On Tuesday evening, Aperture booked an evening in the gallery for an art/book production performance. Artist Charlie Engman set up studio and created a new zine by remixing COMPILATION TOKYO, a recent Self Publish, Be Happy/Goliga Books publication of work by young Japanese photographers. He cut apart, re-photograph, and digitally modified photographs—as well as shooting still-lifes of an assortment of objects including fake peaches and yellow nail polish. Sounds by a DJ created a tropical beachside mood and by closing time, the new work was printed out, photocopied and bound into a limited-edition artist publication, for sale at Aperture.

Coming up this weekend is The Self-Publish Photobook Workshop, a two-day event that also takes place at Aperture. Bruno Ceschel, founder of Self Publish, Be Happy, will give participants the necessary tools and insight to become editor-in-chief of their own publication. The workshop will end with the presentation of the newly designed photography books. Information.

Bruno Cheschei, SPBH (third from left) and Ivan Vartanian, Goliga (fourth from left) at Compilation Tokyo: Remix on Tuesday.

The event also launched The Photobook Review Issue 004, guest edited by Charlotte Cotton which featured, among other things, a conversation between photographer and publisher Jason Fulford, founder of J&L Books, and designer and publisher David Reinfurt, co-founder of Dexter Sinister. Reading the piece is like dropping in on an armchair conversation between friends about how books are perceived differently when consumed in different platforms. Information.

Above: Charlie Engman and his team at Compilation Tokyo: Remix. Below: Items for art production. All photos: Peggy Roalf.

Tonight, the third edition of the SPBH Book Club by photographer Cristina de Middel will be launched at Dashwood Books, 6-8 pm. De Middel gained international acclaim last year wither her self published book The Afronauts. She has been nominated for the 2013 Deutsche Borse Photography Prize and recently won the ICP Infinity Award. Dashwood Books, 33 Bond Street, NY, NY. Information.

On view in the Aperture Gallery is Martin Parr’s Life’s a Beach, just released in a beautiful edition featuring a hand lettered title printed in gold foil over a tropical flower background. Mmmmm. The exhibition opening is Wednesday, May 15, 7-9 pm. Information. Aperture Gallery and Bookstore, 547 West 27^th Street, 4^th Floor, NY, NY.