offprint

Starting May 20, the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern will host the second edition of Offprint London.

Each November, as hundreds of photographers and artists converge on the French capital for Paris Photo, photobook enthusiasts gather to celebrate the year’s best productions at events like the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards, which has eestablished itself as the leading photography book award, and Offprint, a popular independent publishing fair.

With it come a slew of satellite events, including the independent publishing fair Offprint Paris, a Martin Scorsese exhibition at La Cinémathèque Française and the photographer Alex Prager’s first solo show in France at the Galerie Des Galeries.

Away from the Grand Palais, art and photography publishing fair Offprint returns this year, as does Le PhotobookFest 2015, featuring a pop-up bookshop and book-making events, and book fair on a boat, Polycopies, featuring 36 independent publishers.

Receiving an offprint a few years later, Escher wrote to Lionel expressing his admiration for the “continuous flights of steps” in the paper, and enclosing a print of Ascending and Descending.