Designing Photobooks
On the second day of the Nobody Reads This: Art Book Fair, 23 May 2026, at 4:00 pm, curator and critic Adam Mazur will talk with Kasia Kubicka, designer of many awarded photobooks.
Since the early 20th century, photobook design has influenced ideas about modernity, documenting reality, and presenting history through software and the book form. The meeting with Kasia Kubicka will focus on submissions about photographic publications—both contemporary and historical—and how the medium allows for the construction of multi-layered visual messages. Selected Kasia Kubicka's projects, as well as dreamed-of, unrealised, and experimental projects that inform her thinking about the book as a space for photography, text, and graphic design, will serve as a starting point for the discussion. The discussion will also cover collaboration with photographers, artists, and institutions, the process of working on a publication, and ways of applying social, historical, and urban solutions to the language of the photobook.
- Kasia Kubicka
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graphic designer, graduate of Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg and the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. She specialises in designing albums for cultural institutions, including the Warsaw Uprising Museum and the National Museum in Gdańsk. Her photobooks have won awards in the Grand Press Photo, Photography Book of the Year / Pictures of the Year International (POYi), and TIFA competitions. The book she designed last year, Dancing Your Dream Awake by Anita Andrzejewska, was nominated for the Most Beautiful Polish Book of the Year 2025 award from the Polish Association of Book Publishers.
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Adam Mazur
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art historian, curator and book collector, lecturer at the Faculty of Photography at the Magdalena Abakanowicz University of Arts in Poznań, director of inLodz21 / the Hilary Majewski Tenement House, together with Łukasz Gorczyca, researching the history of Polish photobooks and preparing an exhibition with a catalogue devoted to this issue.
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