"In the first days of November, the Zum Festival took place - an annual event dedicated to contemporary photography that features talks, workshops, exhibitions, and a photobook fair at the Moreira Salles Institute. The festival is organised by Zum, the institute's outstanding semi-annual photography magazine coordinated by Thyago Nogueira, which has become my compass for what is most interesting and innovative in contemporary visual culture in Brazil and beyond."
"The festival is accompanied by a photobook open call: the institution received 182 projects, selected 45, and awarded three of them. The appreciation of the selected books, combined with a visit to the photobook fair, offers a clear overview of a body of work that has, for years, developed into a fertile and diverse ecosystem in Brazil. Today it includes several independent publishers such as Lovely House, Piscina Pública, Fotô, Gris, Livraria Madalena, Selo Turvo, and LP Press, along with a wealth of self-published books."
Zum Festival occurred in early November as an annual contemporary photography event with talks, workshops, exhibitions, and a photobook fair at the Moreira Salles Institute. Zum magazine, coordinated by Thyago Nogueira, plays a central curatorial role in identifying innovative visual culture. The photobook open call received 182 projects, of which 45 were selected and three awarded. The selection and fair reveal a fertile, diverse Brazilian ecosystem of independent and self-published photobooks, represented by publishers such as Lovely House, Piscina Pública, Fotô, Gris, Livraria Madalena, Selo Turvo, and LP Press. Many projects revisit family archives to reconstruct personal histories, often yielding hermetic books, while demonstrating strong narrative construction, graphic design, and printing quality. The institute has also worked to include productions that are usually marginalised.
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