Self Publish, Be Happy
Self Publish, Be Happy (SPBH) is an organisation founded by Bruno Ceschel in 2010 that aims to help aspiring photographers to self-publish their own books. It does so through workshops, talks, exhibitions, live events, on/offline projects and publicising of books. It is based on Ridley Road, in Dalston, London, where it keeps a library of some 2000 donated self-published zines and books. Since 2012 Self Publish, Be Happy has also published photography books as SPBH Editions. Ceschel is its director and Antonio de Luca its art director. It has published books by Broomberg  & Chanarin, Cristina de Middel, Mariah Robertson, Lorenzo Vitturi and others. SPBH produces various series of publications—SPBH Book Club, which are sold as part of a yearly subscription as well as sold separately; SPBH Pamphlets, pamphlets with photography and text, including one by Anouk Kruithof; and Self Publish Be Naughty (SPBN), books of intimate pictures of people by their romantic partners. In November 2015 Ceshel's book "Self Publish, Be Happy: A DIY Photobook Manual and Manifesto" was published by Aperture. Reception. Parr and Badger include "Self Publish Be Naughty" (2011) in the third volume of their photobook history. Critic  Sean O'Hagan, writing in "The Guardian", said "An accurate measure of SPBH’s importance to the contemporary cottage industry is the array of photobooks they have featured that I would cite as contemporary classics." Awards. Awards received for Self Publish, Be Happy publications: