Globalization

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 28 x 22 cm., 96 pp., 60 color ills., bilingual: German / English

For 'Under the Light of the North' Otto Olaf BECKER uses landscape photography as well as the coffee table format to reach the intellect through beauty. With a sharpened eye he shows the wounds that man has torn through the overexploitation of the earth.

Photographs by Nina BERMAN, Peter BIALOBRZESKI, Guillaume BONN, Mikhael SUBOTZKY and many more

Five new volumes of the long-term book-project 'City Diary' by Peter BIALOBRZESKI were published for Paris Photo 2021. The documented cities are Dhaka, Yangon, Minsk, Belfast as well as Linz. They are offered here in one set, there are still predecessors!

'Monsanto' illuminates in form of an investigative photographic study, the facets of a chemical company. In order to establish itself globally, it presents itself as a future-oriented and salvific omnipotence. On the shortlist of the First Book Award 2016

'Der Riss' is an unusual graphic novel: a photo & travel report with authentic images as a comic. The photographer Carlos SPOTTORNO and the journalist Guillermo Abril traveled to the external border of the EU, to Melilla, the Spanish enclave in Morocco.

In 'Reading the Landscape', Olaf Otto BECKER documents the overexploitation of nature with images showing idyllic places of longing in Malaysia, Indonesia or California, as well as huge tracts of land deforested on behalf of international corporations.

In banking circles, 'PIGS' means the states Portugal, Italy, Greece & Spain. For his book, photographer Carlos SPOTTORNO took on the design of the manager's magazine 'The Economist' and integrated his own recordings in order to unite prejudice and reality

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 17 x 24 cm., 112 pp., color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 300 copies

'Here We Are Today. Das Bild der Welt in Foto- & Videokunst' shows moving facets of our world. Factual-documentary, emotional, highly explosive - characteristic positions of the artistic examination of the central questions of globalized society are shown