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Stephanie Duprie Routh: The Atlas of Invisible Things unfolds as a contemplative journey through Morocco, where landscape and identity intertwine in subtle, unexpected ways. Blending photography and prose, Stephanie Duprie Routh constructs a work that feels less like a travelogue and more like an interior map. Light drifts across tiled courtyards, desert horizons, and quiet domestic spaces, revealing how place can shape the contours of self. Each image carries a hushed intensity, as though the air itself were holding memory.

Rather than offering grand panoramas alone, Duprie Routh attends to fleeting gestures and overlooked details: a curtain stirred by wind, the geometry of shadows across stone, the layered textures of fabric and earth. Morocco becomes both a physical setting and a metaphorical terrain, where questions of gender and belonging surface gently through suggestion. The photographs are neither documentary nor purely abstract; they hover between observation and reverie, inviting viewers to inhabit the spaces between what is seen and what is felt.

The accompanying prose deepens this sensory experience. Fragments of reflection and lyrical passages move through themes of visibility and erasure, intimacy and distance. In tracing her encounters, Duprie Routh resists definitive statements. Instead, she offers an atlas composed of impressions—an emotional cartography that charts vulnerability, resilience, and transformation. The result is immersive yet restrained, a meditation shaped as much by silence as by image.

Based in Austin, Texas, Duprie Routh is known for using photography as a vehicle for narrative and conceptual exploration. In The Atlas of Invisible Things, her vision is distilled into a carefully designed volume that rewards slow engagement. It is a book meant to be returned to, each viewing revealing new layers of tone and texture. Through its interplay of image and word, the work suggests that the most enduring truths about place and identity are often those that cannot be named directly, only sensed in passing light.

1331Newsha Tavakolian: And They Laughed at Me is a bold and disarming return to the fragile beginnings of a photographer who would later gain international recognition. Instead of assembling a volume of celebrated images, Newsha Tavakolian turns to what she once dismissed as her “eyesores”—photographs made in her teenage years when she began working as a photojournalist in Tehran. Taken at sixteen, in the charged atmosphere of a country shaped by political tension and social constraint, these early frames carry the urgency and uncertainty of youth.

Revisiting these photographs decades later, Tavakolian confronts not only her technical inexperience but also the emotional terrain of growing up under scrutiny. The images reveal crowded streets, intimate domestic moments, and fleeting expressions that hover between defiance and vulnerability. What once felt flawed now reads as raw testimony. Through this act of excavation, she reframes imperfection as evidence of persistence, tracing the arc from youthful aspiration to the sobering awareness of reality’s weight.

The book unfolds as a rite of passage. Tavakolian reflects on the tension between hope and disillusionment, between the instinct to withdraw into darkness and the determination to move toward light. Her career, later marked by international exhibitions and major honors, including the Carmignac Photojournalism Award and the Prince Claus Award, began in these formative encounters with the camera. The photographs capture the seeds of a voice that would grow increasingly nuanced, attentive to identity, censorship, and the quiet resilience of everyday life in Iran.

And They Laughed at Me becomes more than an archival project; it is a meditation on self-doubt and endurance. By embracing images she once rejected, Tavakolian asserts the value of vulnerability in artistic growth. The result is an honest and reflective volume that invites readers to reconsider failure, to see in missteps the contours of becoming, and to recognize that the path toward clarity often begins in uncertainty.

Pamela Thomas-Graham: Stone by Morning is a quiet invocation of Iceland’s elemental power, where geology and myth seem inseparable. In this luminous volume, Pamela Thomas-Graham turns her lens toward a land shaped by fire and ice, tracing how its stark terrain has nourished centuries of storytelling. Basalt cliffs rise like ancient fortresses, glaciers glow beneath low northern light, and distant horizons dissolve into mist. The photographs suggest that the landscape itself is sentient, holding memory in stone and wind.

Thomas-Graham pairs her images with reflective essays that move fluidly between observation and legend. Ravens sweep across volcanic plains as bearers of memory; sea stacks stand as silent witnesses to trolls caught by daylight; hidden valleys whisper of huldufólk, the elusive beings said to dwell within rock. Rather than treating folklore as quaint superstition, she approaches it as a living language through which Icelanders have long understood their environment. Fact and fable coexist, each illuminating the other.

Light plays a central role throughout the book. The long summer dusk and the deep blue of winter shadow create a visual rhythm that echoes the tension between revelation and concealment. In these shifting atmospheres, waterfalls appear like thresholds, lava fields resemble frozen waves, and the simplest farmhouse becomes part of a larger cosmology. The camera lingers patiently, inviting viewers to slow down and consider what lies just beyond sight.

With Stone by Morning, Thomas-Graham offers more than a photographic journey; she proposes a way of seeing. Iceland emerges not merely as a destination, but as a realm suspended between the tangible and the imagined. Through attentive observation and lyrical prose, she reminds us that landscapes are never empty. They are repositories of belief, shaped by generations who have read meaning in every ridge and shadow. In honoring those traditions, the book becomes a meditation on how place can shape myth—and how myth, in turn, reshapes the way we inhabit the world.

Juergen Teller: Young Young · White White presents a vivid photographic journey through some of China’s most dynamic cities, filtered through the unmistakable vision of German photographer Juergen Teller. Known for redefining the language of fashion photography with an approach that blends honesty, humor, and raw immediacy, Teller approaches Shanghai, Wuhan, and Chongqing with the same instinctive curiosity that has long shaped his work. The result is a body of images where fashion, documentary observation, and personal narrative coexist within the restless rhythms of contemporary urban life.

During a trip undertaken with his creative and life partner Dovile Drizyte, Teller photographs Chinese models Xiao Wen Ju, Lina Zhang, and Christina Chung in environments far removed from the polished settings traditionally associated with fashion imagery. Rather than carefully staged studios, the city itself becomes the stage. Narrow alleyways, crowded sidewalks, restaurant kitchens, parking structures, and escalators serve as backdrops where the models interact with the surrounding space in spontaneous and often playful ways. At times they lounge casually near butcher stalls or pause beside anonymous street corners, embodying a sense of immediacy that blurs the boundary between performance and everyday life.

This relaxed atmosphere emerges from a process that combines careful preparation with the photographer’s signature embrace of chance. Working alongside a local production team, Teller orchestrates situations that allow unpredictability to enter the frame. His photographs often carry a deliberately unpolished aesthetic—direct flash, awkward poses, and unexpected compositions—yet these choices reveal a deeper commitment to authenticity. By refusing the conventions of glamour, Teller redirects attention toward individuality, vulnerability, and the subtle humor found in ordinary moments.

Alongside the portraits, the book incorporates self-portraits, images of Drizyte and members of the crew, still lifes, and fragments of the surrounding cityscape. Together these elements form a loose visual diary that echoes Teller’s long-standing belief that art and life remain inseparable. Young Young · White White ultimately becomes less a fashion project than a meditation on presence, personality, and the vibrant contradictions of modern urban experience.

Clark Winter: Free Air: Robert Frank – Hands at Work offers a rare and intimate perspective on Robert Frank, shifting attention from his celebrated photographs to his lesser-known sculptural practice. Through Winter’s lens, Frank emerges not only as the visionary behind The Americans, but as a restless maker whose creativity extended far beyond the printed image. The book invites readers into the spaces where that spirit took physical form.

Central to this exploration are two places that shaped Frank’s later life: his longtime studio on Bleecker Street in New York and the weathered fisherman’s cottage in Mabou, Nova Scotia, which he shared with artist June Leaf. In Cape Breton, surrounded by wind, sea, and open sky, Frank assembled sculptures from found wood, fragments of photographs, discarded objects, and even parts of cameras. These constructions, raw and improvisational, echo the directness of his photographic work while revealing a tactile, hands-on engagement with materials.

Clark Winter documents this environment with attentiveness and restraint. His photographs capture not only the rugged coastal landscape but also the intimate details of Frank’s working process: tables strewn with tools, walls marked by memory, shelves crowded with postcards and keepsakes. Glimpses of personal artifacts—a snapshot of Leaf and Frank in a moment of shared laughter, faded notes pinned within reach—suggest the deep intertwining of art and daily life. Winter’s images convey the sense of a mind constantly assembling, rearranging, and rethinking.

By focusing on Frank’s hands at work, Free Air reveals an artist who never ceased experimenting. Sculpture becomes another form of inquiry, another way of confronting time, loss, and place. Winter’s quiet documentation honors that persistence, illuminating a dimension of Frank’s practice that feels at once humble and radical, rooted in material and memory yet always open to transformation.

Richard Hay Jr.: Resounding with Echoes unfolds as a quiet passage between continents, tracing subtle correspondences between West Africa and the Americas during the 1970s. Moving fluidly between black-and-white and color, Richard Hay Jr. composes a visual dialogue grounded not in spectacle, but in the poetry of ordinary life. Streets, storefronts, interiors, and open landscapes emerge without fixed captions, allowing viewers to linger in the ambiguity of gesture and setting. Rather than reinforcing familiar narratives of hardship or exoticism, Hay’s lens rests on shared human rhythms shaped by local textures and global exchange.

His journey to West Africa began after working within an African Studies program at Northwestern University. With a used Leica camera, a backpack, and limited film, he traveled from coastal regions to Kano, Nigeria, photographing with the same attentiveness that marked his earlier road trips across the United States and Mexico. The influence of the New Topographics can be felt in his restrained compositions and interest in human-altered environments. Hay’s approach is observant yet intimate, revealing how architecture, clothing, signage, and posture quietly register histories of migration, trade, and aspiration.

The historical currents between West Africa and the Americas—shaped by centuries of forced displacement and later by renewed cultural exchange—form an understated backdrop. Hay does not illustrate these histories directly; instead, he attends to their traces in everyday scenes. An ocean apart and decades removed, the places he photographs seem to mirror one another in rhythm and repetition, as though bound by invisible threads of memory.

An essay by Emmanuel Iduma frames the work with reflective insight, situating the images within broader conversations on continuity and change. Together, photographs and text invite slow looking. Resounding with Echoes proposes the camera as a tool of patient witnessing, where each shutter click collapses time and the present moment becomes part of a longer, reverberating story.

Nathalie Rubens: Seasons of Time marks a thoughtful and intimate debut, tracing the subtle thresholds that define a woman’s life. In this carefully composed photobook, Nathalie Rubens reflects on two parallel passages: her daughter Ruby’s emergence into young adulthood and her own transition into post-menopausal life. Through this mirrored gaze, the work becomes a meditation on continuity and change, revealing how beginnings and endings often unfold side by side.

Rubens turns the camera inward and outward with equal tenderness. Portraits of Ruby capture the fragile confidence and uncertainty of youth—moments poised between dependence and independence. In contrast, self-portraits confront the physical and emotional transformations of midlife with quiet candor. The images resist sentimentality; instead, they dwell in nuance, acknowledging vulnerability while affirming resilience. The body, in its evolving forms, becomes both subject and witness to time’s passage.

Domestic interiors, shared gestures, and fleeting glances anchor the book in lived experience. Light filters through windows, falls across skin, and settles on everyday objects, creating a rhythm that echoes the seasons invoked in the title. Rubens approaches aging not as decline, but as a shifting landscape—one marked by introspection, memory, and renewed self-awareness. The dialogue between mother and daughter unfolds without hierarchy, suggesting that each stage of life carries its own clarity and its own mystery.

Deeply personal yet widely relatable, Seasons of Time speaks to the universality of transition. It honors the complexity of female identity as something neither fixed nor singular, but constantly in motion. Through measured composition and emotional honesty, Rubens crafts a visual reflection on growth, separation, and connection. The result is a quiet affirmation that time, though relentless, can also be a source of understanding and grace, binding generations even as it gently transforms them.

Jackie Nickerson: CLAD arrives as a bold new statement in fashion photography — one that turns away from glamour as spectacle and returns to clothing as a means of identity, expression and self-discovery. Over 400 pages and nearly 400 images, this comprehensive volume compiles the work of a photographer whose feminist vision treats clothes not as costumes, but as languages for being. The book presents a sweeping overview of Nickerson’s fashion photography, underscoring her belief that dressing is less about fantasy and more about identity, texture, and presence.

In CLAD, clothing becomes akin to architecture: each photograph situates garments within environments chosen to echo or challenge their form, often under natural light, open skies or muted urban backdrops. Nickerson’s ensembles thus do not float in idealized studios — they inhabit real spaces, shaped by light, geography and atmosphere. This choice reinforces a sense of honesty in her imagery, offering portraits grounded in reality but elevated by intention.

Though she has worked for prominent fashion houses and major magazines — from Louis Vuitton and Hermès to Dior, Vogue and Vanity Fair — Nickerson maintains an anti-commercial stance. Her commitment lies not in product-driven images but in revealing the deeper layers of selfhood. Through CLAD, she returns to the roots of her practice: not as a display of luxury, but as a study of clothing as lived experience, as social signifier, as personal armour or declaration.

For readers, CLAD goes beyond seasonal trends and surface beauty. It invites reflection on how we present ourselves, how garments carry memories, identities and context. The book becomes a meditation on self-expression — on how clothing surrounds and defines us, how it converses with space and light, and how it can transform the intimate into the universal. Jackie Nickerson: CLAD thus stands not only as a major milestone in her career, but as a compelling argument for fashion photography rooted in humanity, nuance, and introspection.

In Case You Missed It: Counterculture Photography of the 1960s and 1970s offers a vivid photographic journey into one of the most transformative cultural moments in modern American history. Through the compelling lens of Jerry “Dok” de Wilde, this remarkable photobook captures the spirit, creativity, and social upheaval that defined Los Angeles during the height of the countercultural movement.

At the heart of the book is “the Farm,” a legendary 46-acre commune in the hills above Warner Bros. Studios in Los Angeles. Founded in the mid-1960s by de Wilde and artist-filmmaker Anton Greene, the Farm quickly became a vibrant creative hub where actors, musicians, writers, filmmakers, designers, and poets gathered to experiment with new ways of living and creating. De Wilde’s photographs offer an intimate window into this unique community, documenting everyday life as friends explored art, fashion, and self-expression—from tie-dye experiments and spontaneous performances to moments of friendship, love, and collaboration.

Beyond the commune, In Case You Missed It expands into the broader landscape of the American counterculture. De Wilde’s camera captures defining cultural and political events of the era, including the legendary Monterey Pop Festival and the historic March on Washington. Love-ins, anti-war demonstrations, artistic happenings, and music gatherings reveal how art, politics, and activism became deeply intertwined during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

The book moves fluidly between documentary photography and personal storytelling, creating a layered portrait of a generation searching for change and collective meaning. More than a chronicle of events, de Wilde’s work reflects the emotional core of the counterculture—its friendships, communities, and shared ideals of creativity and social transformation.

Born in Brooklyn and educated at Columbia University, Jerry “Dok” de Wilde later became an influential educator, serving as an associate professor of fine art photography at Woodbury University. Today, In Case You Missed It stands as an important visual archive of a defining era in American cultural history, offering readers and photography lovers a rare and authentic glimpse into the artistic and social revolution that shaped a generation.

Keisha Scarville: Passports 2012–2025 gathers more than a decade of sustained inquiry by Keisha Scarville into a single, intimate publication. At its core lies her father’s earliest passport photograph—an image meant to function as neutral proof of identity. Scarville returns to this small bureaucratic portrait again and again, transforming it into a site of meditation, rupture, and repair. Through over three hundred reinterpretations, the once-static likeness becomes a living archive.

Each iteration is materially distinct. Scarville collages the original image with paint, beads, fragments of photographs depicting Black bodies, gold leaf, and glitter. Surfaces are layered, obscured, and reassembled, shifting the passport photo from administrative document to textured reliquary. What is typically standardized and impersonal becomes tactile and devotional. In these gestures, Scarville challenges the authority of state-issued imagery, exposing how such photographs flatten complex lives into legible data while claiming objectivity.

The book interweaves these altered passport works with archival photographs made between the 1960s and 1980s in Guyana and New York City, tracing her father’s migration and settlement in the United States. His own self-portraits appear alongside Scarville’s images of him and of Guyana’s luminous landscapes. Brief transcripts of their conversations punctuate the visual narrative, offering glimpses of memory, distance, and shared reflection. Together, these elements complicate the notion of citizenship, suggesting that belonging cannot be contained within the tight frame of a passport image.

With a newly commissioned text by Tina M. Campt, Professor of Humanities at Princeton University, Passports 2012–2025 situates Scarville’s project within broader discussions of diaspora, archives, and Black visuality. The publication ultimately asks what it means to know a person—especially a parent—through photographs. By reworking a single image into countless forms, Scarville affirms that identity is never fixed, but continually shaped by memory, movement, and love.

Eric Lusito: Soviet Scientific Institutes opens a portal into a hidden world where ambition, secrecy, and science intersect. In this striking volume, Eric Lusito documents Soviet-era research facilities across former republics of the USSR, revealing spaces that feel equal parts laboratory, cathedral, and science fiction set. Gigantic control panels, towering telescopes, and enigmatic machinery populate his images, evoking a surreal, almost fantastical vision of Cold War-era ambition. Yet behind the theatrical scale lies a history of real human effort, secrecy, and scientific pursuit.

The institutes Lusito captures were once central to Soviet visions of technological utopia. Science was promoted as a tool to accelerate modernization, replace religious authority, and secure global supremacy. “Big science” projects often involved thousands of researchers working in total secrecy, pursuing cosmic ray experiments, radar installations, and other endeavors that blurred the line between experimentation and militarization. With the fall of the USSR, many of these facilities fell into decay, abandoned yet still brimming with relics of past ingenuity. Some, however, continue to operate, as scientists navigate new political and technological landscapes, adapting old machinery to modern research—even amid ongoing geopolitical tension.

Lusito’s lens captures these spaces with precision and wonder, highlighting the unintentional beauty of complex machinery and the quiet persistence of knowledge in the face of abandonment. From a cosmic ray research station perched in the Armenian mountains to one of the world’s largest radars in Ukraine—rumored locally to be a climate-altering weapon—his photographs combine documentary rigor with cinematic composition. The book itself, featuring a tactile laser-cut cover referencing punched paper tape from early Soviet computers, mirrors the material and historical ingenuity of the sites it depicts.

Soviet Scientific Institutes is more than a photographic record; it is a meditation on ambition, decay, and human curiosity. Lusito invites viewers to contemplate the intersections of technology, secrecy, and aesthetics, offering a rare glimpse into a hidden epoch of scientific exploration that continues to resonate today.

Michael Jang: JANG presents a vivid and playful exploration of Michael Jang’s recent street-based interventions in San Francisco, blending humor, social commentary, and photographic self-expression. In the midst of 2021, at a time when the city faced both the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic and rising anti-Asian sentiment, Jang took to the streets of Chinatown to stage clandestine visual installations. Over boarded-up storefronts, he pasted images from his black-and-white series The Jangs (1973), introducing the alter ego “Chef Jang,” a chain-smoking wok master, alongside posters and graphics that parodied product packaging and menus. These interventions turned everyday urban surfaces into a subtle act of resistance and a claim to belonging.

JANG documents over 100 of these ephemeral installations, capturing the energy of a city in flux and the imaginative ways Jang engages with its streetscapes. His work transforms ordinary urban environments into stages for social commentary, reflecting both solidarity with the local community and his own playful, subversive sensibility. The photographs themselves reveal a careful balance between street art and documentary practice, preserving moments that would otherwise vanish into the ephemeral texture of the city.

Beyond these recent works, the book situates Jang within a larger photographic practice. Beginning in the 1970s, he captured intimate portraits of family life, art school friends, and the broader social milieus of California, ranging from Hollywood parties to San Francisco’s punk scene. His self-aware eye and deadpan humor allowed him to create enduring images of social life, combining wit with a sharp sense of timing and composition. After five decades as a commercial and portrait photographer, Jang now brings these previously hidden, underground works into public view, highlighting both his mastery of the medium and his irreverent, experimental spirit.

Michael Jang: JANG is both a record of inventive street interventions and a retrospective of an artist who has long blurred the lines between documentary, performance, and visual storytelling. The book celebrates the ephemeral, the humorous, and the socially resonant, inviting viewers to reconsider the everyday streetscape as a canvas for art and engagement.

Catherine Opie: To Be Seen offers an immersive survey of over three decades of work by Catherine Opie, charting her unwavering exploration of identity, community, and social belonging. This volume, produced in close collaboration with the artist, accompanies a major retrospective at the National Portrait Gallery and spans the breadth of Opie’s career, from intimate studio portraits to socially engaged documentary work. At its core, her photography interrogates the ways in which individuals and communities navigate visibility, especially within the LGBTQ+ landscape.

Opie’s studio portraits are characterized by precision, attention to light, and an empathetic lens that captures vulnerability alongside strength. Friends, collaborators, and subjects are presented with both dignity and immediacy, their expressions and gestures revealing complex interiorities. These highly stylized images are complemented by photographs taken in public and civic contexts, including striking images from the inauguration of Barack Obama, which situate personal identity within the broader social fabric. Together, these portraits and documentary works form a dialogue that challenges conventional hierarchies of representation and visibility.

The book itself is designed as a tactile and reflective object, with a quarter-bound cover and carefully reproduced imagery that allows the viewer to engage fully with Opie’s nuanced visual language. Scholarly essays, a dialogue with exhibition designer Katy Barkan, and an excerpt from Joan Didion’s “On the Road” expand the context of the images, underscoring the intersections between personal narrative, social commentary, and artistic practice.

Living and working in Los Angeles, Opie has consistently bridged conceptual and documentary modes, portraying diverse communities across America—from Black football players in the Midwest to leather-clad S&M practitioners—always with rigor and sensitivity. To Be Seen not only documents a remarkable career but also asserts a larger cultural imperative: to witness and honor those often rendered invisible, reminding us that portraiture can be both an intimate act and a profound social gesture.

38Grand Hotel Parr: Photobooks by Martin Parr unfolds as an exuberant tribute to one of photography’s most prolific and self-aware practitioners. Conceived alongside the PhotoBookMuseum in Cologne, this volume celebrates the vast publishing universe created by Martin Parr—a figure who, over five decades, transformed the photobook into both medium and manifesto. Photographer, editor, collector, and tireless advocate of the form, Parr has produced more than 200 titles, each one reflecting his sharp, often mischievous взгляд on contemporary life.

The book accompanies a major retrospective organized with the PhotoBookMuseum and staged at the Neues Museum. Designed as a theatrical hotel environment, the exhibition guides visitors through themed rooms—dining areas, leisure spaces, boutiques—echoing the subjects that have long animated Parr’s imagery. This playful mise-en-scène mirrors the visual language of his photographs: saturated color, crowded compositions, and a wry attention to consumer rituals and social performance. Ostentation and banality coexist, inviting both laughter and reflection.

Parr’s career, closely associated with the documentary tradition and his longstanding membership in Magnum Photos, has consistently examined tourism, class, fashion, and mass spectacle. Yet Grand Hotel Parr shifts the focus from individual images to the photobook as object. Sequencing, design, paper stock, and cover aesthetics become part of the narrative. The publication underscores how Parr embraced the democratic potential of the book format, recognizing it as a space where photography could circulate widely while retaining conceptual rigor.

Richly illustrated with installation views and complemented by essays from scholars and curators, the volume reveals the depth of Parr’s engagement with print culture. It portrays a career rooted not only in capturing the absurdities of global leisure, but also in preserving and championing the photobook’s legacy. In doing so, Grand Hotel Parr stands as both retrospective and reflection—an invitation to wander through a lifetime of images, bound together by curiosity, irony, and an unwavering commitment to the printed page.

Breaking Point: When the Criminal Justice System Fails by Robin Dahlberg confronts one of the most troubling realities of the American legal system: the phenomenon of false confessions. Between 1989 and 2024, a significant percentage of exonerations in the United States involved individuals who had admitted to crimes they did not commit. Through a combination of photography and testimony, Dahlberg probes the psychological and institutional pressures that can push an innocent person to say the unthinkable.

The book centers on six exonerees whose lives were irrevocably altered by interrogations that crossed ethical boundaries. Long hours in isolation, manipulative questioning, promises of leniency, and implicit threats form the backdrop of their stories. In these accounts, confession emerges not as an act of guilt, but as a breaking point—an attempt to escape immediate distress without fully grasping the long-term consequences. Dahlberg’s portraits are direct and unadorned, allowing the individuals to meet the viewer’s gaze with dignity and clarity. The camera becomes a tool of restoration, countering narratives that once defined them solely as suspects.

Interwoven with the images are reflections that illuminate how coercive interrogation techniques can distort memory, heighten fear, and erode one’s sense of reality. The project underscores how systemic failures—ranging from inadequate legal counsel to flawed investigative methods—compound the damage. By situating personal stories within a broader legal context, Dahlberg reveals how vulnerable individuals, particularly young people or those with cognitive challenges, are disproportionately at risk.

Rather than sensationalizing injustice, Breaking Point offers a measured, human-centered examination of its consequences. It invites readers to reconsider assumptions about confession, truth, and accountability, while honoring the resilience of those who fought to reclaim their freedom. Through careful documentation and empathetic storytelling, Dahlberg challenges us to confront uncomfortable questions about power, responsibility, and the fragile line between justice and error.

Ruth Kaplan: Crossing centers on a quiet stretch of road that became, for thousands, a decisive point of no return. At Roxham Road, an unassuming rural passage between New York State and Quebec, people seeking asylum stepped across an invisible line that separated one nation from another—and one life from the next. In this long-term project, Ruth Kaplan transforms a seemingly ordinary landscape into a charged space shaped by law, hope, fear, and endurance.

Between 2018 and 2023, as restrictive immigration policies in the United States pushed more asylum seekers northward during the presidency of Donald Trump, Roxham Road emerged as an irregular yet functioning crossing. Though not an official port of entry, it operated for several years as a controlled site where Canadian authorities processed claims. Kaplan returned repeatedly, photographing the terrain in different seasons and documenting the infrastructures—tents, patrol vehicles, signage—as well as the people whose futures hinged on this threshold. Her images resist spectacle. Instead of isolating moments of crisis, she constructs a layered portrait of a place defined by waiting, uncertainty, and quiet resolve.

Kaplan’s approach emphasizes duration and presence. Snow-covered fields, muddy paths, and temporary structures become recurring motifs, underscoring how global political agreements materialize in specific geographies. The book situates Roxham Road within broader conversations about displacement and the Safe Third Country Agreement, which was amended in 2023, bringing the crossing to a close. Yet the photographs remain resonant, reminding viewers that policies are lived at ground level by individuals and families navigating complex systems.

Accompanied by reflective texts, Crossing invites readers to consider borders not merely as abstract lines, but as inhabited spaces marked by vulnerability and courage. Kaplan portrays asylum seekers as ordinary people confronting extraordinary circumstances. Through attentive observation and ethical restraint, she offers a humane meditation on migration—one that asks us to look closely, and to reckon with our own position in relation to these contested landscapes.

416Frank Horvat: The Birth of a Photographer revisits the formative years of a figure who would later redefine fashion imagery, revealing how his earliest journeys shaped a lifelong way of seeing. In 1952, at twenty-five, Frank Horvat set out for India and Pakistan, driven by curiosity and a restless intelligence forged in the upheavals of wartime Europe. Having fled Hungary as a Jewish refugee and encountered Indian soldiers in Switzerland during the Second World War, he carried with him both memory and imagination. What he found on the subcontinent would anchor his photographic identity.

Over two years, Horvat immersed himself in everyday life, producing black-and-white images marked by empathy and compositional rigor. Markets, ceremonies, streets, and intimate domestic scenes unfold with a quiet attentiveness that resists spectacle. His celebrated portrait of a bride in Pakistan, made in 1952, was later selected by Edward Steichen for the landmark exhibition The Family of Man at the Museum of Modern Art in 1955, affirming the universal resonance of his vision. Even before turning decisively toward fashion, Horvat had established himself as a photographer of rare sensitivity.

A return trip to India in 1962 deepened this engagement. The images from both periods, presented here in a selection of around one hundred photographs, reveal an artist attentive to gesture, light, and human presence. The seeds of his later innovation in fashion photography are visible in these early works: a preference for natural settings, spontaneous movement, and psychological nuance rather than rigid artifice.

Preserved today in major museum collections, Horvat’s photographs from India and Pakistan stand not merely as documents of place and time, but as evidence of a young artist discovering his vocation. The Birth of a Photographer captures that decisive moment when observation, experience, and craft converged, marking the emergence of a career that would leave a lasting imprint on modern photography.

The first English-language survey of a pathbreaking figure in Japanese art. Through subjects as diverse as old apartment blocks, human scars, kimono fabrics, personal belongings of the deceased, and even her own water-damaged prints, Ishiuchi Miyako manifests the invisible, capturing time, atmosphere, and memory in photographic form. Her work is at once deeply personal and evocative of the wider world hinted at by the traces recorded within the frame. Since beginning her career in the 1970s, Ishiuchi has become one of Japan’s foremost photographers, leading the way for female practitioners in a scene that has traditionally been male dominated. Ishiuchi Miyako: Traces charts the course of her practice over fifty years and identifies themes that resurface throughout her work, including her relationship with place, the passage of time, and the bodies and possessions of people, always with an emphasis on materiality and ephemerality. Three thematic sections—Town, Skin & Scars and Things Left Behind—include series such as Yokosuka Story, which documents her hometown; 1 · 9 · 4 · 7, in which she photographed the hands and feet of fifty women born in the same year as her; and Frida, which catalogues the possessions of the artist Frida Kahlo. The major photographic series appear alongside lesser-known works and previously unpublished material. With extracts from Ishiuchi’s previous writings, an in-depth interview by Lena Fritsch, and a newly commissioned essay by Ishiuchi herself, the artist’s voice is present throughout.

Valery Rizzo: Wonderland unfolds as a heartfelt tribute to a borough in constant motion, capturing Brooklyn from 2007 to 2023 with a sense of intimacy that only a native eye can offer. Through toy cameras and medium-format film, Rizzo cultivates a visual language that feels tactile and immediate, preserving moments that might otherwise fade amid the borough’s sweeping transformation. Her images trace the intersections of tradition and reinvention, echoing a neighborhood where heritage and upheaval coexist in a delicate, ever-shifting balance.

Brooklyn’s long history forms an essential backdrop to this project. Established in the seventeenth century by Dutch settlers, the borough has evolved from a modest outpost to one of the most emblematic urban environments in the United States. By the early twenty-first century, rapid gentrification reshaped entire districts, altering storefronts, skylines, and communities. Rizzo’s photographs respond to this shifting terrain with a quiet insistence on the importance of the everyday: portraits of residents, gestures on stoops, spontaneous gatherings, and glimpses of nature threading its way through concrete and steel. These scenes become a living archive of a place defined as much by memory as by reinvention.

Her approach embraces the soft distortions and imperfections of her chosen cameras, producing images that feel personal—almost confessional. There is an undercurrent of nostalgia, but also a sharp awareness of change as it unfolds. Themes noted in the accompanying essays—bodies in motion, the interplay of organic and urban surfaces, the sense of watching something fleeting—recur throughout the series. The vignetting and narrow field of view reinforce a sensation of wandering through private worlds, observing without intruding.

Influenced by photographers renowned for their long-term dedication to a subject, Rizzo commits herself to an extended, affectionate study of her home borough. Wonderland stands as both a love letter and a chronicle, offering a deeply rooted, human perspective on a community in flux and affirming photography’s enduring role in preserving the character of places undergoing constant reinvention.

^{Image: Blue Lady, Mermaid Parade, Coney Island, Brooklyn, 2007 © Valery Rizzo}

A Photographic Journey Through Red Hook, Brooklyn.

Lisa Cutler: The Hook offers an intimate and atmospheric journey into Red Hook, a Brooklyn neighborhood defined by layers of history, shifting identities, and a persistent sense of resilience. Cutler first encountered the area by accident, yet this chance discovery evolved into a profound engagement with a landscape where industrial remnants, muted beauty, and quiet tension coexist. Her photographs, made between 2017 and 2019, explore a place suspended between memory and transformation, where the past lingers in every brick and peeling surface.

Once known as Roode Hoek, the peninsula developed from farmland into a thriving maritime hub. Warehouses, shipping terminals, and cobblestone streets shaped its character, reflecting the district’s crucial role in global trade. When industrial activity collapsed in the mid-20th century, Red Hook became emblematic of urban decline—isolated, economically stressed, and marked by disinvestment. Yet even in its most difficult periods, the neighborhood retained a strong sense of community and a distinctive visual identity that continues to define it today.

Cutler’s work captures this duality: the stillness of abandoned structures alongside signs of renewal that signal the area’s ongoing evolution. Redevelopment has revived the waterfront and drawn new residents and businesses, creating a dialogue—sometimes harmonious, sometimes uneasy—between preservation and change. Her images reflect these tensions through a refined visual language of geometry, color, and light, echoing the influence of photographers such as Lewis Baltz, Robert Adams, and Walker Evans.

Though people rarely appear, their presence is deeply felt. A chair left in an alley, a coat hanging on a fence, or the glow of a window becomes evidence of everyday life continuing beyond the frame. Cutler’s photographs honor Red Hook’s complexity, portraying it neither as a relic nor a polished reinvention, but as a living environment shaped by time, struggle, and hope.

Lisa Cutler: The Hook stands as a thoughtful meditation on place—an homage to a neighborhood at a crossroads and a testament to photography’s ability to illuminate beauty in overlooked corners of the urban world.

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Letizia Battaglia (Photofile) offers an essential introduction to one of the most courageous and empathetic photographers of the 20th century — a woman whose lens chronicled both cruelty and tenderness in her native Sicily. Born in Palermo in 1935, Battaglia began working in journalism as a single mother. She quickly realized that to tell stories more fully, she needed images as well as words. Thus she joined the ranks of reporters at the newspaper L’Ora, a publication known for its rare stance against the Mafia and its influence in Sicilian politics and economy.

From 1976 to 1991, Battaglia documented some of the darkest episodes in Italy’s recent history: assassinations of judges, police officers, and public officials — tragedies that shook communities to their core. But her work never reduced people to mere headlines or objects of sensationalism. Instead, her photographs sought out life in all its fragility: children playing in empty courtyards, women in domestic interiors, moments of laughter or quiet endurance among poverty and fear. She rejected the label “Mafia photographer,” insisting that her true aim was to reveal human dignity under pressure.

What makes Battaglia’s photography so powerful is her refusal to separate suffering from joy — each image shines with empathy without romanticizing pain. Her black-and-white frames are stark yet compassionate, harsh yet humane. Poverty, violence, injustice, but also tenderness, resilience, solidarity: all coexist in a portrait of a community under siege yet still alive.

This Photofile edition collects 65 black-and-white photographs spanning her career, offering a compact yet profound survey. In its pocket-sized pages, one finds the breadth of Battaglia’s commitment: from crime scenes to domestic interiors, from sorrow to small everyday gestures, each shot carries the weight of bearing witness.

Letizia Battaglia (Photofile) is not simply a primer: it is an invitation to look, to remember, to feel. Through her eyes, we are reminded that photography can be more than documentation — it can be a tool of conscience, of memory, and of compassion.

1539Helen Levitt — the new comprehensive monograph released in May 2026 — invites readers to rediscover the poetry hidden in everyday city life through the lens of one of the twentieth century’s greatest street photographers. For over sixty years, Levitt walked the sidewalks, stoops, subway cars and alleyways of New York City with nothing more than a handheld camera and an instinct for the fleeting moment. Her images capture tenderness, mischief, resilience, community — the small gestures and silent dramas that unfold away from the spotlight.

This ambitious volume draws from her complete archive, presenting not only her celebrated classics but also rarely seen early frames from her first years working with a Leica, as well as the full set of fifty images from her 1965 photobook A Way of Seeing, preserved in original prints. For the first time, we can follow her evolution: the contrast between early black-and-white street scenes and later explorations in color, her fearless documentation of social life, and her steady eye attuned to the humanity of the everyday.

What emerges is more than a chronicle of urban life — it is a portrait of a unique vision. Levitt treated New York as a stage and its residents as actors in an ongoing, unscripted play. Children draw with chalk on sidewalks; elders lean on their doors; subway riders drift between stations; neighbors converse on stoops — each image quietly observes dignity and connection. She transformed the ordinary into moments of resonance, turning chaotic city rhythm into something lyrical and deeply human.

The book also offers fresh perspectives on lesser-known chapters of her career: a photographic journey to Mexico in 1941, early experiments with color photography in the 1950s, and introspective late work from the 1980s. Supported by essays from leading scholars, these sections frame Levitt’s life not just as that of a chronicler of the street, but as an artist in constant dialogue with light, movement, environment and memory.

With 356 illustrations — 77 in color — this definitive survey is an invitation to slow down and notice. Helen Levitt reminds us that beauty, truth and poetry often dwell in the unnoticed corners of daily life, and that a truly great photographer doesn’t just take pictures — she sees souls walking past.

Brooke DiDonato: Take a Picture, It Will Last Longer presents the first comprehensive look at a photographer whose imagination reshapes the familiar into something wonderfully disquieting. With a practice rooted in everyday American settings, DiDonato transforms domestic spaces and outdoor landscapes into psychological terrains where reality loosens its grip and the unexpected quietly emerges.

Drawing inspiration from her upbringing in Ohio, DiDonato creates scenes that balance nostalgia with estrangement. Living rooms twist into dreamscapes, staircases swallow their subjects, and bodies fold, rise, or slip into architectural nooks as though the walls themselves have intentions. Her figures, often partially obscured or eerily integrated into their surroundings, suggest a private world where personal histories, fears, and desires seep into the physical environment. Instead of relying on digital manipulation, DiDonato constructs her images with practical staging, allowing the uncanny to arise from carefully arranged gestures and objects.

Her photographs carry titles that hint at humor, vulnerability, and self-reflection — phrases that mirror her interest in contemporary anxieties and emotional resilience. Works from her noted series A House Is Not a Home appear alongside newly published images, reinforcing her ability to anchor surrealism in relatable moments. Through her lens, the American suburb becomes a stage for quiet revelations, where the internal self is revealed through the choreography of bodies and the subtle tension within ordinary settings.

The book also includes an introduction by Eleanor Sutherland, who situates DiDonato’s vision within broader currents of staged photography and narrative portraiture. A conversation between filmmaker Eve Van Dyke and the artist’s father offers rare insight into DiDonato’s early influences and the personal threads that weave through her work.

With 167 color illustrations, this debut monograph invites readers to linger inside DiDonato’s off-kilter universe — a world where the strange and the tender coexist, and where each photograph beckons with the promise of a story just beyond reach.

779Rania Matar: Where Do I Go? unfolds as a deeply personal and collective reflection on identity, belonging, and the difficult choices faced by a new generation of Lebanese women. Created in collaboration with the Eskenazi Museum of Art, the project coincides with the fiftieth anniversary of the Lebanese Civil War, a moment that invites reflection on memory, resilience, and the enduring ties between people and place. Through a series of evocative portraits, Boston-based photographer Rania Matar approaches these questions with sensitivity and lived understanding, drawing from her own experience of leaving Lebanon at the age of twenty and building a life in the United States.

The photographs center on young women navigating the emotional terrain between attachment to their homeland and the uncertainty of possible departure. Matar works closely with her subjects, encouraging them to shape the images and actively participate in the creation of their portraits. This collaborative process transforms the photographs into expressions of agency rather than simple observation. The women occupy landscapes that feel both intimate and symbolic—rocky shores, wooded hillsides, abandoned structures, and overlooked corners of the city. In many images they appear climbing trees, balancing on cliffs, or leaping into waterfalls and murky waters, gestures that echo both freedom and risk while reflecting the fragile balance between hope and instability.

Lebanon itself remains a quiet yet powerful presence throughout the series. The country’s beauty—its mountains, Mediterranean coast, and dense urban textures—forms a backdrop layered with historical and political complexity. Rather than focusing on conflict directly, Matar reveals how the legacy of war and ongoing uncertainty shapes everyday life and the aspirations of a younger generation. The women portrayed inhabit this landscape with determination, curiosity, and moments of quiet contemplation.

Accompanied by reflective essays that explore contemporary life in Lebanon, Where Do I Go? brings together photography and personal narrative to illuminate questions shared by many across the world. Through these images, Matar offers a meditation on womanhood, displacement, and the enduring search for a place that feels like home.

Will Vogt: Behind the Hedges extends the visual inquiry that began with These Americans, deepening an attentive exploration of ritual, lineage, and belonging within America’s upper circles. Where youthful bravado once animated the frame, a measured composure now prevails. Vogt positions himself both insider and observer, crafting images that hover between intimacy and restraint. The photographs consider a class committed to continuity, attentive to ceremony, and practiced in the art of quiet endurance. In a country often defined by mobility and reinvention, this work lingers on preservation, on gestures repeated across generations, and on the subtle codes that sustain a shared identity.

Vogt turns his lens toward environments rarely granted sustained scrutiny: manicured fairways, sun-bleached beaches, private clubs, racetracks, and expansive hunting grounds stretching across Florida plantations, South Texas ranches, and storied British shooting estates. These settings do not operate as spectacles of wealth but as stages for tradition. Linen jackets, polished silver, weathered saddles, and inherited cottages form a vocabulary of continuity. The camera registers the choreography of seasonal gatherings and sporting rituals—moments of leisure that carry the weight of heritage. Within the larger arc of his ongoing project, A Sporting Life, each series unfolds as a chapter in a broader meditation on custom and community.

Following the acclaim of These Americans, introduced to an international audience at Photo London, Vogt’s practice earns attention from cultural journals and exhibition spaces across the United States. Yet the strength of Behind the Hedges rests less on recognition than on patience. By returning to the same families, fields, and festivities year after year, Vogt constructs an archive of constancy. His photographs suggest that privilege, while visible, remains secondary to the bonds of ritual and memory. In these composed and deliberate images, a portrait of endurance emerges—one shaped not by spectacle, but by the steady cadence of tradition.

774Jane Fulton Alt: Still Life traces an unexpected passage from loss to renewal in the life of Jane Fulton Alt. Known for her contemplative photographic projects exploring landscape, mortality, and transformation, Alt found her practice profoundly altered by personal tragedy. When her husband Howard died suddenly, he left behind an unfinished native garden—an ambitious undertaking rooted in ecological responsibility and a deep concern for climate change. What began as his vision gradually became her path forward.

Alt had never considered herself a gardener. Yet in the quiet aftermath of grief, she chose to continue the work he had started. With guidance from mentors and advocates of native planting, she immersed herself in soil, seeds, and seasonal rhythms. The act of tending the land became both discipline and solace. As she cultivated indigenous plants designed to restore habitat and support biodiversity, she also cultivated a renewed sense of purpose. The garden evolved into a living memorial—dynamic, imperfect, and sustained through care.

Photography remained central to this transformation. Through her lens, Alt observed subtle cycles of growth and decay: frost settling on seed heads, insects moving among blossoms, stems collapsing back into earth. These images, attentive and restrained, echo the classical still life tradition while expanding it into an environmental meditation. The title suggests stillness, yet the work reveals constant change—life emerging from what appears dormant. Text contributions by meditation teacher James Baraz, native plant advocate Doug Tallamy, and curator W. M. Hunt frame the project within broader conversations about mindfulness, ecology, and the sustaining power of art.

Still Life: A Photographer’s Journey Through Grief and Gardening is ultimately a testament to stewardship—of land, of memory, and of creative vision. In embracing her husband’s unfinished garden, Alt demonstrates how tending the earth can become an act of devotion, and how personal sorrow may open unexpectedly onto regeneration.

251Joel Meyerowitz: Morandi's Objects offers a contemplative journey into the quiet intimacy of Joel Meyerowitz’s encounter with the studio of Giorgio Morandi. In the spring of 2015, Meyerowitz entered the small rooms of via Fondazza in Bologna, where Morandi arranged simple everyday objects—vases, tins, shells, bottles, and jugs—into delicate compositions that became the subject of his luminous paintings. With meticulous attention to light and shadow, Meyerowitz photographed each object, capturing the subtle geometry and poetic stillness that had inspired generations of artists.

The photographs convey more than mere documentation. Meyerowitz approaches the objects with sensitivity, giving each one its own presence while respecting the arrangements Morandi so carefully curated. The studio, filled with shelves and tables overflowing with ordinary items, becomes a stage on which time, materiality, and memory converge. Through Meyerowitz’s lens, the objects are simultaneously familiar and transformed, bridging the gap between painterly observation and photographic interpretation. Light plays a central role, echoing the painter’s subtle handling of illumination and shadow, and revealing the extraordinary in the seemingly ordinary.

This expanded edition of Morandi's Objects includes over 130 new photographs, along with a new essay by Amanda Renshaw and an updated bibliography, deepening our understanding of both Meyerowitz’s practice and Morandi’s enduring influence. Meyerowitz’s work, whether in the streets, portraits, or landscapes, has long been celebrated for its careful attention to color, form, and atmosphere, and here it finds a rare and intimate focus on the stillness of a single artist’s studio.

Morandi's Objects is a meditation on observation, patience, and the quiet power of everyday objects. Meyerowitz invites viewers to linger over subtle details, to see the poetry inherent in the simplest forms, and to witness how light, space, and material can be rendered with both devotion and artistry. The book celebrates the intersection of photography and painting, memory and presence, and the enduring resonance of artistic practice.

This book is both a work of remembrance and an act of recovery, illuminating a chapter of American history long buried beneath water, soil, and silence.

At its center is the Inner Passage, a network of early colonial canals carved into the Lowcountry of South Carolina in the early 18th century. Built through forced labor, these waterways were intended to serve mercantile shipping and plantation economies. Yet history holds a profound reversal: for more than a century, enslaved Black people transformed these canals into routes of resistance, using them to move southward toward freedom in Spanish Florida.

Virginia McGee Richards brings this forgotten history into focus through sixty richly textured tritone photographs that trace landscapes still marked by slavery’s imprint. Swamps, waterways, and quiet stretches of land become witnesses, while intimate portraits of Lowcountry descendants connect past and present with dignity and depth. Her photographs do not merely document place; they listen, revealing how memory lingers in altered terrain and inherited stories.

An essay by Richards recounts her own discovery of the Inner Passage, unfolding like a personal and historical excavation. Complementing this, Imani Perry contributes a powerful reflection on traveling the same waterways, situating Black resistance within a living Southern landscape. Her words insist on presence—on seeing escape, ingenuity, and defiance as central to American history rather than its margins.

James Estrin’s foreword draws on decades of photographic insight, framing the work as an example of how images can function as testimony, evidence, and invitation all at once.

Bound in a finely crafted hard cover with a tip-in and lush tritone printing, this book is as carefully made as the story it tells. It stands as a visual and narrative map—one that honors those who endured, resisted, and found pathways to freedom where none were meant to exist.

A visual testament to the interconnectedness of life: stunning photography of naturally occurring patterns across the globe―from tree rings to elephant migration trails to feathers of ancient birds

In this photobook, Australian conservation and nature photographer Jon McCormack explores the natural design woven into the fabric of our planet, capturing unexpected structures and delicate rhythms echoed across animal markings, grand landscapes, geological formations and botanical design in breathtaking detail. The images in the volume depict a wide spectrum of terrains: from the volcanic coasts of Iceland to the wilds of Kenya, the icy fjords of Antarctica to the rainforests of British Columbia. They capture the silent geometry of hippo trails in Botswana, the intricate symmetry of ice caves in Svalbard and the mysterious worlds found in cold underwater environments. Many of the photographs were shot close to McCormack's home, along the coastlines, forests and deserts of California. Interwoven with the awe-inspiring photographs are short essays by explorers and scientists that respond to the extraordinary phenomena on display.

Doug Hancock: Riders of the Buffalo Nations offers an intimate and powerful window into the lives of First Nations youth on the reservations of South Dakota and Montana. Through his lens, Hancock captures a generation negotiating the weight of history and the promise of the future. The photographs are at once documentary and poetic, revealing the ways in which tradition, community, and modernity intersect in the daily lives of these young people.

Central to Hancock’s work is the rodeo, a recurring motif that symbolizes resilience, skill, and courage. Beyond the spectacle of sport, the rodeo embodies the challenges of reservation life—both literal and metaphorical. Each ride becomes a moment of risk and reward, a space where strength and vulnerability coexist. Hancock presents these moments without judgment, allowing his subjects’ determination and joy to emerge organically.

Hancock’s images resist simplification. His young protagonists are not confined to stereotypes or narratives of hardship; they are fully realized individuals whose expressions, gestures, and environments speak volumes about identity and belonging. Portraits of riders preparing for competitions, families gathering, and communities celebrating cultural events highlight a dynamic interplay between heritage and contemporary experience. In doing so, Hancock underscores the enduring vitality of Indigenous culture amid systemic challenges.

The landscapes of South Dakota and Montana serve as more than backdrops—they are integral to the story, reflecting the vastness and harshness of the environment while also emphasizing the deep connections between people and land. The photographs convey both the scale of the territory and the intimacy of community life, framing youth culture as inseparable from its physical and historical context.

Riders of the Buffalo Nations is ultimately a celebration of resilience, hope, and potential. Hancock’s careful, empathetic approach invites viewers to see the strength, creativity, and complexity of a generation that carries forward the legacy of their ancestors while charting its own path. The book stands as both a visual document and a meditation on cultural continuity, identity, and the courage to thrive against the odds.

Albert Scopin: Chelsea Hotel is a vivid photographic book that captures a fleeting moment in New York’s cultural history, when art, music, film, and daily life collided within the walls of one legendary building. Between 1969 and 1971, Scopin lived at the Chelsea Hotel, not as a distant observer, but as a young artist immersed in its restless energy. The hotel functioned less as a residence than as an open laboratory of ideas, ambition, and constant movement, where creativity spilled into hallways, rooms, and rooftops.

Armed with a modest Kodak Instamatic, Scopin photographed intuitively and discreetly, often shooting without looking through the viewfinder. This instinctive approach allowed him to move freely among the hotel’s residents and visitors, capturing moments that feel unguarded and immediate. His images reveal a raw intimacy: Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe appear not as cultural icons, but as young artists in formation, navigating love, uncertainty, and aspiration. These photographs hold a rare tenderness, shaped by proximity rather than hindsight.

Beyond these now-famous figures, the book opens onto a wider constellation of creative life. Filmmakers such as Wim Wenders, Milos Forman, Rosa von Praunheim, and Jonas Mekas pass through Scopin’s frames, as does the extended Warhol circle, staging performances that blur the line between rehearsal and lived experience. In the basement, hotel staff host exuberant parties, while on the roof, residents pause to look outward, imagining futures still undefined against the vastness of the city below.

Scopin’s photographs resist spectacle in favor of atmosphere. Grainy, spontaneous, and deeply human, they reflect a time when artistic communities were built through shared spaces and chance encounters. The accompanying texts and interview deepen this sense of closeness, offering reflections shaped by memory rather than mythology.

More than a document of celebrity, Chelsea Hotel is a portrait of creative life in motion. It preserves the fragile intensity of a place where becoming mattered more than arriving, and where the ordinary and the extraordinary existed side by side, waiting to be seen.

Pieter Henket: Birds of Mexico City presents a striking series of portraits shaped by renewal, presence, and collective imagination. Created in the period following the global pause of the pandemic, the book reflects a moment when creative communities sought new ways to gather, reflect, and redefine themselves. Henket’s time in Mexico City became less about observation and more about participation, allowing the portraits to emerge from shared experience rather than distance.

Working alongside stylist Chino Castilla, Henket cultivated an open studio environment where artists, performers, and makers could experiment freely. This space functioned as both refuge and stage, drawing together dancers, designers, and artisans whose practices bridge past and present. Within this setting, portraiture becomes a dialogue, shaped collaboratively through costume, gesture, and gaze. The resulting images feel intentional yet unguarded, balancing formality with intimacy.

Mexico City itself permeates the work, not as a backdrop but as a living force. Cultural symbols, handcrafted objects, and references to ritual appear throughout, grounding each subject in a broader historical continuum. At the same time, these elements are reinterpreted, layered with contemporary expressions of gender, identity, and selfhood. Henket’s portraits honor tradition without fixing it in place, allowing it to evolve through those who carry it forward.

The book unfolds across three thematic chapters: The Divine Feminine, The Masculine, and Mexican Culture and Artifacts. Rather than rigid categories, these sections operate as fluid points of entry, revealing overlaps and tensions between roles, symbols, and lived realities. The sequencing encourages reflection on how identity is assembled, negotiated, and performed in both private and communal contexts.

Visually refined and emotionally resonant, Birds of Mexico City captures a generation in motion. Henket’s classical sensibility meets a contemporary urgency, producing portraits that feel timeless yet rooted in the present. The book stands as a testament to creative resilience and to the enduring power of collaboration in shaping how we see ourselves and one another.

1250Sandro Miller: On Earth as It Is Not in Heaven stands as a profound meditation on what it means to be human in an imperfect world. Released in hardcover in April 2026, this publication gathers a lifetime of portraiture shaped by empathy, discipline, and an unwavering respect for the subject. Miller’s work resists spectacle, choosing instead to confront the viewer with faces that speak quietly yet insistently of lived experience.

Based in Chicago, Sandro Miller has long navigated the space between notoriety and anonymity. His lens has captured internationally recognized figures as well as individuals far removed from the public eye, placing them on equal footing within the frame. In this book, actors, athletes, survivors, and everyday people appear not as symbols or roles, but as individuals momentarily unguarded. Cultural background, gender, and status dissolve, leaving only presence and emotion.

The technical restraint of Miller’s approach is central to the work. Shot at 1/25th of a second, each image preserves fleeting expressions that might otherwise pass unnoticed: a tremor of doubt, a trace of resolve, a glance weighted with memory. These portraits do not dramatize suffering or celebrate triumph; instead, they acknowledge the quiet accumulation of experience that shapes every life. Time seems suspended, inviting reflection rather than judgment.

On Earth as It Is Not in Heaven is not a declaration, but an offering. Miller does not photograph to elevate himself or to define his subjects; his intent is directed outward, toward the viewer. The book asks us to recognize ourselves in others, to feel more deeply and look more closely. In doing so, it affirms portrait photography as a traditional yet enduring means of connection—one that honors the past while remaining essential to the present.

Dionne Lee (born in New York) works across photography, video, and collage to examine interwoven histories of land, power, survival, and Black identity in the American landscape.

Lee’s formal interventions and innovative darkroom techniques—including rephotographing found imagery from wilderness survival manuals and using graphite pencils to create inscriptions on her photographs of the landscape—weave together new narratives that address themes of dispossession, loss, survival, and resilience. Dionne Lee: Currents, the artist’s first monograph, brings together key works from over a decade of Lee’s career alongside essays by award-winning poet Camille T. Dungy and curator Eric Booker, as well as an interview with the artist Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill, offering a deeper look at a visionary artist reshaping how we see­—and choose to imagine—the great outdoors.

38"The pictures from The Last Resort still hold up brilliantly. If I ever reach the Pearly Gates, those are the ones I’d probably pull out first!" – Martin Parr

Published in collaboration with the Martin Parr Foundation, this special edition accompanies a tribute exhibition at the Foundation’s Bristol gallery, honouring Martin Parr following his passing in December. Shot in and around the English seaside town of New Brighton between 1983 and 1985, The Last Resort remains a landmark in British colour documentary photography, establishing Parr as one of the nation’s most influential photographers.

This volume presents a carefully curated selection of images from the iconic series, alongside extensive archival material, including contact sheets, photographs, and ephemera drawn from Martin’s personal collection. Isaac Blease, Archivist at the Foundation, provides insight into the project’s origins, exploring the artistic and cultural influences that prompted Parr’s shift from black-and-white to colour photography, as well as the series’ initial exhibitions in Liverpool and at London’s Serpentine Gallery.

Peter Brawne, designer of the original 1986 book, reflects on the creative process behind the design and his collaboration with Martin, while Susie Parr, Martin’s wife, contributes a personal account of New Brighton and the first public presentation of the work at Liverpool’s Open Eye Gallery in 1985.

Richly illustrated and thoughtfully contextualized, this book offers both longtime admirers and new readers a unique glimpse into the development of Martin Parr’s iconic vision and the vibrant world of British seaside life that inspired it.

All Hallows Eve brings together a striking selection of photographs made on Halloween night across several decades, drawn from the extensive personal archive of Ed Templeton. Spanning cities such as Los Angeles, Tokyo, Orange County, and London, the book offers an unfiltered look at costumed revelers, nighttime rituals, and spontaneous street encounters. It also includes photographs from the annual Halloween skate demos Templeton participated in during his years as a professional skateboarder, adding an insider’s perspective to the visual chronicle.

Born in 1972, Templeton is an American painter and photographer celebrated for his candid exploration of human behavior, particularly within youth culture, suburban life, and the performative aspects of identity. His imagery is rooted in a cinéma vérité sensibility, privileging raw observation and chance moments over staged composition. This approach lends his work a sense of immediacy and authenticity, as though each frame were discovered rather than constructed.

Beyond the art world, Templeton is widely recognized within skate culture as a seminal figure: a two-time world champion and inductee into the Skateboarding Hall of Fame. His creative output extends across photographic books, installations, and multimedia exhibitions that blur the boundaries between documentary, diary, and social commentary.

His work has been presented internationally at institutions including MOCA, ICP, Palais de Tokyo, Kunsthalle Wien, and Pier 24 Photography. His photographs are also held in major public collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, SMAK, Orange County Museum of Art, and Bonnefanten Museum.

With All Hallows Eve, Templeton transforms a single night of the year into a decades-long visual study of transformation, performance, and fleeting freedom—revealing as much about society as it does about the individuals behind the masks.

American photographer David Ricci spent seven years traveling across the United States documenting a little-seen visual landscape: the country’s resale underworld of antique malls, flea markets, curio shops, and thrift stores.

His series Hunter Gatherer explores these spaces where forgotten objects from the past are recirculated into the present, revealing more than nostalgia or kitsch. Through carefully observed photographs, Ricci uncovers the cultural codes embedded in everyday items for sale—objects that quietly expose layers of American identity shaped by history, commerce, faith, race, and mythmaking.

Working without staging or intervention, he photographed displays exactly as he encountered them. Some scenes feel absurdly humorous, such as a devotional nun figurine posed beside a pop-culture toy dispenser. Others are more unsettling: racist caricatures and stereotyped figurines appear casually arranged alongside ordinary household goods, forcing viewers to confront how prejudice can persist in plain sight. These unexpected juxtapositions transform flea-market tables into mirrors reflecting the contradictions of a nation still negotiating its past.

Although people never physically appear in the photographs, human presence is felt everywhere. The objects—posed dolls, religious icons, decorative statues, toys, and memorabilia—seem to converse silently, suggesting unseen owners, imagined histories, and unspoken beliefs. Each frame becomes a kind of stage where social narratives unfold, turning still lifes into charged visual theater.

Rather than offering direct commentary, Hunter Gatherer invites viewers to look closely and draw their own conclusions. Ricci’s lens functions as both witness and questioner, prompting reflection on what societies choose to keep, discard, and resell. The project ultimately reveals that secondhand objects are never just things; they are vessels of memory and ideology. By isolating and reframing them, Ricci exposes the subtle yet persistent values that continue to shape contemporary American culture.

19Man Ray: Shapes of Light, published in hardcover in March 2026, revisits the radical imagination of one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. More than a photographer, Man Ray approached art as an open field of possibility, where images were not simply recorded but invented. This publication traces how light itself became his primary material, shaped into forms that hover between reality and dream, precision and play.

Born Emmanuel Radnitzky in Philadelphia in 1890, Man Ray emerged from the ferment of New York’s early avant-garde before redefining himself in Paris, where he became a central figure of Dada and later Surrealism. Photography, for him, was never a secondary medium. It was a laboratory. In works such as Le Violon d’Ingres and Noire et blanche, the camera becomes an instrument of transformation, turning the body, objects, and shadows into poetic propositions rather than stable facts. These images remain enduring symbols of how photography can collapse boundaries between the real and the imagined.

The book places particular emphasis on Man Ray’s restless experimentation. His rayographs—images made without a camera by placing objects directly onto photosensitive paper—challenge the very definition of photography, while his use of solarization introduced a shimmering ambiguity that feels both sensual and uncanny. These techniques reflect an artist driven less by mastery than by curiosity, always willing to risk failure in pursuit of surprise. The same spirit animates his fashion photographs, where elegance is infused with humor, provocation, and a distinctly modern sense of freedom.

Man Ray: Shapes of Light also acknowledges the breadth of his practice beyond still images. As a filmmaker and object-maker, Man Ray treated movement, rhythm, and material as extensions of photographic thought. Across mediums, his work resists categorization, unified instead by a devotion to imagination and visual pleasure.

This volume affirms Man Ray’s lasting relevance. At a time when images circulate endlessly, his work reminds us that photography can still be a site of invention—where light becomes language, and art remains an act of defiance against convention.

Susanne Walström: Greensburg is a photographic meditation on loss, endurance, and the quiet resolve required to begin again. On the night of May 4, 2007, a massive tornado erased nearly an entire town in the heart of Kansas, leaving behind a scar that was both physical and deeply human. Greensburg, once defined by routine and familiarity, became a symbol of sudden vulnerability—an ordinary place forever altered by extraordinary force.

Walström’s relationship with Greensburg predates the disaster by many years. When she first photographed the town in the early 1990s, her images reflected a rhythm of life shaped by continuity and closeness. Returning decades later, she confronts absence as much as presence. Streets have been redrawn, buildings rebuilt, and yet traces of what once was linger in gestures, faces, and the surrounding land. Her photographs move between past and present, allowing memory and renewal to exist side by side.

Central to the project is Greensburg’s decision to rebuild with sustainability at its core. In the wake of devastation, the town chose to imagine a different future, embracing energy-efficient architecture and environmental responsibility. Walström approaches this transformation without spectacle, focusing instead on how ideals are lived day to day. Wind turbines, modest homes, and open skies become part of a broader portrait of adaptation—practical, cautious, and quietly hopeful.

Living in Tornado Alley means accepting uncertainty as a constant companion. Walström’s images acknowledge this reality without dramatization. They suggest an ongoing negotiation between humans and the forces that surround them, where resilience is not a triumphant endpoint but a continuous process. The people of Greensburg emerge not as symbols, but as individuals shaped by experience, choice, and persistence.

In Greensburg, Walström expands the story beyond one town and one storm. Her work speaks to a shared condition in an era marked by environmental instability and recurring crisis. Through attentive observation and emotional restraint, she offers a space to reflect on fragility, responsibility, and the enduring human impulse to rebuild—again and again.

Dieter Appelt: Gerhard-Altenbourg-Preis 2025 accompanies the recognition of one of Germany’s most uncompromising artistic voices, whose work has shaped the language of performative photography since the 1960s. Dieter Appelt’s practice emerged from a deep dissatisfaction with the rationalized pace of modern life, prompting him to turn inward and toward elemental forces as a means of resistance. Through the camera, he found a way to confront what is fragile, impermanent, and often suppressed in contemporary society.

Originally trained as a musician and opera singer, Appelt brought a heightened sensitivity to rhythm, breath, and duration into his visual work. His photographic actions often center on his own body, placed in direct dialogue with natural materials such as stone, earth, water, and wood. These gestures are neither theatrical nor symbolic in a conventional sense; instead, they unfold as quiet rituals that test endurance and presence. The body appears exposed and finite, yet deeply connected to cycles of decay and renewal that extend beyond the individual.

Across decades, Appelt has returned to fundamental questions of existence: how memory is inscribed in flesh, how time erodes both bodies and landscapes, and how art can serve as a form of witnessing. His serial photographs and large-scale works emphasize repetition and transformation, allowing subtle shifts to accumulate meaning. In doing so, he aligns photography with meditation rather than documentation, using the medium to slow perception and heighten awareness of transience.

This publication offers a wide-ranging view of Appelt’s artistic development, tracing the evolution of his actions alongside drawings, objects, and films that expand his investigations beyond photography. Together, these works reveal a coherent vision rooted in introspection and physical experience. The honor bestowed by the Lindenau Museum Altenburg situates Appelt within a lineage of artists who challenge dominant narratives of progress.

As a tribute to a lifetime of inquiry, Dieter Appelt: Gerhard-Altenbourg-Preis 2025 affirms the enduring relevance of an art practice grounded in the body, memory, and the irrevocable passage of time.

Mikael Lundström: Overburden is a poignant photographic book that traces the layered histories and present realities of the central Appalachian Mountains, a region long shaped by extraction, belief, and endurance. Lundström approaches Appalachia not as a distant observer, but as a careful witness, attuned to the rhythms of daily life in communities marked by both resilience and profound loss. His journey moves through landscapes where mountains bear the physical weight of mining and towns carry the emotional burden of generations shaped by labor and sacrifice.

For centuries, isolation defined life in these mountains, fostering a distinct cultural identity rooted in self-reliance, music, and faith. The arrival of industrial coal mining in the late nineteenth century fractured this isolation, replacing subsistence living with company towns and rigid economic hierarchies. Lundström’s photographs reveal the lingering architecture of this transformation: abandoned tipples, modest homes, and churches that remain central gathering points. These spaces speak quietly of how capitalism, migration, and exploitation reconfigured both land and lives.

As coal’s dominance fades, Appalachia confronts a new chapter marked by uncertainty. Mines have closed, jobs have vanished, and entire towns now hover between memory and disappearance. Lundström documents this transition with restraint, focusing on the people who remain—workers, families, and elders—whose expressions reflect both fatigue and resolve. The opioid crisis, a devastating consequence of economic collapse and social neglect, is present not through spectacle, but through absence and atmosphere, etched into faces and interiors.

Music and faith run as subtle undercurrents throughout the book, echoing Appalachia’s role as the birthplace of country music and a stronghold of religious tradition. These elements offer moments of continuity amid disruption, suggesting ways communities hold onto meaning when structures fail. Lundström’s images neither romanticize nor condemn; instead, they allow contradictions to coexist.

Overburden stands as a sober, compassionate record of a region at a crossroads. Through attentive observation and visual restraint, Lundström captures Appalachia as a place where history weighs heavily, yet hope persists in small, human gestures that refuse to disappear.

Amy Friend: Firelight is a quiet yet powerful meditation on photography’s ability to carry memory across generations. Working with anonymous vintage photographs from the early twentieth century, Friend rescues overlooked images from obscurity and invites them into a contemporary dialogue. These photographs, once personal keepsakes, are transformed into fragile monuments to lives partially known and largely forgotten. Through subtle intervention, Friend restores a sense of presence while honoring the distance that time inevitably imposes.

At the heart of Firelight is the series Dare alla Luce, a phrase that suggests both illumination and birth. Each photograph is carefully pierced by hand, punctured with constellations of tiny openings that allow light to pass through the paper. When backlit, the images shimmer with an almost supernatural glow. Faces, garments, skies, and interiors seem to breathe again, animated by a light that feels both intimate and otherworldly. The technique never overwhelms the original image; instead, it reveals what was always there but unseen.

Friend’s process is slow and meditative, rooted in respect for the physical photograph as an object. In an era defined by infinite digital reproduction, her work insists on tactility, patience, and care. The act of piercing becomes a gesture of devotion, a way of listening to what the image asks to become. Light operates not as decoration, but as a metaphor for memory itself—fragile, flickering, and dependent on our attention to remain alive.

The book Firelight extends this philosophy into its material form. Designed as a finely crafted artifact, the volume features laser-cut pages, refined French binding, and a cloth-bound box that recalls the intimacy of an heirloom. Each element reinforces the sense that this is not merely a book to be viewed, but an object to be handled with care, much like the photographs it contains.

Ultimately, Amy Friend: Firelight is an act of restoration rather than reinvention. By merging past and present through light, the work honors forgotten narratives while acknowledging their mystery. It reminds us that photography does not stop time, but it can offer moments of return—brief illuminations where absence becomes presence, and memory finds new breath.

The Best of Frank Kunert brings together a carefully curated selection from one of contemporary photography’s most distinctive and quietly subversive voices. Known for his meticulously crafted miniature tableaus, Kunert constructs worlds that appear instantly familiar, yet feel subtly wrong, as if reality itself has shifted by a few crucial degrees. This volume offers an immersive entry into an oeuvre where the everyday becomes a stage for reflection, irony, and unease.

Working patiently in the studio, Kunert builds architectural models by hand—interiors, suburban houses, staircases, bridges, and isolated towers—then photographs them with such precision that their scale all but disappears. What initially reads as documentary clarity soon reveals its artifice. Walls bend logic, spaces deny comfort, and functional objects suggest quiet failure. These scenes do not depict events, but states of mind, mirroring social pressures, isolation, and the contradictions of modern life.

The strength of Kunert’s images lies in their restraint. There is no spectacle, no overt drama, only the calm persistence of absurdity. A room may promise shelter while offering none, or a structure meant for passage leads nowhere. Humor is present, but it is dry and contemplative, rooted in recognition rather than surprise. The photographs reward slow looking, echoing traditions of conceptual photography while remaining deeply accessible.

This “best of” selection draws from several major bodies of work published over the years, highlighting the consistency of Kunert’s vision and the evolution of his visual language. His commitment to craft recalls earlier photographic traditions that valued precision, patience, and material presence—qualities that feel increasingly rare in an accelerated digital culture.

More than a retrospective, The Best of Frank Kunert functions as a mirror held up to contemporary existence. By reducing the world to a miniature, Kunert enlarges its emotional weight. His images remind us that beneath the surface of routine and order, uncertainty quietly resides. It is this balance between the ordinary and the unsettling that makes Kunert’s work enduring, resonant, and unmistakably his own.

Foc Kan: 80's Paris Nights: Top Models & Divas is a vibrant chronicle of a city after dark, capturing a Paris that pulsed with excess, creativity, and unapologetic style. Released in hardcover in March 2026, the book celebrates Foc Kan’s singular ability to move effortlessly through the capital’s nocturnal world, camera in hand, bearing witness to an era when fashion, music, and nightlife merged into a single, intoxicating rhythm.

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Foc Kan became a familiar presence in legendary Parisian clubs, documenting nights that felt endless and charged with possibility. His photographs reveal more than celebrity encounters; they preserve fleeting moments of freedom and performance, when identities blurred and glamour was worn with playful confidence. Models, designers, musicians, and actors appear not as distant icons, but as participants in a shared scene shaped by sound, light, and movement.

The book brings together a remarkable constellation of figures, from Claudia Schiffer and Naomi Campbell to Catherine Deneuve, Mick Jagger, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Karl Lagerfeld, and Yves Saint Laurent. These images unfold within emblematic spaces such as Les Bains-Douches and The Palace, venues that defined an entire generation’s idea of nightlife. Kan’s lens captures the elegance and abandon of these settings, balancing spontaneity with a keen sense of composition.

With a preface by Frédéric Beigbeder, 80's Paris Nights reads as both visual archive and cultural testimony. It is festive and refined, intimate yet expansive, revealing nightlife as a social ritual and a creative laboratory. Part ethnography, part fashion history, the book offers a rare window into a Paris that continues to influence contemporary culture. More than nostalgia, it stands as a reminder of how cities, at their most alive, are shaped by those who dare to live fully after sunset.

10Lee Friedlander: Life Still is a landmark monograph that brings together mostly unpublished photographs from one of America’s most influential photographers.

Spanning nearly seventy years, Friedlander’s career has been defined by a unique vision that finds poetry in the everyday. Life Still offers readers a rare glimpse into his expansive archive while introducing new work that underscores his continued relevance and insight. The book creates a compelling dialogue between past and present, showing how Friedlander’s eye consistently discovers humor, irony, and subtle complexity in the ordinary landscapes, urban spaces, and domestic environments he photographs.

Known for his compositional inventiveness and his ability to transform mundane scenes into layered visual narratives, Friedlander captures America in all its contradictions. Streets, signage, storefronts, fences, trees, and reflections become more than background—they become actors in his ongoing exploration of how we inhabit space and interact with culture. Often witty, occasionally surreal, and always meticulously observed, his photographs invite viewers to reconsider what they notice in the world around them.

Life Still features an insightful essay by Pulitzer Prize–winning critic and New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, which contextualizes Friedlander’s work within both historical and contemporary photographic practice. This combination of visual and written perspective illuminates the ways Friedlander’s images continue to challenge conventions and inspire new generations of photographers.

More than a retrospective, Life Still is both a summation of Friedlander’s decades-long career and a testament to his ongoing creative vitality. It is a celebration of observation, a meditation on American life, and a masterclass in seeing with clarity, humor, and empathy. For anyone interested in the art of photography, this monograph offers an intimate and expansive view into the work of a photographer whose vision remains as compelling and relevant today as ever.

“It’s unclear who first said, ‘The best camera in the world is the one in your hand,’ but most of the photographs in this book are the result of having one, or sometimes two, while on brief holidays or visiting people around Britain.” – Berris Conolly

Field Trips: Travels in Britain 1976–1993 captures nearly two decades of British life and landscapes through the eyes of one of the country’s most insightful documentary photographers. After leaving commercial photography in 1984, Conolly focused on documentary projects in Hackney and Sheffield, yet it was during breaks from these intensive works that Field Trips began, producing spontaneous and deeply personal images.

The book explores Britain in all its diversity: urban streets, rural lanes, quiet villages, industrial towns, and breathtaking countryside. From the rugged mountains of Wales to everyday city corners, Conolly’s black-and-white photographs highlight both the beauty and the mundane, transforming ordinary scenes into evocative visual stories. His ability to capture light, composition, and fleeting moments gives each image emotional depth and authenticity.

Conolly’s journeys also intersect with history. In Wales, he followed the 12th-century circular route described by Gerald of Wales, accompanying the Archbishop of Canterbury during the Third Crusade recruitment campaign, merging historical narrative with contemporary observation.

With eight previous books and numerous exhibitions to his credit, Berris Conolly is recognized internationally for his skill in documenting the character, soul, and subtle rhythms of British life. Essays by Travis Elborough, author of The Bus We Loved and Wish You Were Here – England on Sea, provide rich context, enhancing the reader’s understanding of both place and photographer.

Field Trips is a must-read for photography enthusiasts, historians, and lovers of British culture. This unique collection reminds us that powerful stories often emerge when we simply carry a camera, observe, and let the world unfold before us.

Born from joint expeditions in 2023 and 2024, this book is the result of a collaboration between photographer Mark Klett and writer, critic, and cultural geographer William L. Fox, who traveled together to the remote mid-Pacific nation of the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Their journey was not simply geographic but historical and philosophical, shaped by conversations with residents, encounters with fragile landscapes, and reflections on the layered narratives embedded in the atolls themselves.

Expanding on ideas first explored in their earlier project The Half Life of History (Radius Books, 2011), the publication revisits the islands’ nuclear legacy in the aftermath of twentieth-century weapons testing while confronting the accelerating realities of climate change today. Rising seas, shifting coastlines, and memories of displacement form a visual and literary dialogue that bridges past and present, revealing how environmental and political histories remain inseparable.

Blending archival imagery with Klett’s recent photographs and Fox’s texts—ranging from lyrical journal passages to concise essays—the book constructs a layered narrative that moves between documentation and meditation. The islands become both subject and symbol, a place where global forces converge in intimate scale. Through this focused lens, the project invites readers to consider the far-reaching implications of nuclear ambition, ecological vulnerability, and human resilience, suggesting that the story of this small nation ultimately mirrors shared planetary futures.

Rather than offering conclusions, the collaboration opens a contemplative space in which image and language interact as equal witnesses. Attention is drawn to textures of coral, weathered concrete, and luminous horizons, each detail carrying traces of history and possibility. In this quiet interplay, the artists propose that careful observation can become a form of responsibility, urging viewers to recognize connections between distant territories and their own lives. Its message resonates far beyond the Pacific for all humanity today and tomorrow always.

1861Luigi Ghirri: Felicità presents a luminous journey through the vision of one of Italy’s most influential photographers. Curated by Luca Guadagnino and Alessio Bolzoni, the volume brings together a thoughtful selection of Ghirri’s unseen and celebrated works, weaving a narrative that feels both intimate and expansive. The book moves fluidly from playful details—discarded magazine cuttings, fragments of everyday materials—to contemplative portraits of domestic interiors and sunlit landscapes captured during Ghirri’s travels across Italy and beyond. Each image is suffused with his characteristic attention to colour, light, and subtle geometry, revealing beauty in the mundane and the overlooked.

Ghirri’s photographs carry a quiet intelligence, finding poetry in small gestures and overlooked corners of the world. Whether capturing a window frame, a fading billboard, or a sunlit garden, his images suggest both presence and absence, evoking memory, longing, and the soft humor embedded in daily life. The sequence curated in Felicità highlights the recurring interplay between observation and imagination, structure and chance, offering a vision of photography as a tool to explore perception itself rather than simply to record it.

The book is punctuated by three essays written by Ghirri himself: The Open Work, The Impossible Landscape, and House, Bridge, Gate. These texts illuminate his approach to photography, emphasizing the fluidity of interpretation and the infinite possibilities of seeing. Together with the images, they provide a contemplative framework for understanding Ghirri’s enduring interest in how ordinary scenes can be transformed into art through composition, attention, and light.

Produced to accompany the exhibition curated by Guadagnino and Bolzoni, Felicità offers more than a retrospective; it is an invitation to inhabit Ghirri’s sensibility, to notice the subtleties of colour, form, and daily life, and to appreciate the poetic resonance hidden within the everyday. The volume affirms Ghirri’s place as a master of modern photography, whose work continues to reveal new ways of seeing the world.

Guido Guidi: Album, 1969–82 offers a remarkable glimpse into the formative years of one of contemporary photography’s most perceptive chroniclers. While organizing his archive, Guidi rediscovered a wealth of negatives and prints from the early period of his career, revealing a combination of intense observation and experimental curiosity. Made between 1969 and 1982 with small-format black-and-white cameras, the images traverse daily life, yet they never settle into simple documentation. Family gatherings, friends, and colleagues at the University of Architecture in Venice coexist with more fragmented and enigmatic compositions—isolated objects, shadows, abstracted forms, and deserted streets—that blur the line between realism and abstraction.

The photographs display a striking graphic quality, heightened by high contrast and disorienting framing. Some images retain traces of captions, notes, or smudges, fragments of prior sequences that evoke the passage of time and the living history of the negatives themselves. Through these marks, the viewer senses the ebb and flow of memory and the act of photography as a process of both recording and interpretation. Guidi’s eye captures the extraordinary within the ordinary, rendering everyday life with a combination of empathy, precision, and quiet humor.

In assembling this new album, Guidi revisits the title he used for several projects in the 1970s, including an unrealized collaboration with Luigi Ghirri. The book becomes a curated engagement with his younger self, balancing the anarchic energy of his early experimentation with the seasoned judgment of an accomplished editor. The resulting work bridges the familiar and the uncanny, offering sequences that feel both intimate and formally rigorous, documentary and speculative, tethered to lived experience yet opening onto broader visual possibilities.

Album, 1969–82 is the second of three volumes exploring Guidi’s black-and-white photography from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. It illuminates the development of his practice, revealing the tension between art and function, observation and imagination, realism and surrealism. Through these images, Guidi invites the viewer into a world in which the everyday, the overlooked, and the ambiguous coexist in striking visual harmony, reaffirming his status as a master of modern photography.

Luis Baylón: Los Españoles, published in hardcover on February 10, 2026 by Delpire, offers a compelling and deeply observed portrait of Spain through more than three decades of black-and-white photography. Spanning images made between 1982 and 2014, the book brings together photographs taken in cities such as Madrid, Barcelona, Murcia, Benidorm, Valencia, and Zamora, forming a visual journey across urban, social, and emotional landscapes. Baylón’s work is rooted in close attention to everyday life, revealing Spain not through spectacle, but through gestures, glances, and fleeting moments of human presence.

Working squarely within the documentary tradition, Baylón approaches the street as a space of quiet tension and subtle theater. His photographs echo the lineage of classic social photography, where observation and patience allow meaning to emerge naturally. Like Robert Frank and Martin Parr before him, Baylón resists idealization, instead embracing ambiguity, contradiction, and humor. His Spain is plural and unresolved: modern yet anchored in habit, intimate yet shaped by collective rituals. The choice of black and white reinforces this timeless quality, stripping scenes down to light, form, and expression.

Across the pages of Los Españoles, individuals appear both anonymous and emblematic, framed within streets, cafés, beaches, and public spaces that reflect shifting social realities. The long time span of the project allows subtle transformations to surface, as architecture, fashion, and attitudes evolve while certain human patterns remain unchanged. Baylón’s camera does not judge or dramatize; it observes with clarity and restraint, trusting the viewer to read between the lines.

More than a survey of a nation, this book stands as a personal and coherent body of work shaped by consistency of vision. Luis Baylón: Los Españoles affirms the enduring power of traditional documentary photography to describe a country from the inside, through lived experience and sustained attention. It is both a portrait of Spain and a testament to Baylón’s quiet, unwavering commitment to seeing.

131Helmut Newton: One-off offers an intimate encounter with one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century, presented through the faithful reproduction of a singular, deeply personal album. Rather than a conventional retrospective, this volume invites readers into Newton’s own editorial universe, revealing how he assembled, annotated, and reflected upon his images outside the pressures of publication or commission.

Helmut Newton’s photography has long been associated with provocation, elegance, and power. Drawing from the visual language of Expressionist cinema, film noir, and surrealism, his work reshaped fashion photography by infusing it with narrative tension and psychological charge. Models become characters, urban spaces turn theatrical, and the camera asserts an unmistakable authority. In One-off, these qualities appear not as isolated masterpieces but as part of a continuous, evolving conversation within Newton’s practice.

Compiled in 1999 with collector and close collaborator Gert Elfering, the original album was never intended for wide circulation. Reproduced here at its original scale, it retains the tactile presence of the object itself. Polaroids sit alongside chromogenic and gelatin silver prints, tracing the movement from spontaneous test image to refined final photograph. Newton’s handwritten pencil notes, visible throughout, offer rare insight into his thought process, revealing decisions, doubts, and moments of quiet humor.

The inclusion of unique Polaroids is particularly revealing. Often used by Newton as tools of experimentation, they capture fleeting gestures and raw ideas, underscoring his belief in photography as a process rather than a fixed result. Seen together, the images illuminate how control and improvisation coexisted at the heart of his work.

Supplemented by an informed foreword and a revealing interview, Helmut Newton: One-off contextualizes the album without overshadowing it. The book stands as both an object of beauty and a document of artistic method. More than a celebration of iconic images, it is a portrait of Newton as a meticulous editor of his own legacy, reminding us that behind the boldness lies a sustained discipline and an unrelenting curiosity.

1416Nazraeli Press has announced a newly remastered and significantly expanded edition of Summertime, the celebrated monograph by Mark Steinmetz. Originally released in 2011 as a companion to his South Central Trilogy, the book returns in a refined edition that deepens its nostalgic portrait of American youth. This latest version features 30 previously unpublished photographs and is issued as a limited run of 2,000 beautifully produced casebound copies, printed in rich duotone on natural art paper.

Created between 1984 and 1991, Summertime captures children and teenagers immersed in unguarded moments of play, boredom, curiosity, and freedom. Photographed during an era before smartphones and constant digital connection, the images evoke a time when young people wandered neighborhoods independently, rode bikes without helmets, and passed long afternoons outdoors. Steinmetz’s quiet black-and-white compositions emphasize atmosphere and gesture, distilling the sensation of endless summer days that seem suspended outside of time.

The photographs were made in places where Steinmetz lived, visited family, or taught, giving him a natural familiarity with his surroundings. That sense of ease translates into the images, where his subjects appear relaxed and unposed, allowing fleeting expressions and subtle interactions to unfold organically within the frame. The result is a body of work that feels intimate without intrusion and observational without distance.

A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Steinmetz’s photographs are held in major museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

148Lisette Model presents a definitive exploration of one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century, whose bold vision reshaped the way urban life and society were captured on film. This stunning hardcover features over 200 reproductions, ranging from her early Parisian portraits to the striking images of New York streets that defined her career.

Model’s photographic journey began in Vienna and matured in France, where her keen eye for social observation developed. Early works, including portraits of idle elites in Nice, reveal her sharp sense of critique tempered by empathy. These images, at once confrontational and intimate, established her as a formidable observer of human behavior. After emigrating to the United States, Model brought this incisive approach to New York, producing iconic images such as the Coney Island Bather and the Cafe Metropole series, which juxtapose vitality, vulnerability, and the stark contrasts of city life.

Her lens captured both the glamour and grit of her surroundings: the bustling streets of the Lower East Side, the grandeur of high-society gatherings, and the nuanced everyday gestures that reveal the inner lives of her subjects. Model’s distinctive framing, bold compositions, and unflinching attention to human detail created a visual language that remains influential to this day.

This collection also includes lesser-known works from her travels along the U.S. West Coast and Venezuela, highlighting her continued exploration of character, form, and place. Insights from scholar Walter Moser contextualize her work within the broader trajectory of twentieth-century photography, illuminating her enduring impact as both an artist and a teacher.

Lisette Model is more than a retrospective; it is an immersive journey into a world seen through a lens of unvarnished reality and poetic observation. It celebrates a photographer whose fearless engagement with her subjects, combined with her artistic rigor, forged a path for generations of street and documentary photographers, offering an essential resource for enthusiasts and scholars alike.

480Albert Watson: Kaos is a masterful survey of one of photography’s most influential voices, spanning five decades of work that oscillates between intimacy and spectacle. Watson’s photographs are at once meticulously composed and viscerally immediate, capturing both the iconic and the unexpected with equal authority.

KAOS charts Watson’s journey from his breakthrough Alfred Hitchcock portrait in 1973 to the present, revealing the astonishing range of his vision. Across its pages, readers encounter a kaleidoscope of subjects: celebrities in revealing vulnerability, strangers in fleeting urban moments, wildlife in arresting stillness, and landscapes that shimmer with elemental power. Each frame is a study in light, shadow, and narrative tension, embodying Watson’s extraordinary ability to render the familiar as extraordinary.

The book moves fluidly between worlds. Supermodels and pop icons—David Bowie, Kate Moss, Jay Z, Jennifer Lopez, Mick Jagger—sit alongside anonymous figures in neon-lit cities and remote Scottish landscapes, their presence amplified by Watson’s uncanny sense of timing and composition. From sensuous nudes to stark urban street photography, his work explores surface beauty while hinting at the emotional and psychological depth beneath. Watson’s camera captures not only what is seen, but the subtle textures of human experience: desire, humor, solitude, and magnetism.

Accompanied by an essay from Philippe Garner and enriched with Watson’s own reflections, as well as previously unpublished Polaroids from his personal archive, KAOS is both an authoritative career retrospective and a deeply personal document. The photographs pulse with cinematic allure, formal precision, and the irrepressible vitality of a life spent observing the world in its most dynamic and intimate moments.

Presented in a sumptuous hardcover, with optional signed Art Editions including exclusive prints, Albert Watson: Kaos is a definitive celebration of an artist whose work continues to inspire photographers, collectors, and enthusiasts around the globe, capturing a universe simultaneously chaotic, poetic, and utterly compelling.

53Anders Petersen: City Diary #1–7 gathers more than five decades of uncompromising photographic encounters into a single, resonant volume. Moving through cities across Europe, the Americas, and beyond, Petersen records lives lived at the edges of visibility, where intimacy, fragility, and resilience coexist. These photographs are not about spectacle or provocation, but about presence—about being there long enough for trust to surface and for guarded lives to briefly open.

From smoky bars and cramped hotel rooms to streets that come alive after dark, Petersen’s images trace human connection in its rawest form. Lovers cling to one another, strangers lock eyes with the camera, and solitude becomes palpable even in crowded spaces. His black-and-white photographs reject distance and neutrality, favoring closeness and emotional risk. Each frame feels less like an observation and more like a conversation, shaped by mutual recognition rather than hierarchy.

The City Diary series unfolds as a personal journal as much as a social document. Spanning work made between 1967 and 2019, these photographs reveal a remarkable consistency of vision, grounded in empathy and curiosity. Petersen does not romanticize hardship, nor does he explain it away. Instead, he allows complexity to remain unresolved, honoring the dignity of individuals often reduced to labels or stereotypes. Time passes, cities change, yet the human need for touch, belonging, and acknowledgment endures.

Bringing together the complete City Diary cycle, including newly published volumes alongside the earlier award-winning books, this edition offers a rare opportunity to experience the breadth of Petersen’s practice in full. It reflects a tradition of documentary photography rooted in lived experience, patience, and moral engagement. City Diary #1–7 stands as a testament to photography’s ability to bear witness without judgment, and to remind us that the stories unfolding in shadow are inseparable from the shared fabric of urban life.

Seminal Works brings together Hal Fischer’s iconic series Gay Semiotics with his rarely seen early photography and features a dynamic range of essays that consider queer culture and social change in San Francisco.

In the late 1970s, as gay men in San Francisco experienced a new sense of freedom following the Stonewall Uprising, Hal Fischer made Gay Semiotics, a photo-text project that categorized denizens of the Castro and Haight-Ashbury neighborhoods by social type such as the “jock” or the “hippie.” Sly and systematic, Fischer portrayed the sartorial codes of queer street style—earrings, handkerchiefs, jeans, or leather—that broadcast a range of desires to potential sexual prospects. The series became an influential record of a libertine era before AIDS, the rise of internet dating apps, and tech industry–accelerated gentrification transformed queer life forever. Tracing the formation of an essential American artist, Hal Fischer: Seminal Works includes Gay Semiotics together with Fischer’s rarely seen early photography and features essays that offer vital new perspectives on the history of San Francisco and the resonance of the gay rights movement across generations.

58 This majestic collection of black-and-white photographs captures the world’s great glaciers as both ancient monuments and fragile frontiers in the age of climate change.

In this arresting visual study, Sebastião Salgado brings together 65 duotone photographs from his epic project Genesis, offering a visual survey of some of the planet’s most remote and ice-bound regions. From the ice fields of Patagonia and the peaks of the Himalayas to the vast shelves of Antarctica and the volcanic flanks of Kamchatka, these images record the forms, textures, and scale of glacial landscapes around the world.

Shot in Salgado’s large-format, black-and-white style, the photographs emphasize the physical presence of ice—its ridges, fractures, density, and drift. Light and shadow reveal the structural complexity of each scene, from massive crevasses to the delicate patterns of wind-swept snow.

An essay by climate scientist Elisa Palazzi examines the science of glacier formation, transformation, and decline. Pairing meticulous sequencing with refined design and premium duotone printing, the book offers a focused and enduring portrait of the world’s glaciers at a critical moment in their history.

Larry Sultan: Water Over Thunder reveals a dimension of Larry Sultan that has long remained in the margins of his celebrated photographic career: his devotion to writing as an essential companion to image-making. Known for landmark series such as Pictures from Home, Evidence (created with Mike Mandel), and The Valley, Sultan shaped late twentieth-century photography with a practice rooted in narrative, ambiguity, and the tensions between private and public life. Yet behind these images lay notebooks, journals, drafts, and lectures that reveal how deeply language informed his artistic process.

This publication gathers many of those texts—some never before seen—offering reflections on teaching, meditations on art, fragments of short fiction, and even dream diaries. Sultan taught for decades at the California College of the Arts, where he encouraged students to interrogate the assumptions behind every photograph. In his writing, he wrestles openly with doubt, ambition, memory, and the slipperiness of truth. The act of putting words to paper becomes a way of clearing space, testing ideas, and pushing beyond the visible surface of things.

The title Water Over Thunder derives from an early draft connected to Pictures from Home, his poignant exploration of family, performance, and the mythology of the American Dream. Water recurs throughout the book as both substance and metaphor—fluid, reflective, impossible to grasp. Sultan often described the beginning of a project as a state of turbulence, where impressions collide and clarity feels distant. Writing, for him, was a means of navigating that motion.

Richly illustrated with contact sheets, outtakes, layout mock-ups, and found photographs from his archive, the volume forms an intimate portrait of an artist thinking in real time. Water Over Thunder does more than document a celebrated career; it invites readers into the workshop of the mind, where images and words intertwine and the uncertainties of creation become the very ground of discovery.

Ahndraya Parlato: Time To Kill confronts the passing of time with a fearless and unsettling gaze. Through a combination of photographs and personal letters, Parlato interrogates the societal expectations imposed on women as they age, exposing the tension between beauty, domestic responsibility, and the inevitability of bodily transformation. Her work does not shy away from discomfort; instead, it illuminates it, revealing the layered anxieties and fleeting triumphs of life lived under the weight of cultural prescription.

The photographs range from intimate portraits to expansive landscapes, from sparse, confined interiors to surreal arrangements of objects. Domestic items are juxtaposed with plants and weapons, producing a visual language that is both absurd and arresting. These still lifes serve as metaphors for impermanence, the contradictions of caretaking, and the invisible labor often expected of women. Within this careful framing, Parlato captures a world in which the familiar becomes uncanny, and ordinary spaces transform into sites of reflection, resistance, and revelation.

Embedded alongside these images are letters addressed to an enigmatic recipient, whose identity is never fixed. The letters fold inward and outward simultaneously, oscillating between intimate confession and philosophical inquiry. They navigate questions of self-perception, desire, and societal scrutiny, articulating the tension between who we are and how the world perceives us. In this interplay of image and text, aging is portrayed not simply as decline, but as a process imbued with both vulnerability and liberation.

Building on the visual and conceptual intensity of her previous work, Who is Changed and Who is Dead, Parlato extends her exploration of mortality, selfhood, and the female experience. Time To Kill is a meditation on corporeal and emotional transformation, a psychological mapping of fear, fantasy, and resilience. Through her striking imagery and incisive narrative, Parlato invites viewers to confront the brutal, tender, and often surreal realities of living in a body that ages, while questioning the cultural strictures that attempt to define what it means to grow, endure, and ultimately be seen.

6Brassaï: Paris by Night, newly released in a meticulously crafted hardcover edition on January 27, 2026, reintroduces one of the most influential photography books of the twentieth century. First published in 1933 and compiled by Brassaï himself, this volume stands as a defining portrait of Paris after dark. The new edition honors the original with great care, featuring tinted page edges and refined production choices that echo the spirit of its first appearance while meeting contemporary standards of print excellence.

Born in Hungary and drawn irresistibly to Paris, Brassaï approached the city with the curiosity of an outsider and the intimacy of a lifelong observer. By day, he worked as a journalist; by night, he wandered the capital’s streets, cafés, and hidden corners, immersing himself in a world that few dared to linger in. His lens captured the lives of artists, lovers, laborers, and outcasts, revealing a nocturnal Paris shaped by desire, solitude, and fleeting encounters. These images do not merely document the city—they breathe with it.

The sixty-two photographs in Paris by Night demonstrate Brassaï’s remarkable technical command of low light and shadow. Empty streets glisten after rain, stairways disappear into darkness, and figures emerge as silhouettes charged with tension and emotion. Elsewhere, nightclubs, dance halls, and backroom gatherings pulse with energy. Together, these scenes form a complex visual map of a city suspended between elegance and grit, romance and danger.

This new edition has been produced using advanced engraving and printing techniques that faithfully preserve the tonal richness and subtle gradations of the original photographs. The cloth-bound cover, embossed details, and inset vignette reinforce the book’s status as both an object of design and a historical document. It is as much a tactile experience as a visual one, inviting slow, contemplative viewing.

More than ninety years after its first publication, Brassaï: Paris by Night remains a vital source of inspiration for photographers, designers, and visual artists. It marks the moment Brassaï fully emerged as an artist and continues to define how cities—and nights—can be seen, felt, and remembered.

38Martin Parr: Global Warning brings together more than five decades of sharp observation and visual wit in a publication that feels uncannily attuned to the present moment. Long known for his unmistakable eye and saturated color palette, Parr has built a body of work that scrutinizes everyday life with equal parts affection and critique, revealing how ordinary behaviors quietly mirror global anxieties.

From his early black-and-white photographs made in modest English holiday camps and provincial supermarkets to his later color images of crowded beaches, souvenir stalls, and iconic landmarks, Parr has consistently examined the rituals of leisure and consumption. What might first appear humorous or trivial often carries a deeper unease. Sunburnt tourists, overflowing plates, and compulsive image-making become signs of excess, disconnection, and a world struggling to reconcile pleasure with consequence.

Global Warning reframes Parr’s archive through the lens of contemporary disorder. His photographs speak to climate stress, technological dependency, and the uneasy relationship between humans and animals, without ever resorting to overt moralizing. Instead, meaning emerges through accumulation and contrast. The repetition of gestures, poses, and settings across continents suggests a shared global culture, one that is both strangely unified and profoundly unsustainable.

Published alongside a major exhibition at the Jeu de Paume in Paris, the book benefits from a thoughtful curatorial approach that situates Parr’s work within broader social, geographic, and ecological debates. Essays by specialists from diverse disciplines expand the reading of the images, showing how Parr’s photographs intersect with issues of urban planning, tourism, wildlife preservation, and social behavior. These texts reinforce the idea that Parr is not merely a satirist, but a meticulous chronicler of his time.

Richly illustrated and carefully edited, Global Warning balances iconic photographs with lesser-known images, inviting readers to reconsider familiar scenes through fresh connections. The result is a portrait of a world teetering between amusement and alarm, where laughter and discomfort coexist. Parr’s enduring achievement lies in his ability to make us look closely at ourselves, and to recognize that the absurdities he captures are not exceptions, but reflections of how we live now.

1491Constance Jaeggi: Escaramuza is a richly layered exploration of a tradition where grace, discipline, and courage converge at full speed. Through this publication, Jaeggi turns her lens toward the all-female teams who practice escaramuza, a form of precision horse riding rooted in ritual and collective strength. Mounted side-saddle and dressed in ornate, flowing garments, the riders perform complex maneuvers that demand absolute trust between horse and rider, transforming athletic rigor into a powerful visual language.

Emerging from the broader tradition of Charrería, escaramuza occupies a singular place in cultural history. While horsemanship in Mexico has long been associated with masculinity and rural labor, escaramuza developed as a space where women could claim visibility, skill, and authority within that world. Jaeggi’s photographs honor this lineage while situating the practice firmly in the present, revealing how it continues to evolve within Mexican and Mexican-American communities across the United States.

The book moves fluidly between portraiture and atmosphere, capturing both the individuality of the riders and the collective rhythm of the teams. Details of embroidered dresses, braided hair, and weathered saddles speak to inheritance and care, while the riders’ focused expressions reflect a deep sense of responsibility to tradition. Jaeggi’s images are complemented by poetry that expands the emotional register of the work, giving voice to memory, migration, and belonging. Together, image and text suggest that escaramuza is not only a sport, but a living archive of women’s resilience.

Themes of family and transmission run throughout the book. Many riders inherit their connection to escaramuza through mothers, aunts, and grandmothers, creating a continuum shaped by both continuity and change. Historical echoes of the soldaderas—women who supported and fought during the Mexican Revolution—linger in the background, reinforcing the idea of women on horseback as symbols of endurance and agency.

As a physical object, Escaramuza reflects the care embedded in its subject. Issued in multiple cover colorways, the book underscores individuality within a shared form. Jaeggi’s project ultimately offers a meditation on identity in motion, where tradition is neither fixed nor nostalgic, but actively lived, negotiated, and reimagined by women riding together at speed.

Chris Levine: Light is an extraordinary two-volume monograph that illuminates the pioneering vision of one of contemporary art’s most innovative portrait and installation artists. Published in a deluxe slipcased edition, this work offers an immersive exploration of Levine’s artistic journey, showcasing his transformative approach to light, technology, and visual perception.

The first volume presents a curated selection of Levine’s most iconic portraits, including the serene Lightness of Being, capturing Queen Elizabeth II with her eyes closed in a moment of profound stillness. Alongside luminous portraits of Kate Moss, Grace Jones, the Dalai Lama, and Sir Elton John, Levine’s work demonstrates a rare ability to reveal both the physical presence and inner essence of his subjects. Using cutting-edge technologies alongside meticulous attention to light and form, these images elevate traditional portraiture into meditative, ethereal experiences that resonate far beyond the frame.

The second volume offers a richly detailed account of Levine’s life, tracing his evolution from designer to world-renowned artist. Beginning with his formative years at Chelsea College of Art, the book chronicles major milestones in his career, including large-scale installations, sculptural works, and dynamic public art projects. Highlights include immersive light shows for Massive Attack, groundbreaking installations at the Eden Project, and the site-specific exhibition at Houghton Hall (2020–21), where his innovative use of light transformed the historic space into a contemporary marvel.

Elegantly designed in close collaboration with Levine, this edition features premium printing techniques, including holographic inks that reflect the artist’s fascination with luminosity. A foreword by Dylan Jones OBE and insights into Levine’s creative process provide readers with a deep understanding of the philosophies and experimentation that underpin his work.

Chris Levine: Light stands as a definitive celebration of an artist who continues to redefine portraiture and installation art. It is an essential volume for collectors, art enthusiasts, and anyone captivated by the intersection of technology, beauty, and human presence.

Joy Gregory: Catching Flies With Honey offers a sweeping retrospective of one of the most inventive and socially engaged contemporary artists of the past forty years. This hardcover catalog, published alongside the major exhibition at London’s Whitechapel Gallery, presents over 200 color illustrations, bringing together iconic works, rarely seen pieces, and new commissions that highlight Gregory’s multifaceted practice.

From her early analogue photography to experimental digital works, video, textiles, and installations, Gregory has consistently combined technical mastery with a probing engagement with culture and history. Her work addresses complex topics such as post-colonial legacies, identity, beauty, and social justice, yet she draws viewers in with a captivating visual language that balances elegance, symbolism, and narrative power. The title of the catalog reflects her approach: to “catch flies with honey,” using beauty, tact, and careful craftsmanship to confront challenging subjects with intelligence and sensitivity.

Gregory’s photography and installations often explore histories of the transatlantic slave trade, endangered languages, and diasporic experiences, connecting personal narratives to broader global histories. Her work invites reflection, blending poetic abstraction with political awareness. Essays by leading scholars contextualize her contributions within both British and international contemporary art, highlighting how she has expanded notions of portraiture, archival work, and the materiality of image-making.

A candid conversation with Deborah Willis explores the role of archives in preserving marginalized histories, further emphasizing Gregory’s commitment to storytelling through both art and scholarship. Through these perspectives, the catalog illuminates not only the depth of her creative vision but also her enduring influence on contemporary photographic and visual culture.

Joy Gregory: Catching Flies With Honey is an essential monograph for collectors, scholars, and enthusiasts of contemporary art, offering both a visual feast and a profound meditation on identity, memory, and cultural resilience. It stands as a testament to Gregory’s ability to merge aesthetic beauty with critical engagement, leaving an indelible mark on the art world.

56Erwin Olaf: Freedom presents a sweeping and deeply human portrait of one of the most influential photographers of his generation. Conceived in close dialogue with the landmark exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, this publication traces Olaf’s artistic journey from his earliest provocations to his most introspective final works. Across decades of practice, Olaf shaped a visual language that was unmistakably his own—cinematic, meticulously staged, and emotionally charged—while never losing sight of the real lives and struggles that informed his vision.

The book reveals how Olaf used photography as both a mirror and a tool for change. His images confront themes of identity, power, intimacy, and vulnerability with remarkable precision, often drawing the viewer into scenes that feel suspended in time. Whether depicting quiet domestic moments or carefully choreographed tableaux, Olaf’s work carries a tension between control and fragility. His sensitivity to light, gesture, and atmosphere transforms personal narratives into universal reflections on freedom, desire, and belonging.

Central to this volume is Olaf’s lifelong commitment to activism and representation. He consistently gave visibility to those pushed to the margins, portraying queer communities, people of color, individuals with disabilities, and aging bodies with dignity and nuance. These photographs do not seek pity or sensationalism; instead, they insist on empathy and recognition. Freedom, in Olaf’s work, is never abstract—it is lived, contested, and deeply personal.

The inclusion of previously unseen works from Olaf’s final years adds a poignant dimension to this overview. In these images, the artist turns inward, reflecting on mortality, illness, and resilience with striking honesty. Erwin Olaf: Freedom stands as both a retrospective and a testament, honoring an artist who believed that photography could challenge injustice, expand compassion, and preserve the emotional truths of a changing world.

Lisa Oppenheim: Eternal Substitute presents a body of work shaped by curiosity, patience, and a deep respect for photography’s layered histories. Over the past two decades, Oppenheim has forged a practice that begins with photography but rarely ends there. Her work moves fluidly between image, object, and idea, inviting viewers to reconsider what photography has been, what it is now, and what it might yet become.

Central to Oppenheim’s approach is the act of transformation. Rather than producing images from scratch, she revisits existing photographs, archives, and technologies, subjecting them to processes of reinterpretation and material shift. Through techniques that range from historical photographic methods to textiles, film, and sculptural forms, images are altered, displaced, and renewed. These acts of reprocessing expose the fragile relationship between memory, authorship, and reproduction.

The works gathered in Eternal Substitute reflect a sustained engagement with the social and political dimensions embedded within photographic history. Oppenheim’s interest lies not only in what images depict, but in how they circulate, age, and accumulate meaning over time. By foregrounding process and materiality, she slows down the act of looking, encouraging reflection rather than consumption. The familiar becomes uncertain, and the archival takes on a contemporary urgency.

Published alongside her exhibition Monsieur Steichen at MUDAM Luxembourg, the book offers a focused survey of the artist’s work from the past twelve years. Thoughtful essays and conversations deepen the context of her practice, tracing connections between experimentation, historical research, and critical inquiry. Together, image and text form a dialogue that mirrors Oppenheim’s own method of exchange between past and present.

Eternal Substitute stands as both a catalogue and a meditation on photography’s evolving language. In an era saturated with images, Oppenheim’s work reminds us of the power of restraint, revision, and care. Her practice honors tradition while quietly pushing against its limits, offering a forward-looking vision grounded in history, material intelligence, and sustained attention.

Lake Verea: Modern Barragán unfolds as a quiet act of devotion, a visual diary shaped by time, patience, and deep admiration. Over nearly twenty years, the Mexico City–based duo Lake Verea returned again and again to the home of architect Luis Barragán, not as distant observers but as attentive guests. Their photographs emerge from repeated encounters, allowing the house to reveal itself slowly, through ritual, intimacy, and silence.

Rather than documenting architecture as an object, Lake Verea approach Barragán’s home as a living presence. Chairs are sat upon, doors opened, gardens walked and lingered in. These gestures, subtle yet profound, infuse the images with a sense of inhabitation. The house is not staged or preserved in ideal conditions; it is encountered at dawn and nightfall, beneath stormy skies and glowing moons, under streetlights and sudden flashes that fracture its familiar serenity.

Light plays a central role throughout the book. Flash photography disrupts the soft modernist calm often associated with Barragán, introducing a spectral, almost otherworldly quality. Walls rubbed with aluminum sheets shimmer and expose textures normally absorbed by color and shadow. These surfaces seem to hold memory, suggesting that architecture, like photography, is a vessel for lived experience and emotional residue.

The project resists linear narrative, instead offering fragments that accumulate into a sensorial portrait. This diaristic structure mirrors the artists’ own relationship with the site, built through repetition and return rather than singular revelation. The result is both deeply personal and reverently restrained, honoring Barragán’s spiritual approach to space while quietly extending it into the present.

As a continuation of Lake Verea’s broader exploration of artistic legacy, Modern Barragán reflects their expanded photographic practice, where image-making intersects with performance, touch, and presence. The book stands as a meditation on influence, intimacy, and the enduring power of architecture to shape not only how we see, but how we feel and remember.

Christophe Jacrot: Winterland: The Colors of Snow offers a quiet immersion into winter as both landscape and state of mind. Published in January 2026, the book gathers photographs that suspend time, capturing snow not as spectacle but as atmosphere. Jacrot approaches winter with restraint and patience, allowing stillness, silence, and subtle transformation to shape each image. His photographs invite the viewer to slow down, to inhabit the pause that winter naturally imposes on the world.

Snow, in Jacrot’s work, is never merely white. It absorbs color, reflects memory, and softens the edges of reality. Urban streets dissolve into hushed tableaux, while open landscapes stretch toward abstraction, reduced to texture, light, and tone. Whether photographing a city caught in snowfall or a remote, unmarked expanse, Jacrot reveals winter as a fragile balance between presence and disappearance. Each scene feels fleeting, as though it might vanish moments after being seen.

Known for his long-standing engagement with weather as a central subject, Jacrot continues a photographic tradition that treats natural phenomena as expressive forces rather than backdrops. His attention to falling snow, drifting mist, and muted light echoes a painterly sensitivity, where composition and mood take precedence over description. The images do not document places so much as they evoke sensations: cold air on skin, muffled sound, the introspective calm that accompanies solitude.

There is a quiet melancholy running through Winterland, yet it is never heavy. Instead, it feels contemplative, even comforting. The landscapes suggest nostalgia for untouched spaces, but also acceptance of impermanence. Snow becomes a metaphor for time itself, covering, revealing, and erasing in equal measure. Jacrot’s work reminds us that beauty often resides in moments that cannot be held.

Through careful use of color, shadow, and atmosphere, Jacrot builds an emotional bridge between viewer and landscape. Winterland: The Colors of Snow is less about winter as a season than about winter as an experience: quiet, fleeting, and deeply human. It is a book to be returned to slowly, much like the snowfall it so poetically observes.

917Stephan Vanfleteren: Transcripts of a Sea marks a pivotal moment in the career of one of Europe’s most respected photographers. Long celebrated for his stark portraits and restrained visual language, Vanfleteren turns his gaze toward the sea as both subject and substance. This hardcover publication, released in January 2026, accompanies an exhibition at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent and reveals a quieter, elemental chapter of his work, shaped by immersion, patience, and deep observation.

Rather than depicting the sea as a distant horizon, Vanfleteren approaches it from within, allowing water, light, and movement to define the image. His photographs echo the long tradition of maritime painting, yet resist nostalgia. The shifting surface of the sea becomes a living archive, where traces of storms, calm, and human presence linger without narrative certainty. These images recall the sensibilities of painters across centuries, while remaining firmly rooted in a contemporary photographic language.

The book unfolds as a visual dialogue between past and present, drawing subtle connections to artists who once sought to capture the sea’s grandeur and unpredictability. Vanfleteren does not imitate these historical works; instead, he translates their concerns into a modern, photographic syntax. The tonal restraint, attention to atmosphere, and physical closeness to the elements suggest a form of authorship grounded in continuity rather than rupture, honoring tradition while quietly extending it.

Transcripts of a Sea invites readers to slow down and engage with images that resist immediacy. The sea here is neither dramatic spectacle nor symbolic backdrop, but a space of reflection and endurance. Through this body of work, Vanfleteren reminds us that photography, like painting before it, can serve as a vessel for memory, time, and shared cultural inheritance. The book stands as both an homage to maritime art history and a contemplative meditation on humanity’s enduring relationship with the natural world.

An Extremely Un-get-atable Place is a quietly powerful photography book by Craig Easton that revisits one of the most secluded and symbolically charged locations in modern literary history. Published by GOST Books, the volume takes its title from George Orwell’s own words, written during his years of self-imposed isolation at Barnhill, a remote farmhouse on the Isle of Jura. Easton’s project is less a document than a poetic meditation, reimagining the atmosphere in which Orwell conceived Nineteen Eighty-Four, a work that continues to resonate with unsettling relevance today.

Invited to stay at Barnhill, largely unchanged since the late 1940s, Easton approached the site with restraint and attentiveness. Using a large-format 10x8 field camera, he photographed the surrounding landscape and the modest interiors of the house, allowing light, texture, and silence to guide his compositions. The resulting images evoke solitude rather than spectacle: a stove bearing traces of daily use, simple tools resting in a shed, a mirror, a teapot, worn surfaces shaped by time. These still lifes suggest presence through absence, offering a tangible sense of Orwell’s lived experience without ever depicting the writer himself.

The photographs are interwoven with excerpts from Orwell’s letters and diaries written during his Jura years, creating a subtle dialogue between image and text. This pairing deepens the emotional register of the book, situating Easton’s images within Orwell’s physical fragility, intellectual intensity, and desire for isolation. After returning from the island, Easton printed the negatives as hand-made silver gelatin prints, toning them in strong tea—a quiet, almost ritual gesture referencing Orwell’s famously austere habits.

More than a historical homage, An Extremely Un-get-atable Place reflects on solitude, endurance, and the relationship between place and thought. It is the first volume in Easton’s forthcoming Island Trilogy, a body of work that promises to explore remote landscapes as sites of memory, imagination, and creative resistance, where geography shapes not only daily life but the ideas that emerge from it.

1533Fred Herzog: A Color Legacy opens a fresh chapter on the streets of Vancouver and beyond, offering the public previously unseen images from the archives of a man whose eye for color and life defied the conventions of his time. Herzog’s work in the 1950s and 60s stands out because he chose Kodachrome — a decision nearly heretical when art photography still equated seriousness with black and white. What emerges through his Leica’s lens is a world awash in warm reds, neon signs, and the soft glow of streetlights — a world that feels alive, tactile, and tender.

After emigrating from Germany to Vancouver in 1953 and working by day as a medical photographer, Herzog spent his evenings and weekends roaming the city streets. He captured storefronts, everyday people going about their lives, second-hand shops, Chinatown alleys, decaying cars, neon reflections — details often overlooked, but rich with character. He treated photography not as artifice but as observation, documenting modern urban life with precision and empathy. His photographs turned ordinary city scenes into a tribute to human presence and urban texture.

The volume collects these rediscovered gems alongside his best-known photos, offering a more complete portrait of a photographer who stubbornly trusted color when many of his peers turned away. The images span Vancouver and also trace Herzog’s travels to the U.S., the Caribbean, Mexico and Central America, showing a restless spirit and a worldwide curiosity. Each frame is infused with intimacy, subtle humor, and a respect for the quotidian — light on one face, a reflection in a shop window, the curve of a car hood shimmering in rain.

Fred Herzog: A Color Legacy is not just a homage to a photographer but a statement about memory, time, and beauty in the urban fabric. It reminds us how much of a city’s soul lives in small moments — a street sign, a storefront, a quiet onlooker — and how color, long seen as frivolous in serious photography, can reveal more truth than monochrome ever could.

Cuba beyond all clichés: a black-and-white documentation of the many faces of the Caribbean island

Claire Garoutte and Anneke Wambaugh are not only friends, they also have a lot in common: Both are from Seattle, both are internationally successful documentary and street photographers, and both share a passion for Cuba. Since 1994, this passion has led the two photographers to return to the Caribbean island time and again to document the daily lives of the Cuban people, their traditions, and the changes the country has undergone over the years. Candid, unadorned black-and-white images reveal humorous, enigmatic, and often surreal moments of everyday life in Cuba, opening our eyes to the many different realities of this multifaceted country. By eschewing technical gimmicks and concentrating on the essentials, the two photographers manage to authentically capture the fascinating soul of Cuba.

1602Isolated Houses explores the farthest edges of Los Angeles, a metropolis defined as much by its outward expansion as by its cultural core. Turning his lens toward the desert margins nearly 150 miles from the urban center, John Divola documents a sparse landscape punctuated by solitary structures—minimal, cube-like dwellings that appear almost provisional against the vast, open terrain. These modest buildings, toy-like in scale yet visually commanding, become the focal point of each frame, anchoring the compositions and giving purpose to the surrounding emptiness.

Rather than treating the desert as mere backdrop, Divola positions it as an active participant in the narrative. His photographs contemplate the fragile boundary where human construction meets untamed environment, suggesting that these remote habitations exist within a liminal zone—neither fully natural nor entirely artificial. The result is a body of work that is both formally restrained and conceptually expansive, reflecting on habitation, isolation, and the human impulse to mark territory even in the most desolate spaces.

Divola’s photographs are held in the permanent collections of major institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and his work has been exhibited widely across the United States, Europe, and Japan.

Originally released in 2000 by Nazraeli Press, this newly remastered 25th-anniversary edition is issued in a strictly limited run of 1,000 casebound copies, offering a refined presentation of a quietly influential photographic series that continues to resonate with contemporary conversations about landscape, architecture, and perception.

Matthew Naythons: Light in Dark Places is a retrospective that unveils the dual life of a man whose lens and scalpel shaped his view of the world. Trained as a physician yet self‑taught as a photographer, Naythons forged an uncommon path that carried him from emergency rooms in rural California to some of the most consequential moments of the late twentieth century. In this volume, the arc of his career is laid bare through photography, narrative, and an autobiographical essay that traces his evolution from medic to chronicler of history.

At the core of the book are scenes that many in the West only know from headlines: evacuations during the fall of Saigon, the desolate stillness of Jonestown after the mass tragedy, and the struggles of revolutions from the Middle East to Central America. Naythons was present for these events not as a detached observer but as a witness guided by empathy, a quality perhaps sharpened by his medical background. His photographs insist on the human face of geopolitical upheaval, showing not only devastation but the resilience that flickers within it.

After documenting the exodus of refugees from Cambodia into Thailand in 1979, Naythons set aside his camera to answer suffering in a more immediate way. He founded International Medical Teams, an organization that brought American physicians, nurses, and paramedics across borders to deliver care where it was most needed. This chapter of his life reflects a rare integration of vocation and compassion, a commitment to healing that ran parallel to his work in photojournalism.

The book’s title captures the essence of Naythons’s vision: a camera’s capacity to illuminate where shadows have fallen. Within its pages, you encounter images that reveal moments of joy and connection as surely as scenes of conflict and destruction. Interwoven with reflections on a life lived at the intersection of art and service, Light in Dark Places celebrates a career defined by curiosity, courage, and an unflinching commitment to seeing and being seen.

For many queer people, exile begins at home. The search for safety and freedom to express themselves drives millions of LGBTQIA+ people across borders. Their stories are full of contrasts—between isolation and community, freedom and nostalgia.

In their stunning compositions, photographer Asafe Ghalib explores the identities of members of the LGBTQIA+ immigrant community in Britain with striking beauty and poise. Brought up in a religious family, Ghalib draws from their own experience of leaving Brazil behind to depict the rich lives of their subjects who live at the intersections of multiple cultures. Their work, which evokes black-and-white newspaper photographs and classic portraiture that has been present since the dawn of photography, immortalizes the lives of a community that has been misrepresented for decades.

The latest in a groundbreaking series of photobooks that highlight queer lives and communities around the world, Shine invites the viewer to enter the world of Britain’s many queer communities and, in doing so, to challenge common misconceptions and prejudices about LGBTQIA+ people. An act of both confrontation and pride, this book is also an exploration of immigration as a human right and, above all, a celebration of the triumphs of a defiant community.

Shine was designed by Emerson, Wajdowicz Studios (EWS).

Images mediate political operations, public and covert. It is difficult, if not impossible, to imagine the most significant events of the last century without the photographic forms in which they were captured. Lesser known and suppressed activities that have greatly impacted modern global power dynamics also leave photographic traces, and in many cases, photography has been at the center of clandestine actions by state and parapolitical actors. Critical Collection is an assemblage of declassified archival photographs and other found images processed and re-contextualized by artist and researcher Evan Hume. He obtains this source material primarily from the Central Intelligence Agency, National Archives, and National Reconnaissance Office. With photographic intelligence gathering at its core, Hume’s work expands centrifugally, making unexpected visual and conceptual connections that form a complex web of fact and speculation. Hume employs experimental imaging methods to alter and combine the amassed photographs, exhibiting the malleability of images and historical narratives. At a time of AI proliferation and heightened global tension, Critical Collection encourages viewers to look closely at remnants of the once-secret imaging systems that have shaped the world and imagine what remains unseen.

The Shankill, a roughly mile long road in Belfast Northern Ireland, is home to a working class, Protestant community. Their history is complex and troubled and yet they have survived with pride and resilience. During the thirty years of sectarian violence, many stories of this community have been told. A Peace Agreement was signed in 1998 and most journalists and photographers packed their bags and left before the ink had dried. But it is still a fragile peace that remains. The Shankill: A Portrait of Pride and Resilience depicts a proud community defined by their traditions, hoping to move beyond their past. It is a portrait of today.

2030Susan B. Anthony: Collar City is a quietly powerful photographic book that traces a decade-long relationship between an artist and a city shaped by industry, loss, and renewal. What began as a spontaneous winter visit in 2013 grew into a sustained act of looking, as Anthony returned again and again to Troy, New York, guided by curiosity and a deepening sense of attachment. Working with her Hasselblad, she approached the city with patience, allowing its rhythms and contradictions to unfold naturally over time.

Once a major center of steel production and brickmaking, Troy earned the nickname “Collar City” as the birthplace of the detachable shirt collar, an invention that transformed men’s fashion and fueled local prosperity. Like many post-industrial American cities, Troy later experienced economic decline, leaving behind abandoned factories, fading storefronts, and weathered infrastructure. Anthony’s photographs linger in these spaces, attentive to texture and light, revealing the dignity embedded in brick walls, cracked sidewalks, and aging façades marked by use rather than neglect.

Set against this industrial legacy are signs of renewal and continuity. Grand homes built from Troy brick still stand, their interiors adorned with marble fireplaces and luminous Tiffany windows. Anthony documents neighborhoods in transition, where restoration exists alongside decay, and where longtime residents and new arrivals share the same streets. Her portraits range from young children to elders who have witnessed decades of change, forming a multigenerational record of community life rooted in place and memory.

Rather than offering a nostalgic or purely documentary account, Collar City presents Troy as a living organism, shaped by labor, resilience, and human connection. Anthony’s background as a painter and printmaker is evident in her compositional sensitivity, while her editorial experience informs the clarity and restraint of her visual storytelling. The photographs neither romanticize hardship nor celebrate renewal uncritically; instead, they hold space for complexity.

As her first monograph, Collar City stands as a thoughtful meditation on American towns in flux and the quiet power of sustained attention. Through Anthony’s lens, Troy emerges not as a relic of the past, but as a vibrant, evolving community whose layered history continues to shape its present.

51Journey through Michael Kenna’s luminous black-and-white landscapes, spanning five decades of work.

Renowned for his distinctive black-and-white imagery, British photographer Michael Kenna (born 1953) has spent more than 50 years creating quiet, meditative landscapes shaped by time and light. Often working with exposures lasting up to ten hours, he captures the subtle, shifting atmospheres of the natural world and its dialogue with human-made structures. His photographs have been presented in nearly 500 solo exhibitions and over 400 group shows, and are held in more than 100 permanent collections worldwide.

Constellation, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Kenna’s career, brings together 122 carefully selected images from an archive of more than 3,700 photographs made between 1973 and 2024 across 43 countries. Each year and place is represented, inviting readers to trace their own poetic paths through a body of work that favors contemplation, patience, and enduring beauty over the immediacy of the snapshot.

1602John Divola: Dogs Chasing My Car in the Desert revisits one of the most idiosyncratic and enduring bodies of work in late twentieth-century American photography. Created in the remote stretches of Southern California’s Morongo Valley, the series unfolds as a raw encounter between motion, instinct, and chance. Divola’s photographs are neither planned portraits nor traditional landscapes; they are fleeting confrontations, seized at the edge of control, where the desert becomes a stage for unpredictable pursuit.

Shot from a moving car with a handheld 35mm camera, the images carry an unmistakable sense of urgency. Dogs charge toward the frame with intensity, curiosity, or defiance, their bodies blurred by speed and grain. Behind them, modest desert houses appear briefly, like witnesses to an unscripted ritual. The technical imperfections—blur, contrast, rough texture—are not flaws but essential elements, reinforcing the visceral energy of the chase and the impossibility of stillness.

Beyond their kinetic surface, these photographs invite reflection. A dog chasing a car is an action loaded with contradiction: devotion and futility, instinct and absurdity, persistence without reward. Divola embraces these tensions, allowing metaphor to emerge naturally rather than forcing interpretation. The work echoes larger questions about photography itself—the pursuit of truth, the limits of representation, and the inevitability of failure embedded in the act of trying to capture reality.

This remastered edition restores the series with renewed clarity while preserving its original grit and immediacy. Limited in number and carefully produced, the book stands as both a historical document and a timeless meditation on motion and obsession. Dogs Chasing My Car in the Desert remains a singular statement within Divola’s broader practice, affirming his place as an artist willing to embrace risk, uncertainty, and the poetry found in a hopeless chase.

362Gordon Parks: Pastor E.F. Ledbetter and the Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church, 1953 revives a hidden chapter in the work of one of America’s most perceptive photographers — his first assignment for which he served as both writer and photographer. In 1953, Gordon Parks returned to Chicago to document the life of Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church and its pastor Ernest F. Ledbetter Sr. — a project commissioned by Life magazine but ultimately never published. This new volume gathers more than 65 previously unseen photographs, contact sheets, ephemeral material and Parks’ original manuscript, offering a powerful window onto Black religious life in mid-20th-century Chicago.

The images take us inside the sanctuary and out through the city’s neighbourhoods, portraying rituals of worship and daily life against the backdrop of a community shaped by the hardships and hopes of the Great Migration. Parks captures Reverend Ledbetter in moments of prayer and sermon — arms raised in the luminous pulpit light — and also photographs ordinary acts of care: women reading to those in need, church members reaching out to their neighbours. In Parks’s hands, the church becomes not just a religious space, but a refuge, a center of resistance and solidarity in a turbulent urban environment.

Beyond the photographs, the volume includes reflective essays — from historians, scholars, and descendants of Reverend Ledbetter — that place the congregation’s story within a broader context of social history, urban change, and Black faith traditions. The material from the Ledbetter family’s archives adds intimacy and testimony: records of community activism, gospel ministries, and civil-rights consciousness that resonate far beyond the church walls.

This book doesn’t aim to romanticize — it reveals a community navigating poverty, prejudice, displacement, yet clinging to hope, dignity, and collective strength. Through Parks’s lens and words, we rediscover a vital story of American history: how faith, resilience, and communal bonds helped sustain lives in the face of adversity. Gordon Parks: Pastor E.F. Ledbetter and the Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church, 1953 stands as a tribute to those who found sanctuary in congregation, and to a photographer brave enough to show it.

Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe: South Africa, 1977/78 invites us on a journey into a turbulent chapter of history — through the lens of an American photographer whose own experiences of race and segregation in Chicago informed her view. In a period marked by oppression and resistance, she returned to South Africa at the height of apartheid, carrying her camera as a tool of witness, empathy, and solidarity.

Her photographs, taken between 1977 and 1978, traverse cities and townships — Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, KwaZulu-Natal, and communities such as Soweto, Alexandra or Kliptown. She gained rare access to everyday life, public events, and powerful moments of activism; in doing so, she documented both sorrow and defiance, hardship and human dignity. The result is a visual archive that does more than record: it humanizes a people under duress and restores to them identity, agency, and presence.

Rendered in stark black-and-white alongside vivid color, the images resist romanticism or simplification. They reflect a land divided — by politics, by history, by violence — but also a land inhabited by individuals whose lives continued: working, loving, gathering, resisting. Through her gaze, Moutoussamy-Ashe reveals the texture of existence under apartheid: its contradictions, its tragedies, its fragile hopes.

More than a historical document, this book stands as a meditation on memory, race, and solidarity across continents. Coming from a photographer shaped by both American segregation and global Black experience, the collection resonates with a universal urgency: that suffering, injustice, and resistance must be seen. It situates personal history beside collective struggle, reminding us that photography has the power not just to show — but to connect, to question, to remember.

In opening these pages, one does not simply view photographs. One witnesses lives, hears silences, feels passing moments of fear, pride, sorrow — and emerges with a deeper understanding of the resilience of the human spirit.

52Hiroshi Sugimoto: Enoura Observatory, Land of Distant Memory unveils the culmination of over a decade of meticulous creation, where architecture, sculpture, and photography converge in a singular vision. Situated on a hillside in Odawara, Japan, overlooking Sagami Bay and framed by the outer rim of the Hakone Mountains, the Enoura Observatory embodies Sugimoto’s fascination with time, memory, and the intersection of ancient and contemporary traditions. The project integrates centuries-old artisanal techniques, honoring local craftsmanship while ensuring that these practices continue to resonate in a modern context.

Sugimoto’s observatory is more than a building; it is a total work of art, a multidisciplinary complex where space, light, and material coalesce into a contemplative environment. Citrus groves, natural topography, and meticulously crafted surfaces create a dialogue between human intervention and the landscape, reflecting the artist’s deep engagement with temporality and the permanence of artistic expression. The structure serves as both a cultural forum and an exhibition space, bridging Japan’s heritage and its contemporary artistic ambitions for visitors from around the world.

The book captures this project in a series of striking photographs that reveal Sugimoto’s poetic approach to architecture and perception. Each image conveys a sense of quietude, a meditation on the passage of time, and an almost metaphysical attention to detail. The Observatory emerges as a space where art, nature, and human ingenuity meet, highlighting Sugimoto’s unique ability to harmonize disciplines, creating work that is simultaneously monumental, intimate, and timeless.

Born in Tokyo in 1948, Sugimoto has spent decades exploring themes of history, empiricism, and the unseen currents of time through photography, sculpture, and architecture. Enoura Observatory: Land of Distant Memory is both a record of his remarkable architectural achievement and an extension of his lifelong inquiry into temporality and perception. The book invites readers to experience the subtle interplay between memory, craft, and the natural world, revealing a vision that is at once profoundly personal and universally resonant.

148Shelved during the McCarthy era, Model's photographs of jazz musicians―together with a text by Langston Hughes―are finally published for the first time
br> Street photographer Lisette Model spent more than 10 years documenting Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Percy Heath, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and countless other luminaries of America's jazz scene. From the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival to nightclub shows and raucous afterparties in cramped apartments, Model's images are effusive and full of empathy, celebrating jazz at a time when the genre was under increasing political and cultural scrutiny.
br> During the 1950s, the New York Photo League was investigated by the House Un-American Activities Committee for purported connections to the Communist Party. Model was interviewed by the FBI and eventually placed on its National Security Watchlist. This mounting political pressure led publishers and funders to rescind support of Model, and ultimately caused her to shelve the book dedicated to her jazz pictures, which was to feature an essay by Langston Hughes.
br> Now, this clothbound book finally realizes Model's self-censored project, providing a fresh look at familiar faces who today signify the fight for freedom, equality and creative expression. Alongside Hughes' original essay, texts by author Audrey Sands and saxophonist Loren Schoenberg underscore the importance of this series and the revelatory insight it shines on jazz music, both onstage and off.

''These pictures describe a long-ago time, and yet in looking at them I become once again the young photographer who took them on a hot summer day, sweat and dust pungent on the breeze; in the distance, I can hear the laughter of children who are now middle-aged.'' — Sage Sohier, from the introductory interview by Mark Steinmetz

We are pleased to announce Easy Days, the third title in Sage Sohier’s trilogy which also includes Americans Seen and Passing Time. Made between 1978 and 1986, the 56 photographs presented in Easy Days capture the prosaic moments of ordinary people, always with respect and often with humor.br>
Sohier finds her subjects in the open spaces of parking lots, front yards and public streets, and in the quieter confines of modest homes, back yards and porches. She depicts “the boredom of hot summer days” with a precise attention to the surroundings, with cold drinks, propane grills, sprinklers and pets each providing small comforts and revealing the quiet tempo of the days. Sohier’s observation that “images…gain a historical perspective over time that adds to their interest,” is proven true in this collection of black and white images.br>
Sage Sohier’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the International Center for Photography, New York; and the Art Institute of Chicago, among many other venues. Her photographs are included in the permanent collections of such institutions as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Cleveland Museum of Art, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; and the Brooklyn Museum.

62Over four decades of Burtynsky's urgent photographic practice capturing the destructive impact of human activity on our planet
Published with International Center of Photography, New York.

A retrospective of Edward Burtynsky's (born 1955) photography from the past 40 years, The Great Acceleration reveals the depth of the photographer's investigation into the human alteration of natural landscapes around the world, showing their present fragility and enduring beauty in equal measure. "The Great Acceleration" is an established term used to describe the rapid rise of human impact on our planet, among them population growth, water usage, transportation, greenhouse gas emissions, resource extraction and food production, each of which Burtynsky has photographed the signs of in great detail throughout his career. From open pit mines across North America to oil derricks in Azerbaijan, from rice terraces in China to oil bunkering in Nigeria, Burtynsky has traveled the world and back again as part of his restless and seemingly inexhaustible drive to discover the ways, both old and new, that organized human activity has transformed the earth. Including many of Burtynsky's landmark images, and which have never been published, the book is an urgent call to action, inviting us to appreciate the sublimity that remains in nature while deepening our understanding of the challenges and responsibilities confronting us today.

Simon Roberts: After London presents the British capital as if glimpsed through memory rather than sight. In this haunting volume published by Hoxton Mini Press, Simon Roberts turns his large-format camera toward the city’s most recognizable landmarks, only to render them strangely unstable. Edges dissolve, details blur, and monuments emerge as spectral silhouettes. The effect is both majestic and unsettling: London appears intact, yet somehow altered beyond repair.

Roberts, long known for his tableaux explorations of Britain’s social and political landscape, shifts here into a more speculative register. The city is emptied of inhabitants, its public spaces stilled into an eerie calm. Familiar sites such as Big Ben or Tower Bridge seem to hover between presence and disappearance, as though suspended in the aftermath of an unnamed catastrophe. The subdued, painterly palette deepens the emotional dissonance, suggesting a future reshaped by climate crisis and collective neglect.

There is no spectacle of destruction. Instead, Roberts offers ambiguity. The photographs resist sharpness and certainty, encouraging viewers to confront their own expectations of permanence. London’s grand architecture, often photographed in crisp detail, becomes fragile under his gaze. Stone and steel lose their authority, transformed into monuments of a displaced past. In their softened contours, one senses the vulnerability not only of infrastructure, but of the human systems that built it.

Based in Brighton and widely exhibited internationally, Roberts has built a reputation for examining national identity through landscape. In After London, that inquiry extends into the realm of possibility. The book speaks quietly of loss and transience, asking what remains when the crowds disperse and the climate shifts. It is a meditation on time’s erosion—on how even the most iconic skyline can fade into uncertainty, leaving behind an image that is both beautiful and profoundly disquieting.

3Diane Arbus: Sanctum Sanctorum gathers a compelling selection of photographs that underscore the rare access and unwavering curiosity that defined Arbus’s practice. Made between 1961 and 1971 in apartments, bedrooms, dressing rooms, and other secluded interiors across New York, New Jersey, California, and London, these forty-five images reveal how deeply she was trusted by those she photographed. The camera does not feel like an intruder here; it becomes a witness to moments suspended between performance and revelation.

Diane Arbus possessed an unusual ability to dissolve the boundary between observer and observed. Her portraits, often created with a square-format camera and direct flash, carry a stark clarity that heightens every gesture and glance. Yet within these private settings, that clarity softens into something more reciprocal. The exchange between artist and subject is palpable—an unspoken agreement that allows vulnerability, eccentricity, and pride to coexist within the frame.

The breadth of individuals represented reflects Arbus’s expansive vision of humanity. Debutantes and socialites appear alongside nudists, circus performers, transvestites, female impersonators, lovers, widows, and children. Celebrities and aspiring performers share space with those who lived far from the public eye. In bedrooms and backstage corners, identities unfold without spectacle. Even in images that may be familiar, subtle details—an angle of the hand, a flicker of hesitation—emerge anew when viewed within this intimate context.

Published in conjunction with exhibitions at David Zwirner in London and Fraenkel Gallery, the volume offers a renewed perspective on a body of work that continues to challenge and resonate. Sanctum Sanctorum deepens the understanding of Arbus not only as a chronicler of difference, but as an artist committed to entering private worlds with empathy and resolve. In doing so, it reaffirms her enduring influence on the language of portraiture.

1346Paul Thek and Peter Hujar: Stay away from nothing traces the restless, incandescent bond between two singular figures of the postwar art world. Moving between New York and Italy in the 1960s and 70s, the book unfolds through an intimate weave of letters, postcards, photographs, and fragile paper traces that survived them both. What emerges is neither simple biography nor nostalgic tribute, but a living record of a relationship shaped by ambition, desire, rivalry, and devotion.

Peter Hujar first encountered Paul Thek in a moment charged with possibility. Early portraits capture Thek before the myth fully formed: watchful, vulnerable, already theatrical. Thek’s letters, some written from a cargo ship bound for Europe, carry the urgency of youth and the hunger for reinvention. Rome becomes a crucible for their connection, a city where art, Catholic iconography, and sensuality intermingle—elements that would later surface in Thek’s sculptural environments and Hujar’s austere, psychologically piercing portraits.

As the correspondence progresses, so too does the complexity of their bond. Thek writes of money troubles, fleeting romances, grand artistic schemes, and the exhaustion of constant travel. His voice shifts from playful to melancholic, from seduction to self-doubt. Hujar answers less with words than with images. His photographs—whether made in Roman studios, on the beaches of Fire Island, or in the catacombs of Palermo—render Thek with a clarity that feels both tender and unsparing. Contact sheets and informal snapshots reveal moments of levity: shared jokes, staged passport photos, the casual intimacy of artists at ease in each other’s presence.

Placed in context with Thek’s monumental works such as The Tomb, the material gathered here underscores how inseparable life and art were for both men. Their exchange becomes a testament to creative partnership in its most volatile form—at once sustaining and destabilizing. In revisiting these documents, the book restores the human dimension behind two formidable oeuvres, honoring a connection that was as fragile as it was transformative.

Inbal Abergil: The Presence of Absence is a deeply considered photographic work shaped over more than a decade, tracing the quiet, enduring aftermath of war. At its heart lies a moment that cleaves life in two: the unexpected ring of a doorbell, the arrival of news no family is prepared to receive. Through a patient and restrained visual language, Abergil turns her attention to the lives of Gold Star Families, exploring how grief settles into the fabric of daily existence and how, over time, individuals attempt to move forward without ever truly moving on.

The book weaves together intimate testimonies, formal portraits, and contemplative still lifes. Personal belongings—folded uniforms, worn shoes, childhood photographs—are photographed with a careful neutrality that heightens their emotional weight. These objects become vessels of memory, suspended between presence and absence. They speak of love and continuity, but also of rupture. In their stillness, Abergil reveals how mourning is not only an emotional process but also a physical one, rooted in spaces, textures, and gestures repeated in solitude.

Equally striking are the portraits of Casualty Notification Officers, whose duty it is to deliver devastating news with precision and dignity. Their composed expressions hint at the burden of responsibility they carry. By including them, Abergil broadens the narrative beyond private sorrow, acknowledging the structured rituals that surround loss and the fragile care required in its first moments.

A four-channel video component extends the project into the realm of spoken memory. Four Gold Star Mothers share reflections on survival, resilience, and the complicated terrain of healing. Their words do not offer easy consolation; instead, they provide a testament to endurance. The Presence of Absence stands as a sober meditation on the human cost of conflict, honoring remembrance while suggesting that even in profound darkness, the work of rebuilding life—however incomplete—remains possible.

58Sebastião Salgado, published in hardcover in November 2025, offers a sweeping journey through one of the most consequential photographic careers of the last half-century. Working exclusively in black and white, Salgado has forged a visual language of striking density and emotional gravity, one that confronts the human condition with rare clarity. This monograph brings together images spanning the full arc of his practice, revealing how his vision has evolved while remaining anchored in a deep ethical commitment to humanity and the planet.

The first section traces the early decades of Salgado’s work as a photojournalist and documentary photographer, when he turned his lens toward labor, displacement, and survival. Series such as Workers stand as monumental records of physical toil, dignity, and exhaustion, capturing manual laborers at a moment when entire ways of life were on the verge of disappearance. In Migrations, Salgado follows the movement of people across continents, portraying mass displacement not as abstraction or statistic, but as lived experience shaped by hunger, conflict, environmental collapse, and hope. These images confront viewers with the scale of global upheaval while remaining resolutely human in focus.

The second chapter of the book shifts tone without abandoning intensity. Drawn from the monumental Genesis project, these photographs reveal landscapes, wildlife, and communities that have largely remained beyond the reach of industrial modernity. Mountains, deserts, forests, and oceans appear with a sculptural presence, evoking both awe and vulnerability. Here, Salgado’s camera becomes an instrument of reverence, honoring the fragile balance of ecosystems and cultures that persist against accelerating change.

Underlying the entire volume is Salgado’s singular perspective, shaped in part by his early training as an economist. His photographs consistently connect individual lives to larger systems—economic, political, and environmental—without reducing them to symbols. As both an artist and activist, including his long-standing commitment to ecological restoration through Instituto Terra, Salgado embodies a belief that images can bear witness, provoke responsibility, and inspire care.

This monograph stands not only as a retrospective, but as a moral and visual testament. It reminds us that photography, at its most powerful, can illuminate injustice, celebrate resilience, and insist on the urgent need to preserve both human dignity and the living world we share.

Drug Wars: Supply and Demand is a stark and unflinching visual chronicle of one of the most complex and destructive global crises of our time. Released in hardcover on November 25, 2025, the book brings together more than a decade of work by Jonathan Alpeyrie, a photojournalist known for entering environments most only witness from a distance. His images move beyond headlines, revealing a system shaped by desperation, power, and consequence on both sides of the supply chain.

Alpeyrie’s work is defined by immersion. Rather than remaining an outside observer, he embeds himself deeply within the worlds he photographs, earning trust and access through patience and presence. In Drug Wars: Supply and Demand, this approach takes readers from remote drug production zones in Latin America to cartel-dominated regions and onward to American streets where the demand fuels an unending cycle. The resulting photographs carry an immediacy that feels lived rather than reported, marked by proximity and risk.

Across more than 150 images, the book constructs a visual narrative that emphasizes the human dimension of the drug trade. Farmers, traffickers, users, families, and law enforcement all appear within a broader landscape of political failure and social fracture. Violence is neither sensationalized nor softened; instead, it is contextualized, shown as a consequence of systems that entangle lives far removed from centers of decision-making. Alpeyrie’s images insist on complexity, resisting easy conclusions or moral shortcuts.

Building on a career shaped by frontline reporting and personal sacrifice, Jonathan Alpeyrie delivers a body of work that is as urgent as it is enduring. Drug Wars: Supply and Demand stands as both documentation and warning, using photography’s traditional power to bear witness and preserve truth. It is a book that demands sustained attention, asking readers to confront the realities behind a global economy built on addiction, enforcement, and unresolved demand.

Sandy Skoglund: Enchanting Nature offers a vivid journey through the imaginative and unsettling universe of one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary photography and installation art. Across decades of work, Sandy Skoglund has constructed immersive tableaux in which animals and humans coexist uneasily, suspended in spaces that feel at once familiar and deeply uncanny. Her images invite viewers to linger within this tension, where the ordinary is transformed into something theatrical, symbolic, and quietly disturbing.

Skoglund’s practice is rooted in painstakingly crafted environments, built by hand and photographed only after weeks or months of preparation. Kitchens, bedrooms, and living rooms—icons of domestic comfort—become stages for surreal encounters: fluorescent cats, brightly colored fish, or hybrid creatures that seem to have slipped into our world unnoticed. These artificial ecosystems reflect a broader anxiety about humanity’s estrangement from nature, exposing how culture reshapes, controls, and often distorts the living world it inhabits.

The exhibition and accompanying hardcover publication trace Skoglund’s career from her most iconic installations, such as Revenge of the Goldfish and Radioactive Cats, to lesser-known and previously unseen works. By placing early projects alongside more recent explorations, the book highlights the consistency of her concerns: ecology, environmental imbalance, and the fragile bonds between species. Even as her visual language remains instantly recognizable, subtle shifts in tone reveal a growing urgency beneath the saturated colors and dreamlike surfaces.

A notable addition is The Outtakes, a photographic series that revisits earlier installations through images once set aside. These alternative views soften the sense of spectacle and allow quieter moments to emerge, emphasizing process, imperfection, and reflection. They underscore Skoglund’s belief that meaning often resides at the edges of intention, where control loosens and new narratives appear.

Published in collaboration with the McNay Art Museum and Paci Contemporary Gallery, Sandy Skoglund: Enchanting Nature stands as both a retrospective and a meditation on the contradictions of modern life. It reminds us that enchantment and unease are inseparable, and that the boundaries between the natural and the fabricated are far more porous than we might wish to believe.

Fokion Zissiadis: Morocco is an immersive photographic journey that unfolds like a slow passage through time, light, and place. Known for his attentive eye and methodical approach, Zissiadis turns his lens toward Morocco with a sense of reverence shaped by years of travel and observation. Rather than offering a fleeting impression, this book builds a layered portrait of a country where history, architecture, and daily life remain inseparable. Each image invites the viewer to linger, absorbing atmosphere as much as detail.

From the ancient stones of Volubilis to the saturated blues of Chefchaouen, Zissiadis captures Morocco’s visual richness with restraint and clarity. His photographs balance grandeur and intimacy, revealing vast desert horizons alongside quiet human moments. The bustling souks of Fez, Had Draa, and Rissani pulse with movement and color, yet never overwhelm the frame. Instead, they are rendered with a calm precision that allows patterns, textures, and gestures to speak for themselves.

Trained in architecture, Zissiadis brings a refined sense of structure and spatial awareness to his compositions. Walls, doorways, and streets become more than backdrops; they shape the rhythm of the book and guide the viewer through contrasting environments. The silence of the desert stands in thoughtful dialogue with the density of urban life, highlighting Morocco’s ability to hold opposites in harmony. This sensitivity to space lends the work a timeless quality, grounded in observation rather than spectacle.

Presented in an expansive XXL format with carefully chosen materials, Morocco is conceived as an object to be experienced slowly. It is both a visual archive and a personal travel diary, shaped by respect for people, places, and traditions. More than a destination-focused photo book, it offers an invitation to encounter Morocco as Zissiadis does: attentively, patiently, and with enduring curiosity.

Screen Towers: The Drive-In Theater in America is a visual and cultural journey through one of the most distinctive inventions of twentieth-century American leisure. Released in November 2025, the book traces the rise of the drive-in theater as both architectural landmark and social space, born from the postwar embrace of the automobile and the collective magic of cinema. These outdoor screens once transformed empty fields and roadside lots into places of shared anticipation, where movies unfolded beneath open skies.

The drive-in reached its height during the 1950s and 1960s, when thousands of towering screens punctuated the American landscape. More than venues for entertainment, they became gathering points for families, teenagers, and travelers, blending everyday life with Hollywood spectacle. Their presence reflected a confident, mobile society, eager to merge comfort, technology, and popular culture into a uniquely American experience.

Photographer Steve Fitch began documenting these structures in the early 1970s, traveling across the country to capture their often-overlooked beauty. His early black-and-white photographs focus on the monumental backs of the screens, where neon signs and painted murals announced the theater’s identity to passing traffic. Shot at dusk or night, these images lend the towers an almost mythic quality, glowing against the darkness like modern roadside cathedrals.

As the decades progressed, Fitch transitioned to color photography using a large-format view camera, turning his attention toward the screens themselves and the quiet interiors of drive-ins in decline. His work records a period of transformation, as many theaters were abandoned, repurposed, or erased entirely. Yet within this sense of loss lies a profound tenderness, as empty screens and fading paint speak to memories of laughter, romance, and ritual.

Today, with a small number of drive-ins still operating, Screen Towers stands as both archive and homage. It preserves the visual poetry of these structures while honoring their role in shaping American social life. Fitch’s photographs remind us that cinema was once an outdoor affair, rooted in place, community, and the simple pleasure of watching stories flicker to life under the stars.

Ground Rules offers a far-reaching look into the creative evolution of Alejandro Cartagena, an artist whose photographs have long examined the tensions shaping modern Mexico. This new bilingual publication gathers together two decades of work, revealing how Cartagena navigates the shifting terrain between aspiration and collapse, prosperity and precarity.

Rather than settling into a single aesthetic, Cartagena moves fluidly between approaches: from straight documentary sequences to playful collage, from recontextualized vernacular photographs to experiments with AI-generated imagery. What binds these varied methods is his unwavering interest in how people inhabit landscapes transformed by ambition, inequality, and environmental strain. His images, sometimes humorous and sometimes painfully direct, trace the fragile ecosystems—social and ecological—that define life in contemporary North America.

Known to many for projects such as Carpoolers, in which he photographed workers commuting in the beds of pickup trucks, Cartagena has consistently highlighted the consequences of chaotic urban growth and the mythologies of middle-class progress. In A Small Guide to Homeownership, he explored the illusions and disillusionments tied to mass-produced suburban housing. Ground Rules gathers these landmark series alongside lesser-known bodies of work, offering a panoramic reading of the artist’s concerns.

The presentation of this survey at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2025 underscores Cartagena’s growing international presence. Additional exhibitions in Mexico City, Paris, Barcelona, and major US institutions attest to the global resonance of his themes. Yet despite this wide reach, his perspective remains rooted in the specific challenges facing Mexico: drought, pollution, urban expansion, labor migration, and the uneasy proximity to the US-Mexico border.

By bringing these projects together, Ground Rules becomes more than a retrospective. It is a meditation on how images can confront, question, and humanize the complexities of national identity and collective futures. Cartagena’s work invites viewers to reflect on the systems that shape their own landscapes—and the rules, written or unspoken, that govern them.

^{Image: Fragmented Cities - Juarez-2- from the series 'Suburbia Mexicana' © Alejandro Cartagena}

Infinity Complex Landscape offers an intricate and deeply felt portrait of a country caught between remembrance and reinvention. In this ambitious photographic project, Yoshie Itasaka traces the shifting emotional and political terrain of Ukraine, a place where history is never distant and where the past continually presses against the present. Traveling through cities and regions whose names have become synonymous with upheaval—Odessa, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Zaporizhia, Mariupol, Crimea—she observes the quiet rhythms of daily life as they unfold against the backdrop of a troubled national narrative.

Across five years of work, Itasaka builds a visual chronicle shaped by patience and attentive listening. Her images avoid dramatization; instead they cultivate a sense of proximity, inviting viewers to step gently into spaces where memory and identity are in constant negotiation. This human-centered approach reflects her long-standing investigations into collective memory and post-conflict landscapes, a subject she has explored throughout Eastern Europe and in other regions wrestling with the weight of their own histories.

What emerges in these pages is not merely documentation but a meditation on how societies reconstruct themselves after trauma. Itasaka’s reflections—rooted in her own country’s experience with militarism and post-war reckoning—add a layer of introspective depth. She recognizes in Ukraine familiar patterns: the tension between personal memory and official history, the fragility of peace, and the ease with which fear can shape national narratives. Her photographs become a quiet call to resist simplification and to look closely at the forces that shape our understanding of justice, belonging, and identity.

The publication includes an essay by Professor Kimitaka Matsuzato, expanding the work’s historical framework and deepening its inquiry into post-Soviet politics. Together, their perspectives form a complex, empathetic study of a nation confronting its past while searching for the contours of its future.

^{Image: Crimea 2019 © Yoshie Itasaka}

124Annie Leibovitz: Women (2025 Edition) brings together more than three decades of portraiture in a sweeping tribute to the strength, complexity, and individuality of women around the world. Expanding upon the original project first initiated in the late 1990s, this new two-volume edition offers an even broader survey of contemporary womanhood, tracing how roles, expectations, and cultural identities have transformed over time.

Leibovitz’s portraits move well beyond celebrity. While the collection includes globally recognized figures from the arts, sports, politics, and science, it also highlights women whose stories emerge quietly yet powerfully from their environments — a testament to the photographer’s ability to see significance in every corner of life. Farmers, activists, mid-career artists, students, and community leaders appear alongside celebrated writers, performers, and athletes, forming a vast mosaic of experience.

Across these pages, the photographer’s unmistakable visual language comes into focus: intimate lighting, quiet gestures, and a deep interest in character rather than spectacle. Whether working in the controlled space of her studio or on location, Leibovitz has long approached portraiture as a form of storytelling. Each image reveals a particular stance in the world — vulnerability, determination, introspection, or triumph — captured with sensitivity and rigor.

The slipcased edition deepens its resonance with texts authored by prominent voices who have shaped modern conversations about gender and society. Their reflections contextualize the portraits within larger cultural currents, underscoring how images help define shared understandings of womanhood. The books together form a historic record, marking a moment when reconsidering women’s achievements and visibility has become essential.

Annie Leibovitz: Women (2025 Edition)< stands as one of the most ambitious undertakings of its kind by a living photographer. It invites readers to reflect on the evolving presence of women in public and private life and honors the stories — famous or uncelebrated — that continue to shape the world.

149Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World invites the reader into the glittering, theatrical universe of a photographer who helped define glamour for much of the twentieth century. This new volume—published to accompany the 2025 exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London—presents, for the first time in book form, the full sweep of Cecil Beaton’s fashion and portrait photography from 1922 to 1963. It draws a line from his earliest playful images of the Bright Young Things in post-World War I England to his establishment as Vogue’s star photographer and ultimately to his celebrated career as a costume-designer for stage and film.

Inside the book are portraits of some of the most iconic faces of the twentieth century: actors, artists, royals, fashion icons — names such as Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, as well as members of royalty and the art world. Each photograph captures not just a likeness but a mood, a style, a world. Alongside photos are fashion illustrations, sketches, costume designs and even outtakes — fragments of Beaton’s creative process, revealing the craftsmanship, wit and theatrical sense that informed his work.

What emerges from this collection is not merely a retrospective, but a testimony to how Beaton shaped modern visual culture. His images combined Edwardian elegance, avant-garde sensibilities and the nascent glamour of film and haute couture, transforming portraiture and fashion photography into a new kind of art. The book traces how he moved between London, Paris, New York and Hollywood — each city leaving its imprint on his aesthetic — and how he used lighting, composition, costume and background to turn a photograph into a carefully composed fantasy.

Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World is more than a catalog of beautiful images: it is an immersive journey into an era when identity, elegance and aspiration played out in sumptuous fabrics, soft lighting and bold poses. It invites the reader to rediscover fashion photography as spectacle, performance and art — and to appreciate the legacy of a man who, through his lens, made the extraordinary feel timeless.

Bootsy Holler: Making It celebrates a formative era in Seattle’s cultural history, bringing together more than a decade of photographs that trace the evolution of the city’s indie, rock and punk scene from 1992 to 2008. Holler was not an outsider documenting a trend; she was part of a tight-knit world of musicians, promoters, and devoted fans who shaped the city’s musical identity after the grunge explosion. Her images capture a period when small venues, dim basements and impromptu stages served as crucibles for a new generation of artists who would soon rise to national and international acclaim.

Through candid backstage moments and blistering live performances, Holler reveals the early creative energy of bands such as Death Cab for Cutie, Fleet Foxes, Interpol, Modest Mouse, Gossip, and the Foo Fighters. She photographs not only the musicians themselves, but the atmosphere surrounding them — the crowds leaning into the music, the handwritten setlists, the worn floors of beloved clubs and the sense of possibility that hovered over every night. Many of these images predate widespread digital photography, giving the work a tactile, grounded quality that mirrors the DIY ethos of the era.

Designed with open-spine binding and bright orange thread, the book’s construction underscores its raw, handmade aesthetic. Holler pairs the photographs with her own reflections, revisiting a chapter in her life when the scene was intimate, accessible and perpetually in motion. A foreword by Megan Jasper, longtime CEO of Sub Pop Records, situates the work within Seattle’s broader musical lineage and honors Holler’s unwavering independence as an artist.

Born in Washington in 1969, Holler came of age alongside the communities she documented. Her editorial and fine-art photography later found its way into major publications, yet the images gathered here remain among her most personal. Making It offers not only a record of a vibrant artistic moment but also an invitation to return to a time when music felt immediate, communal and unfiltered.

Chris Dorley-Brown: Near Dark immerses readers in a London rarely seen, a city caught between shadow and light, where the familiar becomes strange and the streets hum with a quiet unease. Photographed in the fleeting hours just before sunrise and after sunset, the series captures the metropolis at its most vulnerable, revealing a cityscape both alluring and withdrawn. Towering landmarks and post-industrial landscapes emerge from painterly haze, council estates and public spaces enter a state of suspended stillness, and the mood is one of tension tempered by serene observation.

Spanning a decade of work, the photographs chart London’s transformation from Olympic optimism through pandemic upheaval and the complexities of urban governance. Dorley-Brown’s meticulous approach, employing super high-resolution composite photography, allows each frame to retain a sense of hyperreal detail while evoking a dreamlike atmosphere. The images convey decay and renewal simultaneously, revealing the layered histories of neighborhoods, architecture, and social life while reflecting the broader anxieties and unpredictabilities of contemporary urban existence.

Dorley-Brown’s connection to East London is longstanding and deeply rooted. Since establishing his Hackney darkroom in 1984, he has documented social housing, public places, hospitals, and workplaces, amassing a substantial color archive that forms the backbone of his artistic vision. His work balances documentary rigor with poetic sensitivity, bringing an intimate understanding of the city’s rhythms, tensions, and quiet dramas. Over the years, his practice has expanded internationally through exhibitions and publications, all while he continues to live and work within the communities he portrays.

Near Dark is not only a study of place but a meditation on time, memory, and mood. Dorley-Brown’s London is at once decayed and vital, empty yet charged with stories waiting to be discovered. This book captures the city’s ephemeral twilight, offering an intimate, atmospheric, and uncompromising vision of life in one of the world’s most complex and ever-changing urban landscapes.

1651Photography between Real and Surreal invites the reader into a quietly uncanny world where elegance and imagination meet. This monograph gathers images that feel like carefully staged dreams: figures in couture negotiating improbable spaces, everyday objects behaving like actors, and landscapes that tilt just enough to unsettle expectation. Each photograph is a small performance, poised between the familiar and the marvelous.

Trained in literature and theology before turning to the camera, the photographer brought to his practice a contemplative sensibility. He favoured film, gentle continuous light and minimal digital alteration, believing the integrity of the print to be essential. That discipline yields images that are deliberate and restrained — compositions organized with the precision of a choreographer and the restraint of a poet.

Scenes of sartorial glamour are often laced with surreal humour: a woman in an evening gown teetering on a tightrope above a garden, a gentleman in a tailored suit wearing a cardboard box like a private joke, a street that bends into an optical riddle. These moments playfully displace the viewer, inviting a double take and then a smile; the beauty and the absurd reinforce one another rather than compete.

Beyond visual novelty, the photographs convey a dignity toward their subjects. Portraits of workers, models and passersby alike are rendered with tenderness and respect; the camera treats each person as a focal point of meaning. Light, gesture and gesture’s pause become tools for revealing character, not merely for spectacle.

This collection asks us to slow down and inhabit a space where the ordinary can be transformed into the poetic. It is a reminder that photography can be both exacting craft and mischievous imagination — a place where elegance, wit and mystery coexist, and where a single framed moment can open onto a small, private world.

Anastasia Samoylova: Atlantic Coast opens a vast, quietly unsettling portrait of the American East Coast — one in which nostalgia, dislocation and transformation are sewn into the landscape itself. In this new monograph, Samoylova retraces the route pioneered by Berenice Abbott in 1954, journeying from Florida to Maine to revisit the places Abbott once documented, and to observe what has become of them decades later. Her images — in vivid color and stark black and white — reveal the tension between myth and reality, between promises of progress and the traces of decay or displacement.

Where once small towns and coastal communities had a certain stillness, Samoylova finds change carved into facades and roadside signs, into suburban sprawl and shuttered shopfronts. She frames these scenes with a photographer’s patience and a poet’s sensitivity — capturing abandoned diners, empty motels, decaying houses, ghostly intersections. At the same time, there is stubborn life: occasional portraits of people, wildlife, reminders that behind every sign of decline, someone, something endures.

Her book does not simply document physical places. It traces the shifting contours of identity, belonging and memory in a nation where the open road has long symbolized freedom — and where that ideal has become tangled with consumerism, environmental degradation, and socio-economic upheaval. Through Atlantic Coast, Samoylova asks whether the “American Dream” remains intact, or if it has fractured along with the towns her car passes through.

Reading this volume is to experience a slow, attentive journey — as a witness, as a traveller, as someone invited to reconsider what America has become. Her photographs linger, subtly unsettling the viewer’s assumptions about beauty, progress and decline. In its silence and restraint, the book whispers that memory, identity and place are fragile — and that every road carries stories worth listening to.

Swiss photographer Claude Hofer has spent more than a decade exploring one of the most expressive forms of human movement: dance.

His publication offers a rare and compelling visual journey into the worlds of Butoh and contemporary dance, bringing together artists from across the globe in an intimate photographic dialogue between performer and camera.

Over the course of ten years, Hofer traveled extensively, meeting and photographing more than one hundred dancers representing these powerful traditions.

Rather than documenting stage performances, he invited each artist to perform specifically for his lens.

This approach creates a unique space of collaboration where movement becomes both subject and language, revealing the deeply personal expressions of the dancers.

Working exclusively in black and white, Hofer strips away distraction and focuses on what matters most: the human presence.

Light, shadow, gesture, and stillness combine to form images that feel both raw and timeless.

The absence of color emphasizes the sculptural qualities of the body, allowing emotion, tension, and vulnerability to emerge with striking clarity.

Particularly significant is Hofer’s engagement with Butoh, the radical Japanese dance form born in the postwar era.

Known for its slow, often haunting movements and its exploration of the subconscious, Butoh offers a powerful visual language that translates remarkably well into photography.

Alongside contemporary dance artists, these performers bring an extraordinary range of physical and emotional expression to the project.

What makes Hofer’s work especially compelling is his ability to capture the fleeting moment when movement transforms into meaning.

Each photograph feels suspended between motion and stillness, revealing a profound connection between body and mind.

The resulting images are not simply portraits of dancers—they are studies of presence, intensity, and the human capacity for expression.

The publication ultimately becomes more than a photographic collection.

It is a visual archive of artists whose bodies speak in gestures, shadows, and silent narratives, offering viewers a rare glimpse into the emotional depth and creative spirit of contemporary dance.

207Kenro Izu: Mono no Aware is a quiet and deeply contemplative meditation on time, spirit, and the fragile beauty of existence. Drawing on more than five decades of photographic practice, Kenro Izu brings together images that speak not through spectacle, but through stillness. Rooted in Japanese aesthetics and spiritual philosophy, this body of work invites the viewer to slow down and observe how meaning resides in what is passing, weathered, and momentary.

At the heart of the book are three interconnected subjects. Ancient Noh masks, carved in the fourteenth century, bear the subtle traces of human emotion and ritual memory. Their expressions seem to hover between presence and absence, echoing the themes of pride, solitude, and transcendence found in Noh theatre. Alongside them, Izu photographs stones and venerable trees surrounding former shrine sites, natural witnesses to centuries of devotion and ceremony. These enduring forms are paired with images of wildflowers and grasses that bloom briefly, then disappear, completing a cycle of permanence and impermanence.

Through these subjects, Izu explores the philosophical dimensions of Yugen, Sabi, and Wabi. Depth, age, restraint, and humility emerge not as abstract ideas, but as visual experiences shaped by light, texture, and tone. The restrained duotone printing and natural matte paper enhance this sensibility, allowing each image to breathe and resonate quietly. The work feels deliberately removed from the urgency of contemporary image culture, honoring a slower, more reflective way of seeing.

Presented as a finely crafted two-volume edition, Mono no Aware stands as both an art object and a spiritual offering. It reflects Izu’s lifelong pursuit of inner sacredness across cultures and landscapes, while remaining firmly anchored in Japanese thought. This limited publication is less a statement than an invitation—to contemplate impermanence, to find beauty in transience, and to recognize the dignity of things that will not last.

LIVE FROM MY STUDIO: The Art of Edie Baskin is both a visual archive and a cultural time capsule, gathering more than two hundred pages of work by the artist who defined the look of a television institution. Published in October 2025, the book offers the first comprehensive presentation of Baskin’s photographs and artwork, revealing how her imagery became inseparable from the spirit of Saturday Night Live. Week after week, her portraits entered millions of living rooms, shaping how performers were seen and remembered.

Edie Baskin’s contribution goes far beyond documentation. As a pioneering photographer and art director, she forged a visual language that balanced irreverence with intimacy. Her hand-colored portraits revived a nearly forgotten tradition, blending photography with painterly intervention to create images that felt playful, theatrical, and deeply human. Rock musicians, comedians, actors, and cultural figures appear not as distant icons, but as collaborators in a shared act of creative risk, perfectly aligned with the show’s restless energy.

The book traces how Baskin’s aesthetic helped define an era when television was becoming a central stage for cultural conversation. Her images reflect the wit, audacity, and subversive humor that made the show a mirror of its time. At once polished and mischievous, the portraits suggest movement, performance, and personality, capturing fleeting expressions that feel alive decades later. In doing so, Baskin quietly shaped how fame itself was visualized during a formative period of American pop culture.

A foreword by Robin Morgan situates Baskin’s work within a broader artistic and social context, highlighting her role as a woman shaping a major cultural platform from behind the scenes. The book also restores attention to the craft of studio portraiture, emphasizing lighting, gesture, and handwork in an age increasingly defined by speed and reproduction. Each image stands as a reminder that style, when rooted in discipline, can become timeless.

Ultimately, LIVE FROM MY STUDIO is a celebration of authorship and vision. It honors an artist whose images did more than accompany a groundbreaking show—they helped define its identity. Through Baskin’s lens and brush, we see how art, television, and popular culture once converged in a way that continues to resonate today.

New York Short Stories offers a fresh, contemplative view of a city often portrayed through noise, speed, and spectacle. In this new photobook, Mario Schneider—long known for his award-winning work as a filmmaker and composer—turns his attentive eye to the streets of New York between 2023 and 2025. The result is a visual narrative shaped by his instinct for rhythm, pacing, and emotional nuance.

Rather than chasing icons or landmarks, Schneider focuses on the fleeting exchanges that animate daily life. His images linger on small gestures, subtle glances, and the quiet choreography of strangers crossing paths. In both color and black-and-white, he reveals a New York where silence coexists with chaos, and where stories unfold in the gaps between movement and stillness. Influenced by decades of directing and scoring films, he composes each frame with a sense of musicality, allowing light, shadow, and human presence to echo like themes in a soundtrack.

What emerges is a portrait of the city that defies stereotypes. Schneider’s New York feels intimate and reflective, a place where emotions are not drowned out by the rush but illuminated in rare moments of pause. His work recalls the timeless humanism of classic street photography, yet stands firmly in the present, attentive to the vulnerabilities and unspoken connections that define urban life today. Some photographs capture people lost in thought at bus stops or café windows, while others freeze the tensions and tenderness of crowded sidewalks—tiny encounters that would vanish without the photographer’s patient gaze.

Through this collection, Schneider proves that storytelling transcends mediums. Whether through film or photography, his vision remains anchored in the desire to understand people, their inner worlds, and the fragile instants that reveal them. New York Short Stories becomes not just a tribute to the city but an invitation to look more closely, to slow down, and to rediscover the poetry of the everyday.

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148Renegade: Photography in the Life of Lisette Model revisits the fierce independence and uncompromising vision that defined one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century. Lisette Model arrived in New York in 1938 with a sharp eye and an intuitive grasp of human presence, quickly immersing herself in the city’s frenetic rhythms. Her early photographs — direct, unidealized, and filled with the raw pulse of everyday life — stood apart from the polished norms of the era. Within only a few years, her images appeared in major magazines and entered the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, marking her as a striking new voice in American photography.

Model’s subjects were rarely glamorous. She sought authenticity in diners, boardwalks, nightclubs, and sidewalks, portraying Americans as they were: unguarded, expressive, sometimes absurd, always human. Her celebrated series from the beaches of Coney Island became emblematic of her approach, blending empathy with a certain stark boldness. She saw her camera not as a tool of flattery but as a way to confront life head-on, revealing truths that polite society preferred to overlook.

Yet, despite her early acclaim, Model’s public output slowed dramatically by mid-century. By the 1950s she had turned her attention almost entirely to teaching, becoming a formative influence on a generation of photographers. Among her students were Diane Arbus and Rosalind Fox Solomon, both of whom carried forward her insistence on emotional honesty and fearless observation. Through teaching, Model shaped photographic history as profoundly as she had through her own images.

This new illustrated essay reconsiders that shift, exploring whether Model’s so-called “difficult” reputation was not a flaw but a sign of her refusal to compromise — an essential part of what made her art so powerful. Her life emerges as a testament to artistic integrity, revealing a photographer who chose truth over approval and authenticity over ease.

125Seydou Keïta: A Tactile Lens invites the reader into a world of elegance, intimacy, and transformation — a world shaped through the lens of one of Africa’s greatest portrait photographers. Working in Bamako between the late 1940s and early 1960s, Seydou Keïta offered his clients not just photographs, but an opportunity to present themselves with dignity, style, and self-possession — often at a moment of profound social change.

In the modest studio of Bamako-Coura, Keïta welcomed people from across Mali and West Africa: young men in European suits, mothers clutching babies, elegantly draped women, students, artisans. In front of patterned backdrops, sometimes posed beside props like an old car, a bicycle or a scooter — symbols of modernity and aspiration — each sitter was invited to fashion an identity. Photographed singularly, each portrait becomes a statement: of self-respect, of hope, of belonging.

What distinguishes this collection and the accompanying book is the “tactile” quality of Keïta’s images. Skin tones, fabrics, hair textures, patterns — everything is rendered with a precision and softness that conjures physical presence. Light and shadow sculpt faces with clarity and warmth, while clothes and props stand out crisply, offering a sense of weight and texture that transcends the frame. One can almost feel the fabric, the quiet confidence, the dignity posed so calmly against those backdrops.

This new volume, accompanying the exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, brings together iconic prints alongside rarely seen vintage photographs and even previously unseen negatives from the family archive. Accompanied by oral histories and essays from scholars, the book situates Keïta’s work not only as portraiture, but as historical testimony — a record of aspiration and identity in a time marked by independence, modernization, and cultural exchange.

Through these portraits, Seydou Keïta invites us not only to see, but to recognize — to meet eyes, feel presence, and encounter lives often overlooked in historical accounts. Seydou Keïta: A Tactile Lens celebrates his mastery, his humanity, and the lasting power of a well-made portrait.

10Lee Friedlander: Christmas offers a vivid and often whimsical glimpse into the uniquely American spectacle of the holiday season. Through his signature black-and-white lens, Friedlander turns his camera toward the ordinary and extraordinary sights that decorate December across cities and suburbs alike. From glittering store windows to plastic nativities, oversized inflatable Santas, and homes buried under tangled lights, the photographs capture the playful, ironic, and sometimes absurd facets of a holiday deeply entwined with consumer culture.

Friedlander’s work goes beyond mere documentation. He explores the contradictions of Christmas in the United States: a mix of religious tradition, commercial excess, and personal idiosyncrasy. His photographs prompt reflection on the ways society celebrates, consumes, and stages ritual, revealing the peculiar beauty in what might otherwise be dismissed as kitsch. In his hands, holiday decorations, tinsel, and plastic figures become not just objects but symbols of collective identity, humor, and nostalgia.

The book presents a broad array of scenes, from urban sidewalks to suburban streets, revealing a country at once inventive, indulgent, and preoccupied. Friedlander’s perspective is both intimate and observational, highlighting patterns, juxtapositions, and visual humor that might escape the casual passerby. Every frame is composed with his meticulous eye for geometry, reflection, and layering, transforming familiar Christmas imagery into a study of culture, society, and human behavior.

Christmas is a testament to Friedlander’s enduring ability to find significance in everyday life. More than sixty monographs and decades of work have cemented his status as a master of American documentary photography, and in this volume, he turns his focus to a holiday that is at once cherished, commercialized, and absurdly theatrical. The result is a book that invites readers to experience the season through a lens of humor, reflection, and appreciation for the rich visual tapestry of American Christmas.

1319Lúa Ribeira: Agony in the Garden presents a striking and provocative vision of the contemporary landscape, one that is at once tangible and allegorical. Created across the peripheries of Madrid, Málaga, Granada, and Almería, Ribeira’s series navigates a world suspended between the real and the imagined, where young collaborators inhabit barren, almost videogame-like terrains. These spaces are simultaneously local and global, evoking the influence of online cultures while reflecting the material and social crises of our time.

The work engages with themes of alienation and precarity, capturing gestures, clothing, and signs that echo the extremes of hedonism, nihilism, and youthful expression. Ribeira’s inclusion of religious motifs and iconography adds layers of universality and temporality, positioning the images in a space that is both contemporary and ancient. Through this juxtaposition, she creates a landscape that resonates with uncertainty yet pulsates with vitality, where youthful energy both illuminates and challenges the bleakness surrounding it.

In these photographs, the dystopian and absurd coexist. The work addresses systemic concerns such as material overproduction, institutional violence, and the ongoing consequences of economic, migratory, and environmental crises. Yet, rather than merely documenting reality, Ribeira leans toward an allegorical approach, using the staged and performative presence of her collaborators to question how photography represents and interprets the contemporary moment. Each frame is both a reflection and a meditation, balancing the weight of tragedy with the vibrancy of life and resilience.

Agony in the Garden is a book that emerges from extensive collaboration and research, offering readers an immersive experience of Ribeira’s vision. Her images challenge the viewer to reconsider how time, space, and identity intersect in the modern world, and to witness a moment where uncertainty, creativity, and allegory converge. The resulting work is both haunting and vital — a meditation on rootlessness, transformation, and the enduring vitality of youth amidst a fractured world.

1293 Remarkable images of postwar Paris from one of the major American photographic documentarians

After working as a war photographer during World War II, American photographer Todd Webb (1905–2000) decided to make his career in the profession. After several years photographing New York City―socializing with Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Berenice Abbott and Minor White―he moved to Paris in the late 1940s and made his first negatives with an 8×10 camera. He quickly found himself having the time of his life―mingling with other artists such as Gordon Parks, Man Ray and Brassaï. In his journal, Webb often worried about money and whether he could make it in Paris, but he persevered. This publication includes never-before-published excerpts from Webb's journals and showcases the pictures Webb shot from 1948 to 1952 as he, inspired in part by the work of Eugène Atget, took to the streets to make a personal, beautiful and lasting record of postwar Paris.

In 2025, Brandon Stanton — creator of Humans of New York and author of four #1 New York Times bestsellers — will release his most personal project to date: Dear New York, a photographic love letter to the city he calls home.

The book opens with a powerful, lyrical prologue that unfolds like a subway ride through the city, before expanding into nearly five hundred full-color pages of portraits and stories captured across New York’s streets. For the first time, unlike his previous books drawn largely from his online archive, more than 75% of the stories in Dear New York are entirely new and unpublished.

Stanton first created the groundbreaking Humans of New York in 2013, just three years after beginning his photography career. Described by The Washington Post as “one of the most important art projects of the decade,” its fusion of intimate portraiture and spontaneous interviews helped define a new era of digital storytelling.

Twelve years later, after speaking with more than ten thousand people around the world, Stanton returns to the city that started it all — this time with a deeply personal mission: to use everything he’s learned to portray the place he loves most.

A Guyanese grandmother boxing beneath the Roosevelt Island Bridge.
A political refugee practicing Tai Chi in the middle of a blizzard.
A fentanyl dealer taking his child to a playground on the Lower East Side.

Dear New York is full of contradictions yet overflowing with humanity — an unprecedented portrait of the world’s greatest city, and a heartfelt tribute to the people who give it its soul.

1756Immerse yourself in the captivating world of urban photography with the latest photo book by Phil Penman, one of the most sought-after street photographers of our time. The New York-based photographer travels the world and takes photography enthusiasts on his journeys of discovery through the streets of our cities in workshops at the Leica Academy. Following his bestseller New York Street Diaries, his new book Street Scenes is an impressive homage to the world's vibrant metropolises - from the shimmering lights of New York to the romantic alleyways of Paris and the lively streets of Tokyo. Each image is a window into the emotional moments and impressive facets of urban life, masterfully captured through Phil Penman's lens. This timeless coffee table book will not only broaden your horizons, but also inspire reflection. Phil Penman is known for his ability to transform the everyday into the extraordinary - his images are not only visual works of art, but also narratives that bear witness to the diversity, vibrant life and complexity of urban existence. The photographer shows us dynamic scenes that capture vibrant life, as well as quiet moments that invite us to pause and reflect the soul of cities. Whether you are a connoisseur of photography or simply appreciate the beauty of the world: Let yourself be carried away by the extraordinary visual language of photographer Phil Penman and discover the secret stories he shows us in this illustrated book.

1178A collection of photographs created by David Katzenstein using the Duaflex camera, a successor to Kodak’s famous Brownie camera.

Brownie is a collection of photographs created by photographer David Katzenstein over ten years, from 1979-1989. With this series, Katzenstein pays homage to the original line of Brownie cameras that began in 1900. For the series, he used the successor to the famous Kodak Brownie, the Kodak Dualflex, which was first introduced in 1947. The result is a colorful, personal, and sensitive view of the world.

Described by one critic as “Hot, Lush and Specific,” the series begins in New York City, eventually traveling the globe to explore both distant places and the use of the Kodak Duaflex camera. Throughout the project, Katzenstein’s goal was to embrace the camera’s limitations as a means of pushing the boundaries of composition, juxtaposing foreground and background while heightening the use of color.

1734 Learn about the life of Anna Atkins, the pioneering photographer who combined art and science to create the first photographically illustrated book

Step into the world of Anna Atkins (1799–1871), perhaps the world’s first female photographer and a pioneer of the medium. She lived an existence full of heartache and triumph, from her mother’s death when Atkins was an infant to her publication of multiple photographic books as an adult. After the passing of her mother, Atkins was raised primarily by her father and grandfather, who placed an emphasis on both her emotional and intellectual growth. As a result, she spent her life surrounded by some of the brightest minds of the day while they experimented in her family’s lab. Thanks to familial support and her own innate curiosity, Atkins felt empowered to pursue her passion for the natural world alongside several of the greatest inventors of Victorian England during the Industrial Revolution.

Despite societal gender norms of the era, which typically limited women to a life within the home, Atkins gained the respect of the scientific community with her ambitious multivolume album Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, now recognized as the world’s first photographically illustrated book. Her cyanotypes, in addition to their scientific accuracy, added a sense of artistic beauty to her publications, setting the stage for new uses of this already experimental technology. In an era replete with state-of-the-art inventions and innovative ideas, Atkins pushed photography forward in its earliest days with courage, creativity, and brilliance.

287Photographer Ed Kashi’s passion is long-term documentary projects that immerse him in issues that need attention or people’s lives whose struggles warrant concern. He has had a lengthy and varied career with National Geographic and other major magazines, traveling around the world to tell visual stories.

Kashi’s archive, now housed at the Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin, houses many of his personal memories and the experiences attached to the creation of those images. More than a simple repository of images, the archive is a growing, thriving, and continually evolving organism, a living library with immense value.

Through his photography, Kashi has had an intimate, front-row seat to witness and record major events in history. His work has been a passport to worlds unseen, unveiling issues that need illumination, documenting history in the making, and capturing the human experience and the many awe-inspiring places in our fragile world. A Period in Time is a testimony to some of Kashi’s most memorable stories—people he has been privileged to observe and learn from and the places and narratives that have shaped his life, all captured one moment at a time.

117 The fourth chapter of the celebrated series The Day May Break by the renowned photographer Nick Brandt, featuring Syrian refugee families, displaced by climate change in water-scarce Jordan

This is the fourth chapter of The Day May Break, photographer Nick Brandt's global series portraying people and animals impacted by climate change and environmental degradation. The series was photographed in Jordan, one of the most water-scarce countries in the world. It features rural Syrian refugee families currently living there, whose lives have been seriously impacted by droughts intensified by climate change. Living lives of continuous displacement, they are forced to move their homes up to several times a year, moving to where there is available agricultural work, to wherever there has been sufficient rainfall to enable crops to grow. The photographs show the families' connection and strength in the face of adversity, that when all else is lost you still have each other. The boxes on which the families gather aim skyward, pedestals for those in our society that are typically unseen and unheard.

Coreen Simpson: A Monograph is the first major book dedicated to the influential photographer and jewelry designer whose career spans more than fifty years. As the second volume in the Vision & Justice Book Series—a groundbreaking initiative created by Dr. Sarah Lewis and coedited with Drs. Leigh Raiford and Deborah Willis—the monograph celebrates Simpson’s enduring impact on visual culture.

Simpson began her career as a journalist before turning to photography, capturing the richness of Black life, fashion, and identity. Her portraits of icons such as Grace Jones, Muhammad Ali, and Toni Morrison, as well as her iconic B-Boys series from the 1980s, showcase her eye for style, pride, and self-expression. The book also features her later work with collage and overpainting, alongside the story of her celebrated jewelry line, including the iconic Black Cameo worn by Rosa Parks and Rihanna.

Featuring original essays by leading voices such as Bridget R. Cooks, Rujeko Hockley, Awol Erizku, and Doreen St. Félix, as well as an in-depth interview by Deborah Willis, Coreen Simpson: A Monograph offers a multifaceted portrait of an artist whose work continues to shape the worlds of photography, fashion, and Black cultural history.

115An unflinching exploration of aging from one of the twentieth century’s most influential photographers

For more than half a century, Richard Avedon sought to represent advancing age in the faces of the people he photographed. From his earliest years at Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue through to the twenty-first century, Avedon routinely and audaciously broke the rule of flattering public personalities in his portraits. Instead, he chose to highlight the onslaught of what he called the “avalanche of age,” dramatizing the universal experience of getting older.

Accompanying a groundbreaking exhibition at The Image Centre at Toronto Metropolitan University and The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Immortal is the first book to delve into Avedon’s unflinching representation of aging throughout his career.

This elegant hardcover volume features nearly 100 portraits of cultural luminaries, each printed in striking tritone, such as Michelangelo Antonioni, Truman Capote, Marcel Duchamp, Duke Ellington, Toni Morrison, Patti Smith, and Stephen Sondheim, as well as one of Avedon’s last self-portraits. Texts by a star-studded cohort of authors, including Vince Aletti, Adam Gopnik, Paul Roth, and Gaëlle Morel, shed new light on an under-represented element of Avedon’s practice.

Thoughtfully edited and beautifully produced, Immortal testifies emphatically to the determination with which people confront the relentless advance of mortality.