Editing of Photo Books and Visual Storytelling (Spanish, Multisub)

Learn the process to tell stories with photographs in a book A photobook is not a family photo album or a photography book because, in addition to photographs, it has a visual narrative that seeks to tell a story to the public through images. The structure, the design and the photographs, together, evoke an intentional feeling for the editor and photographer, resulting in a work of art.

Musuk Nolte -photographer and editor of photobooks- is a reference in the world of photobooks, with his editorial KWY has published more than 15 publications of Rodrigo Abd, Antoine d’Agata, Billy Hare and Juanita Escobar. In this course he will teach you how to self-edit your photobook, emphasizing the creative aspect from conceptualization to production, together with one of the references of the most current edition and photography.

What will you learn in this online course? You will meet Musuk Nolte and his beginnings in the world of publishing and photography, how his interest in photobooks was born and he will show you his main influences, which do not come only from photography and photobooks, but also from literature and music .

Musuk will teach you what a photobook is, all the possibilities it offers you to achieve a powerful visual narrative and the importance of the story in images.

Briefly, you will know the parts that make up a book and the different weapons you can achieve and, along with it, the softwares that you will use to develop the edition of your photobook, such as Adobe InDesign and Bridge.

You will see how you can conceptualize a book and the importance of this step as a starting point to face your project, edit the images and define a structure.

Once you have all the clear bases, you will start your project. After a search of references, you will define what you want to tell in your book and then conceptualize your project.

Next, you will choose a sequence of images that you will later transfer to an layout of InDesign to work the pages and define the design (cover, typography and color palette) of your photobook.

To finish, you will evaluate the possibilities of production in digital versus printed in the hand of Musuk, already with a work of art in your hands ready to produce and show.

What is this course’s project? You will make a photobook. To do this, you will edit a sequence of images, organize your visual story in pages, see which format best fits your story and the production possibilities of the book.

Who is this online course for? To photographers, designers, editors, creatives and people interested in exploring the possibilities of visual narrative in a book format.

Requirements and materials To complete this course you will need basic knowledge of Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Lightroom and Bridge. What materials do you need? A computer with InDesign, Lightroom, Photoshop and Bridge installed, a printer (optional) and most importantly: an idea and a series of photographs to tell a story in a photobook.