If a picture paints a thousand words then the next BookMachine event could be a very long night!

To celebrate the launch of Snapshots, the first publication from BookMachine, speakers will put this age-old phrase to the test and choose an image that, for them, captures the publishing industry as it currently stands, but don’t worry, we’ve limited them to five minutes each.

Snapshots has been created in partnership with the students of Kingston University MA in Publishing. It comes in the form of a Blook compiled of some of the best blogs from the BookMachine archive on digital, discoverability and collaboration.

To keep readily to the snapshot theme, alongside the usual networking, drinking and general frivolity, our polaroid photographer will be sneaking about and capturing the evening’s events as they happen, creating quite literal snapshots of the industry.

Currently we can confirm you’ll hear the dulcet tones of Eric Huang and Charles Catton as they explain their choices of imagery, and more names to be confirmed soon.