Special book design

Limited edition photo book 'Bike Kill' shows life in a Brooklyn bike club. The French Julie GLASSBERG spent three years documenting the world of the Black Label Bike Club. The title refers to an annual celebration of bike chopping, friendship and anarchy.

In 'Book Manifest' Irma BOOM presents her vision of the nature, meaning nad relevance of the book. Based on more than 350 of her books, she shares her knowledge gained from intensive research and discusses context and relationship to the traditional book.

Small spiral bound 'Paloma al Aire' is an ethnographic documentary in which groups of men run through the countryside behind their male pigeons, observe their mating achievements, discuss the rules & decisions. From this CASES has made a photographic gem.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 19,5 x 27,5 x 1 cm. 56 pp., color ills., + print (18 x 27 cm.) + silkscreen (73 x 45 cm.). Ltd. to 15 copies

'Erna Helena Ania' by Tomasz LACZNY, tells a breathtaking, thoughts provoking story of a mother's love for her daughter, inscribed in the history of the World War II's end and its aftermath, told by a grandson, in whose life its elements sound echo like.

'Miuramisaki' is a narrow, large-format photo book in a beautiful slipcase. The six b/w photographs show the snake that the Japanese master photographer Issei SUDA encountered at home in 1975 and that has thus found its way into the world of photo books.

Out-of-print photo volume '9 Gates of No Return' by Agata GRZYBOWSKA presents nine people who, for different reasons and life choices, decided to give up their lives in the city and settle in the forests of the Bieszczady Mountains in southeastern Poland.

Facsimile. pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), ca. 20 x 25 x 1 cm., 32 pp., b/w ills., Ltd. to 250 copies with 2 different silk-screened covers (= 500 copies in total!)

In her book 'Dear Japanese', Miyuki OKUYAMA documents from a personal perspective, recording compatriots abroad. It consists of portraits, places and landscapes containing associative Japanese elements which often feel displaced within the environment.

3x slipcased pbs., 30 x 24 cm., 258 pp., b/w & color ills., text language: English