OUTER SPACE PRESS
We are Berlin based artist duo—Magdalena Wysocka and Claudio Pogo, running Outer Space Press together since 2016. Created from a dream of being truly independent—OSP is a small press which publishes hand crafted artists’ and photobooks in small print runs, sometimes in collaboration with other artists and photographers. We are a hybrid of sorts, unique in the field of photobooks studio not only designing, editing but also printing and binding most of our titles entirely in–house. Our approach to publishing is slow, as we produce and finish each and every book in our catalogue by hand.
The focus of our practice is a reinterpretation of a classic photobook through experimentation with printing, often delibrately using an imperfect printing processes, like risograph or other stencil based mediums, which we modify to fit our concepts.
Claudio has a background in publishing and photography (running PogoBooks since 2010), and Magda completed her education in printmaking and design (MA degree in Printmaking at Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, Poland).
The focus of our practice is a reinterpretation of a classic photobook through experimentation with printing, often delibrately using an imperfect printing processes, like risograph or other stencil based mediums, which we modify to fit our concepts.
Claudio has a background in publishing and photography (running PogoBooks since 2010), and Magda completed her education in printmaking and design (MA degree in Printmaking at Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, Poland).
wysocka / pogo, dead pages, Outer Space Press, 2023 © wysocka / pogo
covers of dead pages no 1, 2 and 3.
dead pages is a 'magazine', which exceeds the usual format of the other books in our catalog –both in physical size and in the fact that it will be continuously printed as an unlimited edition– as well as by not having any binding. Instead, each edition of dead pages is composed of loose 64 x 44 cm prints that are folded in half and contained in a screen printed, PVC sleeve. It is our attempt to look at and reexamine the hidden messages that exist in our library. Each issue is our (re-)interpretation of one of the books we found and collected.
