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Florian Schwarz - IMAGINE
Isbn 9789083225166
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 22545
€ 35.00
‘Imagine’ examines the issue of statelessness. In collaboration with an NGO, artist Florian Schwartz was put in touch with a number of individuals who have no officially recognised nationality. He photographed them and spoke with them about their daily lives and experiences with statelessness. The result is an extraordinary symbiosis between image and text, art and society. With unparalleled insight into the lives and worlds of the stateless, the project highlights a multifaceted issue often ignored in public discourse. At its core, however, it addresses fundamental questions about integration and human rights, the quest and longing for a life lived in dignity and self-determination.
240 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, German/English
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Wytske van Keulen — Stick Holding Branch
Isbn 9789083225128
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 22590
€ 37.50
Starting in 2009, Wytske van Keulen continuously visited several individuals in France, the United States, and Japan who, for different reasons, chose to set aside our largely economised and de-spiritualised world. She depicts these peoples’ living environments in her series ‘Stick Holding Branch’, but the inhabitants are absent, allowing the significance of the images to shift from documentary to the realm of the image, freed from space and time. Van Keulen’s photographs are accompanied by an extensive selection of correspondence and fragments of personal notes, an intimate portrait of a global community redeemed from society’s demanding expectations.
152 p, ills colour, 23 x 26 cm, pb, English
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Petra Stavast – S75
Isbn 9789464460254
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 22574
€ 30.00
Through the media of photography, film, and text, Dutch visual artist and photographer Petra Stavast unravels and structures complex social issues, often departing from a seemingly insignificant personal observation. ‘S75’ is a project she named after the Siemens S75, a mobile phone that was launched in 2005. It was Stavast’s first phone which featured an integrated camera, with a maximum resolution of 1280 × 960 pixels. All the portraits appearing in this series were photographed by Stavast using the S75 between 2006 and 2022 in Amsterdam, Banff, and Shanghai. The book is designed by Hans Gremmen.
224 p, ills colour, 27 x 32 cm, pb, English
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Marijn Bax — ANK - Another Kind of Need
Isbn 9789083225180
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 22539
€ 40.00
This project by Marijn Bax consists of a publication and audio work. All the images and sounds are from the garden of Ank van Peski, called Heesterlust, in the Netherlands. For three years, Marijn wandered the many paths of this two-hectare garden, a long and narrow, extended piece of land descending four metres into the meadows of the Dutch peatland. There she watched, wondered, observed, photographed, and recorded the human hand at work. Step by step, she also became more aware of the visual, physical, and mental interplay of the depth and layers found in this enchanting garden, as well as the human need to engage in gardening. Designed by Linda van Deursen.
100 p, ills colour, 33 x 26 cm, pb, English
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Jan Kempenaers – Belgian Colonial Monuments 2
Isbn 9789464460278
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 22557
€ 26.00
This book is a continuation on the 2019 publication by Jan Kempenaers, ‘Belgian Colonial Monuments’. Kempenaers researched, sought out, and photographed another 60 monuments related to Belgium’s colonial past. To date, all of them can be found in the public space. The photographs raise certain questions, as Phillip Van den Bossche writes in the introduction, “How can you make the moments when you enter the public space (with countless monuments accumulated over time) ‘acceptable’ for as many people as possible? Why have no legal principles been elaborated… with regard to memorials and monuments? Why don’t they have an expiration date?”
80 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 22 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Olgaç Bozalp - Leaving One for Another
Isbn 9786185479237
Publisher Void
Idea code 22542
€ 45.95
Olgaç Bozalp deals with themes of transmigration and explores the disparate reasons behind it, from forced displacement in gentrifying communities or fleeing places of conflict, to simply going in search of opportunity, whether for financial betterment or personal expression. The series takes an abstract perspective on resettlement by mixing staged installations with documentary photography. The former show objects symbolic of one’s life and journey, while the latter is inspired by a mix of observations and personal stories gathered from travels to nearly 50 countries. Bozalp’s images represent the struggles of all people who uproot their lives in search of something better.
88 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 29 cm, pb, English
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Zindzi Zwietering - Bron
Isbn 9789492051875
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 22527
€ 30.00
Amsterdam-born photographer Zindzi Zwietering reflects on South Africa’s water crisis and questions how urban inhabitants relate to a changing Earth. In early 2018 she spent two months in Cape Town to document the countdown to Day Zero, the day that dam capacity would drop to critical levels and the whole city would run out of water. The result is her book ‘Bron’ (Source), which entails an investigation of the human perspective in a single country that nevertheless resonates across an entire world exposed to the climate crisis. As long as there is still water flowing from our taps, can we as a society truly comprehend the significance of the situation?
84 p, ills colour, 23 x 29 cm, pb, English
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Sem Langendijk - Haven
Isbn 9789492051882
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 22528
€ 38.00
Sem Langendijk witnessed the disruptive effects of gentrification during his upbringing in a peripheral area of a large city. For nearly 30 years, he lost his connection to the place where he lived. His work therefore involves examining the identity of a place and the relation people have with their environment. His first book, ‘Haven’, tells the coming of age story of a boy in a rapidly changing place – a long-term research project into shifting demographics, waterfront development, and the dynamics of gentrification. Here Langendijk looks at the environments of different port cities in a documentary fiction, emphasising the transformation of disused docklands and the communities that reside there.
152 p, ills colour, 22 x 30 cm, hb, English
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Thomas Locke Hobbs - L.A. Vedute
Isbn 9789492051868
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 22558
€ 32.00
Standing on the property line between two apartment buildings with adjacent driveways, American photographer Thomas Locke Hobbs was reminded of a Renaissance painting, The Ideal City of Urbino, where the illusion of space is achieved when receding lines that establish spatial relationships converge at a central vanishing point. It inspired his book ‘L.A. Vedute’, a documentary study of domestic architecture in Los Angeles. The work presents the way shared spaces recede to a common vanishing point, largely unpopulated and deserted, akin to movie sets where the actors have disappeared. Through metaphors of alienation, Hobbs exposes a city in conflict and coexistence.
272 p, ills bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Jos Jansen - Some way out of here
Isbn 9789492051905
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 22529
€ 30.00
Jos Jansen’s ‘Some Way Out of Here’ explores a new and different way to represent the uncertainty of our times. Using a 3D LiDAR camera, known for its ambiguous and mysterious point clouds, he sought the limits of lens-based image-making in a manner that resonates with the fluidity of this theme. In times of confusion and transformation, how can we visualise people’s state of mind? Jansen scoured the streets of Paris, Berlin, and Amsterdam, capturing people lost in their thoughts, questions, and dreams. He takes actuality as a starting point, yet his narratives are personal and subjective, bridging the divide between reality and fiction, between autonomous art and documentary.
48 p, ills colour, 23 x 30 cm, hb, English
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Camilla de Maffei - Delta
Isbn 9788409411764
Publisher Ediciones Anómalas
Idea code 22543
€ 35.75
Camilla de Maffei presents a subjective reportage made in the region between Romania and Ukraine, where the Danube ends its journey before flowing into the Black Sea; Europe’s largest river delta and also its last frontier. She spent almost four years exploring this remote and historically isolated place, hoping to discover the relationship between the landscape and the identity of the people who inhabit it. ‘Delta’ mixes images of this wild and labyrinthine territory with portraits of the people she met during her travels. As part of her research, De Maffei worked with concepts of psychogeography and drifting, as well as the idea of the field diary, adapting its format to her needs.
244 p, ills colour, 19 x 24 cm, pb, Catalan/Spanish/English
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Absalon Kirkeby – Still Fantasy
Isbn 9788797352618
Publisher Disko Bay
Idea code 22533
€ 48.00
‘Still Fantasy’ is a kaleidoscopic refraction of vibes produced by Danish artist Absalon Kirkeby. The book presents a range of image types as seen through the extended eye, accessing a state of intimate reality riddled with meaning. X-rays, objects turned into patterns, machines, traces and signs, luminous colours, doors, and urban sites combine to create a sense and narrative of a place that elucidates something revelatory. Kirkeby uses digitally manipulated photography to engage the everyday with a surreal and dreamlike gaze, evoking artificial experiences of physical gestures and tacitness through the means of mediation and abstraction.
216 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, hb, English
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Steve Harries - Octopus
Isbn 9782492175251
Publisher RVB Books
Idea code 22560
€ 40.85
Steve Harries explores the force and fragility of our environment. In his book Octopus, Harries has produced a corpus of photographs of mountains, inspired in particular by the geological processes behind their formation. His experience with still life photography has also inspired him to hone in on certain geological details. Recently, his discovery of Marianne Moore’s poem “An Octopus” changed how he views his own photographs, prompting him to organize them differently. He has therefore put together a more freely composed sequence, emulating Moore’s approach by overlaying images created in differing ways and instilling a bold formal dialogue that encourages a new appreciation of mountain landscapes.
74 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, English
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Joan Fontcuberta – Contravisiones
Isbn 9788409257355
Publisher Ediciones Anómalas
Idea code 22514
€ 38.80
Conceptual artist Joan Fontcuberta is known for works that examine the truthfulness of photography. He first employed the term “countervision” in 1977 to suggest a creative practice capable of breaking the mimetic pact with reality. He understood the critical importance of photographs as documents and offered countervision as a way to incline our acceptance of them towards scepticism. Four decades later, such premises have been fully accepted and seem obvious to us. The works in this volume were made during a period marked by upheavals and changes, but 1989 was also when Photoshop was developed, the harbinger of the impending post-photographic phenomenon.
108 p, ills bw, 21 x 28 cm, hb, Spanish/English
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Matthieu Nicol - Better Food for our Fighting Men
Isbn 9782492175220
Publisher RVB Books
Idea code 22561
€ 26.75
This book contains images, produced in the 1970s and 1980s, from the archives of the U.S. Army. Feeding the troops is fraught with logistical, health and psychological challenges for the world’s most formidable army. The goal is to provide sustenance and boost morale across the full range of climate, terrain and troop configurations, from mess halls for the officers and self-service buffets for the rank-and-file to battlefield canteens and survival rations for commandos. Irradiate, dehydrate, thermostabilize, compress, preserve, rehydrate, heat up, dish out... These images document the experiments developed by nutrition and logistics experts in what the Army called “food science laboratories".
192 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 19 cm, pb, English
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Irene Zottola – Ícaro
Isbn 9788409321575
Publisher Ediciones Anómalas
Idea code 22515
€ 28.60
Over the course of history, a liaison has been forged between human beings and the sky; between the desire to fly and the physical and symbolic meaning entailed by flying. Flight brings together both complementary and contrary elements: the eternal and ascending as opposed to the perishable and descending, the hope and distress in the act of learning to fly and thus rising or plunging to the ground. In essence, life and death. Irene Zottola’s ‘Ícaro’ explores birds as symbols of thought, of the imagination, and of connections with the spirit. Photographs of birds, nests, and feathers are interwoven with snippets of text and redacted documents, a fragmented tribute to the airborne.
108 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 22 cm, hb, Spanish/English
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Federico Clavarino – Ghost Stories
Isbn 9788409303076
Publisher Ediciones Anómalas
Idea code 22516
€ 35.75
The four islands of the Frioul archipelago are located in the Mediterranean near Marseilles. These islands have been the scene of apparently unrelated events that make up a mysterious constellation. The first rhinoceros ever brought to Europe was unloaded on Ratonneau in 1516. The main fictional character in ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ was imprisoned on If. And, in 1944, a downed fighter plane fell into the waters together with its unfortunate pilot, whose bracelet was found by a fisherman decades later. Federico Clavarino’s ‘Ghost Stories’ is a series of photographs that is meant to weave together all of these events, which occurred in the same space but at different times.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 24 cm, hb, Catalan/Spanish/English
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Paula Anta - Khamekaye
Isbn 9788409326372
Publisher Ediciones Anómalas
Idea code 22548
€ 30.65
‘Khamekaye’ means ‘landmark’ in Wolof, one of the most widely spoken languages in Senegal. It is used exclusively to refer to the unique structures made up of branches, plastic waste, fishing nets, and various objects that mark the Grande-Côte. Along the 150km stretch of Sengal’s coastline between Dakar and the Ricer Senegal estuary, these structures are beach signals that show fishermen where the villages are located further inland. Paula Anta explores the relationship between humans and the environment, and the resulting human interventions. This project received the Premi Mallorca de Fotografía Contemporània 2020 award.
96 p, ills colour, 24 x 29 cm, hb, Spanish/English
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Anu Kumar - Ghar
Isbn 9781922545114
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 22526
€ 35.50
The debut book from Melbourne-based photographer Anu Kumar, ‘Ghar’ documents the first time she returned to her birthplace of Kavi Nagar, India, since childhood. Just 21 at the time, Kumar felt adrift, discomfited by not knowing her place or identity in that context. She started taking photos as an exercise in learning how to be Indian. Shot over a period of five years, the soft gaze of Kumar’s images meanders between the rooms and courtyards of the family home and out onto the neighbouring streets, piecing together the symbolic and aesthetic markers of a personal and cultural heritage, as formal portraits give way to intimate scenes of daily tasks and familial rituals.
136 p, ills colour, 14 x 18 cm, hb, English
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Thomas Mailaender - Time Travellers
Isbn 9782492175152
Publisher RVB Books
Idea code 22503
€ 12.90
The eighth instalment in the series of albums by Thomas Mailaender devoted to amateur practices identified on the Web, Time Travellers brings together a set of images posted online showing strangers striking a pose in front of iconic paintings. Selected for their resemblance (sometimes a bit far-fetched), the models reenact the poses seen in the paintings and offer us a new way to look at the history of art.
54 p, ills bw, 13 x 21 cm, pb, no text
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Émeric Lhuisset: Ukraine – Hundred Hidden Faces
Isbn 9782492696114
Publisher Andre Frere Editions
Idea code 22486
€ 47.85
On February 24, 2022, the Russian Federation invaded Ukraine – in reality a war of aggression, a reaction to the rapprochement of a sovereign country to the West. For many Ukrainians, this came as no surprise. Their resistance to the Russian invasion was fierce, courageous, and surprisingly strong. Not only did the regular army fight back, civilians also armed themselves and engaged the enemy. In this volume, Émeric Lhuisset presents over 100 civilians who are part of the resistance movement. He photographed them from behind, since the danger of them being recognised with frontal portraits would be too great. He hopes someday that their faces can be shown.
200 p, ills colour, 29 x 41 cm, pb, Ukrainian/French/English
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Paula Guimarães - Living Nature
Isbn 9788412394955
Publisher This Side Up
Idea code 22485
€ 76.60
‘Living Nature’ is a captivating collection of photographs produced in various locations around the world. Based in Mexico, photographer Paula Guimarães is drawn to lush landscapes and vegetation but also creates manipulations of overlaid images. Female nudes also figure prominently in her work, often positioned as lithe extensions of the natural setting or ghostly nymphs who almost fade away in the background. The images, which were shot in Mexico, Costa Rica, Portugal, Myanmar, Thailand, and Shelter Island (New York), are accompanied by brief poems. From raging waters to serene pools and from stately palms to dense thickets, Guimarães has her fingers on nature’s pulse.
209 p, ills colour & bw, 34 x 25 cm, hb, English
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Michiel Kluiters - Doorways
Isbn 9789492852601
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 22535
€ 32.00
With ‘Doorways’, visual artist Michiel Kluiters investigates how space (or spatiality) works in photography and how it can become an instrument for narration. A series of photographed spaces open up a dialogue and hint at intimate stories. Walls appear roughly textured, seeming to address the tactile rather than visual sense. The pictured spaces look like unfinished buildings or abandoned ruins, either still under construction or already in decline. Kluiters instils these images with a temporal sense, leaving an unanswered promise of eventual fulfilment or a lingering memory of an irrevocable epoch. We must wonder, is this a possible dystopian future or the remnants of a utopian past?
128 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, English
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