UNSEEN 2021

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

'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.

'Icaro' by Irene ZOTTOLA was created from leaves of a found encyclopedia, selected fragments of a novel and photographic prints made in the darkroom with liquid emulsion. The project aims to establish a parallel between bird flight and human life journey.

'Kinderszenen' by Lionel JUSSERET tries to give an insight into the intimacy of autistic children, their way of understanding space and the world. In its conception it's based on the piano work of Robert Schumann, conceived as a 'souvenir for adults'.

The focus of 'Hester' by Kumi OGURO is on scenes with female figures. The compositions are intended to stimulate the imagination and subconscious. Her photographs are a place of stillness where the mind wanders through its book of thoughts and memories.

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.

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 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.

'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

The first series by Pawel JASZCZUK, 'Sleeping Train', was created in 2004. This small volume contains full-page portraits of sleeping travelers on the Tokyo subway. A great addition to 'Tokyo Compression', 'Subway' (Bruce Davidson) and 'Manhattan Transit'

'Les Chants de L'Asphodele' by Mathias BENGUIGUI draws from history to approach the migration crisis on Lesbos: in 1922 Orthodox Greeks came to the island fleeing Atatürk's Turkey. A space opens up in which landscapes and portraits dialogue with texts.

'Charbon Blanc' contains a quiet documentary work, made in the Maurienne Valley, a largely uninhabitable 'Aluminum Valley', French Alps. Teo BECHER brings together traces of human activity and the mountain landscape photographed in the rhythm of walking.

'Mastering the Elements' by Jana HARTMANN juxtaposes alchemical writings, scientific treatises & ethical viewpoints and initiates an interdisciplinary dialogue between visual-artistic, allegorical-alchemical, philosophical as well as scientific viewpoints

'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

In the documentary photo book 'The Imaginary Republic', Polish photographer Pawel JASZCZUK, with the assistance of manga critic Kaoru NAGAYAMA, who wrote the essay, explores the Japanese penchant for erotic comics in which girls are the main characters.

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

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