primitive press

"Buenos Aires", by my friend Mauricio Amarante, in 2016, is the first book I have published. I made this book because I knew that if it was not me nobody will do it. My friend is a musician, not a photographer, he made these photograhs as a vital need, without having a plan nor a project. He shows me the images just because of our friendship, then they would have be forgotten on an hard drive. I understood the power in these images and I knew that if we work hard we could make a great book. That's how I understand that being a publisher was a place for me. I love working on the making of a book and I feel that there are singular stories to which I am sensitive and which must be brought to light. I like to work with "outsiders", I guess because I feel like an outsider. Making a photography book with someone that is not a photographer, who knows nothing about the photography world, and that no one in the photographic world is waiting for. And then work with creators or artists on the margin, who are not established in the art world. Or creating a book with pictures that have been abandoned and that I find on a flea market. I do zines or books where I do everything from design, printing to binding, and sometimes I work with printers. Usually printing will be around 100 copies (from 50 to 200 depending on the project). And less often I will publish a book in offset print at 500 copies.I also want to not work only in the field of photography, and to create dialogues and crossroads between different art expressions. And I am very interested in creating hybrid books, books that are difficult to classify. But every book is a different story, you need to find the right solutions for each situation.