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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.
Find in this section self-published photo books by photographers from all over the world …
Christophe Le Toquin, Tiane Doan na Champassak, Ruben Brulat, Coralie Fournier-Moris, Bruno Quinquet, Christophe Agou, John Thackwray, ou Chloé Chenevier, etc.
Vincent Delbrouck, Piergiorgio Casotti, Eamonn Doyle, Laura El-Tantawy, Max Pinckers, Matej Sitar, Nico Baumgarten, or Paul Gaffney, Lina Hashim, etc.
Yoshida Akihito, Yoshikatsu Fujii, Nozomi Iijima, Munemasa Takahashi, etc.
Alejandro Cartagena, Carolyn Drake, Julia Borissova, Kursad Bayhan, Yusuf Sevincli, etc.
And many other photographers to discover by flipping through the following photo books:
Tauromaquia by Julián Barón is an open edition, but the singed and numbered copies offered here are from a print run of 200 copies made during a "one day printing show" as part of an exhibition at P2P during PhotoEspaña 2014. This edition is almost sold out by the artist. Two other editions of 200 copies have been made : one for the exhibition "Lonja del...
DOM (Document Object Model) (*signed*)
Presentation of the project by the artist: "In my project DOM I refer to the concept of home.«Dom» means a house, home, a building or a household in the Russian language. As a model for creation of the maquette of houses, I chose the kind of mass housing, so-called «Khruschyovka». They were built in Russia in the era of Khrushchev. After Stalin's Empire...
OBEN (German word for "above") is a journey in the city, but in a little known part of the city : the wide spaces, the ducts, the antennas, the railings of which the roofs are composed... a journey full of obstacles, of surprises and of large deep breaths...Editing with Paul Gaffney, hand-bound with Nico Baumgarten.44 pages - Softcover Self-published,...
She Comes in Colors has this short text as introduction :"I met a girlI fell in loveWe had a brief romanceShe left home"The book is a poetic evocation of this romance, through little "brushstrokes", little signs, little moments. With a text by Alexander Norton.The book is a re-publication (announced second edition) of Florian Braakman's photobook...
.WARNING: Our last copies have small bumps to one or 2 corners and possibly one or 2 wrinkles to the cover. Presentation on Kate Nolan's website: "Neither is an exploration into the dreams and fears of young women in Kaliningrad - a tiny and isolated Russian region on the Baltic Sea - through both image and text. The women I met and be-friended...
Salaryman Project 2015 (*signed w/ print*)
.Sold out.Salaryman Project is an ongoing series by Bruno Quinquet, who publishes each year a business schedule with his images of working men in the streets of Tokyo. In this work, we discover the atmosphere and the evolution of the city around the year and the seasons. We follow the inhabitants and workers - always faceless for rights issues - in the...
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 5"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...
The time of dreaming the world awake...
.Last copy. Introduction to the book by Yvette Monahan: "Certain landscapes hold stories of what has been and what could be. Like an ancient face these places mirror their own odyssey; a silent biography. What is seen is temporal, what is unseen perpetual. Concealed are the myths, legends and histories, ready to be known if we put our mind in nature, not...
I'm still looking for my own Jane...
I'm Still Looking for My Own Jane Gallagher by Juan Hernandez is probably the story of a wanderer, one who chases something, without really know how or when it will present itself; a story of hopes and endeavors, but also of disappointments and intended (serendipitous) mistakes... This little photobook in B & W, thats mixes in a really intriguing...
Project presentation by Christopher Héry: "22:19 illustrates the wide range of emotions - fear, boredom, camaraderie, relief - that two young men have experienced during an intense 8-minute period. This book has been designed to slowly reveal the location, the story, and its ending, to the viewer in a cinematographic manner. Time is the key element here...
.Sold out. Artist's presentation: "It is easy to fight for the rights of people who shout out loud in protest. It is much more difficult to notice those who do not manifest openly. The Stigma Project tells the story of the 60-member family of Romanian Roma, living in an encampment on the outskirts of the city of Wroclaw in Poland. But this is not another...
Carpoolers (*Limited Edition*)
.Sold out. Carpoolers is a beautiful series of portraits or - as Marc McCann called them in his NY Times Lens blog piece - "still-lifes" of Mexican workers commuting in the back of trucks. Shooting his images from above, Alejandro Cartagena gets the full content of the truck without its environment (except for the road and the roof and hood of the...
.Sold out.We are now offering the 2nd edition of the "Carpoolers" book.Carpoolers is a beautiful series of portraits or - as Marc McCann called them in his NY Times Lens blog piece - "still-lifes" of Mexican workers commuting in the back of trucks. Shooting his images from above, Alejandro Cartagena gets the full content of the truck without its...
Morning Sun (*Limited Edition*)
.Sold out. Presentation on Matej Sitar's website: "What does it mean to become a father for the first time? How will everything change, what will the days look like and what will be the new routine? Well, I can’t tell the answers to any of those questions, at least not now anyhow. The intriguing part before going through all of this is the relationship...
Presentation on the artist's website: "What does it mean to become a father for the first time? How will everything change, what will the days look like and what will be the new routine? Well, I can’t tell the answers to any of those questions, at least not now anyhow. The intriguing part before going through all of this is the relationship with the...
Between the Lake and the Sea (*signed*)
.Sold out.Presentation on the artist's website: "I have always had a deep respect for people who go to sea. In their lives, water has a deeper meaning than relationships with people around them. The sea is larger than anyone – it is more than simply a means of subsistence, more than survival. I returned to the village where I spent my childhood, to try...
As Dust Alights - 2nd edition (*signed*)
.Sold out.As Dust Alights is the book of a photographer that takes the time to look at things, that uses his eyes in a very special way. Vincent Delbrouck offers a very calm and peaceful account of what his eyes saw on a trip into the Himalayas; they saw forms, colors, textures, contrasts, they saw the beautiful in the insignificant... The body and the...
Kitchen Stories from the Balkans (*signed*)
.Sold out.In Kitchen Stories from the Balkans, Eugenia Maximova lays her eyes on the kitchen interiors from a region she wanted to remain generic : "the balkans". The artist creates an atmosphere that is a bit outdated, offering us what could be seen as a series of still-lifes that depict the calm of kitchens that could very well be that of our...
Away From Home (*Limited Edition*)
.Sold out.Away From Home is a portrait - in a honest and warm-hearted manner - of the sometimes harsh reality of the Turkish Eastern immigration in the city of Istanbul.Kursad Bayhan, in dense and grainy black & white images builds a sombre yet lively atmosphere. This self-published book is a really beautiful work, and very well printed too ! A great...
Trying to Find the Ocean (*signed*)
Presentation from the author's website: "Trying to Find the Ocean depicts a rampage-like journey through the city of Baltimore. Michael Ast incorporates both an intense outward gaze on the urban environment and its inhabitants, and an inward gaze, employing images to function esoterically as emotive and cognitive intimations. The sequencing reads at once...
Something Like a Nest (*signé*)
Artist's presentation: "Something like a Nest explores how our idea of the countryside intersects with the stuff of contemporary culture. Creating, I hope, something that pulls with and against the pastoral symbolism we attach to this landscape."With a text by Ben Platts-Mills.108 pages - Hardbound with printed acetate DJ Self-published, 2014 *Signed* New...
We are offering here the second edition of this book (2014), the first one being from 2011.Artist presentation: "Ricardo Cases' third photobook deals with an unusual subject: the practice of pigeon racing in the Spanish regions of Valencia and Murcia, a game consisting of releasing one female pigeon and dozens of male pigeons that chase her trying to get...
Alessia Bernardini's presentation: "Becoming Simone is a story about a man who has been living in a woman's body until the age of 51. The project is an investigation through memories, courage, discomfort, dreams and life expectations."A beautiful project on the quite difficult and moving subject of gender transformation, and imprisonment in an enveloppe...
.Sold out.Presentation by the artist Klaus Pichler: "Who hasn't had the desire just to become someone else for a while? Dressing up is a way of creating an alter ego and a second skin which one's behaviour can be adjusted to. Regardless of the motivating factors which cause somebody to acquire a costume, the main principle remains the same: the civilian...
Same Player Shoots Again (*signed*)
Following a workshop on editing and producing a dummy where they met and had a good time together, Jean-Pierre Viguié (in France) worked on a corpus of images by Sean Davey (in Australia) that were made during nights out and in bars... Out of this came Same Player Shoots Again, a funny and a bit inebriated book, where the story of a pinball player mingles...
Will They Sing... (*signed w/ print*)
.Sold out.After The Fourth Wall, we are offering Max Pinckers's new book Will They Sing Like Raindrops or Leave Me Thirsty in a version that includes a signed & numbered copy and a signed print. NB : All copies available come with the print seen on our picture (white horse in traffic)Design by Jurgen Maelfeyt.Text by Hans Theys, 'Photographs as...
.Sold out.After The Fourth Wall, we are offering signed copies of Max Pinckers's new book Will They Sing Like Raindrops or Leave Me Thirsty.Design by Jurgen Maelfeyt.Text by Hans Theys, 'Photographs as Poems', Montagne de Miel, February 2014.This book was commissioned by "Europalia International Arts Festival" for the Indomania exhibition at Bozar -...
.Last copies.In Midwest Dirt, the images are introduced through a single phrase: "Now it’s just after harvest time, my favorite time of year. The fields are almost cleared and I’m barefoot on my porch with a beer in my hand. I can see for miles."Midwest dirt is designed as a double booklet bound in the same folded cover, close with a string passing though...
Un jour aux courses (*signed & numbered*)
Un jour aux courses (in English: A Day at the Races) is an artist book made of a 12-page booklet (text & presentation) signed and numbered (with additional Japanese stamp) and 32 loose images printed on Mohawk paper 320 g/m².30 copies have been made: 25 numbered 1 to 25 and 5 artist proofs numbered HCI to HCV (HC for French "Hors Commerce", or "Out of...
Publisher's presentation: "This pocket sized (15 x 10 cm), limited edition book, by collector Barbara Levine and graphic designer, Martin Venezky is a meditation on the camera and its complicated hold on our lives. Found and staged photos, ephemera, and all sorts of unexpected relationships are brought together and set in motion by design. The result is...
A really beautiful monochromatic work shot in a gigantic salt mine in Australia. Shades, hues and nuances of a white that blinds us; forms and structures that appear and disappear; colored artifacts (trucks, buildings) that bring depth of field from the white of the foreground to the white of the background and and structure the images... Astonishing and...
Artist presentation: "Its main purpose is to reflect a vital anxiety, a metaphor of the personal journey searching for the sense of one-self life. Across the wilderness, this inner trip is marked out with the unexpected, the cruelty, the beauty, the organic as well as the artificial. There is a deep fight trying to understand the absurdity of the human...