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The book 'Turning Back' by Robert ADAMS documents and observes the results of greed so unrestrained that they are indistinguishable from those of nihilism. It reflects what was lost, what is retained, and what we value as a people with a common history.

In the Soviet era, Ukrainian waiters asked 'tea or coffee?' The addition is an expression of the economic changes that MIKHAILOV examines using the example of his hometown Kharkov. Have the promises of salvation of the 'Orange Revolution' been fulfilled?

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

In his haunting, fascinating photo essay about a dump in Ghana, South African photographer Pieter HUGO exposes the repressed downside of fast-moving consumption and tells of a community characterized by poverty and the will to survive of every individual.

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 32 x 25 x 1,5 cm. (9,5 x 12,5"), 92 pp., 58 color ills., English

In 'End of the Caliphate', Ivor PRICKETT focuses on the human struggles of the conflict against the IS state. His frontline footage, compellingly captures the experience of being caught 'in the crossfire'. He is also preoccupied with the post-war reality.

The out-of-print photo volume 'Luc Delahaye 2006 2010' indicate an approach, where the unromantic clarity of the documentary style contradicts the dramatic intensity of the 'tableau' form, to reflect on the relationship between art, history & information.

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20 x 25 x 2 cm., 120 pp., 89 color ills., text language: English

Photo volume 'When it changed' is about climate change. Future generations will wonder what our generation did when it began. That's why Joel STERNFELD traveled to Montreal in 2005 to portray the participants of the eleventh UN Climate Change Conference.

'An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar' by Taryn SIMON provides amazing insights into remote corners of the USA. With her pictures, she opens up unknown, even uncanny territories of a society whose self-image is based on being open & transparent.