Familiar topic

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 25,5 x 19 x 1,5 cm., 140 pp., 60 b/w and colour ills., bilingual texts: English / French

Out-of-print 'Living Room' by Nick WAPLINGTON with ironic, clever color images of friends and neighbors of his grandparents in Nottingham run counter to the typical depiction of blue collar Englanders what he has referred to as downtrodden interpretation.

Handmade Pb., 24 x 32 x 1 cm., 48 pp., 37 color ills., bilingual text: English / Russian

This photo book, 'Ie no kaze' (The Winds of Home) by Japanese Rei USHIGAKI, deals with the universal search to understand what one's roots are. It functions as a conversation with a place that is foreign and at the same time the origin of one's own roots.

For 'Hundert', Olaf UNVERZART returns to his Upper Palatinate home to portray the one hundredth year of his grandmother's life. The photographer unfolds the reality of his protagonist's life in intimate close-ups of the centenarian and landscape images.

Published on the occasion of a retrospective, the out-of-print photo volume 'World from my Front Porch' by American Magnum photographer Larry TOWELL makes a poetic, moving statement about land and belonging, that central theme in his photographic work.

The subject in 'Mama & Love' by Hideka TONOMURA is her own mother: her infidelity and her affair. Her intense, intimate visual exploration of her immediate family and her own feelings may not be easy to look at, but it is an unforgettable experience.

For his photo volume 'The Queen, the Chairman and I', Kurt TONG traced his family's history. The work it reconnects him to the Hong Kong of yesteryear through his family's memories and humanizes the political-social upheavals that brought his family there

The book 'Nürnberg' by Juergen TELLER is the result of a long-term project. During his studies of the Reichsparteitag site, a place he often visited in his youth, he created a series of images that address mortality, process of birth & growth until death.

For his out-of-print photographic volume 'Ficciones', Chinese photo artist Yanchu SUN uses snapshots of family celebrations and the like taken in China in the 1970s or 1980s. He uses collages or drawings to destroy or perpetuate the stories in the photos.