Ramon Pez // “Most of the time when we are doing a book, we are creating a mirror….A space where the reader and author can reflect on what happened and what is happening….In the best cases, you give enough space to a reader for infinite interpretations of the story.”

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Welcome to @thesearcherpodcast, conversations with storytellers, creatives, healers, and others in search of what it all means. On this episode of the show, I speak with Ramon Pez, an award-winning art director of magazine, book-making, and exhibition design as well as illustration. Currently the head of art direction at Thames & Hudson, his design springs from a content-driven and detail-oriented approach based on the idea that design is the architecture of storytelling, and that every project’s design must express the content as powerfully as possible. Ramon and I collaborated on the design for my first two books, Libyan Sugar and Yo Soy Fidel. His other book projects include Santa Barbara, On Abortion, Ponte City and Afronauts.

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We centered our discussion on the photographic monograph, why photographers make books and the thinking behind the process of making books such as Kivu, a series of in-progress Congo books, and other books including RFK Funeral Train (Paul Fusco), Liberia Retold Bit by Bit (Tim Hetherington), Open See (Jim Goldberg), On Abortion (Laia Abril) and Afronauts (Cristina de Middel).

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Follow Ramon Pez:

Instagram: @ramon.pez

Web: http://www.ramonpezstudio.com/

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