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…
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Grays The Mountain Sends by Bryan Schutmaat, reviewed by Harry Rose
“You might come here Sunday on a whim. Say your life broke down. The last good kiss you had was years ago. You walk…
Disco Night Sept 11 by Peter Van Agtmael, reviewed by John Darwell
Every once in a while a book comes along that is so powerful, it defies the bland description of ‘photography book’. In a world…
Tsugaru (Poems, Texts, and Photography) by Ichiro Kojima, reviewed by Russet Lederman
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…
Hyenas of the Battlefield, Machines in the Garden by Lisa Barnard, reviewed by Harry Rose
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…
Tree Time By Marcelo Brodsky, reviewed by Rodrigo Orrantia
A photograph of the author staring at a tree triggers a flow of images, a chain of interlaced memories. That time when he was…
Open at Noon by Mark Powell, reviewed by John Darwell
The first thing you notice when looking at this book is the cover, nothing new there you may say, but in this case the…
Dodo by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, reviewed by Colin Graham
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…
Private by Mona Kuhn, reviewed by Rory Duckhouse
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…
Sequester by Awoiska van der Molen, reviewed by Rodrigo Orrantia
This is perhaps one of the most talked about books of the year, and rightly so. Sequester by Awoiska van der Molen has managed…
Where Mimosa Bloom by Rita Puig-Serra Costa, reviewed by Christer Ek
On the cover of the book, an old family photo, almost faded away. The slow disappearance process of an image shows the counting of…
Trent Parke – Minutes to Midnight, reviewed by Harry Rose
“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…
Gocho Shigeo – Familiar Street Scenes, reviewed by Christophe Crison
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 by António Júlio Duarte reviewed by Adriana Correia Oliveira
Japan Drug (Pierre von Kleist Editions), the latest book from photographer António Júlio Durte is a return to pictures taken in 1997 during a…
The Nature of Photography / The Photography of Nature by Joan Fontcuberta, reviewed by Rory Duckhouse
Joan Fontcuberta is a Russian Cosmonaut, the founder of an archive containing many new species and an acclaimed international wildlife photographer. But above all…
Bible by Momo Okabe, reviewed by Betsy Clifton
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…
Personal Matters by Motohiko Hasui, reviewed by Adam Bell
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…
Control Order House by Edmund Clark, reviewed by Max Pinckers
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…
Flash Up by Seiji Kurata, reviewed by Maki
As a collector of Asian photo books I have often been attracted by the interesting publications of Zen Foto Gallery. Their editorial line often…
Ping Pong by Alec Soth, Geoff Dyer & Pico Iyer, reviewed by Rory Duckhouse
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…
Guido Guidi – Preganziol, 1983 reviewed by Wayne Ford
In 1983, and within the confines of small single room of an apartment or house, Italian photographer Guido Guidi undertook what at first glance…
Martin Kollar – Field Trip, reviewed by Klaus Pichler
I have been thinking about which book I should particularly recommend here for some time, but when I got hold of Martin Kollars new…