THE PHOTOBOOK PROJECT at LULU.COM

Unit guide, level 3 unit Brief-Led Project, BA (Hons) Digital Photography, London South Bank University. With the increasing availability of free social software and print on demand platforms, we witness a boom in self-publishing initiatives, with authors controlling the means of production and distribution of their work in an unprecedented scale. But how much do we know about the implications of these techno-cultural changes to the field of digital pedagogies and for the learning practices of photo publishing in socially networked environments at level 3, when you are preparing your photographic portfolios to enter professional practice? With these questions in mind, this fall 2007/08 unit takes place within the self-publishing environment provided by lulu.com, and considers if this online print on demand network can be used for educational photo publishing projects, whilst researching its advantages and limitations in relation to other publishing models.