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Photo Book Basics

from $120.00

WHEN: Tuesdays in April (1st, 8th, 22nd, 29th,) and May (6th) from 6-8:30pm

WHERE: LATITUDE, 2003 W Fulton St. Ste #211

COST: $150 General Admission ($120 Student/Recent Graduate within 1 year of graduating)

INSTRUCTOR: Kioto Aoki

LATITUDE is pleased to announce an exciting workshop: Photo Book Basics with Kioto Aoki! This 5 session workshop is designed to help artists consider and experiment with the book format to present their images. This course will introduce basic bookmaking techniques as well as provide a space for feedback on students’ final product.

Participants can expect to leave having learned to:

  • Create single page books

  • Create an accordion book

  • Perform simple stab bindings techniques

  • Prepare book layouts in Photoshop

  • Wrap and make a hardcover with Kodak Phototex

A basic booking making kit is included in the fee for the course. Participants will also 50% off ink fees and free membership between April 1st and May 6th for project creation. Seats are limited to 12 participants.

Accessibility notes: Frequent movements such as sitting at a computer workstation, standing at a printer, and trimming prints at the production table are a part of this workshop. Manual dexterity is required for book folding and assembly. Roll paper is loaded by staff and manual, top loading of individual sheets is optional. This workshop’s mobility can be reduced and/or limited by request. More on building accessibility can be found here and on Vimeo. If your accessibility concerns have not been addressed in this note, please make use of the accessibility accommodation in our signup form or reach out directly to education@latitudechicago.org for more information.

If you’re a student/recent grad and only general admission is available, reach out to education@latitudechicago.org for the discounted rate.

Questions? Contact us at education@latitudechicago.org

Please Note: LATITUDE never wants finances to stand in the way of participation in our programs. Please reach out to us to discuss financial assistance.

Refund Policy: For all LATITUDE courses, full payment is required to reserve your spot in the class. If you need to cancel your reservation for any reason, LATITUDE can provide a 100% refund for cancellations made 10 days prior to the start date of the course. Cancellations made with less than the 7 day notice will be given a 100% lab credit. Cancellations made within 72 hours of class run will be given a credit for 50% of the purchase price which can be used for any lab purchases, including re-enrollment, in the future. No refund for cancellations made on the start day of the course and will be considered a donation to the space.

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Photo Book Basics

from $120.00

WHEN: Tuesdays in April (1st, 8th, 22nd, 29th,) and May (6th) from 6-8:30pm

WHERE: LATITUDE, 2003 W Fulton St. Ste #211

COST: $150 General Admission ($120 Student/Recent Graduate within 1 year of graduating)

INSTRUCTOR: Kioto Aoki

LATITUDE is pleased to announce an exciting workshop: Photo Book Basics with Kioto Aoki! This 5 session workshop is designed to help artists consider and experiment with the book format to present their images. This course will introduce basic bookmaking techniques as well as provide a space for feedback on students’ final product.

Participants can expect to leave having learned to:

  • Create single page books

  • Create an accordion book

  • Perform simple stab bindings techniques

  • Prepare book layouts in Photoshop

  • Wrap and make a hardcover with Kodak Phototex

A basic booking making kit is included in the fee for the course. Participants will also 50% off ink fees and free membership between April 1st and May 6th for project creation. Seats are limited to 12 participants.

Accessibility notes: Frequent movements such as sitting at a computer workstation, standing at a printer, and trimming prints at the production table are a part of this workshop. Manual dexterity is required for book folding and assembly. Roll paper is loaded by staff and manual, top loading of individual sheets is optional. This workshop’s mobility can be reduced and/or limited by request. More on building accessibility can be found here and on Vimeo. If your accessibility concerns have not been addressed in this note, please make use of the accessibility accommodation in our signup form or reach out directly to education@latitudechicago.org for more information.

If you’re a student/recent grad and only general admission is available, reach out to education@latitudechicago.org for the discounted rate.

Questions? Contact us at education@latitudechicago.org

Please Note: LATITUDE never wants finances to stand in the way of participation in our programs. Please reach out to us to discuss financial assistance.

Refund Policy: For all LATITUDE courses, full payment is required to reserve your spot in the class. If you need to cancel your reservation for any reason, LATITUDE can provide a 100% refund for cancellations made 10 days prior to the start date of the course. Cancellations made with less than the 7 day notice will be given a 100% lab credit. Cancellations made within 72 hours of class run will be given a credit for 50% of the purchase price which can be used for any lab purchases, including re-enrollment, in the future. No refund for cancellations made on the start day of the course and will be considered a donation to the space.

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Kioto Aoki (青木希音) is a Chicago-based artist, educator and musician, whose studio practice navigates various mechanisms and propositions of spatial and visual acuity, responding to and formed by observations and experiences of the body in space. Primarily rooted in analogue image-making traditions of photography and cinema, Aoki integrates architectural, biographical and geographic histories that balance material and research-based approaches through nuances of material form, spatial play and exhibition strategies. The artist’s body and the human form often becomes an inflection point that oscillates between assertions of personal, communal or universal experience. The body activates, holds, and navigates propositions of sight and relativity as playful expressions of visual and formal imprints of presence. 


Aoki’s work is held in the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Library and private collections. Musical projects include solo and collaborative albums released by Asian Improv Records and FPE Records, Yoko Ono’s SKYLANDING, Tatsu Aoki’s The MIYUMI Project, Experimental Sound Studio’s Sonic Pavilion Festival, and the Soundtrack series at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. She has performed and exhibited at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Asian Art Museum (San Francisco), the Chicago Cultural Center, 6018|North (Chicago), Gallery Kobo Chika (Tokyo, Japan), The Lab (San Francisco), and the Barbican Centre (London); among others. Aoki also leads Tsukasa Taiko, a program of Asian Improv aRts Midwest (AIRMW); and is program curator at AIRMW.