Middle east

This photo volume, 'Leave and Let Us Go', presents a portrait of Iraq. Alexandra Rose HOWLAND combines her own photographs with found images and written testimonies. Her aim is to challenge and expand the ways that geopolitical events are communicated.

During the work on the book 'As it may be', Bieke DEPOORTER gradually became aware of her status as an outsider - culturally and as a photographer. So she traveled back to Egypt with a book dummy and invited people to write comments directly on the photos

The book 'Hommage' for the retrospective on the work of Inge MORATH shows the whole spectrum and the - perhaps feminine? - subtlety of her work. An autobiographical speech she gave in Berlin is the main text of the German-English accompanying publication.

Volume No.6 of the book series 'Grosse Photographern unserer Zeit' (Great Photographers of Our Time) presents the work of Swiss Magnum photographer Werner BISCHOF (1916-1954) in over 80 b/w images - works in the area of tension between art and reportage.

'The Eyes of the Earth' by Solmaz DARYANI shows a self-taught photographer's personal view of the disappearing Lake Urmia. Fading childhood memories prompted her to document what remains of the second largest salt lake on earth - an ecological catastrophe

In this very personal and impressive out-of-print photographic volume 'From Galilee to the Negev' the renowned US-American photographer Stephen SHORE turns to Israel and the Palestinian territories of the West Bank in his unmistakable documentary style.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 13,5 x 20,5 cm., 200 pp., color ills., English

An artistic documentary photo project about landscapes and urban spaces in Israel. The project is published as a 32pp newspaper. It combines landscape photographs with quotes from various authors on the politicization of the landscape in Israel/Palestine.

The Canadian photographer Edward BURTYNSKY researched and photographed the oil industry and culture for the photo book 'Oil'. These images show how the world is made possible by this energy resource and the effects of industrial evolution.

The black-and-white images in the out-of-print 'Sahraouis. Existences-Résistances' by Rogério FERRARI are the result of a month and a half of living together in the Sahara refugee camps in Tindouf in Algeria as well as in the liberated area of Tifariti.