Migration

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.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 17 x 24 cm., 112 pp., color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 300 copies

The photo book 'Far Away' by Ahmet UNVER examines the Turkish community that still does not feel part of Swedish society. His parents moved to Sweden as migrant workers from Turkey. The images illustrate feelings of isolation and the search for identity.

The self-published photographic volume 'Dry' by Abdo SHANAN is about migration. It is meant to question our self-image and make the viewer feel uncomfortable and uneasy, as well as doubt everything we have been told about national identity and 'belonging'

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

'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.

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

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

'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.

4 slipcased pbs., 21,5 x 16,5 x 3 cm., 240 pp., color & b/w ills., text language. English

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 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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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.