Best of 2021

In 'Cut Outs' Jessica BACKHAUS consequently continues her path of abstraction already taken in photo volume 'A Trilogy' - using analog methods she creates and documents visual experimental arrangements, poetic choreographies of intense, sunlighted colors.

Playing with diverse formats, the black-and-white photographs in the out-of-print photo volume 'End Time City' by Michael ACKERMAN go beyond depicting the city of Benares and instead create a moving and radically personal portrait of human life and death.

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.

In his photo volume 'The Book of Veles', Jonas BENDIKSEN weaves together two different stories about the Macedonian city that both currently - in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign - and historically represents efforts to create disinformation and chaos.

In 'Photobooks &' researcher Matt Johnston explores trends & practices based on research, interviews & his own experiences. He proposes a critical framework for looking at photo book use and calls for a reorientation to address its communicative potential

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 self-published volume, 'Ich hatte zwar eigentlich Lamm bestellt, aber kein Problem' has the subtitle 'A walk through my soul'. As in his other, self-published book titles, Gerald v. FORIS has its own, highly inspiring imagery. Limited to 300 copies.

'Rumors of War' by Christoph BANGERT is a personal diary of a former war photographer. He describes his inner conflict between the egoism driven feeling of doing something meaningful and the concern of his family & friends going through hell emotionally.

New edition. 'So it goes, so it goes' by Miho KAJIOKA presents a work about time, memory and place. The series shows intuitive images of fragments of their everyday life at different points in time. Inspiration was Kurt Vonnegut's novel 'Schlachthof 5'.

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.