December 6, 2016

I am delighted to receive the following email announcing that my photobook 'Elevador', part of the Indie Photobook Library is now placed in the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University. Please read on:

"It is an honor to announce that the Indie Photobook Library has been placed at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University. The collection would not be what it is today without all of you self-publishers and independent presses. Collectively we have given this platform of expression a voice and shaped contemporary photobook publishing and subsequently history in our own way. Your role will now live on at Beinecke.

Thus, the iPL is permanently closed to submissions. Yet, I will continue to advocate on behalf of self-publishers from around the world by directly consulting with libraries and museums on their acquisitions.

I look forward to hearing about your books in all stages of the process!

Click here to read the press release.

Congratulations, and continue to shape your own history!

Sincerely, 

Larissa Leclair 

Founder, Indie Photobook Library

The self-publication was part of the exhibition Elevador in 'Beyond the limits of the gaze' curated by Syrago Tsiara and Domna Gounari, in the Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki-Greece, 2012.