The Photobook as a visual pageturner: editing & sequencing in Photobooks

Instructor: Tine Guns | Dates: Saturdays, March 1 - April 5 | Time: 10 AM - 12 PM EST | Class Size Max: 8 Tuition: $465 Members: $395 | Requirements: N/A

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Images © Tine Guns

Course Overview

This 6-week online course delves into the intersection of cinema and the photobook, examining how sequencing, pacing, rhythm, and layout can evoke a cinematic experience within the pages of a book. Through a series of lectures, hands-on exercises, and engaging group discussions, participants will experiment with translating photographic material into book form utilizing techniques such as sequencing, movement, long takes, jump cuts, fades, and zooms. Guns will share her research in editing theory and photobook history, revealing how these concepts have influenced her own work. Participants will learn to balance visual elements, enhancing the emotional impact of their projects. By the end of the course, participants will have refined editing skills and valuable insights into the art of photobook design.

If your desired tuition option is unavailable, please email info@penumbrafoundation.org and we will do our best to accommodate you. If the entire class is sold out, we can add you to the waitlist.

Tine Guns is a photographer and visual artist that lives and works in Ghent, Belgium. Guns uses mediums such as film, photobooks and installations to explore perception, memory, and the fragmented notion of time in the human experience. 

She currently teaches at the Photography department of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, of Antwerp and at Luca School of Arts, Gent. In 2022 she finished her PhD, entitled The Photobook as a Visual Page-Turner: A pre- and post-cinema­tographic montage story (LUCA), and participated in the research project Bioscopic Books: Artist’s books as seen through the cinema eye (LUCA). 

She had solo exhibitions at Cinematek/BOZAR Brussels (BE) Netwerk Aalst (BE) Casino Luxembourg (LU) , Onsteking, Ghent (BE), Deuss Gallery Antwerp (BE), Rossi Contemporary Brussels (BE), Penumbra (NY) Her films were screened at festivals like Jean Rouch Festival in Paris, Argos Arts Brussels and biennals like Ostrale in Dresden. Her photos were selected for Voies Off in Arles, Antwerp Photo. She was awarded the 2017 Biennial Prize for Visual Arts by the Province of East-Flanders and her work is included in the public collection of the Flemish Government / FOMU, Antwerp (BE)