New Easteuropean Photobooks

'Malanka' by Yelena YEMCHUK deals with a folklore ritual celebrated by ethnic Romanians in western Ukraine. She visited the village of Krasnoilsk to photograph the local Malanka. The photo series is personal, feminine, surreal and surrounded by magic.

HC ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 17 x 24 cm., 148 S., 115 Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

The prominent Belgian photographer Stephan VANFLETEREN worked intensively in his daylight studio from 2010 to 2022. 'Atelier' - available here in three languages or can be pre-ordered - brings together these works and offers a great overview of his work.

The images in self-published book 'False Friends' by Dominic TURNER play with the idea of information gaps & misunderstandings. They explore shadows & veils of a familiar but not quite recognizable world and challenge us to rethink our own interpretation.

Gebundene Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 24 x 28 x 2 cm., 136b S., 102 S/W-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

The volume 'World Is Where You Stop' by Tomasz TOMASZEWSKI looks critically at our reality, where good & evil, euphoria & suffering, wealth & poverty, virtue & licentiousness, coexist side by side - situations that are difficult to pass by indifferently.

This portraits are the result of a project started in 1988 and a tribute to those Kaunas Jews who once escaped death in concentration camps. It is SUTKUS' expression of attempts at understanding, penitence, purification and rebirth. Thank you, Mr SUTKUS.

Gebundene Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 24 x 30 cm.,m 196 S., 100 S/W-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY! Limitierte Auflage von 500 nummerierten Exemplaren

'Polis' - 'the city', as the Greeks simply called Istanbul became 2015 an experience that went far beyond the purely geographical division. SCHWERTFEGER shows the scars of the city and her roughness - a portrait of the metropolis beyond the usual clichés.

'Suburban Constructivism I' by Wilhelm SCHÜRMANN contains b/w photographs from the 1970s and 1980s, showing architecture in the immediate vicinity of Kohlscheid near Aachen, as well as Belgian and Dutch suburbs. The text comes from prof. Klaus Honnef.