Middle east

18 'Ostkreuz' photographers portrait residents of Auroville, the slums of Manila, and the center of a decaying Detroit, Ordos in China, the artificiality of Dubai, and the bombed-out buildings in Gaza. The result is a portrait of a city that is all cities

SC (no dust jacket, as issued), 16,5 x 24 cm., 96 pp., 76 color ills., appendix, bilingual: Italian / Persian, Ltd. to 150 signed & numbered copies

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.

'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), 20 x 25 x 1,5 cm., 76 pp., color ills., text language: English

'Rumors of War' by Christoph BANGERT is a personal diary of a former war photographer. He describes his inner conflict between the egoism driven feeling of doing something meaningful and the concern of his family & friends going through hell emotionally.

HC with dust jacket, 25 x 32 cm., 224 pp., b/w ills., bilingual texts: English / Persian

by Florian Ebner, Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 19 x 25 x 2 cm., 160 pp., color ills., multi-lingual texts: Arabian / German / English

Newsprint (no dust jacket or cover, as issued), 29 x 42 x 1 cm., 20 pp. color ills., text language: English