Book making is an incredible way to make meaningful art objects with your beautiful photographs.

Making artists books isn’t anywhere as hard as you imagine. In fact it is easy and loads of fun.

Once you start you probably won’t ever stop.

In these hands on workshops Len will take you through a few basic book making skills.

These include:

• cutting and folding paper

• simple book binding stitch to sew papers together

• making a simple hard cover

• gluing

• using lightroom or layout software to print your pages

• two simple zines

• one folded hard cover book

We will provide you with the raw materials so you can finish the workshop with some hand made artists books and zines.

During this workshop we will show you how to make a simple book with your own photographic prints (like the ones you used to get at chemist), how to print your own folded paper books, how to make a hard cover.

Willoughby East in person workshop 10th December 2025

If you are attending the workshop at Willoughby East, we just need you to show up with your camera and laptop.

Start at 10 am finish 4 pm

Online workshop 8th February 2026

If you are attending via the internet we will post to you the specialist resources you will need, though you will need a few basic tools.

These include:

• ruler

• scissors or scalpel

• cutting mat.

We will provide you with the paper, the covers, the glue, paint brush & bone folder

Start 9.30 am finish 4 pm Sydney time.

Book making retreat special

If you attend this workshop, and then go on to attend our week long book making retreat / workshop in March 2026 in the Blue Mountains, we will reduce the fee by this workshop amount. Basically, if you do both, then this one day is free. If you would like to come to both, please book your spot in the week long retreat / workshop, and you can attend this one. https://lenmetcalf.com/store/p/photography-art-bookmaking-workshop