
Country Fictions by Juan Aballe, reviewed by Christer Ek
A woman sitting on a sofa, a deserted road, a painting on a wall… and many more. Apart from being in Spain, what do…
A woman sitting on a sofa, a deserted road, a painting on a wall… and many more. Apart from being in Spain, what do…
“You might come here Sunday on a whim. Say your life broke down. The last good kiss you had was years ago. You walk…
Every once in a while a book comes along that is so powerful, it defies the bland description of ‘photography book’. In a world…
A few years ago, a Japanese photobook collector friend asked me if I knew where he could get a copy of Ichiro Kojima’s Tsugaru…
It is no surprise that the evolution of warfare has developed to being fitted behind a screen. As you’re reading this now, you’re looking…
A photograph of the author staring at a tree triggers a flow of images, a chain of interlaced memories. That time when he was…
The first thing you notice when looking at this book is the cover, nothing new there you may say, but in this case the…
Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin have been the stars of conceptual photography for a few years now. Dodo is their latest foray into photography’s…
Lee Friedlander once said: “The desert is a wonderful, awful, seductive, alluring stage on which to be acting out the photography game.” With Private, Mona…
This is perhaps one of the most talked about books of the year, and rightly so. Sequester by Awoiska van der Molen has managed…
On the cover of the book, an old family photo, almost faded away. The slow disappearance process of an image shows the counting of…
“Witnesses reported watching a ball of light move across the sky For up to five minutes at about 5.50 am Saturday. “It was a…
You could say Gocho Shigeo was a shooting star in the cosmos of 1980s Japanese photography. His career was too short and shockingly overlooked. It wasn’t until the 2013 reprint…
Japan Drug (Pierre von Kleist Editions), the latest book from photographer António Júlio Durte is a return to pictures taken in 1997 during a…
Joan Fontcuberta is a Russian Cosmonaut, the founder of an archive containing many new species and an acclaimed international wildlife photographer. But above all…
If God is dead, he’s surely rolling in his grave. Momo Okabe’s Bible, in both stature and spirit will not fit into your bedside table, although…
Photography has always been an intensely private and social medium. As a holder of secrets and proclaimer of existence, it’s no surprise that voyeuristic…
I was introduced to Edmund Clark’s work at the Bal Books Weekend at Le Bal in Paris where we were both invited to give…
As a collector of Asian photo books I have often been attracted by the interesting publications of Zen Foto Gallery. Their editorial line often…
In this collaborative ode to the game of ping-pong, a curated selection of vernacular images from the Little Brown Mushroom Library play across the…
In 1983, and within the confines of small single room of an apartment or house, Italian photographer Guido Guidi undertook what at first glance…
I have been thinking about which book I should particularly recommend here for some time, but when I got hold of Martin Kollars new…