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Self-publishing: a booming phenomenon!
Self-publishing by the photographers themselves is on a sharp rise. Large publishing houses are struggling to play their role as talent scouts. Many emerging photographers have to look for other solutions: the internet and blogs, and to the delight of art lovers, self-published photobooks.
Self-published photobooks: list of photographers
Find in this section self-published photo books by photographers from all over the world …
Some photographers come from France, ...
Christophe Le Toquin, Tiane Doan na Champassak, Ruben Brulat, Coralie Fournier-Moris, Bruno Quinquet, Christophe Agou, John Thackwray, ou Chloé Chenevier, etc.
other photographers are Europeans ...
Vincent Delbrouck, Piergiorgio Casotti, Eamonn Doyle, Laura El-Tantawy, Max Pinckers, Matej Sitar, Nico Baumgarten, or Paul Gaffney, Lina Hashim, etc.
Some photographers are from Japan, ...
Yoshida Akihito, Yoshikatsu Fujii, Nozomi Iijima, Munemasa Takahashi, etc.
other artists come from all over the world ...
Alejandro Cartagena, Carolyn Drake, Julia Borissova, Kursad Bayhan, Yusuf Sevincli, etc.
And many other photographers to discover by flipping through the following photo books:
Presentation by the artist: "This book is PART 3 of The Himalayan Project, a collection of artist's books designed with Philippe Koeune as different installations, embracing the city of Kathmandu where I lived with my small family and the nature of the Himalayas with a strong and dreamy empathy. DZOGCHEN is a colorful, dense and challenging photo book,...
50,00 €Out of stockBefore the War - Limited Edition
Limited Edition of 10 signed & numbered copies. We are offering copy #03/10. Presentation on Alejandro Cartagena's website: "In 2008 the war against the drug cartels erupted in Mexico. The state of Nuevo Leon in northeastern Mexico became an increasingly violent place. This book is a compilation of images and texts that obsessively revisit places...
325,00 €In StockBefore the War - 1st ed. (*signed*)
.Sold out.Presentation on the artist's website: "In 2008 the war against the drug cartels erupted in Mexico. The state of Nuevo Leon in northeastern Mexico became an increasingly violent place. This book is a compilation of images and texts that obsessively revisit places where the war was eventually fought and look for signs of an evil that lay...
No Photos (*signed / imperfect*)
Presentation on Tiane Doan na Champassak's website : "All photographs were taken in the red-light district of Amsterdam. The title No Photos has different meanings. First, the forbidden act to photograph the sex workers in their environment. Secondly, the images are printed on very old photographic papers which are fading away even further in the book...
15,00 €In StockPresentation on the artist's website : "On January 25, 2011, hundreds of thousands of Egyptians took to the streets across the country demanding the fall of Mohamed Hosni Mubarak, who had ruled the country for nearly 30 years. This was only the beginning. More than four years on, الشعب (The People) chronicles how citizens in the Arab world’s largest...
28,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.Presentation on the artist's website: "Bunga Bunga, an expression frequently quoted by the italian and international press during the 2011 investigation surrounding S Berlusconi's underage prostitution charges."The artist uses portraits of young women presumably involved in this scandal, and cuts the photographs to create a satirical book in the...
Presentation on the project's website : "Atlantus is a transoceanic photography project between Marlin Toft and Gareth Syvret at « Archisle: the Jersey Contemporary Photography Programme », hosted by the « Societe Jersiaise Photographic Archive » on the Island of Jersey. Prompted in part by the 350th anniversary in 2014 of Sir George Carteret naming of...
15,00 €In Stock.Sold out.After the much celebrated "i" published in 2014, the new portraiture project by Eamonn Doyle, in the exact same streets as the previous project, but this time with opposite commitments : black & white images, low-angle shots, faces visible.A beautiful series, and a really well produced book : a large format that opens flat, making for...
How the other half lives (*signed*)
Presentation by the artist: "How the other half lives is a photobook about freedom, segregation, discrimination, anarchy, loneliness and other aspects of a stray cat's daily life. Through interviews different stray cats share their street wisdom and explain their view on contemporary society."We are offering signed and numbered copies (first 100...
29,00 €In StockPresentation by the artist: "It is the train you take everyday without noticing what is around it.A series that questions the Human intervention on Nature. Va Vois Rails Heures is Nature after going through the hands of Man and in front of the phtographer's lens. This artwork is both an object and a photographic project."NB : The French title literally...
29,00 €In StockIncipient Strangers (*signed*)
.Sold out!.Artist statement : "Siblings can be incipient strangers. Even siblings sharing the same blood can become distant and turn into strangers to each other as they each grow and forge their own path in life. Sometimes, we fail to hit it off with friends and eventually lose touch. But with family, no matter how brittle the relationship, it cannot be...
The Hidden Blood (*signed & numbered*)
.Sold out. To present Nozomi Iijima's project and this book in particular (published in collaboration with "Reminders Photography Stronghold"), there's no use in trying to do better than Christer Ek on his blog "who needs another photo blog".A really beautiful book, hand-made by the artist upon request (it was on a limited period of time, but our copies...
éléments d'une typologie de l'urbanisation...
Full title : "éléments d'une typologie de l'urbanisation contemporaine d'un village français de deux mille huit cent trente neuf habitants - volume 6"The artist photographed the small city where he lives, Noyers-sur-Cher, and publishes in a series of 10 booklets this documentary work about a place that could be considered a fair example of the average...
15,00 €In StockIn the Shadow of the Pyramids (*signed*)
.Sold out. Presentation by the artist: "In the Shadow of the Pyramids by Laura El-Tantawy is a first person account exploring memory and identity. With images spanning 2005 to 2014, what began as a look in the mirror to understand the essence of Egyptian identity expanded into an exploration of the trials and tribulations of a turbulent nation. The result...
Excerpt from a presentation of this work on the Stead Bureau Blog: "Like all major religions, Islam seeks to regulate sexual relationships between members of their society through moral codes. According to the Quran, any form of sexual behavior is forbidden before or outside of marriage. However, that doesn’t prevent muslims meeting in...
40,00 €Out of stockExcerpt from a presentation of this work on the Stead Bureau Blog: "Like all major religions, Islam seeks to regulate sexual relationships between members of their society through moral codes. According to the Quran, any form of sexual behavior is forbidden before or outside of marriage. However, that doesn’t prevent muslims meeting in...
50,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.Presentation by the artist: "Before the Second World War in Japan, dog fights were common. But, as the war worsened, so did the food situation, and consequently, owning a big dog was criticized. Some military policemen who were afraid that the dogs might escape and become strays if their cages were destroyed in an air raid, shot and killed many...
Anticyclone (*signed w/ Print*)
Presentation on the artist's website: "During 5 years, between 2009 and 2013, Sandra Rocha went back to Terceira Island, place where she lived until she turned 20, to visit and photograph her family. Anticyclone, edited by André Principe and José Pedro Cortes, both photographers and editors from Pierre Von Kleist, it’s a study about the island and also...
35,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Presentation by the artist : "Les Petites Morts wonders about the «risks» related to the behaviors in our modern society. Using found images selected for their clear kitschy look, and picturing older people, this series offers a reflection on the way we are judged, and made to feel guilty, about our consumerist-society habits, when the real...
12,00 €Out of stock.Last copy!.Introduction to the project on the Kickstarter crowdfunding page : "In 2008 I returned to London having spent the last nine years living and working in Eastern Europe and Turkey and was surprised by the speed of change that had taken place. I wanted to document the city, its movements and migrations, its landscape and architecture, its...
60,00 €Out of stockPresentation by the artist : "When we were kids, one of our greatest pleasure was, to take our child’s bikes and some pennies of our pocket money and go for a stroll to the movies. At that time, TV-sets were still rare and the program only ran for about six, seven hours daily. To make up for that, the boroughs were crowded with small movie theaters in the...
18,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "In the 70s and 80s, the Tabernas desert near Almeria in Southern Spain became the Hollywood of Westerns. It was here that legendary filmmaker Sergio Leone made movies like Once Upon a Time in the West, For a Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, making the desert of Tabernas, with its...
33,00 €In Stock.Our last copies are offered with a reduced price (49 € instead of 55 €) as they have a very small bump to one corner. Boiko is the name of a people living in the Carpathian mountains (also spelled "Boyko"), in Ukraine and Poland, and belonging to la larger group of people called "Rusyns".Novelist Taras Prokhasko, cited on Jan Brykczynski's website,...
49,00 €Out of stockBerlusconians / No Berlusconians
.Sold out.Presentation by the artist: "Silvio Berlusconi is a very special character in Italian politics. Who votes him, loves him as he is. And those who would never vote for him? Two different worlds, placed face to face in a collection of portraits. Berlusconians / No Berlusconians is a self-published and handmade book that shows two very italian...
23,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "Medianoche refers to a border that confronts us with certain limits. A temporary space in which we can explore the relationship between instinct and desire, the behaviours that they give rise to and the manifestation of our fantasies of seduction. In this work the night leads us to an exercise that gives us the opportunity to...
32,00 €In Stock.Sold out. Presentation by the artist: "The book is built on two photographic archives – mine (photographs of my friends made between 2011-2013) - and photographer Tatyana Soldatova’s archive (photographs of her friends made in 1980s) that I happened to see by chance and compare with mine. This comparison brought out a large number of identical shots...
.Back in stock. An amazing journey, strange places, surprising and sometimes weird locations, all in a myterious, or even mystical atmosphere. A beautiful surprise, and a really bautiful book.An interesting review of this book is available on the blog "who needs another photography blog" (Thank you to Christer Ek, the author of the blog, as we took the...
45,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Ana Galan: "I have always thought that arriving to a certain age, we become invisible, towards ourselves and towards the rest of the people. The project Viv(r)e la vie! pays homage to those who decide not to become invisible, to those who continue to live “in the moment”. With curiosity, being the main character of their lives and...
30,00 €In Stockeverything will be ok (*signed*)
.Sold out. Presentation by the publisher: "In life we all go through good times and bad times over and over, tirelessly. I went through one of these cycles and transformed it into this book. It was my story but very well could it be yours. everything will be ok is the chronicle of a magical journey that starts with the emotional collapse that comes after...
.Back in stock.Presentation on the artist's website : "Ibidem is a project about globalization, about the lack and the loss of roots, about the mutation of cities. I started this project in New York in 2002 after realizing that the pictures I took at the time could have been shot in some of the other cities I had lived in. Back to Milan I confirmed my...
45,00 €In Stock.Sold out.After the acclaimed Two Rivers (a favorite of L'Ascenseur Végétal), Wild Pigeon is Carolyn Drake's new project and book.Carolyn turns her eyes and lens to the Xinjiang Province in China and its Uyghur population and culture, that are under strong control / coercion from the Chinese government. Taking photographs on separate trips to the region...
Presentation by the artist: "When I was learning How to ride my bike My uncle told me: «to learn, you will have to fall many times» I started falling on purpose.Almost Fiction, a book made on the road, passing through different countries with a bicycle and a 35 mm camera."60 pages - Softcover Self-published, 2014 (150 copies) *Signed* New - Mint condition
32,00 €In Stock
