UNSEEN 2021

The book 'Von Ort zu Ort / The 12 Year Walk) by Thorsten BAENSCH is a long-term project documenting a trek through seven countries. This illustrated travelogue takes the reader on a journey marked by various leitmotifs such as danger, death, and nature

In the book 'For my Mother' Ren HANG tells in a playful way about feelings, fears as well as the loneliness of the young generation in China. His works stand for the rebellion against conventions, where nudity and sexual freedom are subject to censorship.

'I am Warning You' by Rafal MILACH is a triptych dedicated to three different border walls: the American-Mexican, Hungarian-Serbian-Croatian and the Berlin Wall. The books present an architectural overview of propaganda, control and borderline experiences

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.

In the book 'Tokyo Debugger', Shinya ARIMOTO intersperses photos of abandoned architectures as traces of past human activities, expanding the scope of his insect series - another world within Tokyo, dominated by the most successful creatives on the planet

The photographic volume 'Contravisiones' by Joan FONTCUBERTA describes the elements that erode, question and defy the logic of the photographic language itself. This selection is about the search for elements that tend to the unreal, magical and dreamlike

'Discover' by Francois DAIREAUX contains the story of a journey into the future, revealing the contrasts of a contemporary China in constant construction, with cities growing out of the ground as if by magic. With texts by sinologist Emmanuel Lingot.

The photo book 'Emotions in between Emotions' by Steve Dean MENDES invites on a journey through the art of portraiture. Inspired by the great Flemish Old Masters and the Pre-Raphaelites, he shows people with all their natural fragility and beauty of soul.

In his photo volume 'The Book of Veles', Jonas BENDIKSEN weaves together two different stories about the Macedonian city that both currently - in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign - and historically represents efforts to create disinformation and chaos.

'Ellen Thorbecke - From Peking to Paris', features rare photographs of everyday life in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Paris and the Middle East in the 1930s/40s. The photos have a lively, candid style and demonstrate an eye for the vitality of street life