Go There by Gen Sakuma, the second book published by Roshin Books (after Watabe Yukichi's Stakeout Diary), is a superb series of Black & White in and around Tokyo. This work was started in 2006.Lavishly printed, with a bright red cover, this is really a beautiful production!We are offering here the standard edition of this book, but please note that...
Introduction to the project Another Family by Irina Popova on the "Indiegogo" platform: "This story started in 2008 when i got an assignment to make a project about feelings.I was wandering through the streets of St. Petersburg at night and there I met Lilya, a punk girl, who was completely drunk. She was pushing a baby carriage with her little daughter...
.Currently unavailable. Publisher's presentation : "La S.A.P.E, ou Société des Ambianceurs et Personnes Elégantes, est un phénomène vestimentaire et culturel s’inspirant du dandysme, apparu au Congo à l’époque de sa colonisation par les Français. Les Sapeurs congolais entretiennent aujourd’hui ce mythe de la sophistication parisienne en se parant de leurs...
Marseille, Fragments d'une ville
With Marseille, Fragments d'une ville, Sylvain Maestraggi tells the story of his hometown, the story of its people, its buildings and public spaces, and also of the local habits and the peculiarities. A beautiful story and a beautiful journey.150 pages approx. - Softcover L'Astrée Rugueuse, 2013 New - Mint condition
.Only one copy.Publisher's presentation: "A portrait of an area and the inherent social interactions between youth, crime and the law, Our Kids Are Going to Hell describes Hackney and east London, but also provides a commentary on a wider narrative familiar to all urban nocturnal clashes.Robin Maddock spent three years accompanying local police going...
NIhonjin is a beautiful series of portraits, realised mainly in Tokyo and Kyoto, of the inhabitants in their daily life and activities, in the streets, in the shops, in the public transportations... A rather classical photography, yet animated and full of colors, and that connects (more than it opposes) what is often represented - with a foreign and...
One of the classic photobooks in the series of small volumes of thematic photographs by Michael Wolf from the streets of Hong Kong. This series was a close collaboration between Michael Wolf and publisher Hannes Wanderer from Peperoni Books. Michael Wolf lived in Hong Kong and walked the streets of the city for over 20 years, turning his eyes and lens to...
In Coal not Dole Michael Kerstgens documents the sad and famous miners' strike of 1984 and 1985 in South Wales and Yorkshire. Michael Kerstgens, then still a student, is interested in the daily and family life, and the social life during this extremely tough period of time. He takes us in the miners' homes, to the union's club, to the meetings, and on the...
Condamné à marcher seul is a wandering in the city, in the night, through photographs (Clément Paradis) and text (Romain Gavidia), an introspection and an encounter with the other, a reflection on "why me?" and "why the others?"...The text in French inter-mingled with the images is translated in English at the end of the book.We are also offering a...
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...
Je suis un piéton, rien de plus
Publisher's presentation: "Born in Charleville-Mézières, Éric Guglielmi suffered in his childhood the omnipresence of Rimbaud, his tyranny: Rimbaud street, the Rimbaud place, the Rimbaud museum, the Rimbaud school ... Then comes the adolescence, and the poignant reading of the poet. Eric Guglielmi followed in the footsteps of Rimbaud and visited...
Karma is quite a surprise, with pictures of cars done with a strong flash light, car parts, portraits (with a flash light as well) of drivers and passengers that sometimes try to hide and sometimes act naturally when the photographer remains unnoticed. In this photobook, Óscar Monzón shows us in a very direct manner the importance of the car in our lives,...
.Back in stock. Presentation by Editions Xavier Barral: "This book contains 90 photographs that aim to present the backbone of photographer Patrick Faigenbaum’s black and white works, since his beginnings in 1973 until today. Most of the photographs are previously unpublished works, following a rhythm here that makes them, as a whole, resemble a musical...
CESURA FANZINE #00 is a collective publication containing a selection of the best 2013 imagesmade by the following photographers:Anna Adamo, Luis Aniceto, Arianna Arcara, Luca Baioni, Federico Carpani, Chiara Fossati, Giacomo Liverani, Gabriele Micalizzi, Valentina Neri, Andy Rocchelli, Alessandro Sala, Luca Santese, Gabriele Stabile, Melchior Tersen,...
.Back in stock.Spasibo is a journey in today's Chechnya, in the rubble of the wars of independance from the Russian Federation, in a republic under the rule of Ramzan Kadyrov. David Monteleone takes us in all parts of the republic, to cities and to the countryside and mountains, and we meet all kinds of people: police force, maimed soldiers, lost youth,...
.In stock.Publisher's presentation: "The photographs presented are part of a project that began in 2003. They constitute the prologue to a project of photographic reconnaissance performed by Jean Gaumy, who travelled to the Arctic Circle to lands contaminated by Chernobyl, while also frequently returning to the high plains of the Occitan Piedmont...
.PLEASE NOTE: we are offering the GERMAN edition by Kehrer. Publisher's presentation: "Shomei Tomatsu, one of Japan's foremost twentieth-century photographers, created one of the defining portraits of postwar Japan. Beginning with his meditation on the devastation caused by the atomic bombs in 11:02 Nagasaki, Tomatsu continued to focus on the tensions...
Zine N° 16 - Dead Light (*w/ signed print*)
40 pages - Softcover Editions Bessard, 2014 *w/ Signed Print* New - Mint condition
.Sold out.Presentation by Akina: "Below the water’s surface, two bodies, one room: in a sort of Flatland of the mind, transfigured by Daisuke’s vision, bones and skins diminished their weights, hungering for their shapes. Daisuke chases the time, adorns visionary landscapes with dust and erotism, lingers on the steamed glass, still breathing."please note...
.One copy from a forgotten box!.Publisher's presentation : "These photographs were taken in Shanxi Province in northwest China. They document old customs originating from pagan ritual practices. They are, in effect, a voodoo-esque form of totem worship. A number of these ancient customs still survive and remain some of the most important cultural...
.Sold out. Publisher's Presentation : "This is the story of the Robinson family – and the aftermath of losing their 26 year-old daughter to bulimia. Working closely with the family, Laia Abril explores the dilemmas and struggles confronted by many young girls and their families; the problems families face in dealing with both their sense of guilt and the...
.Two copies available (see details below). Publisher's presentation: "Sergio Romagnoli was killed in 1994. He was 37 years old. Despite an official investigation at the time and subsequent enquiries by his family, the circumstances surrounding his murder have never been fully explained and remain a mystery to this day. At the time of his murder, Sergio...
Publisher's presentation: "The photographers of Timeshow are storytellers, and for this special issue we picked the best black and white storytellers, people who use the deepest shades of photographic blacks just as a writer would use the darkest ink to picture his world. Emotions and information mingle in their works to reveal unexpected aspects of the...
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...
Ils pensent déjà que je suis folle
Publisher's presentation: "Kourtney Roy (...) is the example of the uninhibited and sincere artist who does not take herself seriously." A rising star in fashion and commercial photography, she was awarded the Carte Blanche PMU in 2013. Model and photographer at the same time: to play, to experiment, to have fun, these words seem to guide the personal...
.Back in stock. Publisher's presentation: "An inner courtyard faces a row of rooms where prostitutes take their clients. Out of view at an opposite window, the photographer witnesses what should remain unseen. Issues such as prostitution or pornography only become problematic when the system, or a society at the service of that system, deem them to be so....
En attendant le facteur (*signed*)
.One copy only, forgotten then re-discovered in a box!.En attendant le facteur (Waiting for the Postman), is Alain Laboile's first book, published in 2012. Alain Laboile is not a trained photographer, he has been taking pictures of his chlidren for years, in the house or in the large garden with a pond, insects, and other animals. Beautiful portraits,...
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...
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...
Publisher's presentation: "Transmontanus, the Latin term meaning “beyond the mountains”, is an allusion to the wind coming from the Pyrenees that characterises the Catalan region of the Empordà, not only defining its identity but also bringing change and erosion. Transmontanus is both a journal and a journey back to a landscape we knew as children. The...
Présentation de l'artiste : "«s o r a n e» (Empty Sound) Born and vanishes, Each day is born to vanish One empty moment, sifted out, Takes me far beyond my consciousness, Enticing me to a distant somewhere. The fleeting scenery And the days Travel past me without conversation. Clinging just for a hint of a moment,I strain to see As I reach out my hand,...
.Back in stock!. Project presentation from the artist's website: "I started working on my Paradise essay in 2006, when I moved back to Stockholm after living in different European cities. Though born and raised in Milan, as a half-Swede I have always felt connected to this city. The approach of my photography is direct, intuitive and fast. I'm trying to...