one evening out in Seoul

Film directors Oh Sueng Wook and Park Chan Wook in discussion with Film Festival organiser in Seoul's Cinematheque after screening of "Night and the City" of Jules Dassin.

having a porc BBQ in Insadong after the cinema.

new artist book by anticham

new book by antic ham
with different interiors of envelopes
and stamps of the Queen of England.

145x150

69 copies

new mail art call / post-it & mail-it

FRANTICHAM MAIL ART CALL 2009

make collages with found post-it notes,
shopping lists, messages etc...

deadline: july 31, 2009

send to Francis Fan Mail
Dugort, Achill Island
County Mayo
Ireland

3 new books

3 new books

old photographs from Jean Delvaux' collection
laser printed in 75 copies

Visual poetry from J.M. Calleja from Spain
in the collection "c'est mon dada" nr 26

mini 1969 12x15 cm
laser printed facsimile
of 42x47 silk screen printed "1969" book

small trip to Kyeongjoo from Seoul

We made a small trip to Kyeongjoo the ancient capital of the Silla dynasty

more than 1000 years ago.

Beautiful winter days.

Workshop in Seoul

While visiting Antic-Ham in Seoul, Francis attended 3 sessions of her collage worshop she gave at the Sujak Studio.

A new book from Franticham in the making

An inspirational trip to Tokyo in September
resulted in a Japanese style hand printed book.
Graphical impressions gathered in Tokyo
have been printed in silkscreen using red and black ink
in 69 copies on traditional korean paper.
"TOKYO UMBRELLA" will be finished in January.

Stamps from Mike Dickau

A surprise in the mail from today.
Mike Dickau from Sacramento, California sent us a stampsheet
from a picturetaken from this blog showing us with
Keiichi Nakamura and Gianni Simone
taken last september in our hotel room in Tokyo.
Thank you Mike!!

08 small publishers' fair in London

Straight after Frankfurt we went to London where we exhibited for the 4th time
at the small publishers' fair in Holborn.
We spent 2 more days in London to see
the Andy Warhol exhibition at the Hayward gallery
and the 'UBS openings' at Tate modern.

Andy Warhol 'other voices, other rooms'

2008 frankfurt book fair

For the first time we had a stand at the book fair in Frankfurt

in the hall where are all artists books and fine press publishers.
5 exhausting days but which were very successful!!
We were staying Karl-Heinz and Brigitte's house in Wiesbaden.