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Rinko Kawauchi – M/E Mother/Earth
Isbn 9791095821809
Publisher Delpire&co
Idea code 250183
€ 53.10
A poem by Misuzu Kaneko (1903–1930) inspired Rinko Kawauchi to produce a book that explores our relationship with the world, encouraging us to reconsider our connections as human beings with nature. The title refers to Mother Earth but keeps only the initials (“ME”) to emphasise this link. The photographer captures the fragile beauty of the world on different scales, from a dewdrop on a leaf to the gigantic face of a glacier, from which ice collapses into the sea. Her approach is intuitive, resulting in meditative and dreamlike scenes. The book presents a dialogue between pictures from Iceland and Japan and focuses mainly on water, playing with the notion of transparency.
216 p, ills colour, 22 x 29 cm, pb, French/English
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Encyclopedia of Flowers VI
Isbn 9784861529856
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 250331
€ 50.95
Following on the 2012 publication of the first volume of this sumptuous plant identification guide, flower artist Makoto Azuma and botanical photographer Shunsuke Shiinoki present over 130 photographs as part of four new series: Whole, Breath, Organ, and Incunabula. The first comprises photographs of flowers and plants from different places, arranged in a flat style. The second and third reveal the biological processes of flowers that are invisible to the naked eye. The last presents digital bouquets that only exist in a meta-space. A detailed list of plant names and a comprehensive index at the end of the book allow the reader to search for and learn more about each species.
312 p, ills colour, 23 x 30 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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The Mountain’s Breath
Isbn 9789493363038
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 250353
€ 43.75
In the south of the Netherlands lies the limestone plateau of the Sint-Pietersberg. As early as the Middle Ages, people started using limestone as a building material. Underground mining resulted in an immense network of caves, its corridor walls preserving a huge living archive, left behind by block breakers, tourists, people in hiding, soldiers, and priests. Fossils of Sauria have been found, sieges have taken place, people have disappeared, and treasures have been stored (such as Rembrandt's Night Watch). Around 1960, Jan Spee started photographing these corridor walls, which he meticulously mapped and organised. Compiled by Sven Gerhardt (NL), this book gives an overview and provides context and cross-references to Spee’s images.
416 p, ills colour, 23 x 34 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Olga Sokal - Black Stone Burns
Isbn 9789083451084
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 250323
€ 36.45
‘Black Stone Burns’ interweaves the complex stories of the communities and people whose lives have been irrevocably shaped and moulded by the global mining industry and rampant extractivism. Spanning four years, five countries, and three continents, the project starts with family stories and pictures from Olga Sokal’s hometown of Bełchatów in Poland. She continues to the lost American dreams of Appalachian coal mining towns and then investigates the United Kingdom’s fraught history with coal through an analysis of advertising and greenwashing. Finally, Sokal’s journey takes her to the vast coal mines of China and the environmental degradation caused by large-scale extraction.
168 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa – INDEX 2025
Isbn 9789464460766
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 250335
€ 58.35
Artist and critic Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa presents ‘INDEX 2025’, a book constituted by cuts, folds, citations, terms and images, all of which explore the resonance of its (im)proper name. The book may have begun in the summer of congressional Kente cloth, in the operation of summer camps, or in the imprecise materiality of social distance. Its origins are certainly multiple, multiply uncertain, as stable as any reflection given in space over time. Or, as fixed as any photograph.
412 p, ills bw, 23 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Arturo Soto – Border Documents
Isbn 9789493363199
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 250352
€ 24.30
Arturo Soto (MX) grew up listening to his father’s stories about his youth in the twin cities of Juárez (Mexico) and El Paso (USA), fascinated by how much things had changed in a generation. Over time, he compiled and narratively shaped his father’s memories, then photographed the sites where they occurred.' Border Documents' is a personal archive of ordinary events that reveals how emotions become attached to public spaces. Most importantly, the book stands apart from the reductive media coverage of the border that focuses solely on the violence caused by drug trafficking, illegal migration, and corruption.
152 p, ills bw, 17 x 10 cm, pb, English
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Yana Kononova - Radiations of War
Isbn 9789893516973
Publisher FOTODOK + XYZ Books
Idea code 250309
€ 35.00
‘Radiations of War’ traces the persistent presence of war in Ukraine in an encounter with a terrain where disaster continues after its impact. Since March 2022, Yana Kononova has lived and worked in areas affected by active fighting, places once occupied by Russian troops, or locations that have suffered the terror of rocket attacks. Kononova documents war crimes, revealing destroyed civilian infrastructure, the efforts of emergency services, and the bodies of fallen soldiers and civilians. War does not end when the sound of explosions fades. It lingers, saturating the land and settling into the silence of devastated landscapes. The land becomes witness and archive.
96 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, English
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Mads Holm – HRTLND
Isbn 9788797527436
Publisher Disko Bay
Idea code 250287
€ 45.00
'HRTLND' by Danish photographer Mads Holm is a powerful exploration of life in a rapidly changing world, captured across 20 European and North American countries between 2013 and 2023. Through striking images of urban life, demonstrations, emerging technologies, architecture, and militarized spaces, the book reflects on the paradoxes and tensions shaping modern society. It highlights the interplay between connectivity and control, freedom and surveillance, and the militarization of everyday life. Featuring a foreword by acclaimed photographer Donald Weber and detailed narratives behind key images, 'HRTLND' is a profound visual chronicle of our collective condition, offering a stark portrait of the times as of now.
188 p, ills colour, 22 x 31 cm, pb, English
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Jaap Scheeren - TOOS and TINY, My mother's mother, My father's father
Isbn 9789083519708
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 250195
€ 40.85
Shared memories, stories, and values strengthen family bonds and give Jaap Scheeren direction in life. Tiny is his grandfather and Toos is his grandmother: two individuals he believes have had the longest influence on his parents’ upbringing, and therefore also his own. From simple gestures to profound life lessons, every interaction with his parents and their parents contributes to the person Scheeren has become today. With this series of photographs, he explores who his grandmother was, but also who his grandfather was. While gaining insight into their characters, Scheeren is better able to see who he is or wants to be, so the cherished cycle of connection and warmth will continue.
112 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 20 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Lars Duchateau – Limburg
Isbn 9789493363236
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 250339
€ 31.10
'Limburg' is a photo series by Lars Duchateau (BE) based on articles that appeared in the regional section of the newspaper 'Het Belang van Limburg': a rural region in the north-eastern part of Belgium. The articles have in common that they focus on often smaller and less relevant stories. As these news stories were not accompanied by an image or used simple stock photos, Duchateau decided to create new photos. Large, timeless, and serene – often produced weeks, months, or even a year later – contrast heavily with the concise texts, which are often more questioning than illuminating.
128 p, ills colour, 23 x 31 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Jordi de Vetten - Contouren
Isbn 9789464460797
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 250304
€ 20.00
Jordi de Vetten describes his photographs as a visual testament to the mundane as found in the landscape. While moving past houses and photographing roads, he stumbles upon the most everyday but unusual scenery. From nondescript homes and shadows cast over empty fields to a crumpled electrical transmission tower, scattered jigsaw puzzle pieces, and a piano that seems to have been left behind in a park, the images kindle the observer’s curiosity despite their anonymous and unremarkable appearance.
108 p, ills bw, 20 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Inhabiting Light – Dialogue on the Edge of the Everyday World
Isbn 9784907562557
Publisher Torch Press
Idea code 250341
€ 42.80
This book is a compilation of exchanges. It begins with photographer Rinko Kawauchi responding to a piece written by philosopher Masatake Shinohara, after which he writes something in response to her photograph. The texts are written as a series of indirect responses to the images – not as commentary on them. According to Shinohara, it was important to adjust the feeling to the reality of the place from which the photograph emerges, to understand it in terms of how it was taken and generated, and the experience behind how it came into existence. Together they explore the dimension that lies hidden behind the surface of the everyday world in which we ordinarily live.
136 p, ills colour, 18 x 25 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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Jan Dirk van der Burg – Where Do You Want Me? – Portraits of Pure Enjoyment
Isbn 9789081760768
Publisher Jan Dirk van der Burg
Idea code 250255
€ 29.20
‘Where Do You Want Me?’ inspires a zest for life. The book gathers 160 extraordinary figures from Jan Dirk van der Burg’s ‘Volkskrant Magazine’ column “Heerlijk Genieten”, which ran weekly for several years. In a series of diptychs, the various personas complement one another in stories full of passion, purpose, and self-perception. Van der Burg has always found taking people’s portraits to be a complicated affair. But it has gotten him to venture places he would never have gone without a camera in hand, like the Dutch Origami Society’s annual folding day, the Tilburg Terrarium Days, the National Goat Event in the IJsselhallen, and Aruba Day at De Broodfabriek in Rijswijk.
168 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Razi Miri – Fissure
Isbn 9786001524288
Publisher Nazar Publishers
Idea code 250157
€ 16.50
Potential narratives around us can be disregarded or left unnoticed if not framed an presented by a meticulous photographer: narratives of joy and sorrow, building and destruction, thoughtfulness and ignorance, harmony and contradiction. These are the kinds of messages Razi Miri strives to convey in his street photography and portraits. Presented here for the first time is a collection of photographs that captures the lives of people in Iran and their experiences. Miri’s passion for designing Persian carpets is evidenced by the careful attention to rhythm and order in his photographs, where even the most disordered spaces, such traditional bazaars, reflect his visual subconscious.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 19 cm, pb, Persian/English
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Su Hou Wen – Something Vibrant
Isbn 9784865411874
Publisher Akaaka
Idea code 250174
€ 51.40
Between 2013 and 2023, Taiwanese photographer Su Hou-Wen captured the rivers near his home. With an open mind about where he directed his camera, Hou-Wen photographed flora and fauna, rock formations and tree branches, people and animals, and nature and artifice. While each individual shot is clean and clear, the series as a whole produces something less tangible. The waters are portrayed as a source of life and culture, always in motion, always rewriting, discarding, giving, reforming. Hou-Wen documents the artifacts that emerge from these processes. ‘Something Vibrant’ embodies a thick web of storytelling over time that fixates the photographer within its fluid boundaries.
152 p, ills colour, 24 x 31 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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James A. Rosen - Aphasia
Isbn 9781988689159
Publisher Sternthal Books
Idea code 250258
€ 57.00
'Aphasia' is a project by James Andrew Rosen, a Montreal based photographer, documenting his visual archive pieced together in order to recount and process a concussion he suffered, and which had a profound impact on his life. The book is divided into four sections, titled according to the four seasons – Ver (spring), Hiems (winter), Autumnus (autumn), and Aestas (summer) – symbolising in this context the various stages that bridge the moments before, during, and after an event. Discussing the concussion serves as a catalyst for broader explorations of decay, impermanence, and loss. The photographers’ archive comprises thousands of images, a representation of a life broken down into random fragmented moments. This project is an attempt to weave these fragments together.
140 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 26 cm, hb, English
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Atmosferes – Parc Natural de la Zona Volcànica de la Garrotxa: Pep Sau
Isbn 9788409685004
Publisher RCR Bunka
Idea code 250224
€ 48.40
Pep Sau is a photographer of slow contemplation, demanding the viewer’s vigilance, perseverance, observation, and inquiry. His compositions of natural landscapes correspond to very precise, considered calculation. Their discreet, natural appearance conceals meticulous technical ability. To capture the images in ‘Atmosferes’, Sau ventured deep into the Zona Volcànica de la Garrotxa Natural Park in Catalonia. An album of sublime wonders and a collection of eternal moments, it is ultimately an invitation to really look, unhurriedly and with an attentive heart, at a landscape of seldom-seen views that is always changing and mutating. Includes a text by Antoni Puigverd.
240 p, ills colour, 30 x 30 cm, hb, Catalan/Spanish/English
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Lost
Isbn 9783950407976
Publisher Fraglich Publishing
Idea code 250336
€ 35.00
Myanmar, which languished under military rule for nearly five decades, experienced a brief period of democratic progress starting in 2011, when the military-led government initiated reforms, allowing more freedoms and inviting democratic participation. The landmark 2015 elections brought the National League for Democracy to Power in what was a hopeful shift for many. In February 2021, citing election fraud, the military seized power again, despite no credible evidence. The coup led to mass protests and violent crackdowns, with thousands arrested or killed. Taken by many anonymous photographers, images that document funerals, mourning, and grief fill the pages of this book.
72 p, ills bw, 14 x 19 cm, pb, Burmese/English
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Mäddel Fuchs - Dewdrops (new price)
Isbn 9783907384091
Publisher Everyedition
Idea code 24468
€ 51.50
On a spring morning, a magic silver glow wafts from the pasture, but the closer you get the more it fades. What remains are the countless dewdrops on blades of grass. Yet the inner wonder to be discovered lies in the close-up macro range. Working handheld with an open aperture, Mäddel Fuchs fixes his camera within the millimetre range. The dewdrops allow the photographer to enter their world, but only slowly. These infinitely fragile beings cannot be reached without moving, and each move, each breath, destroys entire worlds. This is a series about patience, a long learning process with countless disappointments along the way: otherworldly, mediative, and utterly Zen.
392 p, ills colour & bw, 29 x 25 cm, hb, English
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