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This program is a sustained, private 1-on-1 project incubator led directly by Ephemere founder, curator, and publisher, Anne Murayama. Designed for photographers at any stage of the bookmaking journey, this program does not impose a generic syllabus or require a finished dummy on day one. Instead, Anne meets your body of work exactly where it stands—whether you are untangling a raw, sprawling archive, refining a complex visual narrative, or translating loose photographs into a cohesive book structure. Over your time together, the focus remains on the critical editorial, conceptual, and architectural decisions that give a photobook its voice.
All new participants begin with the 3-Month Incubation ($1,500.00 USD), providing 15 contact hours structured as two 2.5-hour sessions per month across six meetings. Meetings adapt dynamically to your project: devoting early sessions to conceptual distillation and radical culling, shifting into rhythmic sequencing, and progressing into layout drafting, typographic choices, and statement writing. Between video meetings, Anne assigns targeted practical tasks—such as printing proof sheets, cutting working paper mockups, or refining digital spreads—which are reviewed together on screen. For active mentees needing supplemental time, the trajectory optionally expands through a 1-Month Continuation ($500.00 USD / 2 sessions) or a targeted 1-Session Add-On ($275.00 USD / 2.5 hours) for pre-press checks, grant reviews, or urgent publisher deadlines.
To guarantee thorough offline review and deep curatorial investment between calls, enrollment is strictly capped at three active mentees at a time. Sessions are scheduled on Mondays, Wednesdays, or Fridays within daytime (11:00 AM – 4:00 PM JST) or evening (8:00 PM – 11:00 PM JST) windows. Admission is granted via application review to ensure your work aligns with Anne’s curatorial focus. While the program emphasizes independent artistic development, exceptional bodies of work that reach full conceptual and production readiness may be invited by Anne for publication consideration under Ephemere's collaborative 50/50 co-publishing imprint.
This program is a sustained, private 1-on-1 project incubator led directly by Ephemere founder, curator, and publisher, Anne Murayama. Designed for photographers at any stage of the bookmaking journey, this program does not impose a generic syllabus or require a finished dummy on day one. Instead, Anne meets your body of work exactly where it stands—whether you are untangling a raw, sprawling archive, refining a complex visual narrative, or translating loose photographs into a cohesive book structure. Over your time together, the focus remains on the critical editorial, conceptual, and architectural decisions that give a photobook its voice.
All new participants begin with the 3-Month Incubation ($1,500.00 USD), providing 15 contact hours structured as two 2.5-hour sessions per month across six meetings. Meetings adapt dynamically to your project: devoting early sessions to conceptual distillation and radical culling, shifting into rhythmic sequencing, and progressing into layout drafting, typographic choices, and statement writing. Between video meetings, Anne assigns targeted practical tasks—such as printing proof sheets, cutting working paper mockups, or refining digital spreads—which are reviewed together on screen. For active mentees needing supplemental time, the trajectory optionally expands through a 1-Month Continuation ($500.00 USD / 2 sessions) or a targeted 1-Session Add-On ($275.00 USD / 2.5 hours) for pre-press checks, grant reviews, or urgent publisher deadlines.
To guarantee thorough offline review and deep curatorial investment between calls, enrollment is strictly capped at three active mentees at a time. Sessions are scheduled on Mondays, Wednesdays, or Fridays within daytime (11:00 AM – 4:00 PM JST) or evening (8:00 PM – 11:00 PM JST) windows. Admission is granted via application review to ensure your work aligns with Anne’s curatorial focus. While the program emphasizes independent artistic development, exceptional bodies of work that reach full conceptual and production readiness may be invited by Anne for publication consideration under Ephemere's collaborative 50/50 co-publishing imprint.