Insider Tipps

In 'No Place on earth', Patrick BROWN documents the escape Rohingya fled the destruction of their homes and brutal persecution in Myanmar for neighboring Bangladesh. It includes also an essay about the genocide and a description the powerful photography.

For her out-of-print book 'Sailboats and Swans', Michal CHELBIN portrayed prison inmates in Ukraine & Russia. The portraits oscillate between strangeness and reality. The title refers to the wallpaper that often adorns walls and hallways of these prisons.

The catalog on Sergey BRATKOV, titled 'Glory Days', contains images from 1997 to 2007- an idiosyncratic mix of reportage & staged photography. It places his work in the context of recent photographic art and the social environment in Russia and in Ukraine

The photos in 'At Dusk' by Miyuki OKUYAMA give insight into her inner life and her states of mind as she moved from one culture to another. The images are inspired by fragmented childhood memories, long repressed fears, and vaguely remembered nightmares.

'Fastidiosa' by CAIMI & PICCINNI is the result of 6 years of photojournalism by the duo on the plight of local farmers and environmental degradation in the Puglia region of southern Italy. A very personal and intense account of the Xylella plant epidemic.

The volumes ‘The Path to Freedom' tell Ukraine's historical path of a struggle for freedom. They portray the important events from the 1st attempts at a revolution through its photographic language and look at photography's development during this period.

In 'We Share the Meal' by Lars BORGES, the complex relationship with food is explored through a personal relationship. A fictional journey, because all forms of social coexistence are connected by narratives that not infrequently emerge at dinner table.

Using old paintings, newspaper clippings, letters & photographs, this book, 'Dear Franklin' by Kurt TONG, tells a fictional love story and immerses the reader in the history of the Chinese diaspora, from the fall of the Middle Kingdom in 1912 to the 1950s

The photo volume 'Thingstätten' edited by Katharina BOSSE deals with open-air theaters and meeting places of National Socialism. Art and documentation, text and image enable an interdisciplinary examination of the significance of the past for the present.