The Loose Joints and Mahler & LeWitt Studios Publishing Award is a yearly opportunity to develop an artist’s practice through a residency and book award, focused on a curated theme. With a new theme chosen yearly, this award arises from the initiatives of publisher Loose Joints and residency program Mahler & LeWitt Studios in Spoleto, Italy toward supporting and championing visual narratives relevant to our contemporary moment.
In 2023 we are pleased to partner with innovative magazine Atmos for Publishing Ecology: an award inviting artists engaging with the anthropocene, climate change and the environment. The award is open from 01 March – 30 April 2023.
The opportunity includes a month in residence at the Mahler & LeWitt Studios in Spoleto, Italy from Sep–Oct 2023, where the winner will be able to develop work for a book which will be edited, designed and published by Loose Joints in Summer 2024, with launch events in London and Marseille.
Please head to the Publishing Ecology 2023 page above for further application information. Or feel free to contact us: award@loosejoints.biz.
Support our work! To help keep our award completely free and open-to-all, you can support us through three A1 silkscreen fundraising editions by Luis Alberto Rodriguez, available through Loose Joints.
Loose Joints is an award-winning independent publishing house based in Marseille and founded in London by Sarah Piegay Espenon and Lewis Chaplin in 2014. Loose Joints collaborates with leading and emerging artists on contemporary approaches to photography in book form, circulating new visual perspectives through a dedicated list seeking to elevate underrepresented voices in photographic discourse. Loose Joints also operates a graphic design studio, and also runs Ensemble: a bookshop and gallery space dedicated to contemporary photography in Marseille, France.
Mahler & LeWitt Studios Our residencies and special projects are established around the former studios of stone sculptor Anna Mahler (1904-1988) and conceptual artist Sol LeWitt (1928-2007) in Spoleto, Umbria IT. The residencies provide a focused and stimulating environment for artists, curators and writers to develop new ways of working in dialogue with peers and the unique cultural heritage of the region. Each residency is facilitated in response to an individual’s needs and interests, with each resident provided with accommodation and 24-hour access to a studio.