Spector Books

In 'Ukrainian Night', Miron ZOWNIR documents drug addicts from Poltava, homeless people at Kiev Central Station, street children in Odessa & Chernivtsi, revealing the profound fault lines in Ukrainian society that were already heralding the revolution.

In out-of-print volume 'Trona. Armpit of America' by Tobias ZIELONY, self-staging of the protagonists plays an important role. Through the intensive contact between him and them, relationships develop that make the subjects less shy in front of the camera

'Wolfen' by Tobias ZIELONY combines several levels: images from Wolfen-Bitterfeld; their storage in archive film format and a text that oscillates between essay & science fiction. Darkness is thematized here on a biographical, physical & historical level.

The volume 'Vele' by Tobias ZIELONY is based on his animation film about the building complex 'Le Vele di Scampia', a symbol of the Camorra’s power in the Naples region and a key centre of European drug trafficking with an selection of 287 single images.

The six-volume publication 'The Fall' accompanied the retrospective on Tobias ZIELONY. Each volume show two to four works in their entirety and are accompanied by a text that provides a counterpoint to these works in the form of an essay or a narrative.

The six-volume publication 'The Fall' accompanied the retrospective on Tobias ZIELONY. Each volume show two to four works in their entirety and are accompanied by a text that provides a counterpoint to these works in the form of an essay or a narrative.

In the out-of-print volume 'Maskiovka', German photographer Tobias ZIELONY documents the gay techno scene in Kiev, Ukraine. Maskirovka' alludes to a Russian method of deceptive warfare.

In 'Manitoba', Tobias ZIELONY documents the lives of young indigenous gang members in Winnipeg. In the tradition of classic photojournalism, he makes use of various genres: portraits of gang members, architectural shots and views of the urban landscape.

'Jenny, Jenny' is not documentary: ZIELONY avoids the journalistic impetus for certainty & truth. To him, the authenticity of the subject is as relevant as the question of the objectivity of the documentary image: both are never free of dramatic elements.

Andreas HORLITZ, Wolfgang SCHULZ, Miron ZOWNIR - Broschierte Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 22 x 28 x 2 cm., 240 S., 130 S/W-Abb. & 19 Farb-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!