2000s

Edited and designed by Hans GREMMEN, this photographic volume 'Achive' on the work of Bertien van MANEN offers a unique insight and overview of the history of the Dutch photographer, making this publication the ultimate reference work on her work.

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.

'Tokyo on the Brink of Sanity' by Yoshio MIZOGUCHI shows the hustle & bustle of Tokyo from the late 70s to the 2010s, when the disappearance of the bubble began to permeate life in Tokyo. His street photography here moves between the erotic & the mundane.

On the Shortlist 2021. Katherine LONGLY met Blieke, Nicole and their dog 'Plume' one December evening. From then on, they invited the photographer to parties and told her about their fascinating lives. 'Hernie & Plume' is also about aging and true love.

'Chicago', BROOMBERG & CHANARIN offer a visual analysis of contemporary Israel beginning in Chicago and ending in a sniper's lair. Nothing here is what it seems. A watermelon is revealed to be a suicide bomb and a pastoral landscape becomes a warzone.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 27 x 24,5 x 2 cm., 123 pp., 93 color ills., text language: English

Gunkanjima is the nickname of a small Japanese island which was inhabited by over 5,000 workers from the local coal mine in the 1950s. Yves MARCHAND & Romain MEFFRE documented the current situation and combined their photos with photos of the living past.

The catalog on Sergey BRATKOV, titled 'Glory Days', contains images from 1997 to 2007- an idiosyncratic mix of reportage & staged photography. It places his work in the context of recent photographic art and the social environment in Russia and in Ukraine

HC with dust jacket, 18 x 23 x 1,5 cm., 96 pp., 44 color full-paged ills., minimal bilingual text: English / Japanese.

'The Best Days' by Seung-Woo YANG is an early work, photographed between 1999 to 2006 during his studies in Tokyo. Driven by the suicide death of his comrade, he documented his life trajectory and people around him while he traveled between Japan & Korea.