.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...
Ground is a reference to the floors of the concert halls and clubs where Yusuke Yamatani spent a lot of time as a teenager and many years after that. These floors are strange surfaces covered in footsteps, alcohol spills, dirt, sweat and many other things mixed... These abstract motifs are inserted in the narration among th portraits of people met during...
Pubisher's presentation: "Dana Stölzgen has made a tremendously tender book. Time seems to stand still in the landscape shots, close ups and interiors exactly as in the portraits of young girls, adult and old women. But actually time expands. Into the past and into the future. In perfect moments the old feel the same way as they were young again and the...
Presentation by Capricious: "In her highly anticipated book, Discharge, New York-based artist and photographer Petra Collins presents images of self-discovery and femininity that explore the emotional, complex intersection of life online and off. Responding to the ubiquity of social media, Collins offers images of unflinching honesty, exploring the...
.Final copy. PLEASE NOTE: Despite being new and having always remained in our stock, this copy displays slight yellowing to the pages' edges. Publisher's presentation : "Less images of visual phenomena than of perception itself, Catarsi by Massimo Leardini presents a world beyond the depicted. Dreamlike images and harmonious structures of glowing greys...
Solovki, la bibliothèque perdue
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation : "The Solovki Islands in northwest Russia are known for their monastery, but also for having the first camp of what would become the Gulag. In this decor of extremes, the photographer Jean-Luc Bertini and writer Olivier Rolin have turned their attention to the camp library, now long gone. Their search constitutes a...
.Stock épuisé. Presentation by Kehrer: "In Find a Fallen Star, Regine Petersen uses the stories of meteorite falls as a background for her multifaceted narratives; a rock crashing through the roof of an Alabama home in the 1950's and hitting a woman, a group of children recovering a meteorite in their village in post-war Germany, and a more recent event...
.Last copies. Publisher's presentation : "AMA LUR is the closing chapter of Galerna, an investigation project that Jon Cazenave embarked on 8 years ago. In the course of these years, the artist has compiled a visual repertoire of the Basque people’s idiosyncrasy and aesthetics, in an attempt to unravel his homeland’s political intricacy from an...
Publisher's presentation: " The images in Tones of Dirt and Bone were made between 2004 and 2006, with a Polaroid camera and Time Zero film. Brodie used the characteristics and limitations inherent to this type of camera and film to his advantage. The portraits he made are further enhanced by the peculiar color palette of the film. Due to the restriction...
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...
Publisher's presentation: "The Gardener is the winning project of the inaugural Syngenta Photography Award. Photographed by Jan Brykczynski, it is an extension of his previous projects in which he travelled to the outer corners of Europe to explore the lives of people in rural areas. This new work looks at how city dwellers try to connect with nature. The...
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 : "This work of Antoine d’Agata was partially visible in the exhibition « S’il y a lieu je pars avec vous » (« If necessary, I'll go with you »), presented at Le BAL (Paris) from September 11th to October 26th, 2014. This one is published in INDEX in its entirety. « Vous les peuplerez de qui vous voudrez, ces aires de repos....
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...