Portrait

For his work about farmers in Emiglia Romagna NERI was awarded the first August-Sander-Prize for portrait photography. A 'real' photo book now follows the only paperback catalog volume as a bound edition - excellent printed in the Alteburger Druckerei!

For his out-of-print photographic volume 'Ontem' (Portuguese: yesterday), André CEPEDA has studied the lives of the inhabitants of Porto, taking landscapes, interiors and portraits of people who are often hopeless and without perspective.

In the photo volume 'Berlin Pictures' by American photographer Mark STEINMETZ the hard and soft sides of Berlin are portrayed in poetic and floating images. This book contains black and white photographs from the streets of Berlin, made from 2012 to 2019.

'Retinal Shift' by Mikhael SUBOTZKY explores practice & mechanics of looking - in relation to the history of Grahamstown, the history of photographic devices as well as the artist's own history. The book was shortlisted for the ParisPhotoBook Award 2012.

Now world-famous photographers Henri CARTIER-BRESSON (France) and Paul STRAND (USA) both traveled to Mexico at a young age in the early 1930s. The out-of-print book 'Mexique 1932-34' offers the possibility of comparing their photographic work at that time

For the small photo book 'iDubai', American photographer Joel STERNFELD uses his iPhone camera to get beyond the mass media images of the emirate as Disney World on the Persian Gulf and find a human component.

For his biographical book 'Phlippe Halsman. A Photographer's Life', Henry Leutwyler explores the meaning inherent in inanimate objects. To do this, he photographed objects from Halsman's possessions - cameras, eyeglasses, as well as a series of letters.