Dear books, is Amsterdam’s newest art book fair where printed matter, artistic practice, and community come together.

As part of UNFAIR26, this first edition of Dear books, brings together the work of 60 publishers and independent art book makers from around the world, selected through an open call. Here you’ll find artist publications, editions, zines, experiments, printed conversations, unlikely archives, quiet obsessions and ideas that simply insisted on becoming print.

Every book can be a small universe, a conversation between artist and reader. Publishing remains one of the few places where creating happens entirely on your own terms. Books ask us to slow down. To pay attention. They create space outside the algorithm, where every page exists because someone chose it for you.