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In her out-of-print photo volume 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mother' German photo artist Katharina BOSSE openly deals with a blind spot of a society that otherwise does not shy away from interventions in the private sphere: the birth of a mother.

The black-and-white images in the photographic volume, 'Happy. Brooklyn 1988-1993', are from the first photography project by Finnish photographer Nina KORHONEN is about the story of 'Finntown', a part of Brooklyn inhabited by Finnish immigrants.

'Outside Room 8' by Lotte BRONSGEEST presents a documentary of the life of Geert Broertjes after his cancer diagnosis. It visualizes the patient experience with common cancer treatments by subjecting film reels and negatives to the same healing procedures

In addition to a personal reappraisal, 'The Last Son' by Jim GOLDBERG is a story about perseverance, family dynamics and the struggle to exceed expectations. To do this, the photographer sifts through his archive, which consists of various image sources.

Slipcased leporello & foldout book (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 25 x 1,5 cm., color ills., English, 1st printrun Ltd. to 50 COPIES,

This photo volume, 'Sentimental Journey 1971-2017' by Nobuyoshi ARAKI focuses on one theme of his extensive oeuvre: his wife Yoko. From their first meeting in 1968 until her death in 1990, she was his most important subject and essential to all his works.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued, but with obi belt), 17,5 x 23,5 x 2 cm., 172 pp., color & b/w ills., text language: English

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.

Unbound SC (title strip must be broken to be opened), 17 x 24 x 0,5 cm., 48 pp., 35 color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 150 copies

The volume 'Kill the Pig' by Masahisa FUKASE brings together two series, first shown in 1961. 'Kill the Pig', was taken in a slaughterhouse in Shibaura, Tokyo. 'Naked' shows the photographer himself and his then partner Yukiyo Kawakami in various poses.

Clothbound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 30 x 1,5 cm., 96 pp., 48 b/w & color ills., 950 gr., Swedish / English, Ltd. to 500 copies

Softcover (no dust jacket, as issued), 18 x 24 x1 cm., 80 pp., approx 53 b/w ills., afterword and history of Chikuho, in Japanese only.

The SIGNED book 'Residency' trace the wanderings of photographer Nina STRAND around Paris, as she attempts to find inspiration for her art. While exploring the city, she also explores the medium's history as well as art photography and where it is today.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), (7 3/4 x 11 inches), 104 pp., color & b/w ills., no text

'MARVEL' by Marvel HARRIS describes the journey of his personal battles with mental illness, self-love, acceptance, and gender identity, all told through a searing collection of self-portraits spanning the course of five years. MACK First Book Award 2021.

Leporello (no dust jacket, as issued), 19,5 x 27 x 2 cm., 29 color ills., English, Ltd. to 250 copies

SC, 21 x 27 cm., 192 pp., 85 ills., bilingual text: German / English

The artist photo volume 'Für mich' (For Me) by German photographer Sina NIEMEYER is an autobiographical story about sexual abuse. The project was born out of the need to understand and come to terms with what happened to her at a pre-pubescent age.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24,5 x 30,5 x 1,5 cm., 104 pp., color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 500 copies

In a convincing artistic form, this photo book 'Mayflies' deals with the way the photographer feels about her own motherhood after losing her own mother. 'Mayflies' impresses with its special book design (by Joao LINNEU) and its excellent print quality.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 18 x 25 cm., 360 pp., highly color illustrated, text: English

Swiss bound, handmacde HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 64 pp., approx. 40 b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 25 copies

'After' by Martin KOLLAR was created after the death of his partner. It is a careful sifting through his archive - a crystallization of contexts and themes that he had not seen before. The aim of the book is to show how the before merges into the after.

The war-relics presented here offer an immersive narrative on the theme of social memory. The book shows D-Day artifacts, WWII spy-craft and old Hollywood movies, dioramas and drone-mounted cameras, private post-war memoirs & wistful seaside photographs.

For her photo volume 'Letters I didn't sent', Swedish photographer Jenny ROVA documented all the personal letters and e-mails that she I wrote and saved but never dared to send. The letters are from a period of fourteen years.

The photo book 'La peau du prénom' (The skin of the first name) by Lyoz BANDIE is the story of the obsessive hunt for a new first name. An intimate and sensitive story, a coming out, a dive between genders that invites to question this social construction

This artist volume, 'Scratchy Days' by Ukrainian Bogdan GULYAY, contains artistic black and white shots from his personal environment, reflected everyday moments in a world he perceives as oversaturated, in which people are only fleeting, fragile shadows.

The book 'Praxis' by Antoine D'AGATA forms a labyrinth in which temporalities and techniques are stitched together. The excess of gestures, visual saturation as well as austerity serves to capture the complexity of exponential violence in Mexican society.

In her artists' photo volume 'Delta', Swedish photographer Hannah MODIGH turns the camera to her personal life in her quest to explore existential question regarding the cycles of life. Numbered and signed copy with one C- print.

In 'Black Passport' Stanley GREENE attempts to come to terms with the impact his volatile work in the world's crisis zones has had on his life. By combining cruel photographs with authentic statements, an impressive portrait of the photographer is created

'Tenko', is an intersection between the photos of artist HANAYO, mother of Tenko, and the mystical, sensual photos of Tenko's favorite children's book, 'Alice' by Hajime SAWATARI, one of the first books Tenko came in contact with during her childhood.

HC (24 x 30 cm.) in a cardboard box with ENDING embossed on the cover. Included is a Fine Art Print (22 × 30 cm., image size 19 × 27 cm.), numb. & signed on the back. There are 3 diff. prints, each limited to 15 +2AP  

'The Best Days' by Seung-Woo YANG is an early work, photographed between 1999 to 2006 during his studies in Tokyo. Driven by the suicide death of his comrade, he documented his life trajectory and people around him while he traveled between Japan & Korea.

Yusuke YAMATANI took the b/w photographs during his honeymoon with his wife Emi in Japan. The title comes from the 1950s rock'n'roll song 'Rama Lama Ding Dong'. Connoisseurs of Japanese photography might think of Nobuyoshi ARAKI's 'Sentimental Journey'.

Out-of-print volume 'After my Time / Tiden efter min tid' by Danish photographer Joachim LADEFOGED is the result of a departure from photojournalism and a personal inventory of his story with a series of visually dense, haunting images.

With 'Zuhause', Einar SCHLEEF set a monument to his hometown Sangerhausen. The photos were taken in the mid-1970s at a deserted place, far away from the real existing socialism, captured by desolation and limited by bittersweet dreams of the stagnant time

The out-of-print book 'Speaking of scars' by Teresa ENG deals with trauma and memory, using photography to process an experience that could not be processed. It is an expression of the unspeakable, transforming unimaginable events into a visible language.

The volume 'Picture of My Life' by Junpei UEDA is the result of workshop in Tokyo, where he created 21 copies. This edition is as close as possible to the original edition, but in a larger print run of 500 copies to make it available to a larger audience.

In his long out-of-print book of photographs, 'I Want to Live Innocent,' Norwegian photographer Torbjørn RODLAND uses his hometown of Stavanger to reflect on the paradoxes that come with affluence and materialism in the center of Norway's oil industry.

Self-published, out-of-print 'Bifröst' by Espen KRUGHAUG explores the realm of insomnia (sleeplessness), a disease from which millions of people suffer. Based on own experiences, he attempts to portray strange thoughts that can arise from lack of sleep.

HC with dust jacket, 18,5 x 24 x 21,5 cm. (9,5 x 7 in.), 136 pp., 85 color & duotone b/w ills., text language: English

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

'Revoir' by JH ENGSTRÖM is based on photo material from the mid-90s and beginning 2000s, the time of creation of his 'Trying to Dance'. At that time he questioned the meaning of photography for himself - positively answered by the freedom he experienced.

'The Dog in France' by Japanese photographer Koji ONAKA, is a retrospective of his time in self-chosen exile in Paris. The diagonals in the ONAKA's b/w shots indicate disorientation. And the parallels to the great photographer, Daido MORIYAMA, are obvious

Laia ABRIL has been working on projects dealing with the so-called 'world epidemic of eating disorders' since 2010. The volume 'The Epilogue' tells the story of the Robinson family and the consequences of the loss of their 26-year-old daughter to bulimia.

'Signs by the Roadside' by Miro KUZMANOVIC moves in a space where the historical and political narratives explaining the past of former Yugoslavia collide with the lived experience of individuals. It deals with the effects of the war in all its facets.

In her volume 'Moving Away' Miyako ISHIUCHI herself becomes the subject of her photography. In the time between her decision to move out of the house where she had lived for a long time and her move, she took photos of landscapes, street and detail shots.

'Paraiso' by Antoine D'AGATA pays homage to photo book classic 'Valparaiso' by Sergio LARRAIN. The French Magnum photographer describes his stay in Chile in his diary of an inner journey, interspersed with flashbacks of personal experiences in Cambodia.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 18,5 x 26 x 1 cm., 20 pp., 12 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

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.