Books
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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...
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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...
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Deep Night
david nissenMarch 30th, 2018Deep is the night. It is fascinating in its mystery, the unseen provoking and prodding the imagination. The dark is as seductive as it is sinister, shadowy store fronts and parking lots mirroring the dark corners of the mind. To look into the dark abyss is to look into ourselves. Our minds...
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White Night
feng liFebruary 20th, 2018White Night is the first monograph from Chinese photographer FENG Li (b. 1971), bringing together 160 images from his bold street photography shot between 2005 and 2015. “I don’t know whether they are photographic works, but they do present another side of our reality,” Feng Li writes about...
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The Kingdom
stéphane lavouéFebruary 5th, 2018The United States has long ago thrown off any allegiances to a crown and no longer knows a thing about kingdoms, yet in the early morning of modern day, a waitress passed to French photographer Stéphane Lavoué (b. 1976) a steaming cup of coffee that read: "Welcome to the North East Kingdom of...
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My Maasai
jan hoeksarah waiswaJanuary 23rd, 2018The Maasai people of Kenya are well-known to outsiders, or, at least, their stereotypical image is well-known. You will have seen them before in photographs and films, jumping in the air as part of a traditional dance and surrounded by wildlife, other tribal people and exoticism. This...
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Untouched
guy bourdinJanuary 18th, 2018Guy Bourdin (1928 – 1991, France) entered the world of fashion photography with his first publication in Vogue, February 1955. What followed was a career marked by daring and sexy fashion photographs, geometric and vibrantly coloured, but before that first publication, he worked in black and...
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Nowhere Far
nicholas hughesJanuary 16th, 2018Nowhere Far is the first monograph from English photographer Nicholas Hughes (b. 1963), bringing together fifteen years of his dramatic and often enigmatic seascapes and landscapes. Shot from a distance, and made to emphasize the high contrast between light and shadow, the scenes convey the power...
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Songs of the Walés
patrick willocqJanuary 16th, 2018French photographer Patrick Willocq (b. 1969) spent several years of his childhood in the Democratic Republic of Congo, as he says, “at the age of six when your mind starts opening to the world.” Decades later, he followed the urge to reconnect with his early youth and moved back to the DR Congo...
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Sea I Become by Degrees
natalia balutaJanuary 11th, 2018At this point in time, the ‘Aral Sea’ is something of a misnomer – formerly one of the largest lakes in the world, it has been shrinking, due to man-made diversions and drying out, and transforming to desert. Inspired by this story of ecological disaster, Russian photographer Natalia Baluta...
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I Loved My Wife (Killing Children Is Good for the Economy)
dieter de lathauwerJanuary 9th, 2018In his photobook, ‘I Loved My Wife (Killing Children Is Good for the Economy)’, Belgian photographer Dieter de Lathauwer (b. 1978) relays the horrific story of the T4 Aktion, a genocide program under the Nazi regime that targeted the mentally ill. T4 Aktion began during World War II and was...
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Good Luck with the Future
rita puig serra costadani pujalteJanuary 1st, 2018Good Luck with the Future is a collaborative project between Spanish photographers and romantic partners Rita Puig-Serra Costa and Dani Pujalte, as they go on a journey together to explore uncertainty. Over multiple years, they use movement through space to examine the unpredictability of time,...
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Archiving Eden
dornith dohertyDecember 31st, 2017Around the world and in remote locations are facilities dedicated to the preservation of seeds – the source of life for plants, and by their fruits, ourselves. For Archiving Eden, Dornith Doherty spent nine years documenting the efforts of more than sixteen seed banks worldwide, from the icy...
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Mao's Paradise
stefan hammerDecember 26th, 2017After a twenty-year career in banking, German Stefan Hammer (b. 1955) studied Chinese and travelled to the culturally rich nation, photographing mega cities like Shanghai, Beijing, Suzhou, Tianjin and Hong Kong. Now, in his first photobook, Mao’s Paradise, he presents a dizzying array of...
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The Last Testament
jonas bendiksenDecember 25th, 2017Since the crucifixion of Christ, many have asked, if and when Jesus returns, would we recognise him, or her, the second time around? The Last Testament, a book from Jonas Bendiksen (b. 1977, Norway), is a study of seven contemporary men who each claim to be the Second Coming of Jesus Christ....
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HandBook
gary schneiderDecember 22nd, 2017“I consider these portraits to be as expressive as any of a face,” New York-based photographer Gary Schneider (b. 1954, South Africa) says of his handprint-based photographs. “They’re more private, and possibly more revealing.” He has been making the handprints, in which each subject co-creates...
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Human Nature
lucas fogliaDecember 20th, 2017American photographer Lucas Foglia (b. 1983) continues his work on the interaction between humans and their environment in his newest monograph, Human Nature. Foglia writes by way of introduction that, upon witnessing the reality of climate change, “I realized that if humans are changing the...
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Like
eduardo naveDecember 15th, 2017During our time on Earth, there has been a transition from a state of nature that included mankind as only one of its many component parts, to a world in which people seemed to stand apart, reconstructing nature to their liking. In Like, a book from Spanish photographer Eduardo Nave (b. 1976), we...
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Kokomo
michael marcelleNovember 30th, 2017Kokomo, the first book of American photographer Michael Marcelle (b. 1983), takes an abstract view of humanity and disaster. Following the devastation of Hurricane Sandy in 2012, Marcelle, whose hometown on the coast of New Jersey was hit, began to process feelings of trauma. “While relieved to...
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Collected Works
sanja marusicNovember 24th, 2017In her first photobook Collected Works, Dutch-Croation photographer Sanja Marušić (b.1991) immerses us into surrealistic, otherworldly surroundings, almost as if it were a series of lucid dreams. After graduating in 2013 from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, she brings together a wide...
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