Middle east

'Anchor in the Landscape' by Adam BROOMBERG & Rafael GONZALEZ portraits olive trees in the territories of Palestine occupied by Israeli settlers. Each bears witness to the presence & resilience of the Palestinian people and their relationship to the land.

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.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued) 19,5 x 22,5 x 1,5 cm., 88 pp., 54 color ills., text language: Swedish

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.

In out-of-print volume 'This is War' Moises SAMAN shows what war really means: pain, destruction, darkness. The images are far from that reality that today's media present in the form of hypertechnical video games, as shiny and manipulated TV productions.

'Kafkanistan' by Lukas BIRK explores the world of present day tourism to conflict areas such as Afghanistan, Pakistan as well as Iran. The paperback formast contains more than 300 photos & illustrations plus a free DVD with two films and special features.

Portraits of some of the largest cities in the world. The metropolises conceived and built as vessels of human activity are transformed into monuments of silence: empty, sometimes eerie places for activity and relaxation that still have to take place.

In his out-of-print book 'Legitimacy of Landscape' Yaakov ISRAEL explors the Arab, Bedouin & Druze villages in Israel ( Palestine. It follows in the footsteps of the in the Holy Land in the 19th century active photographers Félix BONFILS & Francis FRITH.

'Polis' - 'the city', as the Greeks simply called Istanbul became 2015 an experience that went far beyond the purely geographical division. SCHWERTFEGER shows the scars of the city and her roughness - a portrait of the metropolis beyond the usual clichés.

Pb., 236 pp., 115 b/w & 100 color ills.,

In the out-of-print photographic volume 'Gaza Works', Kent KLICH documents the historical and current situation in the still contested territory beyond any sensationalist photography. Pictures from his volume 'Gaza Photo Album' are also shown in context.

HC, 25,5 x 25,5 cm. in Clamshell (28 x 28 cm.), 92 pp., color ils., text language: English, Ltd. to 1,000 numbered copies

The book 'Iran. Interupted" by Beatrice MINDA makes visible and tangible how private spaces reflect the contemporary mentality of their inhabitants as well as cultural-historical & social contexts and thus subtly articulate the socio-political dimension.

The special of the title 'The Bird Project' by Eril BERGLIN lies in its realization as a high-gloss book. The contrast between the natural, colorful plumage and the cold colors of the urban space in which the birds find themselves is particularly striking

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 29 x 34 x 2 cm., 96 pp., 80 color ills., text language: English

The topic in 'Embed in Egypt' is the Arab Spring in Egypt. Young Turkish photographer tells the complex everyday life against the background of the escalating historical development. The diary-like volume was on the shortlist of the First Book Award 2014.

Swiss bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 30 x 30 x 1,5 cm., 108 pp., 66 duplex b/w ills., text language: English

HC, 15 x 21,5 cm., o.pp., b/w ills, Ltd. to 700 copies

Paperback (no dust jacket, as issued), 16,5 x 23,5 cm., 88 pp., highly illustrated, bilinguale texts: Spanish / English

The out-of-print volume 'Buzzing at the Sill' by Peter van AGTMAEL is a collection of reflections on war, militarism, identity, family and landscape, among other things. It is both an examination of the limits of photography and a tribute to its power.

HC with coloured boards (no dust jacket, as issued), 20 x 25,5 x 1,5 cm., 72 pp., 38 color ills., text language: English

This out-of-print photo volume, 'Decreazione' by Josef KOUDELKA, designed as a leporello, accompanied the exhibition of nine large-format black and white panorama photographs that were exhibited in the Vatican pavilion during the 2013 Biennale.

The out-of-print 'Causes and Spirits' about William CARTER is both an autobiography and a study of people. Beginning in 1960it documents his travels around the world, from New York to Kurdistan, Dublin to Gaza, with landscapes that often yearn for people.

Pb (no dust jacket, as issued), 17,5 x 0,8 x 11,3 inch., 188 pp., text language: English

In 'End of the Caliphate', Ivor PRICKETT focuses on the human struggles of the conflict against the IS state. His frontline footage, compellingly captures the experience of being caught 'in the crossfire'. He is also preoccupied with the post-war reality.

by Hannah DARABI (ed.) Thread-sewn pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 33 cm., 540 pp., approx. 750 b/w & col. ills.,

In 'Gülistan' Lukas BIRK tells the story of Kenan & Filiz from Istanbul, who celebrated their lives in the city's best establishments in the 1960s and 1970s. The basis for the graphic design of the volume was the photo service offered in the institutions.

Hard covered leporello, 16,5 x 23 x 1,5 cm., 68 pp., 32 pictures, handfolded in accordeon style, Ltd. to 150 copies

HC (without dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 21,5 cm., 176 pp., b/w ills., English, Ltd. to 500 copies

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 23,5 x 19,5 x 2 cm., 128 pp., 74 ills., text language: English

Spiral bound pb., 30 x 21 cm., 240 pp., color & b/w ills., 760 gr., text language: English

'Hello Camel' by Christoph BANGERT documents the bitter absurdity of war in Afghanistan, Gaza, Darfur, Lebanon and Iraq. He contrasts the clichéd notion of modern war as a fast-paced, dramatic and heroic event with calm and tidy, strange and alien images.

Out-of-print book 'Afghanistan' by Steve McCURRY shows photos taken since 1979, when he traveled there to report on the fight of the Mujahideen against Soviet occupiers and troops loyal to the government. For that he received the 'Robert Capa Gold Medal'.

In 'An Act of Unspeakable Violence' Matthias BRUGGMANN critically examines the representation of the horrors of war. In his book he questions the codes of photojournalism and shifts the dividing lines between documentary photography & plastic photography.

HC with dust jacket, 32 x 29 cm., 208 pp., b/w ills., multi-lingual texts: English / German / French

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 22 x 28 cm., 208 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

The self-published photo volume 'Discordia' by Moises SAMAN is a personal examination of the Arab Spring. The images from Syria, Libya and Egypt gain additional dynamics through the collages by Daria Birang. Folding pages create further cross-references.

2nd print run, Leporello bound HC, 22,5 x 25 cm., 106 pp., 45 tritone plates, no text

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 30 x 20 x 2 cm., 128 pp., 87 color ills., text language: English

Arabian Edition! HC (no dust jacket, as issued) in accordeon style, 23 x 16,5 x 3 cm., 68 pp., 32 ills., no text, Ltd. to 150 copies

This volume, 'Wall' by Czech photographer Josef KOUDELKA, contains panoramic pictures of the fence separating Israel from Palestine: panoramas dotted with concrete structures, trenches, checkpoints and roadblocks, where nature sometimes defies all of this

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 25 x 33 x 2 cm., 152 pp., 74 color ills., text language: English

In the book 'Lost in Transition' Peter BIALOBRZESKI examines the change in urban places, often located on the periphery of cities. The color photographs describe the appearance of this transition: from the old to the new, from the familiar to the abstract

Out-of-print 'Settlement' by Nick WAPLINGTON investigates the topography of Jewish identity in the West Bank, which is in conflict not only with the Palestinian majority but also with mainstream Israeli society: The series was part of 'This Time' project.

SC, 22 x 31 x 2 cm., 200 pp., 90 color ills., text language: English

This portrait photo compendium, 'Mapping. Sitting' by Karl Bassil, Zeina Maasri and Akram Zaatariin cooperation with Walid RAAD contains 905 photographs from Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq, Palestine and Jordan, taken between 1920s and 1970s.

Spiral bound HC, 13 x 18,5 cm., 46 pp., 31 color ills., bilingual texts: Japanese / English, Ltd. to 150 copies

Pb., 20,5 x 27 cm., 160 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

The book 'Silk Road. 1956-1974' deals with the journeys of Emilia 'Milli' BAU with a wealth of images and text material from three decades. She traveled the Middle and Far East; the pictures and the diary-like texts describe what she saw and experienced.

The images in the book 'THEM' by Rosalind Fox SOLOMON are marked by a keen sense of life in the West Bank. They are interspersed with diary fragments revealing the humanity of each person photographed, a window into lives marked by violence & insecurity.

HC with dust jacket, 28 x 25 x 2,5 cm. (11 x 10 inch.), 228 pp., 114 color ills., text language: English

Special Edition. It comes in a folder, approx. 24 x 32 cm, hand bound + 1 signed & numbered print (ed. of 30)

Linen bound Pb (no dust jacket, as issued), 14 x 20 x 3,5 cm., 720 pp., 366 color ills., bilingual text: Arabic / English

HC with dust jacket, 32 x 28 x 3 cm., 180 pp., 131 color- & duotone b/w ills., bilingual texts: German /English

In 'No Land called Home', Wolfgang BELLWINKEL combines pictures taken in Asia meet war and post-war photographs from Afghanistan, the Middle East and the Balkans. He demonstrates a biographically oriented photography - author & global events are a unity.

'An Archeology of Fear and Desire' by Frédéric BRENNER is an attempt to recontextualize Israel, exploring longing, belonging & exclusion. It is part of a project, were participating Joseph KOUDELKA, Gilles PERESS, Stephen SHORE, Nick WAPLINGTON a.o.

This out-of-print monograph on the work of the Iraqi photographer Latif al ANI gives a very good impression of international life in the 1960s and 1970s in a metropolis in the Middle East. 112 b/w photographs in almost page-filling square format.

Reconstruction followed the civil war raging in Lebanon between 1975 and 1990. McPHERSON's color images in this publication should demonstrate that the goal of making Beirut's inner city the most beautiful city center in the Middle East has been achieved.

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.

During the work on the book 'As it may be', Bieke DEPOORTER gradually became aware of her status as an outsider - culturally and as a photographer. So she traveled back to Egypt with a book dummy and invited people to write comments directly on the photos

The book 'Hommage' for the retrospective on the work of Inge MORATH shows the whole spectrum and the - perhaps feminine? - subtlety of her work. An autobiographical speech she gave in Berlin is the main text of the German-English accompanying publication.

Volume No.6 of the book series 'Grosse Photographern unserer Zeit' (Great Photographers of Our Time) presents the work of Swiss Magnum photographer Werner BISCHOF (1916-1954) in over 80 b/w images - works in the area of tension between art and reportage.

'The Eyes of the Earth' by Solmaz DARYANI shows a self-taught photographer's personal view of the disappearing Lake Urmia. Fading childhood memories prompted her to document what remains of the second largest salt lake on earth - an ecological catastrophe

In this very personal and impressive out-of-print photographic volume 'From Galilee to the Negev' the renowned US-American photographer Stephen SHORE turns to Israel and the Palestinian territories of the West Bank in his unmistakable documentary style.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 13,5 x 20,5 cm., 200 pp., color ills., English

An artistic documentary photo project about landscapes and urban spaces in Israel. The project is published as a 32pp newspaper. It combines landscape photographs with quotes from various authors on the politicization of the landscape in Israel/Palestine.

The Canadian photographer Edward BURTYNSKY researched and photographed the oil industry and culture for the photo book 'Oil'. These images show how the world is made possible by this energy resource and the effects of industrial evolution.

The black-and-white images in the out-of-print 'Sahraouis. Existences-Résistances' by Rogério FERRARI are the result of a month and a half of living together in the Sahara refugee camps in Tindouf in Algeria as well as in the liberated area of Tifariti.

18 'Ostkreuz' photographers portrait residents of Auroville, the slums of Manila, and the center of a decaying Detroit, Ordos in China, the artificiality of Dubai, and the bombed-out buildings in Gaza. The result is a portrait of a city that is all cities

SC (no dust jacket, as issued), 16,5 x 24 cm., 96 pp., 76 color ills., appendix, bilingual: Italian / Persian, Ltd. to 150 signed & numbered copies

Published in newspaper format, '40 Jahre laif. 40 Positionen dokumentarischer Fotografie' is both an exhibit and a catalog of the exhibition of the same name, which celebrates the anniversary of the German photographers agency from Cologne.

'Chicago', BROOMBERG & CHANARIN offer a visual analysis of contemporary Israel beginning in Chicago and ending in a sniper's lair. Nothing here is what it seems. A watermelon is revealed to be a suicide bomb and a pastoral landscape becomes a warzone.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20 x 25 x 1,5 cm., 76 pp., color ills., text language: English

'Rumors of War' by Christoph BANGERT is a personal diary of a former war photographer. He describes his inner conflict between the egoism driven feeling of doing something meaningful and the concern of his family & friends going through hell emotionally.

HC with dust jacket, 25 x 32 cm., 224 pp., b/w ills., bilingual texts: English / Persian

by Florian Ebner, Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 19 x 25 x 2 cm., 160 pp., color ills., multi-lingual texts: Arabian / German / English

Newsprint (no dust jacket or cover, as issued), 29 x 42 x 1 cm., 20 pp. color ills., text language: English

The book debut 'Olay' by Magnum photographer Emin ÖZMEN is a documentation of Turkey, on the edge of violence & grace. The retrospective of his work to date includes a detailed timeline, an introduction by Turkey correspondent Zalewski and personal texts.

The self published photographic volume 'Exit Ghost' by German photographer Kai BORNHÖFT is a well editied artist book with black-and-white photographs between hard book cover form industrial building production. It deals about the Arabian city Dubai.

The book 'Hayal & Hakitat' by Cemre YESIL shows the hands of Turkish prisoners from early 20th century Turkey and are from the photo albums of Abdul Hamid II, the 34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. It consists of two parts that can be viewed side by side.

SC in slipcase, 280 pp., English

Out-of-print 'Water' by Edward BURTYNSKY documents water management infrastructures in the USA as well as in China. His images show the flourishing that civilization has achieved through water, but also how we depend on this increasingly scarce resource.

In his photo book 'Hereafter' Federico CLAVARINO works to deconstruct his family's narrative, shaped by colonial discourse. He places archive photographs and current images in a dialectical relationship with each other to show the continuity of the empire

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 28 x 23,5 x 2 cm., 238 pp., color ills., text language: English

Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 29,5 x 29,5 x 3,5 cm., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

The underlying thesis of the out-of-print, sought-after volume 'Generation Dubai. Exit, Voice and Loyalty' by Bijan KHEZRI is that the world is defined by economics, not laws. And there is hardly any other place in the world than Dubai to illustrate this.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 16 x 21 x 1,5 cm., 128 pp., b/w (intro) & color (main part) ills., English

In his out-of-print photo volume, 'Impasse Hotel Syria', Krass CLEMENT does without any text, because the pictures leave no question unanswered. The very personal travel and photo book describes the recent past of the country in pictures taken since 2001

Author Book Award 2021. The book 'Freedom Is Not Free' by Mashid MOHADJERIN, accompanies an exhibition that explores the private and public worlds of Iranian women who grew up after the 1979 revolution, and significant places from the artist's childhood.

The opulent photo volume 'Desert of Pharan. Unofficial stories behind the mass expansion of Mecca' by Ahmed MATER offers a unique access to this site and the associated social and religious rituals as well as the planned architectural urban development.

This book, 'Baghdad Calling' by Geert van KESTEREN, is an appeal to the Western coalition. It shows everyday life in Iraq in 2006/07 through hundreds of photographs taken with cell phones or digital cameras, showing places that journalists dared not enter

'Salt Pans' by Edward BURTYNSKY explores industrial landscapes all over the world. The book consists of 31 aerial color photographs of the salt pans in the Little Rann of Kutch. These striking geometric images were created over 10 days from a helicopter.

Swiss bound pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 14 x 21 x 1 cm., 112 pp., color ills., Ltd. to 450 copies, 50 signed copies

'Ha Aretz' by Roger GRASAS is carefully researched and shows photos from all the territories that belong to the Holy Land, documenting the settings of the most important narratives of the Holy Scriptures, whose relevance is also described in a booklet.