About German photographer, Peter BIALOBRZESKI (b.1961, in Wolsburg)

Peter BIALOBRZESKI is the recipient of numerous awards, including the prestigious World Press Photo Award (2003 and 2010). In 2012 he was granted the Dr. Erich Salomon Award by the German Society of Photographers. He is teaching at the HBK in Bremen.

Photo books by Peter BIALOBRZESKI

  • 'Neon Tigers / Tigri di Luce' (2004); 'Heimat' (2005); 'Lost in Transition' (2007); 'Calcutta' (2007); 'Paradise Now' (2009); 'Caase Study Homes' (2009); 'Informal Arrangements' (2011); 'The Raw and the Cooked' (2012); 'Nail Houses' (2014); 'Die zweite Heimat' (2017); 'Give my Regards to Elizabeth' (2020) and the ongoing Diary series (since 2014) with these cities: Athens, Beirut, Belfast, Budapest, Dhaka, Cairo, Kochi, Linz, Minsk, Osaka, Taipei, Wolfsburg, Wuhan, Yangon, Zurich.


In 2015, World Press Award winner Peter BIALOBRZESKI returned to his hometown Wolfsburg to document the changes that the city has undergone since he left many years ago. 'Wolfsburg Diary' is part of the ongoing international 'Diary' photo book series.
120,00 € * Weight 0.3 kg
The book 'Calcutta' contains photoworks by twenty-one photographers who, under the direction of Peter BIALOBRZESKI, have documented the disappearing, crumbling splendor of this incomparable cultural heritage as part of the 'Kolkata Heritage Photo Project'
29,80 € * Weight 1.2 kg
HC with dust jacket, 33 x 25,5 x 2 cm., 88 pp., 34 color ills., bilingual text: German / English
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'Athens Diary', the second photo book in Peter BIALOBRZESKI's ongoing 'City Diary' book project with city portraits. Here he travels to the scene of the biggest European crisis in decades to document the consequences on one of the urban centers of Greece.
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'Linz Diary' is dedicated to a city, which was a provincial & governmental city of the Holy Roman Empire, as well as considered by Adolf Hitler as his hometown. Against this background, the photographer Peter BIALOBRZESKI documented the cityscape in 2019.
30,00 € * Weight 0.3 kg
In his atmospheric photo volume 'Nail Houses', Peter BIALOBRZESKI records buildings in China that are about to be demolished. For outsiders, the color photographs taken in the evening convey a feeling of homeliness, despite the cracks in the walls.
78,00 € * Weight 0.7 kg
'Cairo Diary' by photographer Peter BIALOBRZESKI captures the city of Cairo between the fall of Morsi and Mubarak. They show daily life in the Egyptian capital in a time of great urban, social and political upheaval and renewal. Part of the 'Diary' series
30,00 € * Weight 0.3 kg
The 'Minsk Diary' by Peter BIALOBRZESKI contains full-page color photographs of Europe's 11th most populous city, administrative capital of the 'Commonwealth of Independent States' (CIS), and the capital of the Belarusian Republic in former Soviet Union.
30,00 € *
'Give my regards to Elizabeth' is Peter BIALOBRZESKI's first photo book - clearly influenced by British color photography of the 1980s. Now, 27 years after the hand-made copies, the Trade Edition followed as facsimile in the original layout.
from 34,00 €
The tenth volume of the 'City Diary' book series by Peter BIALOBRZESKI, 'Kochi Diary', documents everyday life in a city in the Indian state of Kerala. The color photos show the looseness of a photographer who has already worked in many emerging countries
30,00 € *
'Paradise Now' by Peter BIALOBRZESKI presents fragments of nature in the artificially illuminated infrastructure of major Asian cities. In the sun from car headlights and illuminated skyscrapers, the urban green alternates between hyperreal and surreal.
98,00 € * Weight 1.5 kg
In the eleventh volume of his Diary series, 'Dhaka Diary', German photographer Peter BIALOBRZESKI turns his gaze to the capital of Bangladesh, the fourth most populous city in the world with over 21 million inhabitantsand its crowded streets and backyards
30,00 € * Weight 0.3 kg
In the book 'Lost in Transition' Peter BIALOBRZESKI examines the change in urban places, often located on the periphery of cities. The color photographs describe the appearance of this transition: from the old to the new, from the familiar to the abstract
128,00 €
In his 'Wuhan Diary', Peter BIALOBRZESKI turns his gaze on the Chinese city of Wuhan. His pictures - taken between February 22 and March 12, 2017 - show a pulsating city with over 19 million inhabitants, which has to cope with its own rapid development.
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In the 'Osaka Diary' photo book, Peter BIALOBRZESKI focuses on the traditional economic center of Japan and one of the largest metropolitan regions in the world. The pictures in the 10th volume of his 'City Diary' series show a city in constant change.
30,00 € *
Swiss bound pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 14 x 21 x 1 cm., 112 pp., color ills., Ltd. to 500 copies
78,00 € * Weight 0.3 kg
HC with foil stamped title and tipped-in image on back cover (no dust jacket, as issued), 30,5 x 24,5 cm., 168 pp., approx. 70 color ills., bilingual text: German / English
34,00 € *
'Belfast Diary' by Peter BIALOBRZESKI documents a city that has suffered considerably from the violence associated with the Ireland's division. The photographs were taken in 2017, before the Brexit and the feared consequences for the fragile peace process
30,00 € *
Out of print photo volume 'Informal Arrangements' by German photographer Peter BIALOBRZESKI' shows inside views of South African slum huts. The color photographs were taken in 2009 in Kliptown, a suburb of Soweto, before the coming 2010 Soccer World Cup.
from 35,00 € Weight 0.6 kg
Published in newspaper format, '40 Jahre laif. 40 Positionen dokumentarischer Fotografie' is both an exhibit and a catalog of the exhibition of the same name, which celebrates the anniversary of the German photographers agency from Cologne.
40,00 € * Weight 1.8 kg
Swiss bound pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 14 x 21 x 1 cm., 112 pp., color ills., Ltd. to 500 copies
30,00 € *
Five new volumes of the long-term book-project 'City Diary' by Peter BIALOBRZESKI were published for Paris Photo 2021. The documented cities are Dhaka, Yangon, Minsk, Belfast as well as Linz. They are offered here in one set, there are still predecessors!
138,00 € *
In 'Neon Tigers', the metropolises, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Jakarta, Singapore & Shenzhen, merge into a virtual megacity. Peter BIALOBRZESKI's photos do not seem to reflect a real world, but rather dream worlds from films or PC games.
120,00 € Weight 0.966 kg
Spectacular images from all over the world: in 'The Raw and the Cooked' the photographer Peter BIALOBRZESKI presents some of his best color works, seductively beautiful tableaus from fourteen countries show a 'progress' that triggers discomfort and fear.
120,00 € * Weight 1.97 kg
Out of print volume 'Case Study Homes' by Peter BIALOBRZESKI contains color photos of accommodations made in Manila that consist of civilian garbage. The effects of globalization such as pandemic pollution and the reasons for migration become visible.
55,00 € * Weight 0.5 kg
HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 28 x 1,5 cm., 148 pp., 78 color ills., bilingual text: German / English
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Swiss bound pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 14 x 21 x 1 cm., 112 pp., color ills., Ltd. to 450 copies, 50 signed copies
98,00 € * Weight 0.3 kg
In 'Yangon Diary', Peter BIALOBRZESKI visits Myanmar’s most populous city and its most important commercial centre with over 7 million people. This series for the 12th installment in the City Diary series was shot between 21st February and 1st March 2019.
30,00 € *
'Budapest Diary' is the ninth vol. in the 'City Diary Series' by Peter BIALOBRZESKI. In this series, the photographer has already reported on city experiences in Cairo, Athens, Wolfsburg, Taipei, Kochi, Wuhan, Beirut and Zurich. Series will be continued.
30,00 € *