Books
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Dark Cities
shyue woonOctober 17th, 2018A black paper box, a small printed index of its contents and a partially readable title, Dark Cities. This is the name of Shyue Woon (b. 1975, Singapore) latest project, a collection of three books...
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Palimpsest
philippe braquenierOctober 12th, 2018In a world where digital information is constantly shared without ever being seen in its material form, it’s unusual to think of data as something tangible. Knowledge, however, relies on physical...
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I Went Looking for a Ship
natascha libbertOctober 10th, 2018I Went Looking For A Ship is the romantic journey of Natascha Libbert (b 1973, The Netherlands) in the port of Amsterdam at IJmuiden. It all started with an assignment commissioned in 2015 by the Province of North Holland and the North Holland Archive, to document the construction of the fourth...
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Dandaka
vasantha yogananthanOctober 5th, 2018Vasantha Yogananthan’s (b. 1985, India) A Myth of Two Souls was inspired by the Ramayana, an ancient Hindu poem about the struggles and successes of prince Rama as he tries to save his beloved Sita from the demon king Ravana. Yogananthan is retracing the legendary route across the subcontinent...
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Hong Kong
pascal grecoSeptember 21st, 2018Seen from afar, all of Hong Kong's residential buildings look deceivingly similar, clusters of metal and concrete blocks recognisable only by their colour palettes. Inspected singularly, however, a wide array of typologies appears: the slab, the H-Block, the cruciform, the trident and so on. The...
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Mother River
yan wang prestonAugust 28th, 2018Mother River is a photographic journey by British-Chinese photographer Yan Wang Preston (b. 1976), for which she took her large-format film camera to document the Yangtze river during four years. From its source to the sea, Preston takes us across all 6,211km of China’s ‘Mother River’, crossing...
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2099
sybren vanoverbergheAugust 22nd, 2018It becomes clear early on that the book 2099 by Sybren Vanoverberghe (b. 1996, Belgium) doesn’t tell just one story. Even though it presents a combination of natural and cultural scenes, this is not documentary photography by any means. Some images he just came across, while others were carefully...
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A Glass Darkly
kevin learAugust 10th, 2018Kevin Lear has been an urban dweller for many years, pointing his camera at man-made structures he comes across in the streets of London and Kent. Rather than simply document his surroundings, he aims to look beyond the everyday, to somehow immortalise what is temporary. In a world that he finds...
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Rayon Vert
senta simondAugust 1st, 2018Swiss photographer Senta Simond (b.1989) arranged sessions between herself and her subjects – young female friends she has been closely acquainted with for a decade or so. In these somewhat outlandish photographs, a mix of colour and duotone, the young women come across as empowered, dreamy yet...
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Even Firemen
caspar claasenJuly 27th, 2018“Papa, does everyone die?”“Yes, sweetheart. Everyone.”“Even firemen?”In the fall of 2013, Dutch photographer Caspar Claasen started suffering from anxiety and depression. Most of his fears were for the well-being of his four-year-old daughter Lora. She was the reason for his worries, but also...
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Anastasiia: She folds her memories like a parachute
christian van der kooyJuly 16th, 2018Christian van der Kooy (b. 1983, The Netherlands) mixes photographs, Skype screenshots, and text in Anastasiia to present a wholly original attempt at narrative sense-making. Told from the point of view of a student from Kiev – the Anastasiia of the title – it is a love letter to her foreign...
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The Pigeon Photographer
julius g. neubronnerJuly 4th, 2018Nowadays, drones make aerial photography look easy, but it hadn’t been possible without a few key inventions throughout the history of the medium. In 1907, German pharmacist’s son Julius G. Neubronner patented a camera that could be attached to a pigeon. Its journey was tracked by pictures taken...
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Humanise Something Free of Error
sarah piegay espenonJune 27th, 2018Humanise Something Free of Error is a collection of mysterious images about human attempts to change weather conditions to their advantage.Human beings have always tried to profit from Earth. This has undoubtedly brought us great benefits, but the question that echoes in the pages of Sara Piegay...
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Too tired for sunshine
tara wrayJune 15th, 2018There could be no better title for Tara Wray's work (b.1978, United States) than Too Tired for Sunshine. In a demoralised postmodern society, phenomena such as “the sunset” have become blatant, banal and romantic. We don’t find them exciting anymore, and often we can’t find the time or energy to...
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The Gamblers
martin amisJune 4th, 2018There is something quintessentially English about the crowds of bettors Martin Amis (b. 1973) shows us from the race tracks of southern England. The older men wear tweed jackets and caps, or fedoras and thick glasses, binoculars hanging around their necks. The younger ones shout, smoke and spill...
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Promise Me a Land
clement chapillonMay 25th, 2018In his book Promise Me a Land, Clément Chapillon (b. 1982) approaches the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the study of the disputed land itself. Images of pastel-coloured landscapes and the people that claim them as their own, in combination with floating, unattributed quotes spread...
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Stilled
edward dimsdaleMay 9th, 2018Edward Dimsdale’s (b. 1965) Stilled is a wonderfully mysterious newspaper: printed in the classic broadsheet format, there is no text or explanation, or even the artist’s name to be found in the paper itself, only twenty-four elegant full-bleed images. The effect is very subtle, and that effect...
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In Most Tides an Island
nicholas muellnerMay 2nd, 2018Nicholas Muellner’s (b. 1969, United States) In Most Tides an Island is special photobook in that the texts are absolutely lovely and integral. Here, photographs and words work together to offer a deeply personal look at post-Soviet queer life. These lives are often lived clandestinely for fear...
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A Place Both Wonderful and Strange
April 20th, 2018“To me a mystery is like a magnet. Whenever there is something that's unknown, it has a pull to it. For instance, if you were in a room and there was a doorway open and stairs going down and the light just fell away, you didn't even see the bottom, where the stairs ended, you'd be very much...
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The Disappearance of Joseph Plummer
amani willettApril 2nd, 2018“Joseph Plummer is remembered because he wished to be alone,” reads a text that opens Amani Willett’s new book, The Disappearance of Joseph Plummer. Based on the true story of a mysterious hermit who retreated from his town of 100 people to live in seclusion in the woods of New Hampshire in the...
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