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'Tolyatti' is a visual and scientific exploration of society and common spaces in post-Soviet cities. This is about Tolyatti, the largest planned industrial city in the Soviet Union and the most typical example of a mono-industrial city in today's Russia.

2nd print run, HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 16 x 22,5 x 2,5 cm., 168 pp., 79 dutone ills., bilingual text: English / French

In his photo book 'Hereafter' Federico CLAVARINO works to deconstruct his family's narrative, shaped by colonial discourse. He places archive photographs and current images in a dialectical relationship with each other to show the continuity of the empire

'La Résidence' by JH ENGSTROEM, consists of 29 snapshot-like triptychs interspersed with his typically restrained images on borderless double-page spreads and brief diary commentary. JH intends to make the absurdity of human existence profoundly tangible.

This self-published volume 'Obval' by Ukrainian photographer Kirill GOLOVCHENKO refers to a development in his home country. There, the currency 'Hryvnia' lost so much value in two decades that this amounted to a crash/crash. This volume is his answer.

In his photographic volume 'By Lamplight / I lampans sken', Swedish photographer Johan SUNDGREN has documented his work as a caregiver in a nursing home. Through the close relationships formed during daily work, the photos convey real privacy.

Walter BOJE was an important pioneer and scholar of early color photography in Germany. After editing his archives out-of-print book 'Geburtstag' was published to celebrate his 100th birthday presenting some of his most beautiful and best color pictures.

For out-of-print volume 'Schrott', two photographers each documented an industrial site in the Ruhr region: Joachim BROHM in the port of Duisburg (1993), Ralf KREUELS took night shots in Duisburg-Rheinhausen as well as in the port of Dortmund (1996/1997).

The photographic book 'Roger the Rat' by US-American photographer Roger BALLEN is the result of a project created between 2015 and 2020. In oppressive images, we witness scenes torn from their everyday gestures that deconstruct aspects of human existence.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 25,5 x 30,5 x 3 cm., 320 pp., highly b/w illustrated, English