Gost Books

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21,5 x 28,5 x 1,5 cm., 96 pp., 44 color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 650 copies

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.

As a continuation of the Old and the New Testaments of the Bible, this volume, 'The Last Testament' by Norwegian photographer Jonas BENDIKSEN, presents visual accounts and stories of seven men around the world who claim to be the Second Coming of Jesus'.

'Mischling 1' by Sara DAVIDMANN deals with the fate of a family during the Holocaust. Through family photographs, propaganda, artworks, texts and documentation past & present are interwoven to reveal personal and collective stories of loss and survival.

'Pittsburgh 1950' by Elliott ERWITT contains photographs taken in 1949/1950. The pictures, which capture the spirit of the city's architecture and people, were thought to be lost until the negatives were recovered at the Pittsburgh Photographic Library.

In 2009 Karolina GEMBARA traveled to Delhi for studies in photography. Over the following seven years, she experienced the transition of two phases of life: from the loneliness of a life that is perceived as provisional to another life of firm belonging.

Different coloured HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 26 x 4 cm., color & b/w ills., 1,565 gr., text language: English

In 'SPUD', Brian GRIFFIN explores the relationship between potatoes and those soldiers who were killed in the same place some 100 years ago. 'SPUD', the informal word for potato, was also used for British soldiers of low rank during the First World War.

This photo volume, 'Leave and Let Us Go', presents a portrait of Iraq. Alexandra Rose HOWLAND combines her own photographs with found images and written testimonies. Her aim is to challenge and expand the ways that geopolitical events are communicated.

'The Parallel State' by Guy MARTIN is the result of a multi-layered project that began as an investigation of the Turkish soap opera & film industry and evolved over the project's course into a semi-fictional study of truth, reality & lies in Turkey today