By harnessing bright colors, harsh flash and the forgotten gestures in between poses, photographer Max Pinckers redefines our assumptions about everyday life in North Korea.
Made over the course of 10 years, Marco Marzocchi’s project Oyster confronts his difficult childhood head on through a personal journey of prickly self-reflection, intertwined with moments of tenderness.
For over one thousand years, stray deer have intuitively entered the Japanese city of Nara each morning, roaming its empty streets in search of food and attention.
In this book about the lasting impact of war, Binh Danh and Robert Schultz create chlorophyll prints out of leaves found at historical sites in the USA.
Transforming the family album into folklore, Paul Thulin’s new photobook “Pine Tree Ballads” takes us on a dreamlike summer voyage through the mysterious forests surrounding his family’s home in Grays Point off the coast of Maine.
In these collaborative portraits, Marilene Ribeiro tells another side of the story of Hydroelectricity—a green, renewable energy—by shedding light on the people whose lives have been torn apart by the construction of dams in Brazil.
By inserting found photographs throughout each room in a small house in Southern France, The Anonymous Project creates playful installations that illustrate the lasting importance of amateur photography.
In a book full of dreamy photographs of nature’s quiet moments, Janelle Lynch invites us to re-enter the natural world and embrace our connection to it.
Moved by the “symphony of life” that radiates through the streets of Tomsk, Sergey Medvedchikov captures the contrasts and characters of a city in the throes of transition.
Looking behind the sprawling construction sites and skyscrapers that graze Dubai’s skyline, Polly Tootal turns her lens on the people that built them, capturing the stark contrast between the labour camps they call home and the city’s glitzy buildings.
The Curonian Spit is a peninsula bordered by two shores: the Curonian Lagoon and the Baltic sea. In his tranquil, poetic images, Tadas Kazakevičius captures the powerful bond between the inhabitants of the Spit and the unique space around them.
Photographing the abandoned spaces of Tehran, Gohar Dashti explores the scars of war, memories of displacement and the eventual triumph of nature over man in this haunting reflection on the idea of ‘home’.
Anonymous faces come in and out of the shadows as if they were part of a game of hide and seek in this series of mysterious candids, evoking Matteo Didone’s experience of public detachment in Japanese society.
Constructing “ephemeral micro-states” and occupying them for 24 hours, Rubén Martín de Lucas questions the artificiality of borders and makes stark our fraught relationship with planet earth.
Documenting the tragic bond between the plight of refugees and the environmental crisis in Cox’s Bazar, Gabriele Cecconi presents a different perspective on the biggest challenges our society faces today.
By combining poetic prose and pre-existing photographs, this artist duo expands the possibilities for visualizing our emotions and memories through storytelling.
By photographing his family in the hotel he was raised in, this photographer constructs a complex emotional landscape that raises questions about our perception of home.
Fluid Forms: Oliva María Rubio’s Take on Art Photography
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Artistic Director Oliva María Rubio offers her thoughts on the shifting landscape of photography and its different forms, where passion and hard work are the only true constants.
Experimenting with Tradition: Publishing Insights From TBW Books
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TBW’s founder Paul Shiek and Program Director Lester Rosso discuss the importance of collaboration and maintaining a “punk ethos” in photobook publishing.
The Power of Collections: Learning From San Francisco’s Pier 24
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Precious insights from Chris McCall, the director of one of America’s preeminent photographic institutions—a unique, contemplative space unlike any other.
Started in a bid to come to terms with her own experience of hearing loss, Kate Disher-Quill’s project “Earshot” gives an intimate insight into the world of Deafness through a constellation of experimental portraits and personal stories.
In the wake of dangerous decisions surrounding abortion legislation and women’s rights, documentary photographer Olivia Harris discusses the necessity of nuance in one of the world’s most polarizing debates.
Using a collection of images from World War II, this new photobook toys with the history of the wirephoto, questioning our reliance on photographs as records of hard evidence.
Arabian Transfer: Iconic Architecture and Everyday Street Life
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21st Century urban life assumes new realities — on the streets and in the view of the rest of the world — in these six cities on the Arabian peninsula.
Working with local children, photographer Clémentine Schneidermann and stylist Charlotte James took to the streets of South Wales to create a colourful series of staged tableaux, using fashion as a tool to change perceptions of the region.
Enter the mysterious world of Maja Daniels’ “Elf Dalia,” a striking photobook about the town of Älvdalen, where an ancient form of Vikings’ Old Norse is still spoken today.
After abandoning portraiture for an entire year, Alec Soth returns to the genre with a new photobook, emphasizing the importance of collaboration while photographing his subjects.
After discovering a lost box of photos made by her grandfather in the 1930s, this photographer constructed new visual composites by integrating her own contemporary images, printing everything on traditional handmade Korean paper.
A vast retrospective at the Jeu de Paume maps out constellations of photographs by pioneer of colour photography Luigi Ghirri, whose thoughtful approach to photography provides ample lessons to live by in our age of distraction.
Berlin: The Venezuelan Exodus Through Colombia’s Highlands
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Fleeing the consequences of violence, poverty and persecution, millions of Venezuelans are taking on a treacherous mass exodus out of their home country in hopes of finding better jobs and freedom.
Drawing the curtain back on the spectacle of the hyper-masculine world of professional wrestling, Diego Saldiva follows the attempted comeback of the Brazilian ‘Gigantes do Ringue’.
Setting out to document the centuries-old tradition of bird-keeping in Turkey, this photography duo walked away with so much more. The resulting project is an intricate photobook that visualizes the relationship between love and possession.
Though only amounting to a small percentage of the Australia’s population, the Outback is an important and diverse segment that defines the character of the country. These portraits attempt to build a contemporary picture of Australian identity.
The memory of fireflies whirring around a tree at his old family house sparked the beginning of Anupam Diwan’s nighttime odyssey around his new hometown of Dhaka, in search of fragments of his childhood.
With a series of “dance hall” portraits, this photographer tells the stories of Russians in Berlin who still feel a strong connection to their native roots.
Troubled by the persistent gun debate in contemporary American culture, this photographer creates tintype portraits of gun enthusiasts who then use their own portraits for target practice.
By combining photographs of frantic gestures and disparaged landscapes, Mimi Plumb’s “Landfall” is a timely investigation into the persistent discomfort of our self-destructive society.
