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Martin Parr – Animals
Isbn 9783952569030
Publisher Rookie Books
Idea code 250374
€ 29.10
Martin Parr is a British documentary photographer, renowned for his iconic, hyper-realistic, and quirky images that highlight the peculiarities of human society and modern life. Now, for the first time, Rookie Books presents a publication in which Parr shifts his focus to animals – with the same curiosity and relentless drive to capture the ordinary in extraordinary ways. 'Animals' is a treat for photography enthusiasts, animal lovers and anyone who enjoys Martin Parr's unique, playful take on the world.
16 p, ills colour, 18 x 25 cm, hb, English
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Tehching Hsieh – One Year Performance 1978–1979
Isbn 9786185479411
Publisher Void
Idea code 250455
€ 66.40
On 30 September 1978, Tehching Hsieh began the first in a series of extraordinary One Year Performances that would make him a regular name in the New York art scene. He sealed himself in a purpose-built cage in his studio and remained there in solitary confinement without any communication for 365 days. His friend, Cheng Wei Kuong, helped facilitate the work by taking care of his food, clothing and refuse, and by taking the daily portraits that make up this book. This work, nicknamed ‘Cage Piece’, was unprecedented in its use of physical difficulty over extreme durations. As well as being in solitary confinement, Hsieh’s self-imposed list of rules forbade him from reading, writing, listening to the radio or watching television. Attorney Robert Projansky provided a witness statement at the end of the year attesting that Hsieh had remained in the locked cage for the full duration. Daily portraits taken by Cheng Wei Kuong provide further evidence of his presence in front of the camera each day. Hsieh shaved his head at the start of the performance and allowed his hair to grow out naturally, so the daily portraits also reveal the passing of time.
736 p, ills bw, 17 x 24 cm, hb, English
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Anne Geene - Book Of Plants (new edition)
Isbn 9789083359632
Publisher Blind Finch Books
Idea code 250408
€ 49.50
The ‘Book of Plants’ (a new updated edition with fresh work) is a eulogy on plants in all their appearances, a continuation of an oeuvre that is an expression of the remarkable beauty of the unremarkable. Anne Geene’s quest for specimens with various types of appearances and deformations gives the book a teratological dimension. In her work, the photograph itself is rarely the focus. Taken out of context, the pictures are often no more than a registration of an inconspicuous fact. This means that her art is about collection, about the image in relation to other images and the ability to creates new ones by merging and arranging them. Enjoy an expedition through all of the botanical micro- and macrocosms.
430 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Hair Pieces
Isbn 9781922545381
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 250390
€ 38.95
Few subjects encapsulate the interplay of the corporeal, personal, and political as powerfully as hair. Throughout history, it has carried deep significance, conveying ideas about gender, mythology, status, power, psychology, feminism, and beauty. At once radiant and repellent, hair holds a unique place in relation to self, history, and society. Edited by Melissa Keys, Hair Pieces explores the cultural and symbolic importance of hair through contemporary Australian and international art. Featuring diverse practices - including drawing, painting, performance, photography, and installation - the book reveals interwoven dialogues on identity, spirituality, agency, and resistance. With artworks by artists such as Marina Abramović, Janine Antoni, Sonia Boyce, Mona Hatoum, and Ai Yamaguchi, alongside texts by Santilla Chingaipe, Justin Clemens, Lisa Gorton, Melissa Keys, and SJ Norman, Hair Pieces is a compelling exploration of hair’s enduring cultural resonance.
144 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Beatriz Banha - Midday Moon
Isbn 9788894895797
Publisher Skinnerboox
Idea code 250387
€ 25.55
This series by Portuguese photographer Beatriz Banha is about a light that does not come from the sun, a light that influences the gaze and reveals new possibilities in the idea of reality. It is her attempt to bring to the surface an infra-sensitive, a dimension that is not directly palpable. As if the things illuminated by this light acquired a dreamlike characteristic that disconnected them from the real world. At the same time, there is a constant sense of displacement, distance, and intimacy with the world in its own orbit. Her photographs show bold colours, stark contrasts, and deep shadows. Her subjects are animals, forgotten urban scenes, fruits, oddities, and more.
84 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Hayal & Hakikat - A Handbook of Forgiveness & A Handbook of Punishment
Isbn 9783950506426
Publisher Fraglich Publishing
Idea code 250373
€ 73.15
‘Hayal & Hakikat’ features photographs of 20th-century prisoners taken from the photo albums of Sultan Abdulhamid II (1842–1918), the Ottoman Empire’s last ruler. In the 25th year of his reign, he ordered all murder convicts to be photographed with their hands visible, in preparation for a planned amnesty. The sultan was influenced by a pseudo-scientific claim he had read in a crime novel, that “any criminal with a thumb joint longer than the index finger joint is inclined to murder.” The images therefore include the subjects’ hands for the purpose of classification. This second edition of the book is published in solidarity with Turkish people who stand against authoritarian power today.
240 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 21 cm, hb, English
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Paul John - DBL
Isbn 9789083375649
Publisher Building Fictions
Idea code 250438
€ 27.70
DBL (Double) presents a selection of photographic works by PJ (Paul John) in the form of eight folded posters. Through his pictures, PJ records fragments of the city — bits of architecture, shifting lights, fleeting events — without predetermined narrative or structure. Shot during walks, his photographs emerge from an intuitive and improvisational process. Over time, film rolls are revisited and re-exposed, resulting in liminal, tactile, timeless traces of his many dérives through town. DBL offers a reflection on movement, memory, and perception while exploring the beauty that can be found in an intentional partial loss of control.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, English
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David Horvitz - Other People
Isbn 9782492175534
Publisher Rvb Books
Idea code 250435
€ 26.90
'Other People' by David Horvitz is a series of digital photographs collected online using facial recognition software. By searching with images of his own face, Horvitz uncovered mismatches: photographs of strangers erroneously identified by artificial intelligence as him. These images highlight the ethical ambiguities surrounding image databases, which are often monetised without the knowledge or consent of those depicted. Drawing inspiration from research on training materials used by East German border guards at Checkpoint Charlie - preserved in the Wende Museum’s collection - this project examines the complex interplay between technology and identity in the age of artificial intelligence.
448 p, ills colour & bw, 8 x 12 cm, pb, French/English
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Jussi Puikkonen – Cruise
Isbn 9789527222195
Publisher Garret Publications
Idea code 250423
€ 32.25
'Cruise' explores the uniquely Finnish subculture of Pilluralli – the tradition of cruising around small-town squares, gas stations, and parking lots in modified cars like Toyota Corollas and Ford Escorts. With passengers ranging from rowdy friends to new crushes, Pilluralli is a blend of car culture, youthful rebellion, and social ritual. Through Jussi Puikkonen’s lens, Pilluralli becomes more than just a pastime – it’s a vibrant community that fosters belonging, creativity, and camaraderie. This intimate and visually compelling photography book captures the humor, inventiveness, and spirit of a subculture often dismissed as aimless or disruptive. From hilariously over-the-top car modifications to the ingenious ways teens carve out their own social spaces, 'Cruise' celebrates the resilience and resourcefulness of youth.
88 p, ills colour, 21 x 26 cm, hb, English
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Victoire Thierrée - Okinawa!!
Isbn 9782492175572
Publisher Rvb Books
Idea code 250434
€ 48.40
In 2019, Thierrée visited the island, home to thirty-two active US military bases and around 10,000 service personnel. She created a series of black-and-white photographs in vertical 6 × 9 format, focusing on areas around the bases where nature appeared to be reclaiming the land - an unspoken resistance to ongoing occupation. Inspired by this work, she extended her research in 2023 to the Smithsonian Institution Archives in Washington, D.C., where she studied the botanist Egbert H. Walker (1899–1991). After the war, Walker led a project in the Ryukyu Islands, enlisting US troops to collect natural specimens under the Servicemen’s Collecting Program. In 1951 alone, over 8,000 plant samples were gathered from areas devastated by the 1945 Battle of Okinawa. Thierrée selected forty herbarium plates from the archive and photographed them in black and white.
120 p, ills bw, 23 x 33 cm, hb, French/English
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Robert Zhao Renhui - 5 Albizias
Isbn 9789819419012
Publisher Temporary Press
Idea code 250411
€ 29.50
The Albizia tree, originally from the Maluku Islands in Indonesia, has quietly spread through Singapore’s landscape, embodying both utility and resilience. Far from an accidental presence, the fast-growing tree, valued for its ability to thrive in disturbed soils, was introduced intentionally. This book documents five Albizia specimens – four in Singapore and one in the Maluku Islands – in the process examining how human actions have shaped these spaces, exploring the blurred lines between native and non-native, natural and artificial, and showing how these trees, despite often being considered undesirable, perform a subtle but powerful role in rewilding disturbed spaces.
80 p, ills bw, 18 x 35 cm, pb, English
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Agnes Pori - An Emergent City
Isbn 9789819406234
Publisher Temporary Press
Idea code 250410
€ 31.70
Agnes Pori explores the eerie familiarity of AI-generated images of a fictional island nation in Southeast Asia. These black and white scenes resemble real urban spaces yet feel subtly wrong — echoes of places that could exist but don’t. Through machine learning, Isidro Rodriguez crafted hyperreal “non-places” that unsettle our sense of space and memory. This body of work examines how AI reflects human imagination, biases, and our deep reliance on patterns. Blurring the line between real and virtual, it taps into Marc Augé’s notion of hyperreality. The images complicate photography’s relationship to truth, inviting viewers into an uncanny world where the familiar becomes strange and the artificial feels disturbingly human.
600 p, ills bw, 17 x 12 cm, pb, English
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Jouk Oosterhof – Beste eigenaar van dit huis…
Isbn 9789090400136
Publisher Jouk Oosterhof
Idea code 250424
€ 48.75
Jouk Oosterhof is a photographer. After 25 years of capturing images of people – and occasionally animals – she felt it was time to bring together her work, both personal and commissioned, primarily for de Volkskrant magazine. The result is the photo book 'Beste eigenaar van dit huis…' ('Dear owner of this house...'). The project brings together surreal portraits of both well-known and lesser-known individuals in striking interiors. Interiors that she finds by spending hours on house-selling websites. When finding a house that is some kind of time capsule, she writes the owners a letter that starts with: Dear owner of this house… It is designed by -SYB- and features a text by play writer Eva Gouda. The book is published alongside an exhibition of Oosterhof’s work in Dordrecht, Netherlands.
212 p, ills colour, 24 x 31 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Olivo Barbieri - Aviopancro Restricted
Isbn 9788822923219
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 250346
€ 34.40
The large rolls of negatives in the Aerial Photo Library of the Italian ICCD (Instituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione) form a parallel world of the already-mapped state. Each cylindrical container bears the name of the Ferrania film that gives the book its title: Aviopancro. Some contain only dark, gluey remnants; others hold vast visual archives. Once merely topographical data, the images are now reimagined by artist and photographer Olivo Barbieri. Freed from their military constraints and brimming with analogue materiality, these negatives become sculptural forms – no longer instruments of surveillance, but poetic codes of a documented reality.
72 p, ills colour & bw, 29 x 28 cm, hb, Italian/English
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Gianpaolo Arena - Iligams
Isbn 9788822923882
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 250347
€ 37.65
The family, the primary nucleus of the structure of society, is a realistic expression of the social changes currently taking place in the world. The word “iligams” – bonds of endearment and love – refers to the ties that bind people together. When national laws and politics turn out to be short-sighted in their response to social transformation, photography authentically reflects the rituals and mechanisms at play. In these portraits of the families of a new generation, interspersed with shots of the surrounding natural landscapes and their details, what emerges is the multifaceted nature of this evolution.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 30 cm, hb, Italian/English
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Humanitarian Stories - Behind the Lens of a Changing World
Isbn 9786299998518
Publisher Suburbia Projects
Idea code 250377
€ 49.15
Humanitarian Stories – Behind the Lens of a Changing World chronicles 25 years of MERCY Malaysia’s humanitarian relief and response efforts across the globe. The photographs, captured by teams of dedicated volunteers and specialists, offer a glimpse into the organisation’s healthcare services, medical outreach, training initiatives, and disaster relief and recovery operations. Together, they highlight the enduring spirit of humanity – people helping one another in times of crisis. In a rapidly changing world, often obscured by headlines, the unwavering constants must remain care, compassion, and relief. Featuring photographs from MERCY Malaysia’s 25-year archive.
246 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 24 cm, hb, English
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A Hundred Ways to Erect A Hoarding
Isbn 9789672585992
Publisher Suburbia Projects
Idea code 250380
€ 34.95
From the ever-changing urban landscape of Dubai, where the cityscape is continually reshaped, this book emerges as an exploration of boundaries, both physical and psychological. Through the lens of an outsider, it blends the documentation and visual experimentation of Shamin Sharum’s daily observations of building sites and their hoardings – temporary barriers that delineate construction zones. Through a combination of written contributions and evocative imagery, partly photographed and partly AI-generated, the project assembles and reassembles the concept of the hoarding, exploring how it frames our modern perceptions of hope, progress, and fear.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 27 cm, pb, English
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Gili Merin - Analogous Jerusalem
Isbn 9791280336316
Publisher Humboldt Books
Idea code 250461
€ 37.65
Jerusalem is not merely a city; it is an idea. For millennia, it has drawn visitors of all faiths and social classes, each seeking to engage with its sanctity. This enduring allure has sparked repeated cycles of violent struggle for control, often prompting the symbolic relocation of Jerusalem to places far beyond its physical borders. Analogous Jerusalem is the result of a five-year photographic journey exploring these 'analogous' shrines across diverse landscapes. It traces a continuous topography of pilgrimage, where the sacred and the profane intersect in unexpected ways. A three-part essay accompanies the images, examining the transposition of Jerusalem’s holy sites to Europe, the virtual pilgrimage rituals practised by medieval nuns, and the history of photographic journeys. Together, the photographs and texts form a travelogue through places that may, paradoxically, feel more 'real' than Jerusalem itself.
188 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 34 cm, pb, English
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Why Be Together PARTNERS Issue 3
Isbn 9781068425714
Publisher Partners Studio
Idea code 250399
€ 26.90
'PARTNERS' is an annual magazine about relationships. Sparked by a friend's question, "What defines people as partners?", this edition begins by listening. We asked 33 contributors from around the world, “Why be together?” Their answers, spanning artists, photographers, and thinkers, reveal the many shapes connections can take. Each voice offers a different understanding of intimacy, conflict, and belonging. We hope 'PARTNERS' invites you to pause, reflect, look again at the people around you — and perhaps, update your way of being together, too.
386 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Jeanne Lucas – Politique
Isbn 9791097416300
Publisher Rue Du Bouquet
Idea code 250416
€ 46.25
The history of the representation of prostitutes by artists is largely a history of appropriation. For most sex workers, the choice to transform themselves into objects of desire does not mean renouncing being active subjects, people with agency in the human relationship with the observer-client. Still, objectifying oneself in the eyes of another does risk reinforcing stereotypes. Can this ever be truly avoided? With ‘Politique’, Jeanne Lucas gives a voice to sex workers, people who are too often invisible or simply fantasised about. Refusing appropriation, Lucas collaborates with these individuals to create liberated, political portraits that challenge perceptions and assert their right to exist.
114 p, ills colour, 19 x 25 cm, pb, French/English
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