Kehrer Verlag

With his book with analogue color photographs, 'Enter the Forest', Alexandre Miguel MAIA continues a tradition that sees the forest as a recurring theme in photography. The book was printed on certified recycled paper and produced entirely in Germany.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 17 x 23 cm., 112 pp., 101 color ills., text language: English

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 30,5 x 2 cm., 240 pp., 184 color & 1 b/w ills., bilingual text: German / English

This new edition of 'Once, Still and Forever' (original released in 2013) is limited to 1,000 signed copies. BACKHAUS proves her infallible instinct for picture compositions that open up a cosmos of unforeseen meanings in the midst of loving familiarity.

'Am I exploiting the people in my pictures? Is it moral to work as a war photographer? Why are we attracted to images of other's misery? Am I producing war pornography?' In 'War Porn' Christoph BANGERT dares to experiment with turning off self-censorship.

SC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 32 x 2 cm., 128 pp., 50 color ills., English

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24,5 x 30 cm., 216 pp., 128 color ills., English

Photo book 'The Silence of Dogs in Cars' by Martin USBORNE contains billboards of dogs silently peering through car windows. The staged photos evoke a mood of loneliness & longing. Yet they are less about dog portraits and more about separation in general

Photo artist Jaakko KAHILANIEMI owns 100 ha of forest. With his conceptual project '100 Hectares of Understanding' he tries to better understand his forest area and to show new ways of thinking and methods of how one can experience and feel the forest.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 18 x 24 cm., 96 pp., 55 color ills., English

Out-of-print monograph on William Eugene SMITH shows images from six series: 'Country Doctor', 'Spanish Village', 'Nurse Midwife', 'A Man of Mercy', 'Minamata', as well as 'Pittsburgh'. It contains texts by himself about his working methods and principles

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20 x 24 cm., 216 pp., 95 color ills., text language: English

The volume 'The Polar Silk Road' by Gregor SAILER deals with the economic use of the Arctic regions as well as territorial claims of the riparian states. The consequences are geopolitical tensions and expansion of military structures and research stations

The photo volume '1078 Blue Skies / 4432 Days' by Anton KUSTERS contains limited edition Polaroid photos of the abstract blue skies above European concentration camps of the German Nazi regime. It is the result of a long-term project lasting six years.

HC, 24 x 29 cm., 104 pp., 49 color ills., text language: English

'Common Dreams' by Kai LÖFFELBEIN reflects China's change and the existing contrasts. It critically examines its social and economic transformation with a focus on the lives of migrant workers who have to live in the outskirts of the large metropolises.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 18 x 24 x 1,5 cm., 112 pp., 83 b/w duplex ills., bilingual text: French / English

In his photo book 'Tales from the City of Gold'Jason LARKIN shows life in out-of-place legacies of the former gold mines in South Africa. He documents as well as illuminates the stubbornly ignored reality of those places & their denied ecological legacies

Open bound pb. in box, 11,5 x 15 x 2 cm., 104 pp., 79 color ills., bilingual text: German / English, Ltd. to 500 numbered copies

'Outside Room 8' by Lotte BRONSGEEST presents a documentary of the life of Geert Broertjes after his cancer diagnosis. It visualizes the patient experience with common cancer treatments by subjecting film reels and negatives to the same healing procedures

Pb. with American dust jacket, 24 x 28 cm., 184 pp., 94 color & 27 b/w ills., trilingual text: English, German, Russian Available Artist: Beat Schweizer Editor: Kanton Bern, WERK-BUCH / ŒUVRE D’ARTISTE Texts: Tanja Achlomova, Mischa Danov, Urs Mannhart,

In her photo volume 'Summer Heart', Cologne based photographer Thekla EHLING accompanies the growing up of her own children. She documents situations and moods and the viewer finds himself entangled in associations and memories of his own childhood.

In this book Dotan SAGUY documents the ten-month stay of a family who immigrated from Brazil to the USA and their alternative lifestyle in Los Angeles. The book remembers on Sally MANN's 'Immediate Family', b/w photographs are accompanied by interviews.

The book 'Between Girls' by American photographer Karen MARSHALL shows a group of teenagers in New York and documents the emotional bonds between 16-year-old girls to show as well as their symbolic relationships. The book design is by Teun van der HEIJDEN

ORIGINALLY SEALED! German-languaged 'Retrospective'-catalog contains important text contributions to the understanding of the work of prominent photographer Stephen SHORE, an extensive interview with David Campany, a complete bibliography and a chronology

Children photobook 'Menschen und andere Tiere' by BROOMBERG & CHANARIN looks at the world into a witty, playful photo ABC. The imagery, coupled with photos makes an alternative reading experience. Redesigned German edition, adapted to German sign language

2nd print run. The photographer Tariq ZAIDI shows in 'Sapeurs. Ladies & Gentlemen of the Congo' the subcultural fashion in Kinshasa & Brazzaville. During the day cab drivers, tailors or gardeners - after work they become casually dressed, elegant dandies.

'Einheit, Arbeit, Wachsamkeit. The GDR in Mozambique' by Malte WANDEL is about African workers who lived in the GDR until German reunification. Many live in poverty, because the money withheld from their wages, intended for their pensions, has disappeared

The topic in 'Embed in Egypt' is the Arab Spring in Egypt. Young Turkish photographer tells the complex everyday life against the background of the escalating historical development. The diary-like volume was on the shortlist of the First Book Award 2014.

Cloth bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 30 cm., 168 pp., bilingual texts: German / English

HC with dust jacket, 23,5 x 31 cm., 116 pp., 54 color ills., text language: English

Swiss bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 30 x 30 x 1,5 cm., 108 pp., 66 duplex b/w ills., text language: English

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 30 x 24 cm., 96 pp., 50 color ills., text language: English

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), approx. 24 x 32 cm., 128 pp., approx. 80 color ills., bilingual text: English / French Available soon ISBN 978-3-86828-924-4 2019 Artist: Ann Massal Design: João Linneu

Gebundene Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 21,5 x 26,5 x 2,5 cm., 1,000 gr., deutsch-sprachiger Text - TEXT ONLY IN GERMAN!

'The Children of Bergen-Belsen' Maria KLENNER deals with the fates of children who were born in Bergen-Belsen shortly after the end of the World War. The study sheds light on questions of history & migration, identity & belonging, trauma & new beginnings.

The out-of-print volume 'Buzzing at the Sill' by Peter van AGTMAEL is a collection of reflections on war, militarism, identity, family and landscape, among other things. It is both an examination of the limits of photography and a tribute to its power.

Since 2007 Evzen SOBEK has been documenting life as a neutral observer on the bank of a reservoir in the south of the Czech Republic. A special caravan & tent landscape has established itself here, which has become a second home for many residents.

In 'Growing Up Travelling. The Inside World of the Irish Traveller Children' Jamie JOHNSON documents her fascination with the resilience and optimism of children of 'travelling people', an extremely poor population group affected by social discrimination.

'Kachalka' is the name of a Ukrainian open-air fitness center in Kyiv, which consists of archaic-looking, mostly self-made exercise equipment. Bodybuilders of all ages act as a powerful and ironic visual metaphor for the spirit of optimism of those years.

This out-of-print catalog on the work of Jitka HANZLOVÁ gathers together her most important series from 1990 until those from the early 2020s. The photographs by the Czech photographer are equally captivating for their objectivity and their empathy.

'In Case It Rains in Heaven' by Kurt TONG shows the Chinese tradition of burning incense paper to influence ancestor's afterlife positively. Increasingly elaborated 'spirit money' represents the wishes of the living in an increasingly Westernized society.

In out-of-print photo book 'Illuminance', Rinko KAWAUCHI continues her investigation of the particular in the everyday, magically drawn to the fundamental cycles of life and the seemingly unintentional, fractal-like order of nature in formal structures.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21,5 x 31 x 1,5 cm., 112 pp., 50 color ills., bilingual text: English / fFench

'The Unseen Saul Leiter' shows for the first time 76 rediscovered works from an extraordinary photographic treasure trove of more than 40,000 color slides left by the American photographer at his death, only a fraction of which ever saw the light of day.

The photo volume'Tokyo Jazz Joints' by Northern Irish photographer Philip ARNEILL and James Catchpole documents the culture of disappearing jazz pubs and cafes in Japan / Tokyo, the Jazu Kissa, where jazz records are played and time seems to stand still.

'Arctic Heroes' by Ragnar AXELSSON takes a moving look at the fate of the Greenland sled dog. Where the melting ice sheet is irrevocably destroying the traditional way of life of the hunters, global warming is an immediate threat to their daily survival.

'Twentysix Houses Along Waldeggstrasse' by Otto HAINZL quotes the artist book 'Twentysix Gasoline Stations' by Ed RUSCHA. The b/w images by the Austrian show the empty buildings of a street in Linz as well as the social dramaturgy of urban development.