40 Years laif

This photo volume, '10 Jahre Hambacher Forst', tells the stories of the people who fought for the preservation of Hambach Forest, Germany, in a combination of artistic as well as activist positions, photographs, original sounds and archive material.

29 cards in a box, 15,5 x 21 x 1 cm., Ltd. ed. to 100 copies

In 'Unresolved' Meinrad SCHADE examines how conflicts also show themselves in everyday life. The series, made in Israel & Palestine, is the continuation of his long-term project 'Krieg ohne Krieg' documenting landscapes and people in the grip of conflicts

In 2015, World Press Award winner Peter BIALOBRZESKI returned to his hometown Wolfsburg to document the changes that the city has undergone since he left many years ago. 'Wolfsburg Diary' is part of the ongoing international 'Diary' photo book series.

In 'Hong Kong Flora', Michael WOLF turns his attention to plants and flowers in the urban jungle of the Asian metropolis. Each leaf, each branch, each flower a visible sign of the power of nature and people´s single-mindedness, to customize their habitat.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 15,5 x 21 x 1 cm., 80 pp., 64 color ills., no text, details in English, Ltd. to 500 copies

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 19 x 28 cm., 124 pp., color ills., text language: text language: English

The book 'Calcutta' contains photoworks by twenty-one photographers who, under the direction of Peter BIALOBRZESKI, have documented the disappearing, crumbling splendor of this incomparable cultural heritage as part of the 'Kolkata Heritage Photo Project'

Re-edit, HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 25 cm., 112 pp., col. ills, text language: English

HC with dust jacket, 33 x 25,5 x 2 cm., 88 pp., 34 color ills., bilingual text: German / English

Pb.(no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 32 x 1 cm., 36 pp., b/w duplex ills.,

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 30,5 x 1,5 cm., 148 pp., color & b/w ills., bilingual texts: German / English

Cloth bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 15,5 x 21 x 2 cm., 152 pp., color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 500 copies

'American' by Werner AMANN, is the result of a long-term project. Portraits from L.A., New York, Las Vegas, Gainesville, Miami, Kansas City, the border city Tijuana as well as the deserts of the Western alternate with travel pictures of streets & places.

'Athens Diary', the second photo book in Peter BIALOBRZESKI's ongoing 'City Diary' book project with city portraits. Here he travels to the scene of the biggest European crisis in decades to document the consequences on one of the urban centers of Greece.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 22 x 1 cm., 88 pp., 43 color ills., bilingual texts: German / English

Limitierte Ausgabe mit Print! Gebundene Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag, wie erschienen, 21,5 x 26,5 x 2,5 cm., 192 S., Farbabbildungen, deutsch-sprachiger Text - ONLY GERMAN!

In his atmospheric photo volume 'Nail Houses', Peter BIALOBRZESKI records buildings in China that are about to be demolished. For outsiders, the color photographs taken in the evening convey a feeling of homeliness, despite the cracks in the walls.

SC (no dust jacket, s issued), 19 x 32 x 0,5 cm., 24 pp., color ills., Ltd. to 750 copies

Hard covered leporello, 16,5 x 23 x 1,5 cm., 68 pp., 32 pictures, handfolded in accordeon style, Ltd. to 150 copies

Five pages, 42 x 56 cm., shipping as median folded pages, Ltd. to 1,000 copies (only 200 copies worldwide to buy)

The 'Minsk Diary' by Peter BIALOBRZESKI contains full-page color photographs of Europe's 11th most populous city, administrative capital of the 'Commonwealth of Independent States' (CIS), and the capital of the Belarusian Republic in former Soviet Union.

In the photo book 'Migration as Avantgarde' - from an Hannah Arendt essay (1943) - Michael DANNER combines his own photos and texts with historical recordings to create a multi-layered narrative that is repeatedly broken up in terms of design and content.

In his book 'Revier', a photographic essay about home and loss, Matthias JUNG mixed portraits and photographs of objects that, like people, have had to move to new homes and, like archaeological finds, tell of a life that is in danger of being forgotten.

'Give my regards to Elizabeth' is Peter BIALOBRZESKI's first photo book - clearly influenced by British color photography of the 1980s. Now, 27 years after the hand-made copies, the Trade Edition followed as facsimile in the original layout.

The tenth volume of the 'City Diary' book series by Peter BIALOBRZESKI, 'Kochi Diary', documents everyday life in a city in the Indian state of Kerala. The color photos show the looseness of a photographer who has already worked in many emerging countries

'Paradise Now' by Peter BIALOBRZESKI presents fragments of nature in the artificially illuminated infrastructure of major Asian cities. In the sun from car headlights and illuminated skyscrapers, the urban green alternates between hyperreal and surreal.

Out-of-print 'Hong Kong Umbrella' by Michael WOLF shows umbrellas in the Back Alleys. The cover also refers to the yellow umbrella as a symbol of protest against Chinese appropriation; images of the 'Umbrella Revolution' by Lam Yik FEI can also be seen.

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 22 x 1,5 cm., 88 pp., color ills., text language: English

HC with dust jacket, 21,5 x 28 x 2 cm., 168 pp., color & 128 b/w ills.,

Arabian Edition! HC (no dust jacket, as issued) in accordeon style, 23 x 16,5 x 3 cm., 68 pp., 32 ills., no text, Ltd. to 150 copies

The atmospheric images in Michael LANGE's photo book 'Cold Mountain' combine the quiet majesty of mountain landscapes with fleeting moments of nature perception.
 How do we perceive what we see, and how do we find ways to express feelings in pictures?

In the book 'Lost in Transition' Peter BIALOBRZESKI examines the change in urban places, often located on the periphery of cities. The color photographs describe the appearance of this transition: from the old to the new, from the familiar to the abstract

HC (without dust jacket, as issued), 15,5 x 20,5 x 1 cm., 88 pp., 59 color ills., text language: English

In his 'Wuhan Diary', Peter BIALOBRZESKI turns his gaze on the Chinese city of Wuhan. His pictures - taken between February 22 and March 12, 2017 - show a pulsating city with over 19 million inhabitants, which has to cope with its own rapid development.

In the 'Osaka Diary' photo book, Peter BIALOBRZESKI focuses on the traditional economic center of Japan and one of the largest metropolitan regions in the world. The pictures in the 10th volume of his 'City Diary' series show a city in constant change.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 25 x 2 cm., 112 pp., color ills., text language: English

During the war and after its end, hundredthousands makeshift homes were built in Germany. In their self-published photo book 'Behelfsheim', HIRSCH & MEUSER document a type of house that has survived to this day and where post-war history becomes visible.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 28 x 38 x 3 cm., 496 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 30 x 22,5 x 2 cm., 128 pp., 56 color ills., English / German

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 19,5 x 27 x 2 cm., 124 pp., 58 color ills., 6 b/w drawings, Englisch

HC, 22 x 27 cm., 264 pp., 161 color ills., bilingual text: English / German

HC with foil stamped title and tipped-in image on back cover (no dust jacket, as issued), 30,5 x 24,5 cm., 168 pp., approx. 70 color ills., bilingual text: German / English

'Belfast Diary' by Peter BIALOBRZESKI documents a city that has suffered considerably from the violence associated with the Ireland's division. The photographs were taken in 2017, before the Brexit and the feared consequences for the fragile peace process

Out of print photo volume 'Informal Arrangements' by German photographer Peter BIALOBRZESKI' shows inside views of South African slum huts. The color photographs were taken in 2009 in Kliptown, a suburb of Soweto, before the coming 2010 Soccer World Cup.

Published in newspaper format, '40 Jahre laif. 40 Positionen dokumentarischer Fotografie' is both an exhibit and a catalog of the exhibition of the same name, which celebrates the anniversary of the German photographers agency from Cologne.

Re-edit, HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 25 x 2 cm., 112 pp., color ills., text language: English

Swiss bound pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 14 x 21 x 1 cm., 112 pp., color ills., Ltd. to 500 copies

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!

HC, 30,5 x 25 cm., 96 pp., 55 ills., German/English