Migration

'Omo Change' by Fausto PODAVINI deals on Omo River & The Gibe III dam which disrupts the balance of one of the most incredible areas in Africa in the name of development, by diverting a local resource for profit of local elites & international investors.

Based on the federal popular initiative 'Against Mass Immigration', the photo book 'How to secure a Country' by migrant Salvatore VITALE explores where the Swiss need for security originates from and how it became an essential part of their culture.

2nd print run, HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 32 x 2 x 24.5 cm. (9¾ x 12½ inch.), 232 pp. (28 double gatefolds), b/w ills., text language: English

SC (swiss binding, no dustjacket, as issued), 24 x 16,5 x 1 cm., 72 pp., 58 b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 250 copies

Limited edition volume 'Cargó' by Igor POSNER represents an exploration of the psyche of migration. Stored as in a suitcase, the images inside represent fragments of life as well as layers of memory: a repository for an intimate, yet collective existence.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 23,5 x 19,5 x 2 cm., 128 pp., 74 ills., text language: English

In the photo book 'Migration as Avantgarde' - from an Hannah Arendt essay (1943) - Michael DANNER combines his own photos and texts with historical recordings to create a multi-layered narrative that is repeatedly broken up in terms of design and content.

The photo volume 'Odysseia' by Antoine D'AGATA deals with the undignified migration practices of European governments. It contains depressing photos and images from videos, as well as statistical data and texts by Bruno Le Dantec and Rafael Garido.

For 'Talashi' Alexis CORDESSE has spent three years in France, Germany as well as Turkey collecting personal images of people who have fled Syria. At the intersection of intimacy and history, this photo volume deals with the circulation of imagesin exils.