Gemma Janes

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Tali Lennox, Elephant Magazine, 2026

Okiki Akinfe, Frieze Magazine, 2026

Mathilde Albouy, Castello Rocca Sinibalda, 2026

Jan Melka, Castello Rocca Sinibalda, 2026

Elsa Rouy, Castello Rocca Sinibalda, 2026

Tali Lennox, Elephant Magazine, 2026

Kyoto Night, Japan, 2024

Anousha Payne, 2024

Read to me exhibition, NY, 2024

spit my girl, Collage on paper, 2023

Port Isaac, Diary

Brother, Diary

Grace Atkinson, Cou Cou Intimates, 2025

Luxor, 2021

Anitra Lourie, Cou Cou Intimates, 2024

Tali Lennox, Office Magazine, 2023

Pontus Lindgren, Sotheran's Rare Books, 2024

Lilian Sumner, Vespertine

Shaden Safieddine Tazi, Calipo, Portugal, 2025

Lilian Sumner, Vespertine

Mango Swell, River Nile, Diary

Anousha Payne, 2024

Boy in Luxor, Diary

Lea Petges, Chantelle Paris

Self portrait, SALIE66

Manon Casini, Diary, 2024

Interview for Apartamento Magazine

Interview for Apartamento Magazine

Elena Palumbo Mosca's home, Diary

Tali Lennox, Office Magazine

Collage, Calvin Klein

Ruben, Nicaragua, 2019

Rosa, Chantelle

bows, mixed media collage, 2025

bird, mixed media collage, 2025

maps, mixed media collage, 2025

Anitra Lourie, hand printed photographs and collage, Chantelle

Eline Hoyois, hand printed photographs and collage, Chantelle

Collage, Photographs by Quentin de Briey, Calvin Klein

Lea Petges, Venice

Mother

Quentin de Briey, Diary

Jan Melka, Portraits

Manon Casini, Diary

Jessica Luostarinen, Elephant Magazine

Eline Hoyois, Chantelle

C and Me, DIARY

Anitra Lourie, Chantelle

Betty, 2023

Dorothea Sing Zhang, London, 2024

Grace Atkinson, Cou Cou Intimates, 2025

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Jan Melka, Paris

Gemma Janes (b.1995) works as a writer, photographer, and curator. She founded the publishing project Sendb00ks in 2018, which commissions artists to create works in response to books.

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS, PROJECTS, AND EXHIBITIONS

2026

Offprint London, hosted by LUMA Arles, 180 Studios, London

Reference Library, Jil Sander x Apartamento, Milan Design Week, Milan, Italy

Sendb00ks and Surrealism at Georgina Pounds Gallery in Mexico City, Elephant Magazine

The Debutant and Other Stories by Leonora Carrington with Tali Lennox, Silver Press & Sendb00ks, Gallery Georgina, Mexico City

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin with Jessica Luosternin, Sendb00ks, Gallery Georgina, Mexico City

SAND by Fernanda Ballesteros, Soho House, Sendb00ks, Mexico City

2025

Soft World, Sharp Edges Curated by Charlotte Taylor, Brompton Design District, London

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley with Madison Willing, Le Monde Beryl & Sendb00ks, Paris

I Promise you this: I will always look out for you. Estelle Hoy and Rosalind Nashashibi, Sendb00ks & Camden Arts Centre, London

I love you so I give books to you, Vie Projects, Paris

Raw Silk and Uncut Wood, The Plant Magazine, Paris

Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Adichie with Okiki Akinfe, Ginny on Frederick, Sendb00ks, London

Women without Men by Sharnush Parsipur with Anousha Payne, Sendb00ks, Paris

Hour of the Star byClarice Lispectorwith Grace Atkinson, Sendb00ks, Paris

Voices of the Resistance by Batool Abu Akleen, Sondos Sabra, Nahil Mohana, and Ala’a Obaid with Batool Abu Akleen, Sendb00ks, London

2024

Chimera, Around Alina Szapocznikow, curated by Karolina Wisniewska, Fondation Alina Szapocznikow, Warsaw, Poland

Stages by Rachel Kaudernale Buff and Rachel Smith, Sendb00ks, McNally Jackson, New York, USA

What is Beauty? Sendb00ks school with Dr Anitra Lourie, London

2023

Read to Me, participatory film with Dani Aphrodite, New York

La Que Sabe, Sainte Anne Galerie, Paris

Works & Days by Bernadette Mayer with Gal Schindler, Sendb00ks, London

Interview with Elena Palumbo Mosca, Apartamento Magazine,

2022

The Lover by Marguerite Duras with Marie Hazard, Left Bank Books, New York

The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington with Augusta Lardy, Sendb00ks, London

2021

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf with Michella Bredahl, Sendb00ks, Paris

Arigatou Goza y Mas by Fernanda Ballesteros, Sendb00ks, Paris

Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel Garcia Marquez with Zora Sicher, Sendb00ks, Mexico

The Beauty of Everyday Things by Soetsu Yanagi with Berta Blanca Ivanow, Sendb00ks, Paris

Interview with Nathalie de Saint Phalle, Apartamento Magazine issue #28

2020

Sendb00ks A Shelf, Yvon Lambert, Paris

A Recipe, Video with Lexie Smith and Yasmine Diba, Sendb00ks, New York

Sula by Toni Morrison with Inés di Folco, Sendb00ks, Paris

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers with Juliette Abitbol, Sendb00ks, Paris

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman with Jan Melka, co-published with Mörel, London

Kew Gardens & The Mark on the Wall by Virginia Woolf with Bella Newman, co-published with Mörel, London

Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lorde with Jade Montserrat, Silver Press & Sendb00ks, Paris

My Mother Laughs by Chantal Akermann with Camille Summers-Vali, Silver Press & Sendb00ks, Paris

Strangeland by Tracey Emin with Zelinda Zanichelli, Sendb00ks, Paris

2019

We Send B00ks, A Manifesto by Charles Flamand, translated by Fernanda Ballesteros, Sendb00ks, Paris

The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson with Ana Segovia, Sendb00ks, Mexico City

Les Enfants Terribles by Jean Cocteau with Jack van Jiap and Joanna and Sarah Halpin, Sendb00ks, London

Collected Poetry by D H Lawrence with Joshua Perkins, Sendb00ks, Barcelona

Ways of Seeing by John Berger with Ted Barrow, Sendb00ks, Paris

Sendb00ks is the Instagram account sending vintage books around the world, Dazed Digital

2018

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin with Antoine Henault, Sendb00ks, Paris

Deception by Roald Dahl with Tristan Piggott, Sendb00ks, London