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...
Publisher's presentation : "On 8th April 1961 the MV Dara, a ship carrying passengers between India, Pakistan and the Gulf, sank just off the port of Dubai. An estimated 238 people lost their lives. Some bodies were never found and relatives of the missing continue to this day to search for their loved ones. Stranger, Olivia Arthur's photobook, imagines a...
The Encyclopedia of Kurt Caviezel
.Currently out of stock. Publisher's presentation: "For the past 15 years, from his studio in Zurich, Kurt Caviezel has been monitoring 15,000 publicly accessible webcams located all over the world. By taking screenshots of any situation he found interesting he compiled an archive of more than 3 million images, categorizing them for recurring patterns and...
.Sorry, no more signed copies at the time... Publisher's presentation : "This book presents various examples of abstractions created through photography and photographic processes. Exploring the possibilities of the photographic medium, each artist produces abstract results in different ways: some are camera-less experiments with chemicals and...
Toute arme forgée contre moi sera sans effet
.Back in stock.Publisher's presentation of Colin Delfosse's photobook: "Like a drunkard, night has fallen on Kinshasa. On the paved esplanade adjoining Mzée Kabila market, in the uncertain outskirts of the capital where ten million Congolese live in close proximity, Six Bolites pulls on his starry cloth mask and climbs onto the hood of a war-torn van. To...
Kumogakure Onsen / Reclusive Travels...
Presentation by the artist on the publisher's website : "There was a time in my late 20's when I had a desire to disappear from the plane of worldly affairs. Kumogakure has no direct translation in English. It means to be hidden by clouds, shrouded, invisible. No longer able to endure my world and the affairs that surrounded it, I spent two years...
.Back in stock.Presentation by the photographer : "This work stems from a self-financed reporting on prisons that started back in 2011, during which I visited no less than ten prisons. This follows a several-year-long study of the Belgian police force and its actions in the field. Prisons aims at opening our eyes on inmates; casting light on the failures...
Photographer's Playbook - 307 Assignments...
Presentation by Aperture: "The Photographer’s Playbook features photography assignments, as well as ideas, stories, and anecdotes from many of the world’s most talented photographers and photography professionals. Whether you’re looking for exercises to improve your craft—alone or in a group—or you’re interested in learning more about the medium, this...
.Currently out of stock, more copies soon we hope. Publisher's presentation : "Chronicle features the photographs taken between 2010 and 2015 in Ukraine. Arranged in chronological sequence the chapters of the book equally are a reaction to changes in our lives as well as their documentation. Front-line Kharkiv, revolutionary Kiev, Donetsk and Lugansk...
Everybody Needs Good Neighbours (*signed*)
.Back in stock. Publisher's presentation : "Everybody Needs Good Neighbours is a photographic project that starts from a very specific territory, the photographer’s hometown, the village of Vilobí d’Onyar. This municipality of some 3,000 inhabitants is characterized by its location at the confluence of transport infrastructures. Although Vilobí d’Onyar...
From the introduction by Martin Parr : "Consider these facts. In Italy the right to worship, without discrimination, is enshrined within the constitution. There are 1.35 million Muslims in Italy and yet, officially, only eight mosques in the whole country. One consequence is that the Muslim population have accumulated a huge number of makeshift and...
Presentation by Skinnerboox : "Despite the spread of smartphones and digital cameras, in the main Albanian cities an older generation of photographers continues to take snapshot, so-called Foto Çasti. The term «Foto Çasti» also defines a common photographer's profile. Proudly showing their equipment, Foto Çasti walk along the main tourist areas, offering...
Presentation by Kehrer: "Block is a photographic essay, amassed as a set of visions, offering hints for storylines in a murky, dystopic scene of the city witnessed by a stranger. Focusing on gray, concrete features with some people as spectators, narrowing down the elements in the frame, driven most often by the observation of the shapes the light...
Presentation by the artist : "As I walked through these villages where everything had been washed away, including houses and sea walls, there were traces to indicate where once had been a road. People had started to walk again on these traces, reforming a path on top of the original. It was as if the road had a life of its own.I have taken countless...
.Back in stock (2nd edition).Presentation on the publisher's website: "Andrea Modica works with sensual love as her base but aligned with a darkness which is pervasive, so much so that it can color your dreams. The work is not hopeless but breathless, as if there is an atmospheric gauze placed over the larynx so that breathing has to be softened, done in...
Publisher's presentation: "The Building Berlin / Constructions series was photographed in Berlin’s empty lots between 2009 and 2012 on 8x10" negative material. The stills are from Blockbuster, a 5'-long, 16 mm black and white film, made in Berlin in 2012, starring Patrick Holderness, Camera Berbank-Green."Large format co-published with Le BAL. Sold out by...
.Last copy!.Presentation by Dalpine: "Because of its own nature, every photograph is born to reproduce an image. Faces, stories and landscapes are all framed and fixed forever within the four corners of the print. Nevertheless, it would be wonderful if these corners could be somehow opened, thus breaking the perimeter of the photograph and letting the...
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...
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,...
Publisher's presentation: "Will Steacy spent five years photographing the newsroom and printing plant of The Philadelphia Inquirer. Through a depiction of The Inquirer's efforts to prevail despite shrinking advertising revenue, falling circulation, lay-offs, buy-outs, and bankruptcy, Steacy reveals the challenges and harsh realities that confront the...
WARNING : Reduced price because the remaining copies have one bumped corner.Retrospective monography covering James Barnor's career.Short biography of James Barnor on the publisher's website : "Born in 1929 in Accra, James Barnor is considered a pioneer of Ghanaian photography. James Barnor’s career bridges continents and photographic genres to create a...
Zine N° 27 - Dialectics of Nature (*w/...
Publisher's presentation : "Maybe it was my wish to leave behind the small child perspective temporarily. Maybe the feeling to be able to conquer a small piece of nature was the reason for me to climb up trees in my childhood. However that be falling off of a tree became one of my first experiences of the dangers of nature, maybe a kind of revenge towards...
Presentation by the artist Luce Lebart: "Mold is the archive's number one enemy. It is a « risk factor » and an « agent of deterioration » to be fought with. In this sense, their creative potential is unjustly neglected and yet since the dawn of time the transformative power of microorganisms has been used to produce wine, beer, bread and cheese. In a...
Foreword by Wim van Sinderen, Senior Curator, The Hague Museum of Photography : "Chance and intuition play a major role in Kregenow’s quest to photograph colleagues he admires or respects, or about whom he is simply curious. His approach is spontaneous and journalistic: he buttonholes his subjects at museum or gallery openings, at photography fairs, or in...
Now I wanna be your dog ! (*signed*)
.Back in stock.Presentation by Média Immédiat: "In the beginning of the 90's Morten Andersen was student at the ICP (International Center of Photography) in New York together with his friend Antoine D'Agata. The photographer exhumed for this mini book the portraits he made of Antoine during their student years in the Big Apple. Unpublished to date, these...
Publisher's presentation : "Working within the parameters of his established technique, Thomas Demand created carefully formed paper and card sculptures, a parallel world which is photographed and then destroyed. The Dailies offers only traces – signs of consumption, or the spectres of things left behind. His creations are based on things he saw and...
.Currently out of stock. Presentation by the artist on the publisher's website: "I took these photographs around 1963 and 1964 at Nagisa Hotel in Zushi, Nagisa Hotel in Shinagawa, and Chigasaki Beach. The subject was my girlfriend, her initials Y.O. Back then I worked at a design firm in Ginza, Tokyo, and I photographed them in seven or eight sessions we...
Presentation by the artist on the publisher's website: "Nearly three years after I moved to the countryside beside the Sotobo rail line, I found while driving around the east and south parts of Chiba prefecture, that some of the sightseeing spots I used to visit as a tourist are now within the scope of my everyday life. When I am traveling, I wonder about...
Presentation by the artist Seiji Kurata on the publisher's website: "These photographs were taken during the years between 1998 and 2008 using six cameras made by four different manufacturers and films in four different formats. Zokei [created landscape], the title of this book, is derived from « paysagement » a notion presented by a French geographer in...
Presentation on the "Archive of Modern Conflict" website, sponsor of the project : "In 1911 an Arctic expedition set sail to rediscover the island of Jan Mayen, which lay off the eastern coast of Greenland. Not all went according to plan, however, and the end result was a series of staged images produced on the shores of Iceland. Using the original...
.Discounted. Publisher's presentation : "This book presents selections from Guy Tillim’s most influential works and series of the last decade, including “Mai Mai militia in training,” “Jo’burg,” “Avenue Patrice Lumumba,” and “Second Nature.” Anchored in photojournalism but working against the grain of spectacle, Tillim portrays the communities, social...
.Back in stock.Presentation by T&M Projects: "FISH-MAN is a collection of photographs taken by Tatsuki over the course of a year starting from May 2014 of the people and their lifestyles who live in the Hachinohe city, Aomori prefecture. For a previous project, Tatsuki had been traveling and photographing the Tohoku area (Northern part of Japan),...