Best of 2021

In 1977, Stephen SHORE travelled across an area of industrial decline, later known as the Rust Belt. Commissioned as an photographic report, 'Steel Town' provides an immersive portrait of a time and place whose significance to our own is ever more urgent.

Photo volume 'Private Views. A Highrise Panorama of Manhattan' by Andi SCHMIED provides views from the tallest buildings in Manhattan, for example over Central Park, or from the bathroom in Calacatta Tucci marble with a view of the Empire State Building.

The photo volume 'Me Kaksi' by Pentti SAMMALLAHTI celebrates the chance encounter. It contains a selection of iconic as well as unpublished photographs from more than forty years of wandering the world and tells of the universality of emotional connection

'Town of C' by Richard ROTHMAN is a meditation on what lies beneath the surface of U.S. culture, seen through the lens of a small southern Colorado town. it is in the tradition of socially critical photo books by Walker EVANS, Robert FRANK & Robert ADAMS.

This 11th 'Des Oiseaux' photo book contains a new series Paolo PELLEGRIN. During a stay in Japan, he was impressed by the majesty of a colony of eagles. His photos from invite into a mysterious and ghostly world where only the animal presence reigns.

The artist photo volume 'Für mich' (For Me) by German photographer Sina NIEMEYER is an autobiographical story about sexual abuse. The project was born out of the need to understand and come to terms with what happened to her at a pre-pubescent age.

The volume 'Dark Whispers' by Beatrice MINDA reflects the ambivalent aspects of the British colonial period. In far-eastern Myanmar, she documents the oldest, still inhabited houses, which originate from colonially influenced lifestyles in 20th century.

This black-and-white photo volume, 'Headed West,' by American photographer Paul McDONOUGH contains pictures from the 1970s through the 1990s - street photography from his many travels documenting the American life that pulsed all around him.

This photo volume 'Standing by the Wall - Berlin 1990' by Josef Wolfgang MAYER is designed in triptychs and consists exclusively of fold-out pages that expand the individual picture into a panorama. This suddenly makes the past time present again.

'Southward' by Bettina LOCKEMANN follows thematically Walker Evans' & James Agee's traces through Southern USA. Landscapes & people as well as economic & social contexts are investigated. In addition, historical topics such as slavery & cotton economy.