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Photobooks of 2020 has a new home at the main Photobookstore.co.uk website. Check out this year’s feature here

I wasn’t anywhere close to Japan when Daido Moriyama’s first book, “A Photo Theater,” dropped in 1968, but I like to think its effect…

In my last piece for Photobookstore Magazine I wrote about Jeff Mermelstein’s “Hardened,” his grand exploration of all things shot out on the street….

No question, Masahisa Fukase was one crazy cat. His photobooks range from the slight (photos of sidewalk cracks, yep, just sidewalk cracks … except,…

It came to my attention the other day that one of my favourite people is turning five this year, Stanley Barker. Cue wry smile…

Few things are as interesting when it comes to artists than watching them discover their true work, what they’re supposed to do, who they’re…

When you think about it, it’s surprising there aren’t more photobooks that simply set out to tell an actual story, with photos ordered to…

In Part 1 of this piece on Laura El-Tantawy’s work, I quoted her as saying, “Trying not to repeat myself, every project deserves its…

Laura El-Tantawy’s most recent work, “A Star in the Sea,” the latest in her string of highly artful self-published book productions, raises for me…

How ambitious can a photobook be? In a handout to accompany the publication of Jason Eskenazi’s two new books, “Black Garden” and “Departure Lounge”—the…

Well the dust has settled on the fifth annual Offprint London, so I thought I would take a few minutes to share my thoughts….

So in Part Two of my Japan journal we left off with it being Sunday and my not knowing what to do. Well, I…

When I travel, I like to hit extremes, so here I am going from Kinosaki Onsen, a sedate town near the western coast in…

I’m taking a short break from reviewing photobooks for the magazine here, off to Japan, traveling with my wife, with three main purposes: to…

With much of my time spent working on my own photobook, The Gamblers, I chose to pause my regular photobook recommendation feature, The List….

The List #5 by Martin Amis   The fifth installment in the regular feature, The List, highlights my personal recommendations from the many arrivals…

The List #4 by Martin Amis   The fourth installment in the regular feature, The List highlights my personal recommendations from the many arrivals…

The List #3 by Martin Amis   The third installment in the new regular feature, The List, highlights my personal recommendations from the recent…

The List #2   The second installment in the new regular feature, The List, highlights my personal recommendations from the recent arrivals to the…

The List #1 I am often asked for recommendations from recent photobook releases.  Every few months, ‘The List’ will feature my personal selections from…

Sugar Paper Theories by Jack Latham Recipient of the Bar Tur Photobook Award, Sugar Paper Theories is Jack Latham’s hugely impressive multi-layered project on…

  “I am 20 year old guy, but only a 7 month old girl” – Gil Yefman 2002 Let It Bleed is Israeli photographer…

Through the major museum exhibitions, professional photo journals, art fairs/contests, web site reviews, social network site prevalence and photo-book publishing by both independent publishers…

Early Times by Vasantha Yogananthan Early Times is the first chapter of Vasantha Yogananthan’s ambitious long-term project A Myth of Two Souls which will…

The afterlife of Masahisa Fukase continues apace. In the last year I’ve picked up Slaughter (staged shots of his first wife, Yoko, posing in…

  Silent Histories by Kazuma Obara This is a brilliantly faithful recreation of the 2014 handmade book, of which only 45 copies were made. …

Over the course of the year, a great deal of books pass through my hands.  2013 has without doubt felt like a great year…