2010s

'Hidden Islam' by Nicoló DEGIORGIS shows Muslim places of prayer in Northern Italy. First architectural documentation until the interiors are 'discovered'. Important in connection with '9/11' and the consequences for the Christian-Muslim relationship.

In out-of-print photo volume 'Matriarchs', Austrian photographer Maria HAAS focuses on the investigation of cultures in which women have a special status. She opens these cultures to the viewer and captures their beauty and vitality in sensitive portraits

In his photo book 'Ctrl-X', Kai LÖFFELBEIN explores the use of limited resources and documents the path of e-waste from Europe and the USA to the post-apocalyptic Agbogbloshie (Ghana), the e-waste city Guiyu (China) and the backyard workshops of New Delhi

HC with dust jacket & obi, 26,5 x 26,5 x 3 cm., 324 pp., b/w ills., bilingual texts: Japanese / English

The artist volume 'Poemotion 2' by Takahiro KURASHIMA is the continuation of 'Poemotion 1'. New in this volume is the use of color. The viewer can playfully discover how optical overlaps between figures & shapes are created, set in motion, disappear again

The photo book 'Alternative Moons' is the first joint artist volume by Robert PUFLEB & Nadine SCHLIEPER about how a sudden journey began into a world of truth and narrative, of illusion and imagination, you are the cosmonaut exploring the inside.

'Ikonar. Archival Constellations' contains a large number of materials by Josef KOUDELKA from the years 1960 to 2012 as well as important series from his photographic work together with seven thematic constellations derived from the logic of his archive.

With his book with analogue color photographs, 'Enter the Forest', Alexandre Miguel MAIA continues a tradition that sees the forest as a recurring theme in photography. The book was printed on certified recycled paper and produced entirely in Germany.

In her out-of-print volume 'LAND', Dutch photographer Laura van SEVEREN expands the concept of landscape photography to include abstraction; In addition, their work includes an industrial-economic-critical aspect. This makes the work a relevant photo book

In 2019, Daido MORIYAMA spontaneously decided to publish photographs from Yokohama, the 2nd largest city in Japan, where he had had 'a good time' during the summer. The b/w material was enough for two volumes, 'Akai Kutsu' volume 1 & 2 in the same format.

HC, 15 x 20 cm., 128 pp., 100 ills., bilingual text: German / ENglish

The photographs in the book 'Hey! Hattori' by Yasushi MORI illustrate the love spun together by the Japanese photographer and his pet cat Hattori-kun, who fled Futaba, a town in Fukushima when the Great East Japan Earthquake devastated the region in 2011.

In her photo volume titled 'Veiled. Too busy being awesome', Saskia AUKEMA deals with the niqab: the face veil. Here she shows a world that remains forever hidden from most. Interview fragments add depth to the photos, for which she was awarded in 2016.

In the photo book 'China Dream', which bears the name of a patriotic calendar, we take part in the study by exiled Chinese photographer Teresa ENG about the contrast between cultural knowledge about China and the reality of a country in constant change.

Record #40 consists of photographs that Daido MORIYAMA took in French capital, Paris, in 2018. Near Saint-Michel, Rue Mouffetard and around 'Moulin Rouge', his thoughts drifted back thirty years to the time when he lived for a short period in Paris.

'Post script' by Laura EL-TANTAWY, designed by Sybren KUIPER in accordeon format, contains previously unpublished images & written reflections in which she takes the reader behind the images and into the thoughts and emotions that led to their creation.

Photo volume 'Land' is a result of Lorenzo CASTORE's artist's stay in Gliwice, which witnessed events that erupted with the Second World War II. 'Land' is a summary of his wanderings, a photographic travel diary that focuses on the history of the people.

'Labour book. 2014-2015' by Ukrainian photographer Kirill GOLVCHENKO is to be understood as a criticism of the economic situation in his home country. Against the background of the original document of his father, he shows the true situation of pensioners

The photo volume 'Monochrome' contains a fine selection of very contrasting contemporary black and white photographs by Daido MORIYAMA, taken in the years between 2008 and 2012. The volume complements its simultaneously published counterpart 'Color'.

'The Disappeared' by ambitous photo book editor contains portraits of people who disappeared in Argentina. It is a political bond that wants to keep the memory of these people alive. Printed on thin paper, it is primarily an inexpensive photo book item.

This photo volume, '10 Jahre Hambacher Forst', tells the stories of the people who fought for the preservation of Hambach Forest, Germany, in a combination of artistic as well as activist positions, photographs, original sounds and archive material.

Based on a classic landscape tradition, carefully composed 5x4 photographs are given a special effect by increasing the color & composition. Especially in moments when the expected narrative is roughly often gross due to pollution or destruction of nature

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 17 x 23 cm., 112 pp., 101 color ills., text language: English

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 30,5 x 2 cm., 240 pp., 184 color & 1 b/w ills., bilingual text: German / English

'Nachtfahrt. A Taxi Blues' by Josef ŠNOBL shows the happiness & misery of the cab business in poignant pictures, unbelievable events and observations. A unique insight into the phenomenon of the big city between drunks, celebrities and business travelers.

This new edition of 'Once, Still and Forever' (original released in 2013) is limited to 1,000 signed copies. BACKHAUS proves her infallible instinct for picture compositions that open up a cosmos of unforeseen meanings in the midst of loving familiarity.

'Proof' by Tomasz GUDZOWATY is an attempt to utilize the aesthetics of chance hidden in the waste products of Polaroid Type 55 film. This was cult among those who used large format cameras because it produced positive instant prints as well as negatives.

German photographer and father Oliver RASCHKE is grateful to have had the opportunity to experience and document his family life. His volume 'The World Ain't Enough' represents the first 10 years of his sons' lives. Time is racing. The conquest continues.

HC with a special "jacket", 16 x 22,5 x 1,5 cm., 88 pp., color ills., Spanish / English / Turkish

In 'Unresolved' Meinrad SCHADE examines how conflicts also show themselves in everyday life. The series, made in Israel & Palestine, is the continuation of his long-term project 'Krieg ohne Krieg' documenting landscapes and people in the grip of conflicts

Inspired by military manuals, American ex-soldier Ben Brody's diary-like photo book 'Attention Servicemember' is a passionate exploration of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

'Krystyna's World', includes 37 color photographs by Todd HIDO, both published and previously unpublished material, from intimate photos to succinct large format images. The Khrystyna model can always be seen in the various scenes, hence the book title.

For his volume 'Wall and Peace', Kai WIEDENHÖFER has documented walls and barrier fences all over the world: in Berlin, Belfast, Mexico, Ceuta & Melilla, in Baghdad and the wall on the border line with the West Bank, with the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Egypt.

The photographic volume 'Yajiri' by the Japanese photographer Akihide TAMURA, limited to 300 signed and numbered copies, contains fifteen color photographs of flying military aircraft at a U.S. air base near Tokyo.

'Jenny, Jenny' is not documentary: ZIELONY avoids the journalistic impetus for certainty & truth. To him, the authenticity of the subject is as relevant as the question of the objectivity of the documentary image: both are never free of dramatic elements.

For her out-of-print book 'Sailboats and Swans', Michal CHELBIN portrayed prison inmates in Ukraine & Russia. The portraits oscillate between strangeness and reality. The title refers to the wallpaper that often adorns walls and hallways of these prisons.

Out-of-print 'The Peace Weary' by Diana SCHERER and Menno Wigman was created after 'A Murder in Rotterdam' with police photographs from 1905 to 1967. Independently of each other, both were inspired by the photographs and developed this joint book project.

For her self-published, out-of-print photo volume 'Plánētes', German photographer Birgit KRAUSE trusts her unusual gaze completely and finds a new foreign country in reality. It is as if you are looking at images from an astronomical voyage of discovery.

The out-of-print book 'PKIN' (Pałac Kultury i Nauki) by Jacek FOTA deals about a huge communist building in Warszaw. It contains 70 color photographs and 10 pages of personal notes based on staff interviews. The book design is made by Ania NALECKA-MILACH.

The volume 'Vele' by Tobias ZIELONY is based on his animation film about the building complex 'Le Vele di Scampia', a symbol of the Camorra’s power in the Naples region and a key centre of European drug trafficking with an selection of 287 single images.

by Fred Ritchie and Carole Naggar (eds), HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21,5 x 29 x 3 cm., 272 pp., 1,600 ills., text language: English

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

In 2015, World Press Award winner Peter BIALOBRZESKI returned to his hometown Wolfsburg to document the changes that the city has undergone since he left many years ago. 'Wolfsburg Diary' is part of the ongoing international 'Diary' photo book series.

Photo book 'The Silence of Dogs in Cars' by Martin USBORNE contains billboards of dogs silently peering through car windows. The staged photos evoke a mood of loneliness & longing. Yet they are less about dog portraits and more about separation in general

The photo book 'Street Portraits' by Dawoud BEY contains portraits taken with a large format camera and a unique positive/negative Polaroid film. The photos depict the self-expression & performance of a cross-section of the population in an urban setting.

In his photo volume 'Songbook', the US-American Magnum photographer Alec SOTH shows images detached from their news context and in them reveals the longing for connection to one's own roots. The photo book title was printed in three editions.

Haunting, distorted and otherworldly images in the out-of-print volume 'Site/Cloud' epitomizes the approach of Daisuke YOKOTA to pushing the development process & possibilities of analog image making, introducing imperfections and visual noise into them.

HC (flexicover), 24 x 33 cm., 548 pp., 283 color & 186 b/w ills., text language: English

2nd print run, Swiss broschure (no dust jacket, as issued). 21,5 x 27 x 1 cm., 48 pp., 24 color ills., no text, Ltd. to 400 copies (+ 50 copies for the first ed. of 2017)

Adolescence is the subject of the photographic volume 'Bärenmädchen' (Bear Girls) by German photographer Ute BEHREND. She tells the story of a fictional 'Indian tribe' that separates its adolescent girls and draws parallels to our society.