Reflex Editions

Hi Ottawa! We’re heading back for the 2026 @objectprojectartbookfair ! May 8-9 at @cu_cdcc .

Our very own Eric Francisco @efrncsco_ will be in conversation with the enigmatic Scott Wiese of Montreal-based publishing project Final Form for an artist talk discussing Situationist and Surrealist tactics, DIY ethos, and experimental publishing.

See you there!

In 𝑀𝒶𝓉𝑒𝓇𝒾𝒶𝓁 𝑀𝑒𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓎, participants explored the relationship between memory and form by engaging with the entanglements that unsettle the narratives we construct to define ourselves. Guided by 𝔪𝔞𝔤𝔦𝔮𝔲𝔢-𝔠𝔦𝔯𝔠𝔬𝔫𝔰𝔱𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔦𝔢𝔩𝔩𝔢—a surrealist concept that refers to the poetic revelations that emerge through everyday chance encounters—participants delved into this memory-form relationship through free association, collage, and collective bookmaking. The result is a collaborative publication that reimagines fragments of memory and lived experience as a shared visual and poetic dialogue.

Contributions from
Alexandra Busgang @alexandrabusgang Andy Aviles @lobsterclip Brooke Anderson Danielle Gilson Gian Cambridge Rotin Tavadi Samuel Lui @samuel_19027 Subin Song @_su_bin04 Susan Ashdown Thomas Dao @thangdsgn Victoria Matchett

Facilitated by Paz Pereira-Vega @holasoy_paz & Eric Francisco @efrncsco_ Special thanks to @ocadu.designphoto and @ocadugd for giving us the opportunity to share our practices and knowledge 🫶

It’s been a blast sharing and talking about artists’ books and zines in my hometown of Cebu City, Philippines. I am so proud and honoured to have witnessed the superb talent of the local burgeoning art book scene. Really blown away by the quality of the work. The art scene is as vibrant and exciting as when I was a teenager growing up there — experimental, hyperlocal, persistent, DIY and punk as fuck — values that continue to inform my artistic practice. Thank you so much @cebuabf @dongquixote @subhelic and @superdorkboy for the opportunity and for organizing such a lovely event, @owlstoriesandspirits for the tasty drinks, and @stacksection for sharing your zine and artists’ book archive with us. My heart is full 🥺💗✨ With gratitude, Eric

🌙 A heartfelt thank you to all who joined us in body and spirit for the launch of 𝕹𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖜𝖆𝖑𝛋𝖊𝖗 on Sept 7th at Contact Photobook Lab (@contact_pbl ) 🖤🩶🤍 Making this book real was a true labour of love and of many hands — not only those of the artists Eric Francisco (@efrncsco_ ) & Darian Razdar (@raz.daram ) but also those of Andrew Huot at Big River Bindery (@bigriverbindery ) & Quentin Mitchell (@videpress ). The artists’ book launch also could not have been possible if not for Brian St Denis at Contact PBL and Paz Pereira of Reflex Editions (who documented the whole event) 🎑 Copies of the limited edition of 50 copies are now available online at with shipping worldwide 🦇 . . . . . #bookarts #photobook #riso #artistsbook #surrealisme #bwphoto #ricohgr3 #photopoetry #artistscollaboration #reflex #limitededitions

🌙 Ready for 𝕹𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖜𝖆𝖑𝛋𝖊𝖗 ? 🌙 We’ve been busy producing the new artists’ book at the studio of @reflex.editions and are excited to invite you into its labyrinth of shadows, shapes, and shimmers. The launch will be held this Sunday 07 Sept at @contact_pbl (80 Spadina Avenue, Suite 205) & includes a book presentation, discussion, and collective reading facilitated by collaborators Eric Francisco & Darian Razdar. Doors at 4:00PM. Event starts at 4:30PM 🖤 In the meantime, check out our youtube playlist of songs that inspired 𝕹𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖜𝖆𝖑𝛋𝖊𝖗 — link you know where ;) See you there 🦇 . . . #riso #risoblack #artistsbook #photobook #photopoetry #ricohgr #ricohgriii #bw #nightwalker

Less than two weeks until the launch of 𝕹𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖜𝖆𝖑𝛋𝖊𝖗, a new collaboration between Darian Razdar & Eric Francisco 🖤Join us for its launch on Sunday September 7th from 4-6PM at Contact Photobook Lab (@contact_pbl / 80 Spadina Ave, Suite 205) 🌙 In their new artists’ book, the duo synthesizes their artistic practices — photography and poetry — into a hand-crafted artists’ book featuring coil binding, a custom-made slip case, and a randomized sequence in which each of the 50 copies is truly unique. Drawing inspiration from the surrealist landscapes of Brassaï and Louis Aragon, and the Dadaists’ aleatory manœuvres, the artists invite you into a nocturnal labyrinth of hypnagogic landscapes, phantasmagorias, and effervescent textures. Copies of 𝕹𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖜𝖆𝖑𝛋𝖊𝖗 will be available to purchase at its launch & then online and at select stores! See you there 🦇🌃🖤

🌙 Reflex Editions is excited to announce 𝕹𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖜𝖆𝖑𝛋𝖊𝖗, a collaboration between photographer Eric Francisco & poet Darian Razdar 🌌 Join us for its launch on Sunday September 7th from 4-6PM at Contact Photobook Lab (80 Spadina Ave, Suite 205) 🦇 Composed of ambiently-lit nocturnal photographs and poetic verse wandering on the hot pavement of a summer night, 𝕹𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖜𝖆𝖑𝛋𝖊𝖗 invites you into a world of obscure ambulation and dreamlike disorientation. 🌃The hand-crafted artists’ book is risograph printed by Vide Press (@videpress ), foil stamped at Big River Bindery (@bigriverbindery ), bound & assembled by yours truly at Reflex Editions. No two copies are alike, since we arranged pages according to a randomized sequence. Come get your unique edition and celebrate with us on September 7th — see you there 🖤

✨ Launching in Toronto at @zine___dream this weekend and on the east coast at @halifaxartbookfair next week! ✨

Co-published by @reflex.editions and @possibleworldsshop , INVOCATIONS is the culmination, in book form, of Eric Francisco’s artist talk and workshop Psychogeography as Re-Enchantment: Exploring Landscapes through Photography, Poetics, & Publishing, part of Possible Worlds’ Hypercolour Futures Summer School in Ottawa on July 17 and 24, 2025. It was designed and printed during his subsequent micro-residency at Possible Worlds.
 Through experimental image–text activities synthesizing photography, landscapes, and automatic writing, participants drew on Filipino ancestral knowledge—Kapwa (“self in the other”), Pakikiramdam (“knowing through feeling”), and Pakapa-kapa (“feeling your way in the dark”)—as conduits for psychogeography, re-enchanting our relationship with the land and more-than-human kin.
 Participants then employed “automatic editing”, a subconscious, intuitive sequencing method where a blind pick-a-number game determined the order of image–text pairs, allowing chance and feeling to guide the book’s narrative.
 What emerged from this gathering is a collection of poetic dialogues between landscape photography and text, creating dreamlike juxtapositions that transform, disorient, and deepen our aesthetic and emotional engagement with place.
 Drop by our respective tables at Zine Dream and Halifax Art Book Fair to pick up your copy. Available for order online soon. — Contributions from @cellliiinee @allegra_conty Helen Lam @bethshepherd_artist Neeko Paluzzi @dabeegee @leahamilton29 @hazelmayeckert @egleyes @olijohn @melanie.yugo Art direction & design by Eric Francisco @efrncsco_ Printed at @possibleworldsshop Summer 2025 Published by @reflex.editions & @possibleworldsshop RFLX 016 - - - - - - - - #experimentalpublishing #artistsbooks #photozine #papersarchive #psychogeography #landscapes #contemporaryphotography #avantgarde #surrealism

Scenes from our first session of Hypercolour Futures experimental publishing summer school Session 01: Psychogeography as Reenchantment with @reflex.editions . // Inspired by psychogeography, ancestral knowledge and historical and contempary art movements, artist-publisher @efrncsco_ discussed his practice and led participants through an exploration of how artist’s books can function as re-imagined landscapes. The results of an experimental image-text writing activity formed the contents of a collective publication created in less than one week, designed by Eric during his invited micro-residency at Possible Worlds. Participants learned simple binding techniques and took copies home. // Big thanks to the 11 participants including @cellliiinee @allegra_conty @bethshepherd_artist @dabeegee @leahamilton29 @hazelmayeckert @olijohn @melanie.yugo who generously shared their images and written work and contributed to the publication. // Details of the launch of the publication, Invocations, co-published by Possible Worlds and Reflex Editions, to be announced shortly!

Join us July 17 + 24 for the first session of Hypercolour Futures: Psychogeography as Re-Enchantment: Exploring Landscapes through Photography, Poetics & Publishing with Eric Francisco of @reflex.editions (Toronto). Participants will explore one’s relationship with place through facilitated activities that incorporate ancestral knowledge, photography, and automatic writing and collaborative book sequencing. The session will culminate in a Risograph-printed collective publication that participants will have the opportunity to collate, bind and take home. A few spots left! Sign up through link in bio // #independentpublishing #photography #hypercolourfutures

Plates on Plates on Plates by @tangertine has been out of print for a while, but we’ve produced a small batch for the @objectprojectartbookfair this weekend. A limited number of copies will be available on our website after the fair—stay tuned for that. If you’re in Ottawa, see you there! ✨🙂‍↔️

RFLX014 Souvenir – Issue No. 3 By @efrncsco_ We will be debuting this new work by @efrncsco_ tomorrow at BOUND Book Arts Fair 🤭 Souvenir is an ongoing travel photozine by artist Eric Francisco. It is a psychogeographical document and a tangible memento of the landscapes, textures, and visual poetry of the places he visits. Issue No. 3 features images taken over a couple of days spent wandering the dunes of Sandbanks Provincial Park in August 2024. Each zine/multiple comes with 4 postcards and an infocard, housed in an envelope for easy safekeeping and/or gift giving. Zine: 4.75x7” Postcards: 4x6” Envelope: 5.25x7.25” Edition of 50, hand-numbered Printed by @videpress and @omazziiprinting - - - - - - - - #reflexeditions #photozine #artistsbooks #multiples #pyschogeography #wandering #experimentalpublishing