Andrea Copetti
Andrea Copetti is the founder and manager of Tipi Bookshop, an independent photography bookshop opened in Brussels in 2012. After training first in art and illustration, followed by photography at the École de Recherche Graphique in Brussels, Andrea decided to dedicate his focus to creating a space entirely devoted to photobooks, independent publishing, and experimental practices in photography. For more than a decade, Tipi Bookshop has stood out for its highly personal selection of publications: self-published photobooks, confidential publications, and projects by established and emerging artists. Andrea seeks to bring visibility to works that are often marginalised by traditional channels and has created a space where customers can spend time exploring, touching and flipping through books. In addition to the bookshop, Copetti works with authors and photographers to help them design their own publications. His advice covers visual storytelling, editorial structure and choice of materials. As part of this, he provides a wide range of paper samples that can be viewed on site, enabling artists to understand the impact of the medium on the photographic narrative. Thanks to this rigorous and generous approach, Andrea Copetti has made Tipi Bookshop a haven for independent publishing and an important gathering place for the photobook community in Brussels and beyond.
Josep Maria de Llobet
Josep Maria de Llobet (born 1973, Barcelona) is a photographer, director, and lecturer based in Barcelona. He studied Law at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona while also training in photography at the Institut d’Estudis Fotogràfics de Catalunya (IEFC), where he currently works as director and lecturer. He also collaborates with various academic institutions, teaching photography workshops in different academic contexts. He has published several photobooks, created photographic installations in iconic spaces such as the Modelo prison in Barcelona, and exhibited at festivals such as DOCfield, Revela-T and Fotomonth in Belgrade, among others, as well as in national and international galleries. His work has received various awards such as the ArtsLibris Prize for Best Photobook, an honourable mention for best photobook in Arles (as editor), as well as the Olot Fotografia grant. He has been published in national and international media and has participated as a jury member in various photography competitions. De Llobet’s work is part of public and private collections including MACBA, Fundació Banc Sabadell, the University of Illinois Library, and the Mies van der Rohe Foundation. In his work, he focuses on social and political issues related to the human habitat, especially the city. He uses the urban landscape to generate documents using tools specific to artistic language that allow him to reflect on social reality from a contemporary perspective. De Llobet is also co-founder and publisher of the independent publishing house specialising in photobooks Ediciones Posibles, based in Barcelona.
Benjamin Diguerher
Founder of the publishing house Poursuite, which he has directed since 2010. Located in Arles, Poursuite publishes books on photography and visual arts (Eric Tabuchi & Nelly Monnier, Ola Rindal, Toshio Shibata, Marine Lanier, Marguerite Bornhauser, Géraldine Lay, Samuel Gratacap, etc.). Alongside his work as a publisher, Benjamin Diguerher also regularly teaches and leads talks and workshops (Centre national des arts plastiques, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Le Bal, ENSP d’Arles, CEPV de Vevey).
Matthieu Huegi
Onlab is a Swiss graphic design studio active in editorial design, visual identity and cultural communication. Since its founding, the studio has developed a rigorous editorial approach, guided by a deep attention to content, materiality and the visual language specific to each project. Deeply engaged in the field of contemporary photography, Onlab has designed numerous photobooks in close collaboration with photographers, institutions and publishers. Each book is approached as a singular, readable and immersive object, where form supports and amplifies the artistic intent. Through projects such as Ephemeris by Olga Cafiero, Wall as Horizon by Laurence Rasti or Vivants by Matthieu Gafsou, the studio develops carefully constructed editorial devices—combining image sequencing, typography, paper choices and printing techniques—all in service of the photographic vision. This practice is part of a precise and collaborative process, where graphic design acts as a means of revealing content, underlining its intention and enhancing its reception.
Tiffany Jones
Tiffany Jones is the founder of Overlapse, a London-based photobook imprint started in 2015 while researching ‘Dynamics of the Photobooks Market’ for her MA in Publishing with Oxford Brookes University. With over 30 years dedicated to arts publishing and photojournalism, she is an editor, designer, researcher and educator working with programmes and institutions around the world. She collaborates in tandem with photographers and artists to communicate through the making of unique, desirable, and beautifully produced books. Subjects and stories address social, cultural, and environmental issues, and highlight enduring and universal themes connected to human experience.
Ni Liang 倪梁
Photographer, curator, and publisher. He graduated from the International Center of Photography in New York in 2012, where he received the Alan Model Scholarship. His work has been shortlisted for the Berlin Photography Festival, among other honors. In 2016, he participated in an artist residency at the Abbey of Saint-Riquier in France. He served as a curator for the Lianzhou International Photo Festival in 2018. In 2019, he published The Eighth Day with artist Gao Shan, which received the Photobook of the Year Award at Paris Photo, organized by the Aperture Foundation. In 2024, he was appointed a global nominator for the Prix Pictet. Ni Liang founded IMAGELESS in 2015 and initiated the IDPA Imageless Dummy Photobook Awards in 2018, dedicated to the creation and promotion of photography and paper-based media.
Yann Linsart
Yann Linsart (born in 1984) is a publisher and graphic designer specialising in books. He lives and works in Arles. After graduating from the École nationale supérieure de la photographie in 2008, Yann Linsart founded the online magazine The Viewer, releasing ten issues. This experience enabled him to explore aspects of graphic design and curation. He then devoted himself to editorial design, producing nearly a hundred books in the fields of photography and contemporary art. In 2021, together with Delphine Manjard, they founded Palais Books publishing house. Their first book, Desiderea Nuncia by SMITH, won the Prix du livre des Rencontres d’Arles the following year, and since, their publications have been regularly shortlisted for various awards. Alongside his work at Palais Books, Yann Linsart also works as a designer and art director for various publishers and art institutions. He is also the author of two books, Unclassified and UAP: A Journey.
Luca Reffo
Luca Reffo is an Italian artist; he lives and works between Milan and Venice where he’s teaching Painting, Atelier 12, at the Venice Academy of Fine Arts. The media he uses include oil painting, mixed media, photography and assemblage. He is also a co-founder of the publishing house Départ Pour l’Image, where he oversees the design and editorial content.
Łukasz Rusznica
B. 1980, Garwolin, lives and works in Wrocław. Photographer and curator, Łukasz Rusznica graduated from the Institute of Cultural Studies at the University of Wrocław. Major themes in his work include queerness, intimacy, decline, and masculinity. He builds sensual images balancing between mundane and extraordinary, exciting and anxious. He has photographed club life, and explored hidden aspects of Japanese spirituality. He often presents his work in the form of photobooks, which are like carefully curated exhibitions. His publications include Smog, Near, Infra, Toskana, The most important I do not tell you at all, Subterranean River, and (with Beata Bartecka) How to Look Natural in Photos, which has won numerous awards. He also pursues a curatorial practice and runs the photography publishing house Sun Archive in Wrocław. He says of his practice “I deal with images and looking.”
Pascal Schyns
Pascal Schyns is a photographer, musician and publisher from Belgium, born in Verviers in 1970. He lives and works in Tavier (Belgium). In 2013, he created Les Éditions du Caïd, an independent publishing house through which he publishes photography books, amongst other works, with over 70 releases to date. Through his work, he supports photographers in developing their publishing projects, from image selection and editing, to the final book production. His approach is both rigorous and sensitive, with a keen eye for coherence, rhythm and the unique character of each project.
Zhen Shi
Zhen Shi is a visual artist and publisher based in Paris. She is the founder of La Maison de Z, an independent platform dedicated to contemporary photography, visual storytelling, and artist books. Working across photography, text, and experimental publishing, her practice explores the intersections of memory and constructed realities. La Maison de Z operates as both a publishing house and a curatorial framework, investigating the artist book as a language in its own right: one that challenges the formal limits of paper and image, while reflecting on the narrative potential of the printed object from concept to material form.
