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Takashi Homma – This Is Not My Cat
Isbn 9781922545510
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 251049
€ 22.00
A cat wanders, perches, and lounges in various spaces around a humble Tokyo apartment. It is perfectly tranquil in its surroundings, simply going about its daily life. In one image, the cat lays serenely amidst pot plants on the balcony, squinting in morning sunlight; in others, it balances precariously on the edge of the bath, snuggles beneath a sleeping bag, plays in a cardboard box, or hides beneath an open umbrella. Occasionally, evidence of the cat’s fellow inhabitant in the apartment – a human, who also happens to be the internationally renowned Japanese photographer Takashi Homma – creeps into the frame: a knee, a foot, a shock of blonde hair, glasses, a partial face.
80 p, ills colour, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Joselito Verschaeve – As Long as the Sun Lasts
Isbn 9786185479459
Publisher Void
Idea code 250933
€ 52.50
‘As Long As The Sun Lasts’ shows a narrative where history keeps repeating itself, told through images of nature, ruins, and human interventions. While being a fictional story, it still references the Anthropocene, a time when our actions leave deep marks on the world. The work stays close to these themes of repetition, dystopian outcomes, and literary fiction, but the second half of the book takes on a more research-based, investigative approach. Blending research with poetic imagery, blurring fiction and reality, this title aims to reflect this duality.
144 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, hb, English
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Lars Tunbjörk Country Beyond Itself (Landet utom sig - new edition)
Isbn 9789189967175
Publisher Bokförlaget Arena
Idea code 251079
€ 36.05
Photographer Lars Tunbjörk (1956–2015) saw Sweden like no other. His camera eye was sharply revealing and ironic, but not without tenderness. He saw the country from the perspective of the periphery. From Borås, Lars Tunbjörk’s career spanned the world. His way of seeing became so powerful that people talked about a ”Tunbjörker” as if it were its own genre. The images that raised so many questions have been integrated into the collective memory. In Landet utom sig (Country Beside Itself), Tunbjörk’s breakthrough project, he seeks out people at campsites, shopping centers and department stores to tell the story of the market economy’s sudden arrival in Sweden, a social development that in the 90s was also global. With his medium format camera and homemade flash, he created absurdist images full of both humor and sadness. A ’tunbjörkare’ became a concept, and he wrote himself into the history of photography. This is a new, updated edition of the original book, first published in 1993. In addition to the original photographs and texts, the book includes a new foreword by Lena Kvist and an updated text by Göran Greider.
130 p, ills colour & bw, 29 x 28 cm, hb, Swedish/English
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Yutaro Saito - Tokyo Street Style
Isbn 9782940695409
Publisher Label Rapace
Idea code 251050
€ 29.40
While the fashion world flocks to the front rows and influencer-filled sidewalks of Fashion Week, Japanese photographer Yutaro Saito turns his lens elsewhere - toward the effortlessly stylish elders of Tokyo. In this striking collection, Saito captures candid portraits of sharply dressed older gentlemen, their looks punctuated by decade-worn loafers, vintage bomber jackets, and an enduring sense of cool. Paired with hyper-real, almost dreamlike images of the Tokyo cityscape - where delivery crates glow like neon sculptures and bollards become surreal installations - this work is a poetic homage to timeless style and the unnoticed beauty of urban life.
64 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, hb, English
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Thomas Hoepker – East Germany / DDR
Isbn 9783981980509
Publisher Buchkunst Berlin
Idea code 250945
€ 60.90
‘East Germany’ revisits the former GDR through colour photographs from the archives of Thomas Hoepker (1936–2024). Hoepker was the first West German photographer officially permitted to photograph inside the GDR. From 1972 onward, he photographed primarily in colour on Kodachrome slide film, and he lived in East Berlin between 1975 and 1977. Travelling throughout the country, he snapped pictures of state propaganda and political parades, as well as the reality of the crumbling cities of the communist state. His deep sense of empathy for the people is palpable. Poet and singer Wolf Biermann, a close friend of Hoepker in the GDR, contributed an essay to the book.
320 p, ills colour, 20 x 28 cm, hb, German/English
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Fishworm
Isbn 9786185479466
Publisher Void
Idea code 250934
€ 50.40
‘Fishworm’ is about dykes digging through trash. “Created over the past 7 years, collecting stuff people have thrown away or forgotten about —mostly photos— sifting through abandoned house debris, upturned mouldy cardboard boxes, the mouse shit-filled hunting camp at the end of the road, a local politician’s discarded gay porn collection, a junk shop near the waterfall, yard sale trash piles. The result is a jumbled, revised, chopped and screwed history (antique-y2k) of old mill towns in the Sandy River Valley and villages nestled in the pines. If you feel slightly uneasy here, so do we, being gay and trans women in a rural place, trying to find belonging in the same types of places we've lived our whole lives. Piecing the images together is an attempt to make sense of where you fit in a culture that doesn’t always want you, and how you can love a place that doesn’t always love you back. The images in ‘Fishworm’ were found within a 60-mile radius of the artists’ home in rural central Maine. Everything is scanned with an old xerox found sitting in the rain outside of the town fire department on Heavy Dump Day in 2024.” — Pia & Jesse
232 p, ills bw, 22 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Picturing the Invisible
Isbn 9789083612706
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 250986
€ 35.00
Published in memory of the Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster, ‘Picturing the Invisible’ explores the realities of life in the wake of this seismic event, which shook Japan to its core. Even today, vast swathes of land remain uninhabitable. More than 35,000 people are unable to return to their homes, and many more choose not to, concerned that life in Fukushima may not be as safe as the government claims. Edited by Makoto Takahashi, the book brings together seven photographers working in the affected territories: Takashi Arai, Rebecca Bathory, Thom Davies, Masamichi Kagaya and Satoshi Mori, Yoi Kawakubo, Giles Price, and Lieko Shiga.
144 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, hb, English
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Takashi Homma – BTS – Behind the Scenes
Isbn 9788785336101
Publisher At Last Books
Idea code 251046
€ 42.00
In BTS, Takashi Homma turns his lens toward the unnoticed rituals of protection and concealment that shape everyday life. Shot primarily in Tokyo - with detours to Colombia, Hawaii, and beyond - the book gathers images of covered cars, wrapped trees, shuttered windows, snow-draped landscapes, and figures layered in clothing until their faces disappear. What emerges is a quiet study of surfaces, shields, and the spaces between what is shown and what is hidden. BTS reveals a world perpetually preparing, preserving, or holding something back - an unseen choreography unfolding just behind the scenes.
120 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Boris Mikhaïlov – Keep Distance
Isbn 9782493467096
Publisher Note Note Éditions
Idea code 250858
€ 59.85
Boris Mikhaïlov leads us on a dizzying ride from which we emerge slightly breathless and unsteady. Acting as a kind of visual logbook, the series is primarily recent images taken between 2020 and 2024, along with some older photographs. It appears as a mental tracking shot, where fragmentary or haphazardly framed images unsettle our gaze to such a degree that we find ourselves doubting what we see. Street scenes, objects, and screenshots combine with more intimate portraits of the Ukrainian photographer’s wife and collaborator, Vita, and of his children and private life. Never neutral, his compositions always seem on the edge of leaving something out of shot.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 18 cm, hb, English
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Jan S. Hansen – Tetra AL
Isbn 9788785336095
Publisher At Last Books
Idea code 251048
€ 35.70
Between 2021 and 2024, Tetra was created from 35 mm slides dating from the 1960s to the 1990s and presented as slide projections. Comprising 243 images in three sets, the series reinterprets found photographs to trace how images circulate and transform over time. In Tetra AL, selected slides were translated into lithographic prints on pre-sensitized anodized aluminum plates - industrial materials repurposed from their disposable origins. Each plate carries a developed negative on its reverse, linking the works in material and conceptual sequence. Moving between nature, architecture, and human life, Tetra reflects on how shifting technologies alter the ways we see, remember, and experience the world.
88 p, ills bw, 26 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Gardar Eide Einarsson – Pardon Me
Isbn 9788785336071
Publisher At Last Books
Idea code 251047
€ 42.00
Pardon Me examines the strange political theatre of the annual U.S. presidential turkey pardoning ceremony.Long staged as light entertainment, this ritual masks a far darker logic: a grotesque parody of sovereign power and its ability to decide who may live and who may die. Drawing on thinkers such as Giorgio Agamben, Alenka Zupančič, Carl Schmitt, Freud, and Foucault, the book reveals how the turkey pardon dramatizes the state’s desire to define the boundaries of humanity itself. In this carnivalesque reversal, the turkey is lifted from “bare life” into the symbolic embrace of the law, while millions of others are condemned without ceremony. The accumulation of images creates a quiet counterpoint to the absurd ritual they emerge from. Pardon Me exposes the uneasy laughter that surrounds state power when it masks its violence behind spectacle. Through a minimal, almost documentary presentation, the book reflects on decision, authority, mercy, and the unsettling theatre of the modern sovereign who jokes about his own power as he exercises it.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 20 cm, hb, English
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Louis Porter – Search Engine
Isbn 9781922545527
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 251080
€ 37.90
'Search Engine' – of which this book is a reproduction – is a series of ‘catalogue cards’ featuring photographs sourced from the London Library, one of the world’s largest independent lending libraries. These images are ordered as the London-based artist, Louis Porter, encountered them – alphabetically by subject – on shelves that make neighbours of Sleep and Smuggling and bring together Pleasure, Poaching, and Poisons. The result forms an archaeological exploration of the systems of knowledge that we often take for granted.
416 p, ills bw, 11 x 16 cm, pb, English
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A World of Eikoh Hosoe (new edition)
Isbn 9784868310211
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 250920
€ 43.65
A comprehensive overview of the work of Eikoh Hosoe (1933–2024), this volume contains many seminal photographs from the 1960s and ’70s, plus later work from the 1990s and early 2000s. Hosoe emerged as an influential photographer and filmmaker in the experimental arts movement of post-war Japan. He is recognised in particular for his dark, high-contrast, black-and-white photographs of the human body, as well as his collaborative work with others. Often psychologically charged, his images explore subjects such as death, erotic obsession, and irrationality. ‘A World of Eikoh Hosoe’ presents his fertile imagination along with commentaries and other texts in Japanese.
158 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Japanese
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Jesse Marlow – (De)Compositions
Isbn 9781922545497
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 251001
€ 40.00
Comprising a series of iconic street photographs recast as guerilla posters – and later rephotographed as they decayed on walls around the city – Jesse Marlow’s ‘(De)Compositions’ is a striking gesture capturing photography’s many afterlives. While images proliferate endlessly online today, Marlow’s series of works is an informal ode to the photograph’s physical potentials and limitations. We experience these images as fragments, repetitions, textures, and tears. Their gritty, fine-grain details, striking colour palette, and dynamic compositions are brought into vibrant conversation with one another across opposite pages, half of one image colliding and melding with half of another.
104 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Enrico Cerovac - Not far from here
Isbn 9788890974021
Publisher Skinnerboox
Idea code 251058
€ 36.75
For over a decade, beginning in Italy, Enrico Cerovac has documented the people, places, and striking contrasts that shape the skateboarding community. Moving through the urban spaces where this culture comes alive, he captures the everyday stories of those who inhabit it - from its raw, DIY roots to its more mainstream expressions. The result is an intimate, deeply personal visual archive: a collection of photographs that celebrates skateboarding as a collective act of belonging, creativity, and the continual reimagining of public space. All images were shot on 35mm film between 2015 and 2025, spanning cities including Milan, Turin, Trieste, Ljubljana, Copenhagen, London, Paris, Fuerteventura, New York, Los Angeles, São Paulo, and more.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 32 cm, pb, English
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Rodrigo Abd - a new light
Isbn 9783903616004
Publisher Fraglich Publishing
Idea code 250789
€ 25.70
In the years after the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan by the United States and the ouster of the Taliban regime, Argentine photojournalist Rodrigo Abd spent months on assignment in the country and learned how to use a traditional Afghan “box camera”: a handmade wooden camera and darkroom in one. For ‘A New Light’, Abd returned with the intention to use this vanishing Afghan art form to document how life has changed in peacetime, for better and worse, two years after US troops left and the Taliban returned to power. His stirring images reveal that Afghanistan is more secure and peaceful than it has been in decades, yet the price many pay for this stability is unimaginably high.
166 p, ills bw, 10 x 15 cm, hb, Arabic/English
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Andrea Branzi - Mosca 1962
Isbn 9791280336354
Publisher Humboldt Books
Idea code 250846
€ 22.10
In the summer of 1962, architecture student Andrea Branzi visited his brother in Moscow, then a correspondent for RAI. Amid the Cold War’s tension and Khrushchev’s brief “thaw,” Branzi explored the Soviet capital with the keen eye of a young observer. His photographs capture a city of immense scale and striking contrasts - military parades and playful children, monumental architecture and quiet parks, ideology and innocence. Through these images, a vivid portrait emerges of a society both distant and strangely familiar, hinting at the curiosity and utopian imagination that would later define Branzi’s work as a designer and thinker. The photographic reportage is accompanied by texts by Gian Piero Piretto and Angela Rui.
96 p, ills bw, 17 x 21 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Cecy Young - Castello di Casole
Isbn 9782492175664
Publisher Rvb Books
Idea code 250863
€ 38.70
Mexican photographer Cecy Young, the first laureate of Belmond’s new photographic residency, spent two weeks at Castello di Casole, a restored tenth-century castle set within 3,200 acres of Tuscan countryside. Trained as a painter, she brings a poetic stillness and intimate emotional depth to her images, shaped by her fashion work with global houses and leading magazines. At the estate she followed instinct rather than script, responding to light, texture and fleeting moments. The resulting photographs evoke atmosphere rather than narrative, reflecting on memory, time and the fragile beauty of everyday life. Her intuitive and tender vision resonates with Belmond’s As Seen By series, inviting a personal and imaginative interpretation of place.
112 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, hb, English
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Ángel Castellanos - Copacabana Palace
Isbn 9782492175657
Publisher Rvb Books
Idea code 250864
€ 38.70
Invited by Belmond to photograph Rio de Janeiro’s legendary Copacabana Palace, Venezuelan photographer Ángel Castellanos created a vivid portrait of a hotel where glamour, memory and myth converge. Working with Vogue editor Sebastian Cabrices and drawing on his deep connection to the city, he captured the spirit of the “Copa” through vibrant portraits and luminous scenes that celebrate Rio’s exuberant beauty. Opened in 1923 to mark a century of Brazilian independence, the Copacabana Palace has welcomed film stars, artists and royalty, becoming a symbol of elegance and joie de vivre lovingly preserved by Belmond. Castellanos’s photographs, sensual and cinematic, reveal a Brazil both opulent and unrestrained, with the hotel shining as the imaginative heart of the city.
112 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, hb, English
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Taiji Matsue photographs Andalucia 1988
Isbn 9784868310266
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 250918
€ 39.30
In the summer of 1988, Taiji Matsue travelled to Andalusia, Spain, where he walked through the streets with his camera, capturing what he saw. The town he encountered was flooded with sunlight, revealing a place seemingly devoid of shadows. This journey played a pivotal role in the development of Matsue’s photographic style. Rather than capturing isolated, snapshot-like “points”, he worked with “planes”, making full use of a medium-format camera to record the varied features of a landscape he was seeing for the first time. The series occupies a crucial position in his body of work, bridging his debut series in the 1980s and the first well-acclaimed and representative series from the 1990s.
96 p, ills bw, 23 x 16 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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Giorgio Di Noto - Hidden Collections
Isbn 9788822924858
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 250959
€ 38.70
Giorgio Di Noto explores photography as an unstable and ambiguous medium, suspended between documentation and invention. His latest project delves into the storage rooms, conservation labs and photographic archives of the Museo Nazionale Romano, places that preserve the past rather than display it. Engaging with ancient sculptures, mosaics, frescoes and everyday objects, as well as historical photographic materials, Di Noto reveals how images both record and reshape what they depict. His work uncovers the hidden manipulations that isolate artifacts by erasing their surroundings, turning visibility into an act of subtraction. In his hands, the document becomes an artifact, technical intervention becomes creative gesture and the archive becomes a site of reinvention. Di Noto reminds us that archaeology, like photography, is never neutral. Every image is a choice, a construction and a process that continues to change over time.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 28 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Monica Biancardi - The Catalogue of Huts
Isbn 9788822924735
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 250962
€ 33.15
Light shapes the world and our perception of it. Depending on where it falls, it casts shadows and stirs emotions. To capture light is to transform understanding. We must learn to illuminate things in order to see beyond their darkest surfaces. 'The Catalogue of Huts' addresses violence against women through a striking visual language that merges past and present, memory and material. The project employs a dual technique: photography in its most elemental form and hand engraving on Plexiglas, a medium that is fragile, transparent and resilient. Each piece exists as a singular object, revealed only when light touches it. This mechanism is both aesthetic and symbolic. Images that speak of pain and invisibility emerge into view only when illuminated, reminding us that bringing truth to light is a necessary act of recognition.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, hb, Italian/French/English
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Roy Villevoye - Imaginable Lives
Isbn 9789490153410
Publisher Kunsthal Kade
Idea code 250983
€ 19.50
Roy Villevoye has been visiting the Asmat people in South Papua since the early 1990s. Over time, he developed a very personal connection with their community, exploring the specific conditions of the region, its social structures, and cultural traditions, some of which were elusive to him. By consciously seeking out the unknown and uncertain, he also puts himself at risk. Through his work, he reflects on those experiences and encounters, translating them into sculptures, images, and video. The artist is aware of the problematic history of exhibiting people as objects; his sculptures are not representations of certain stereotypes, but portraits of equal individuals.
220 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Katya Lesiv - I am going home to eat mulberries from the tree
Isbn 9786177948604
Publisher Ist Publishing
Idea code 251011
€ 25.70
An art book by artist Katya Lesiv, grounded in sensory experience, myth, and female corporeality. The body appears as a moving vessel of memory, returning to the safety and pleasure of the childhood ritual of eating mulberries from the tree. Set against the backdrop of an unpredictable and fragile world, the artist’s work becomes a soft yet resilient gesture of presence, remembering, and returning. 'I am going home to eat mulberries from the tree' brings together performative series from 2023–2024 and the author’s poetic essay. The book unfolds through the triad milky / bloody / muddy, symbolically echoing the taste of mulberries and the layered language of motherhood, loss, and the life cycle.
72 p, ills bw, 15 x 23 cm, pb, Ukrainian/English
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Andrea Salerno - How they met themselves (n°11)
Isbn 9789083521114
Publisher Soft concern hard concern
Idea code 251019
€ 14.00
Appropriating the appropriated, Andrea Salerno weaves together two copies of Le Point d’Ironie n°11 (Hans-Peter Feldmann, 1999) as part of his series How They Met Themselves. This large unbound booklet is printed on 90 grams silk paper, showing the work in a 1:1 scale. Distributed folded in half and sealed in a plastic wrapping.
8 p, ills bw, 31 x 45 cm, pb, English
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Oleksandr Glyadyelov
Isbn 9786177948581
Publisher Ist Publishing
Idea code 250780
€ 61.70
This photobook brings together over three decades of work by documentary photographer Oleksandr Glyadyelov (b. 1956). Known for his black-and-white images made with a Leica camera, he captures not only events and individuals, but the vulnerable states of society itself — moments when structures crack, when supports collapse, and something essential reveals itself in that fragility. Although Glyadyelov’s photographic practice spans different countries and contexts — from Central Asia to Africa — this book focuses exclusively on images made in Ukraine. This position defines the book’s composition: instead of a chronology, it is structured thematically, around four central directions of his practice — the 1990’s as a period of transformation and disintegration; Children as a gaze from within a vulnerable condition; Protest as a phase of civic self-determination; and War as a long-term subject the photographer has been documenting in Ukraine and beyond.
276 p, ills bw, 29 x 29 cm, hb, Ukrainian/English
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Tuning in to the forest
Isbn 9784991290763
Publisher Akaaka
Idea code 251067
€ 26.85
The catalogue of the 2024 Forest Festival of the Arts Okayama: Clear-skies Country, ‘Tuning in to the forest’ represents a sublime selection of works, but also embodies one of the most radical and interesting attempts to reform the biennial model. Curator Yuko Hasegawa sees each artistic object and installation as channelling the identity of spaces already shaped by history and civilisation. The festival encompasses a variety of sites – forests, hot springs, waterfalls, highlands, caverns, historical post roads, Western-style buildings – and presents site-specific artworks and projects by various artists, architects, flower arrangers, designers, performers, and researchers.
240 p, ills colour, 19 x 27 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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Rania Matar – Where Do I Go?
Isbn 9786148065002
Publisher Kaph Books
Idea code 251098
€ 60.80
2025 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of the Lebanese Civil War. As we reach this symbolic date, Lebanon still suffers from its consequences. In this book, Matar collaborates with women to visually tell their story and their relationship to this beautiful and broken country. She sees her younger self in these women as she herself was 20 when she left Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War. The process is collaborative, and the photo session always evolves organically as the women become active participants in the image-making process, presiding over the environment, and making it their own.
240 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, hb, Arabic/English
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