Ecology
KAIKO albums are created in harmony with nature. They are guided by the ecological idea of the 3Rs: reduce, reuse, recycle.
KAIKO's sewn album bindings are created from carefully selected materials that in the past have been curtains, tablecloths and even wedding dresses.
This is why each KAIKO hand-stitched album is unique.
Crafts
The first album was made for a film set. It was 2010 and since then I have learned what to do to make my albums last for years.
During my training, I visited many wonderful bookbinding craft workshops all over Poland. I learned the ins and outs of the profession and chose from them what I value most: handmade work.
Tradition
"It is said that home is the place where one cannot enter, but must be let in" (K.O.Knausgård).
Photo albums have always been in my home. Old photographs open up stories as mysterious as they are exotic. The next generation already touches the yellowed pages of parchment and listens to the stories.
KAIKO was created to preserve this tradition. I believe that a photograph that can be touched is a living photograph, and the story it tells creates the present.
Because, after all, we smile, we cry, we freeze motionless just then - in that moment when a photograph brings us back to a memory.
Kamila Szczypior
Ecology
KAIKO albums are created in harmony with nature. They are guided by the ecological idea of the 3Rs: reduce, reuse, recycle.
KAIKO's sewn album bindings are created from carefully selected materials that in the past have been curtains, tablecloths and even wedding dresses.
This is why each KAIKO hand-stitched album is unique.
Crafts
The first album was made for a film set. It was 2010 and since then I have learned what to do to make my albums last for years.
During my training, I visited many wonderful bookbinding craft workshops all over Poland. I learned the ins and outs of the profession and chose from them what I value most: handmade work.
Tradition
"It is said that home is the place where one cannot enter, but must be let in" (K.O.Knausgård).
Photo albums have always been in my home. Old photographs open up stories as mysterious as they are exotic. The next generation already touches the yellowed pages of parchment and listens to the stories.
KAIKO was created to preserve this tradition. I believe that a photograph that can be touched is a living photograph, and the story it tells creates the present.
Because, after all, we smile, we cry, we freeze motionless just then - in that moment when a photograph brings us back to a memory.
Kamila Szczypior