Workshop | Bookbinding Essentials: Create Your Own Photobook

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Bookbinding Essentials: Create Your Own Photobook
with Andrea Sarcos

Oct. 21 | 10:30am–2:30pm

Cost: $150

Paper and bookbinding materials provided

Participants are encouraged to bring: 25–50 printed photographs (4x6 inches) from a single project. Optional archival or found materials, ephemera, or small objects to incorporate during the decorative process.

This hands-on bookbinding workshop invites participants to create a book “dummy” using their own photographs. Students will learn the fundamentals of hand-bound paper books and explore examples of artist books to better understand the wide range of forms and expressive possibilities the photobook can take.

Led by Artist-in-Residence Andrea Sarcos, the workshop includes a guided demonstration of pamphlet stitch binding, an introduction to building page spreads in Adobe InDesign, and a presentation of hand-bound book samples from Andrea’s personal photobook collection. Andrea will share what she learned during her processes creating her own photo book.

Participants will be guided through editing, sequencing, and assembling images into a cohesive book structure, with time for discussion and creative experimentation. They will walk away with a book ‘dummy’ or draft, that they can develop further and self-publish or pitch to a publisher.

Fundamentals of hand-bound paper books

Pamphlet stitch bookbinding techniques

Basics of building spreads in Adobe InDesign

Editing and sequencing images for a photobook

Approaches to the photobook as a tactile, expressive object

Andrea is a freelance photographer, educator and interdisciplinary artist. Since 2018 she has taught photography classes to students K-12 as a Senior Artist in Residence at the Boys and Girls Club of Palm Beach County, the fifth largest Club organization in the United States. Sharing her knowledge of photography, she sparked interest in hundreds of young kids who have learned how to use digital cameras, tell a story visually, create interesting portraits and intentionally explore their communities.

Andrea curates an annual group exhibit of her students' best work of the year to be on display at Florida Atlantic University’s Schmidt Gallery. Other exhibits of her students' work include the Dolly Hand Cultural Arts Center in Belle Glade and the Lighthouse ArtCenter in Tequesta.

She has led educational trips with National Geographic Student Expeditions and Putney Student Travel, focusing on photography while collaborating with experts in other fields like biology and science.

Andrea is based in Boca Raton, Florida. Her work focuses on issues surrounding identity, migration, memory through the lens of visual storytelling. Her photography journey began in high school seeing her images come to life in darkroom chemicals. She received dual bachelors degrees in Journalism and Visual Art Studies from the University of Florida (2015). She became an Artist in Residence at Arts Warehouse in Delray Beach, FL, in March of 2025.

More info andreasarcos.com