Migration

'Omo Change' by Fausto PODAVINI deals on Omo River & The Gibe III dam which disrupts the balance of one of the most incredible areas in Africa in the name of development, by diverting a local resource for profit of local elites & international investors.

Based on the federal popular initiative 'Against Mass Immigration', the photo book 'How to secure a Country' by migrant Salvatore VITALE explores where the Swiss need for security originates from and how it became an essential part of their culture.

2nd print run, HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 32 x 2 x 24.5 cm. (9¾ x 12½ inch.), 232 pp. (28 double gatefolds), b/w ills., text language: English

SC (swiss binding, no dustjacket, as issued), 24 x 16,5 x 1 cm., 72 pp., 58 b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 250 copies

The out-of-print photo volume 'Luc Delahaye 2006 2010' indicate an approach, where the unromantic clarity of the documentary style contradicts the dramatic intensity of the 'tableau' form, to reflect on the relationship between art, history & information.

Limited edition volume 'Cargó' by Igor POSNER represents an exploration of the psyche of migration. Stored as in a suitcase, the images inside represent fragments of life as well as layers of memory: a repository for an intimate, yet collective existence.

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

In the photo book 'Migration as Avantgarde' - from an Hannah Arendt essay (1943) - Michael DANNER combines his own photos and texts with historical recordings to create a multi-layered narrative that is repeatedly broken up in terms of design and content.

The photo volume 'Odysseia' by Antoine D'AGATA deals with the undignified migration practices of European governments. It contains depressing photos and images from videos, as well as statistical data and texts by Bruno Le Dantec and Rafael Garido.

For 'Talashi' Alexis CORDESSE has spent three years in France, Germany as well as Turkey collecting personal images of people who have fled Syria. At the intersection of intimacy and history, this photo volume deals with the circulation of imagesin exils.

Deutsche Ausgabe, broschiertes Exemplar ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschcenen), 21,5 x 27 x 2,5 cm., 256 S., S/W & Farbbabb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - HERE GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

Self published photo volume 'Provisional Life' by Icelandic photographer Rannveig EINARSDOTTIR is the result of a project about refugees living in German refugee homes. It comes as a arge format leporello with a (rather hidden) German/English text pages.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued) in plastic bag, 16 x 24 x 0,5 cm., 46 pp, color ills., Ltd. to 350 copies

'Border Cantos' by Richard MISRACH is a unique melding of the artist as documentarian and interpreter. It includes several suites of photographs drawn from a number of distinct series or 'Cantos,' some made with a large-format camera as well as an iPhone.

'American Geography' by Matt BLACK marks the culmination of a long-running series on the U.S.A. The Magnum photographer created an inventory with meticulously composed photos, especially the cities in the periphery as well as the everyday precariousness.

In his now out-of-print photo volume 'America', Ulrich GEBERT documents the living conditions of African migrants around the orange harvest in Spain. The photo book closes with a trilingual text contribution (in English, Spanish, German) by Jens Kastner.

The long-time project by the Ostkreuz photographer documents the emptiness of the refugee accommodation H8 - not a place, but only a street and a stream in the middle of the forest. Three years behind closed curtains - outside the beautiful Black Forest.

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.

HC, 18,5 x 23,5 cm., 360 pp.,