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Perfect Day' by Txema SALVANS shows Spain's holidaymakers in unexpected corners of the post-industrial landscape.The pursuit of leisure time defies the built environment with a deeply human determination to find peace against all odds.

'Polis' - 'the city', as the Greeks simply called Istanbul became 2015 an experience that went far beyond the purely geographical division. SCHWERTFEGER shows the scars of the city and her roughness - a portrait of the metropolis beyond the usual clichés.

HC with dust jacket, 30,5 x 30,5 x cm., 56 pp., b/w ills., bilingual text: Japanese & English, Ltd. to 400 copies

This 11th 'Des Oiseaux' photo book contains a new series Paolo PELLEGRIN. During a stay in Japan, he was impressed by the majesty of a colony of eagles. His photos from invite into a mysterious and ghostly world where only the animal presence reigns.

HC in Japanese paper (no dust jacket as issued), 22 x 28 x 1 cm., 96 pp., 58 tritone ills., text language: English

'Chargesheimer im Zoo', contains b/w shots of animals & people at the Cologne Zoo. The volume by the Cologne photographer contains unknown photographs, shown for the first time, from a time when a visit to the zoo was still one of the year's highlights.

The photo volume 'Versuch der Rekonstruktion einer vergangenen Zeit' presents for the first time b/w photos by free jazz pioneer Sven-Åke JOHANSSON taken in the 1960s & 1970s. They condense into a personal as well as laconic inventory of an analogue time.

The very small photo book, 'Until death do us part', comes in an original box for cigarettes. It alludes to the role that cigarettes play in Chinese weddings: as a sign of appreciation, it is common for the bride to light a cigarette for every man invited

1st print run, Swiss bound pb., 17 x 24 x 2 cm., 178 pp., 22 b/w & 118 color ills.), text language: English. Ltd. to 750 copies

HC, 26 x 28 cm., 200 pp.