, London |
| Publication types | Books |
| Nonfiction topics | Photography |
| Official website | www |
Self Publish, Be Happy (SPBH) is an organisation founded by Bruno Ceschel[1] in 2010 that aims to help aspiring photographers to self-publish their own books.[2][3][4][5][6][7] It does so through workshops, talks, exhibitions, live events, on/offline projects and publicising of books. It is based on Ridley Road, in Dalston, London, where it keeps a library of some 2000 donated self-published zines and books.[7]
Since 2012 Self Publish, Be Happy has also published photography books as SPBH Editions.[2][8] Ceschel is its director and Antonio de Luca its art director. It has published books by Broomberg & Chanarin, Cristina de Middel, Mariah Robertson, Lorenzo Vitturi and others.
SPBH produces various series of publications—SPBH Book Club, which are sold as part of a yearly subscription as well as sold separately; SPBH Pamphlets, pamphlets with photography and text, including one by Anouk Kruithof; and Self Publish Be Naughty (SPBN), books of intimate pictures of people by their romantic partners.[5]
In November 2015 Ceshel's book Self Publish, Be Happy: A DIY Photobook Manual and Manifesto was published by Aperture.[6][9][10]
Parr and Badger include Self Publish Be Naughty (2011) in the third volume of their photobook history.[11][12]
Critic Sean O'Hagan, writing in The Guardian, said "An accurate measure of SPBH’s importance to the contemporary cottage industry is the array of photobooks they have featured that I would cite as contemporary classics."[10]
Awards received for Self Publish, Be Happy publications:
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