Africa

'Dark Atlas' by Perttu SAKSA, combines documentary images with still lifes and abstract photographs that locate the subject of energy as a structural element of our society. Oil and fuel become as tangible as the problems caused by dependence on them.

HC (without dust jacket, as issued), 25 x 31 cm., 96 pp., color ills., text language: English

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 20 x 26 x 1,5 cm., 105 pp., richly illustrated, text language: English

In 'Congo (Belge)' follows Belgian Magnum photographer Carl de KEYZER with the help of an old travel guide from 1958 the relics of an organizational structure that once served the Belgian colonial power to effectively exploit the country and its people.

This volume presents the photographic work of the Spanish documentary photographer Cristina de MIDDEL, who became internationally known in 2012 for her self-published photo book 'The Afronauts' and is now a member of the Magnum photographers agency.

This out-of-print photo volume 'This empty world' by Nick BRANDT contains dramatically staged photographs that bring together and reveal animals and people in East Africa as victims of environmental destruction in an emotionally powerful, cinematic way.

Out-of-print volume 'In and Out of Fashion' by Viviane SASSEN presents the full range of her visual language: harsh contrasts in the play of light & shadow, bright colors & expressive poses - fashion photography as a work of art, designed by Sybren KUIPER

'Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea' on the work of Pieter HUGO contains 'Rwanda 2004', 'Looking aside', 'The Hyena Men...', 'Permanent Error', 'There's A Place in Hell For Me and My Friends', 'Nollywood', 'Kin', '1994' & 'Californian Wildflowers'.

Out-of-print photo book 'Aftermath' by Jörn VANHÖFEN captures rapidly changing places in a peculiarly poetic way: the Chicago Stock Exchange, Cape Town's townships, forest fires in Puglia, Detroit's abandoned factories and the scrap yard in the Ruhr area.

The winning title of the First Book Award 2017. 'Nothing's in Vain' is a journey through Dakar, a metropolis in constant change. It is the photographer's answer to the experience of being uprooted and disoriented in the vibrant Senegalese capital in 2011.