Special book design

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

The skin doesn't lie: it is a person's map. Like the paper in this artist's book: it changes, creases or becomes thin and transparent. Strictly limited, various papers-containing, elaborately designed band 'body maps' of Margaret LANSINK was made by hand.

Out-of-print photo book set 'Nocturnes' explores six different photographic journeys - by Tiane Doan na CHAMPASSAK, Gert JOCHEMS, Olivier PIN-FAT, Daisuke YOKOTA, Aaron McELROY and Esther VONPLON - into ‘the night’. Different papers for each photo essay.

Loose-leaf publication in a metallic gold bag, 30,5 x 38 x 1 cm., 40 pp., color ills.,

Self-produced maquette 'Suits. London, Tokyo, New York 2007-2008 vs. Facts & Fiction 1929-2008' by Katja STUKE focuses on one single theme, suits and how they are worn. Limited to 150 copies.

The self-published photo volume 'Chapitre 2 - Claudine. A story about family, hoarding, love and loneliness' by Ariane TOUSSAINT is about great-aunt Claudine, a hoarder, old and frail. Life & home depend on the delicate balance between love and loneliness

The story is amusing, but only at first glance, because it is based on the fact that no one believes that Africa will ever reach the moon. Around fifty years later, Spanish photographer Cristina DE MIDDEL brought history back to light ...

Leporello book, 18 x 24 x 2 cm. (7,5 m. Länge), 40 pp., 38 ills., 300 gr., bilingual: English / French, Ltd. to 300 copies

In 'Book Manifest' Irma BOOM presents her vision of the nature, meaning nad relevance of the book. Based on more than 350 of her books, she shares her knowledge gained from intensive research and discusses context and relationship to the traditional book.

Small spiral bound 'Paloma al Aire' is an ethnographic documentary in which groups of men run through the countryside behind their male pigeons, observe their mating achievements, discuss the rules & decisions. From this CASES has made a photographic gem.

'Erna Helena Ania' by Tomasz LACZNY, tells a breathtaking, thoughts provoking story of a mother's love for her daughter, inscribed in the history of the World War II's end and its aftermath, told by a grandson, in whose life its elements sound echo like.

'Miuramisaki' is a narrow, large-format photo book in a beautiful slipcase. The six b/w photographs show the snake that the Japanese master photographer Issei SUDA encountered at home in 1975 and that has thus found its way into the world of photo books.

3x slipcased pbs., 30 x 24 cm., 258 pp., b/w & 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)

The book 'Absentee' by Sayuri ICHIDA deals with the transience of existence and is an impressive representation of the feeling of detachment. By juxtaposing one's own body with everyday objects, the boundary between man and the things he has created blurs

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

The leporello volume 'One Day Every Day' by Zuzana PUSTAIOVÁ is an ironic commentary on social norms. It shows the deeper layers of institutional restrictions, which are thought up by politics and passed on to the public by the media and social networks.

This photo book, 'Bonsai', is a very beautiful and elaborately designed artist's book, whose slipcase is covered with silky Japan paper. By manipulating the backgrounds & perspectives the series of the Japanese Masao YAMAMOTO gets a surrealistic touch.

The book combines the original story of the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola with the reality of a country suffering from the heavy burden of African stereotypes. MAGNUM photographer Cristina DE MIDDEL creates a gray area between documentation and fiction.

78 pictures bettween two cards, hold on one corner, 13,5 x 22 cm., 32 pp., no text, Ltd. to 100 numbered copies

Brad FEUERHELM's out-of-print photo book 'Soft Touch' includes a compilation of images taken from various magazines and 'reformatted' into a sticker album - a commentary on empathy in photography and the economics of mass distribution.

Out-of-print 'My Universe' by BAY BAY is a visual diary and an expression of her inner feelings, the struggle with her illness as well as the neglect by her family. A rare narrative from Burma (Myanmar), where alcoholism & addiction are big taboo subjects

Boxed set of 24 pp. newsprint publications, 24 x 16 x 3 cm., 96 pp., color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 1,000 copies

Loose sheets (12 A3 folded posters) between an acetate cover, 23 x 33 x 1,5 cm., 48 pp., printed on Fedrigoni Symbol Freelife Gloss 400 gr, no text

Spiral binded hard board, 22,5 x 28 cm., 56 pp., double sided photograhs in color, English, Ltd. to 400 copies

Leporello, 11 × 13,5 x 1,5 cm., 17 post cards on one printed sheet, English, Ltd. to 800 copies

'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

Unbound Pb in printed plastic bag (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 30 x 1 cm., 64 pp., +1 post card (with back side informations about designer and publisher), 21 small b/w ills., no text

Newspaper format, 29 x 38 x 0,6 cm., 16 pp., color ills., English, Ltd to 50 copies

Graphic novel 'The Fault Line' by Spaniards SPOTTORNO and Abril across the border between Austria and Italy, North Tyrol and South Tyrol as a leporello as well as a report in word and picture moves at the interface of journalism, literature and photo art.

For his self-published volume 'Am Platz ein Baum', designed as a fanfold, Björn ALLEMANN photographed for over two years at the same square (Paradeplatz) in Zurich. It is an idiosyncratic publication in which the sequence of images must be 'worked out'.

Cased pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 20,5 x 30,5 cm., 48 pp., 46 b/w ills., Ltd. to 300 copies

The volumes ‘The Path to Freedom' tell Ukraine's historical path of a struggle for freedom. They portray the important events from the 1st attempts at a revolution through its photographic language and look at photography's development during this period.

pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 18 x 22 x 1,5 cm., 88 pp., approx. 60 b/w (+1 colored) ills., short bilingual text: Ukrainian / English

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.

Based on a pocket edition of the Gospel of Matthew published in 1930, Javier VIVER recreates an illustrated Bible and uses photographs of the Spanish Civil War and the reorganization of archive images to investigate the desecration of religious models.

Open spined HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 32 x 2 cm., 172 pp., color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 750 copies

Photo book 'Season of Admin' by Silja YVETTE deals with the discomfort towards any socially organized and managed relationship with nature & things. In addition to large-format tableaux, the artist's book consists of a rich selection of different papers.

The photo book 'A les 8 al Bar Eusebi' pays tribute to the Eixample district in Barcelona and its people. Salvi DANÉS describes the atmosphere of a glorious time, surrounded by rust and mistrust, through gestures, glances and skilfully chosen details.

The photo volume 'War Primer 2' by Adam BROOMBERG & Oliver CHANARAIN is the first English-language version of Bertolt Brecht's remarkable 1955 book 'Kriegsfibel' (War Primer). Today, in 'Fake News' times, it explores the power of images to create history.

In his self-published debut 'Saluti da Pinetamare' Salvatore SANTORO deals with the economic stagnation of his homeland. He documented ruined buildings along the coast between Naples & Caserta, which he juxtaposes with the postcard idyll of his childhood.

On the shortlist for Arles Author Book Award 2021. With the photo volume 'Family Stranger', Dutch photographer Wiosna van BON shows the different ways families whose relative had to go to prison for a committed crime deal with the situation.

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.

2nd print run, pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 24,5 x 30 cm., 46 pp., b/w ills., bilingual text: English / Lithuanian

Linen bound HC (with acetate dust jacket), 31 x 24 x 2 cm., 72 pp., color ills., text language: English

'Assignment No. 2 'reproduces an essay written by prison inmate Michael Nelson using theatre photographs by Hiroshi SUGIMOTO & Richard MISRACH. It was written for the Visual Concerns in Photography class under the direction of Doug Dertinger & Nigel Poor.

Leporello bound HC with acetate dust jacket, 12 x 16 x 2,5 cm., 20 b/w ills., no text

The self-published volume 'Woodward' by Christian KASNERS deals with one of the five major avenues in Detroit. Through the sequence of images, the changing social and economic conditions of the largest U.S. city on the US-Canada border, are conveyed.

The out-of-print photo book 'Keiko' by World Press photo awarded photographer Tomasz GUDZOWATY documents the life of ship scrappers in Chittagong, Bangladesh, where 30 to 40 percent of all 700 ocean-going vessels decommissioned each year are cannibalized.

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.

The leporello photo book 'Prosopagnosia' by Joan FONTCUBERTA & Pilar Rosado shows portraits from the 1930s, which serve as the basis of the project. On the back are images produced with artificial intelligence - as a wonderful sequence of failed attempts.

This set, 'Short Cut', by Finnish photographers Aapo HUHTA, Akseli VALMUNEN & Filippo ZAMBON - contains three subjective takes on the idea of home and its meaning. Each book is printed on a different paper, with a different technique and silkscreen covers

In her book 'Dear Japanese', Miyuki OKUYAMA documents from a personal perspective, recording compatriots abroad. It consists of portraits, places and landscapes containing associative Japanese elements which often feel displaced within the environment.

Pb. with plastic dust jacket, paper & plastic pages, 23 x 20 x 1,5 cm., 84 pp., b/w ills., bilingual text: Ukrainian / English, Ltd. to 100 copies

The werewolf, about which the nifty photo book 'Lobismuller' by Laia ABRIL is about, was a woman who lived in the 19th century. lived in Spain. The story of Spain's most enigmatic and bloodthirsty serial killer is reconstructed from a female perspective.

'Tito' by Friso KEURIS and designed by Teun van der HEJDEN, deals with the self-image of the then Yugoslav President Tito, using photos of the preserved, shielded summer residence. The inside part establishes a connection to the later committed war crimes

The photographic volume 'Looking for the Mountain' by Japanese photographer Kyoko KAWANO is about a search. The color photographs in it tell of both details and great sights on her treks through the mountains. It comes published with an accordion binding.

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 photo book 'Internal Notebook' by Miki HASEGAWA attempts to visualize invisible suffering and trauma of abused children from the perspective of a possible child abuser. It consists of portraits and materials that keep memories of their childhood alive

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

The winner of the Book Award at Arles 2023, the photographic debut volume 'Witch Hunt Vol.1: the Banished of Balsapuerto' by Christo GEOGHEGAN is an investigation into the murder of a number of sorcerers in the Peruvian Amazon and the theories behind it.

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.

29 cards in a box, 15,5 x 21 x 1 cm., Ltd. to 100 copies

In banking circles, 'PIGS' means the states Portugal, Italy, Greece & Spain. For his book, photographer Carlos SPOTTORNO took on the design of the manager's magazine 'The Economist' and integrated his own recordings in order to unite prejudice and reality

In the photo volume 'Death Landscapes', the Polish photographer Hubert HUMKA focuses on landscapes that are shaped by their history - contaminated landscapes. They are idyllic and at the same time contain the stigma of the events that they quietly testify

This catalog volume of the work of Swedish artist duo Klara KÄLLSTRÖM & Thobias FÄLDT between 2011 and 2021 invites us to critically consider the prevailing narratives about today's world and how photography is used in the creation of these narratives.

Photo volume set 'In Sardegna' shows the further development in the work of the Italian photographer Guido GUIDI. Created about 40 years apart on two trips through Sardinia, you can also see the historical and geographical changes on the remote island.

Reproduced on super glossy paper, the color photographs in the out-of-print volume 'Karma' by Spanish photographer Óscar MONZÓN show details of cars of nocturnal drivers in Madrid. The photo volume won the Paris Photobook Award in 2013.

After graduating from ICP, photographer Ni LIANG turned to the familiar and overlooked. He put aside his large format camera, picked up his iPhone 4, and focused on documenting his hometown lake, Lake Tai. 'Memory of the Lake' comes in accordion format.

'White Noise' by Takehiko NAKAFUJI, focuses on Japan's capital. The photos mix genres and styles: b/w street photography as well as almost psychedelically colorful architectural shots. It reflects the experience of Tokyo in endless labyrinthine structures

Artist book 'Crime Scenes' by Helmut GIERSIEFEN deals with the typology of hunting high seats. The motifs were made on a handmade black and white film of traditional Japanese paper (Washi), reproduced in square format and glued individually into the book.

'Cidade de Pedra' by Antoine D'AGATA is the most comprehensive document about a time when he spent time in Cracolandia, the crack neighborhoods of São Paulo & Salvador - doubtless the roughest areas of Brazil. An unfinished diary of fragile interactions.

The photo volume 'Coming and Going' by Jim GOLDBERG tells a wider story of the universal shape of our lives through their loves & losses, comings & goings, and the ways we come to understand them - A significant contribution to contemporary bookmaking.

Collector's edition, covers are unique as they are handmade by the artist using original, recycled corriboard election posters, 22,5 x 28 cm., 56 pp., double sided photograhs in color, text language. English, Ltd. to 100 numbered copies

'KURA chan' by Japanese master photograher Daido MORIYAMA is the sixth volume in a series of hand-bound volumes with screen-printed canvas covers. The revised edition contains photos from the 'Provoke' era as well as work that has not yet been published.

'Am I exploiting the people in my pictures? Is it moral to work as a war photographer? Why are we attracted to images of other's misery? Am I producing war pornography?' In 'War Porn' Christoph BANGERT dares to experiment with turning off self-censorship.

In the out-of-print 'Gathered Leaves' box contains long unavailable Alec SOTH titles 'Sleeping by the Mississippi', 'Niagara', 'Broken Manual' & 'Songbook' as miniature volumes. In addition, 28 color prints with the most famous images are also a part.

'Miyako Isiuchi. 1976-2005' features panels from 'Yokosuka Story', 'Apartment', 'Endless Night', '1.9.4.7', '1906 to the Skin', and 'Mother's', double-sided on thick accordion-folded paper. The text in English is by Machiel Botman.

Cristina DE MIDDEL questions street photography as well as the language and truthfulness of photography itself. In the shimmering streets of New York City, she playfully works with visual tropes to illuminate the surreal quality of space in the city.

Pb., 19 x 30 cm., 192 pp., color & b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 700 copies

The out-of-print photo volume 'Incoming' by Richard MOSSE deals with migration. It captures the haunting nature of the same-named film, combining stills from the entire sequence to present the harsh and compelling narrative in a complete fade-out layout.

Cloth bound HC (no dustjacket, as issued), 18 x 26 x 2,5 cm., 192 pp. with differently sized inserts, b/w & color ills., text language: English

This four-volume photo book set, 'Erde, Feuer, Wind, Wasser' by Damian HEINISCH, explores the cultural & collective heritage of Central Europe through his own family history. In addition to the photographs, the set includes bilingually reproduced texts.

The SIGNED photo volume set 'The Citadel' by Mame-Diarra NIANG is the story of an inner journey: the volumes 'Metropolis', 'At the Wall' and 'Sahel Gris' show a personal, analytical relationship with place, without city names or geographical coordinates.

'Plastic Love', the fifth volume in the series of hand-bound books with screen-printed canvas covers, contains black & white and as well color photos of mannequins, which are one of the favorite motifs of the Japanese master photographer Daido MORIYAMA.

Daido MORIYAMA's photo book 'Kanban' is the direct successor to 'KURA chan' in the series of hand-bound volumes with screen-printed envelopes. It contains photographs of billboards that can be found in large numbers on the streets of his favorite cities.

Open binded HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 16,5 x 24 x 2,5 cm., bilingual: English / Japanese, Ltd. to 500 numbered copies

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

In this 8th volume of a photo book series with screen-printed canvas covers, Daido MORIYAMA's 'Tiles in Aizuwakamatsu' the Japanese photographer takes as its subject the flood of roundish tiles that decorated the toilet of his hotel room in Aizuwakamatsu.

'Mundo de Papel' by Thomas DEMAND, explores the relationship between representation and 'real' events. It shows the sophisticated mechanics of paper in the form of pop-ups, each recreates a cityscape. A separate volume contains the text by Vargas Llosa.

Out-of-print photo volume '9 Gates of No Return' by Agata GRZYBOWSKA presents nine people who, for different reasons and life choices, decided to give up their lives in the city and settle in the forests of the Bieszczady Mountains in southeastern Poland.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 19,5 x 27,5 x 1 cm. 56 pp., color ills., + print (18 x 27 cm.) + silkscreen (73 x 45 cm.). Ltd. to 15 copies

Boxed, french binded pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 16,5 x 24 x 1 cm., 80 pp., b/w ills. in four-color printing, text language: English, Ltd. to 500 copies

The self-published artist's book 'Mono no aware' by Belgian photographer Anton KUSTERS is based on a thought rather than a story. This Japanese term describes the awareness of the passing moments of life. The book is designed as an object.

Re-edit, pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 30 x 1 cm., 32 pp., 42 b/w ills., no text, Ltd. to 350 copies

The out-of-print photo publication 'Stilled' by British photo artist Edward DIMSDALE shares something with the Haiku, which often presents three elements: something permanent, something ephemeral, and what happens in the moment when they come together.

As there is a wall clock in almost every household, Matjaz TANCIC titled his out-of-print volume, which oscillates between the future and the past, 'Timekeepers'. Conceived as an old photo album, the 3D images inside show Chinese and their home interiors.

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

The out-of-print photo publication 'Umbra' by Viviane SASSEN delves into the world of shadows. A seductive and deceptive darkness that lies in every human soul, like a silent black lake with a surface as flat as a mirror that can only be broken.