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Charlotte Dumas — Entendue
Isbn 9789083612713
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 250912
€ 34.05
“When I was a child, my father would take me to the Blijdorp Zoo in Rotterdam and we’d sketch the elephants together. Observing, looking at animals with attention, was instilled in me from then on. Near the end of his life, when my dad was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, we visited the elephants in Rotterdam one last time. In his pencil drawings from this outing, the elephants appear as abstractions, conveying something direct and genuine, often found in children’s art.” This book is an attempt to give weight and presence to these animals, a contemplation of our often complex relationships with animals and the importance of being able to empathise with other sentient beings.
64 p, ills colour, 24 x 29 cm, hb, English
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Ari Versluis & Ellie Uyttenbroek – Exactitudes Final Edition
Isbn 9789462089594
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 250935
€ 63.20
'Exactitudes – Final Edition' is the culmination of a unique project that has captivated audiences worldwide for three decades. In their signature grid, Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek have been documenting the striking similarities in how people dress and express themselves since 1994. Across more than 200 series, they have mapped the visual codes of subcultures and communities with unparalleled precision and an innate talent for acute observation. Both a time capsule and an artwork, Exactitudes reveals the paradox of standing out by fitting in. It is an invaluable source for fashion designers, a groundbreaking sociocultural project as well as an endless source of wonder, never failing to spark conversation.
440 p, ills colour, 24 x 32 cm, hb, English
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Catherine Lemblé – Only Barely Still – Women and Wilderness
Isbn 9789493363250
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 250944
€ 34.00
In 'Only Barely Still', Catherine Lemblé focuses on Svalbard, often cast by outsiders as a remote, rugged outpost where only the toughest men survive. In the historical record shaped by early exploration, women are largely absent, appearing only as rare exceptions or companions. At the same time, Western imagination has repeatedly feminised the polar landscape as “virgin” and “barren” – a passive body to be conquered, tamed, or protected. 'Only Barely Still' works in the space between these misconceptions, and offers a quiet counter-narrative that centres female presence and perspective. The book also includes a chapter of historical images of women on Svalbard from the archives of the Norwegian Polar Institute, and an essay by Abi Andrews.
200 p, ills colour, 23 x 31 cm, pb, English
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Bharat Sikka — Elephant in the Room
Isbn 9789083519791
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 250948
€ 38.90
‘Elephant in the Room’ presents a world suspended between two realities. Bharat Sikka engages in a critical and experimental dialogue with AI, situating his photographic practice within the evolving terrain of machine perception and interpretation. Rooted in the complexity of today’s India, the project draws from a personal archive spanning over three decades of engagement with its layered identities, contradictions, and transformations. AI becomes both mirror and mediator, an external consciousness that intelligently reflects and uncannily distorts Sikka’s world – a fragmented yet immersive portrait of India, where technology absorbs, misreads, and reconstitutes cultural memory.
272 p, ills colour, 16 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Jeff Mermelstein – What if Jeff were a Butterfly?
Isbn 9786185479442
Publisher Void
Idea code 250899
€ 51.05
Photojournalist Jeff Mermelstein has spent decades documenting New York. He sees what most of us miss: fast, funny, sharp, catching scenes from the playbook of everyday life in the big city. Here, he turns the camera inward, starting with flowers, which are perhaps the most photographed subject in history, and possibly the most avoided, for that very reason. From there, the work unfolds through pages of journals, family snapshots, phone notes, and previously unseen prints drawn from an intimate investigation of his archive and personal memorabilia. A quiet portrait of attention emerges – finding beauty in the everyday and meaning in the small things that make up a life.
222 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, hb, English
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Ditte Haarløv Johnsen – Maputo Diary
Isbn 9788797527450
Publisher Disko Bay
Idea code 250936
€ 58.00
Ditte Haarløv Johnsen was born in Denmark but grew up in Maputo, Mozambique, during the aftermath of the War of Independence and the early stages of a long civil war. Since 2000, Ditte has split her time between Copenhagen and Maputo, photographing on her ongoing epos Maputo Diary. The project blends social documentary and artistic investigation through images of friends, family and places in the Mozambican Capitol Maputo exploring themes of belonging, identity, and change. It honors her childhood belief in freedom and the lives of those she photographed, many of whom are no longer alive. Johnsen's friendship with "The Sisters," a group of transgender individuals who have been cast out by their own families, plays a significant role in the narrative, alongside depictions of poverty, the horrors of the AIDS epidemic, and her own sisters and mother.
224 p, ills colour, 22 x 27 cm, hb, English
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Rachel Lopez - Ceiling is Believing
Isbn 9783906217161
Publisher B. Frank Books
Idea code 250953
€ 20.00
Back in 2017, after getting into a black-and-yellow Mumbai taxi, Rachel Lopez snapped a selfie and her perspective forever shifted. It was the first of over 600 selfies, a project documenting an ongoing, constantly moving exhibition that spans the city. Decoration is everywhere in India, and taxis in Mumbai frequently have decorated ceilings. As Lopez discovered, these represent a seemingly infinite variety of patterns and colours, some truly spectacular. Each picture is both a ride she has taken and a version of herself along the way. The series made her look up, and got her Instagram followers to do the same – to shift their gaze slightly and to see Mumbai from a new angle.
300 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 15 cm, pb, English
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Protean Routes
Isbn 9789083474908
Publisher Dwaalstêr
Idea code 250971
€ 46.20
Protean Routes’ explores the commodification and trade of the ‘Protea’, South Africa’s national flower, as a lens through which to examine deeper questions around colonial legacies, ecological justice, and cultural identity. Now sold at flower stalls and kept in institutional collections like the Hortus Botanicus in Amsterdam, the flower’s presence in the Netherlands tells a complex story of extraction, symbolism, and global trade. Contributions from artists and theorists based in both countries interrogate how colonial histories persist in everyday objects, revealing ongoing systems of inequality, and how design can serve as a critical tool for unpacking these entanglements.
166 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 29 cm, pb, English
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George Tourkovasilis - Strange Switch. Spent. The Night, Sleep.
Isbn 9789083612904
Publisher BILL
Idea code 250980
€ 36.60
This book presents previously unpublished work by George Tourkovasilis (1944–2021), a photographer and writer who lived between Paris, London, and Athens. Spanning the 1960s to the 2000s, his images move between diaristic depictions of radically intimate moments and sociological chronicles, while his incisive writing on art, politics, and desire brings its own syncopated reflections. Following his death in 2021, Akwa Ibom, Radio Athènes, and Melas Martinos assumed stewardship of his archive - prints, negatives, manuscripts, correspondence, and digital files - and organized three exhibitions: Spent at Akwa Ibom, The Night, Sleep at Radio Athènes, and Strange Switch at Melas Martinos, which are documented here. Drawing on material unearthed from the archive over the past year, including previously unseen digital and phone photography, this book offers a new perspective on a practice that largely eluded the public eye yet remained prolific and generous in private.
144 p, ills colour & bw, 30 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Todd Stewart & Robert Bailey – The Course of Water — Fieldnotes from California’s Owens Valley
Isbn 9789493363342
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 250970
€ 38.90
'The Course of Water' explores the environmental and social histories of California’s Owens Valley by attending to the implications of its peculiar hydrology. At the turn of the twentieth century, a lack of water resources threatened to stall the growth of Los Angeles. The city began diverting water from the Owens River, which led to the eventual desiccation of Owens Lake and much of the surrounding valley. Todd Stewart (US) pairs his photographs of the region with select archival images, creating a complex visual map that the writing and notes of Robert Bailey (US) further deepen. If water is life, then 'The Course of Water' shows what happens when life is deferred.
176 p, ills colour, 20 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Trigger 6: Assemblies
Isbn 9789083519784
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 250904
€ 29.20
This edition of ‘Trigger’ presents a collection of photographs, images, and personal essays that reimagine what sociopolitical gatherings are, could be, or might become. Moving across the Southwest Asia and North Africa region (SWANA), it considers the politics of gathering and traces the many shapes and forms of coming together – from protest to ritual, from informal circles to fleeting encounters – to reflect on what remains, and what comes after. Guest-edited by Taous Dahmani in collaboration with FOMU Assemblies, the book features artists and writers such as Rabih Mroué, Hoda Afshar, Myriam Boulos, Larissa Sansour, Maen Hammad, Hajer Boubaker, and more.
320 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Miguel Proença – The Buzzer
Isbn 9789493363328
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 250969
€ 34.00
In 'The Buzzer', Miguel Proença (PT) investigates shifting identities and geopolitical tensions in the Baltic states. It examines how historical antagonisms between Russia and the West continue to play out in these former Soviet territories. Combining photography, archival imagery, and extensive research, Proença traces the transformation of these landscapes and societies under competing cultural and political influences. A key aspect of the project is the integration of archival materials, and a selection of transcripts from UVB-76 – a mysterious shortwave radio signal believed to be of Russian military origin. 'The Buzzer' reflects on the fragile, evolving nature of identity in a landscape marked by surveillance, occupation, and resilience.
144 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Pedro Augusto & Miguel Proença – The Buzzer – LP
Isbn 08720844086313
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code
€ 17.50
Created as a dialogue with the photo book 'The Buzzer', this record emerges through the collaboration between photographer Miguel Proença (PT) and producer Pedro Augusto (PT). The compositions on this record map the geographic and psychological terrain of the photographs, weaving together field recordings, interviews, and radio signals of UVB-76, a mysterious shortwave radio signal believed to be of Russian military origin. 'The Buzzer' is an immersive acoustic document of a landscape caught between competing narratives, a form of sonic cartography, charting where past traumas and present uncertainties collide.
1 m, ills colour, 31 x 31 cm, vinyl, English
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Sarah van Rij – Atlas of Echos
Isbn 9782493467102
Publisher Note Note Éditions
Idea code 250860
€ 59.25
‘Atlas of Echoes’ is the first monograph on the work of Dutch photographer and visual artist Sarah van Rij. An immersive journey through her entire oeuvre, the book presents both black-and-white and colour photography, as well as the collages she has created since 2018. Whether captured on a camera or an iPhone, her images explore a wide range of subjects, from urban and natural landscapes to everyday objects and the human figure, while simultaneously demonstrating the singular formal aesthetic that has become Van Rij’s visual signature. Designed in close collaboration with the artist, with an index offering an analytical and playful reading of her practice.
112 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, hb, English
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Itziar Guzmán - To the Glasshouse
Isbn 9788412993325
Publisher This Side Up
Idea code 250824
€ 51.05
Nature and organic forms transformed into atmosphere and dreams define Itziar Guzmán’s work: trees, leaves, forests, shells, seas, mists, and more, distilled through the camera’s lens to their essential form. Photographs are the raw material through which she constructs a new space, without renouncing playfulness or beauty, allowing air and ideas to flow freely. Hers is a poetic, suggestive world that neither imposes nor delimits. For her book ‘To the Glasshouse’, Guzmán visited the glasshouses of twelve famous botanical gardens in Europe. The result is a dreamlike space of “inanimate things”, open to the imagination and best contemplated in silence and solitude.
144 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 33 cm, hb, Spanish/English
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Olivo Barbieri - Altre Tempeste
Isbn 9788822924797
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 250961
€ 37.65
'Altre Tempeste' is a visual journey through the contemporary landscapes of the Veneto, seen through the lens of Olivo Barbieri. Drawing inspiration from Giorgione’s 'The Tempest', the artist brings Renaissance memory into dialogue with the transformations of Italy’s Northeast, where historical architecture, industrial warehouses, and shifting natural environments coexist. From Carlo Scarpa’s Brion Tomb to Canova’s Gypsotheca, Barbieri moves between sweeping views and intimate details, using color and light as critical tools of inquiry. Photography becomes a laboratory where art, architecture, and science converge, revealing new ways of seeing and understanding place. Featuring thirty-two previously unpublished works and insightful critical texts, the volume presents a landscape suspended between history, industry, and imagination.
60 p, ills colour & bw, 30 x 32 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Scrittura obliqua - Fotografia e poesia
Isbn 9788822924780
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 250964
€ 25.80
This volume explores the meeting of photography and poetry, two languages often seen as distant, investigating the tensions and sparks that arise between image and word. It traces this dialogue from early American photographers and the Beat Generation to Italian artists like Ugo Mulas, Mario Giacomelli, Luigi Ghirri, and Giulia Niccolai, each engaging with poetry in unique ways. The work reflects a tradition of public commissioning as a form of dialogue that supports artistic experimentation and the voice of the creator.
208 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 22 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Linda Fregni Nagler - Anger, Pleasure, Fear
Isbn 9788822924445
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 250958
€ 34.40
Linda Fregni Nagler has spent 20 years researching photography as both a material and speculative object. Since her earliest projects, she has focused on early, anonymous, and vernacular photography. She selects, studies, collects, and catalogues photographic objects according to a personal logic, reproducing them at different scales and drawing attention to marginal or hidden details within each image. This book presents works from different series, often distant in time, that collectively restore a history of the gaze. It features around 100 photographic reproductions, alongside texts by various writers and a conversation between the artist and Federico Nicolao.
206 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 19 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Giasco Bertoli - Locations, New York
Isbn 9782494711013
Publisher Éditions 7L
Idea code 250952
€ 48.40
'Locations, New York' gathers photographs taken by Giasco Bertoli in 2014 - just before Instagram transformed the way we see and share images. During a brief stay in New York, Bertoli revisited sites made iconic by cinema’s golden age - Scorsese, Gray, Hitchcock - seeking not to recreate their scenes but to capture what remains once the cameras are gone. These images are not tributes to film or architecture, but to absence: the empty stage where cinema once unfolded. In these ghostly streets, traces of memory and desire persist, suspended between fiction and reality. As Philippe Azoury writes, Bertoli’s photographs return to the origins of American street photography - revealing the city as both subject and witness, and exposing the lingering jealousy between film and photography.
96 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Esper Postma - Doppelgänger
Isbn 9789493329454
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 250902
€ 36.95
Esper Postma fragments and collages forms of cultural heritage, revealing how familiar spaces, objects, and icons allow for multiple meanings. The two cojoined volumes of ‘Doppelgänger’ guide us through a city full of symbols: buildings and monuments that remind us who we are, what our history is, and whom we should honour. Yet these objects are not as stable as they seem. Postma breathes life into the dormant side of their identity, the qualities they would rather keep from view. His works show that every edifice and artefact has a doppelgänger – an inner alter ego vying for attention. Flip through the books simultaneously to find visual connections between work and research.
256 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, hb, English
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Pictures that I have seen
Isbn 9783039690534
Publisher Christoph Merian
Idea code 250909
€ 139.75
In his latest book, renowned photographer Robert Bösch presents a selection of outstanding photographs taken both in his native Switzerland and on journeys across the globe – from Antarctica and Venice to the deserts of Namibia. The images, at times serene and at times powerful, reflect Bösch’s unique view of the world and invite viewers to discover it through his lens. His work reveals not only a rich variety of landscapes and subjects, but also a remarkable ability to turn everyday moments into striking compositions. Bösch masterfully combines visual artistry with a spirit of exploration, giving his photographs a distinctive depth – a powerful testament to his lifelong passion for photography.
252 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 35 cm, hb, German/English
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KG + Select 10 Years, 10 Artists
Isbn 9784861529849
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 250413
€ 38.20
This book marks the tenth anniversary of the KG+SELECT Award in 2024. Each year, the chosen winner is offered a place in the main programme of the KYOTOGRAPHIE International Photography Festival. Over the past decade, the programme has become a renowned pathway for photographers to reach global audiences. This book presents the works of past award winners – Hsing Yu Liu, Jaisingh Nageswaran, Yingfei Liang, Tamaki Yoshida, Tomomi Morita, Eriko Koga, and others – including their award-winning pieces and more recent works, reflecting on their artistic journeys. It also includes an extensive interview with the directors of KYOTOGRAPHIE and KG+.
256 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 26 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Daido Moriyama: Record 60
Isbn
Publisher Akio Nagasawa
Idea code 250445
€ 28.00
These days, an ageing Daido Moriyama does not walk around as fast as he used to, but he still keeps himself as busy as ever. One day, his daughter Yuko drove him to Yokohama, where he walked around the Motomachi shopping district, but before that he had already spent a rainy day wandering around Komachi Street in Kamakura. After visiting Yokohama, the very next day he was on a bus to Fujisawa, where he lived briefly when he was young. Then he planned to make his weekly trip to Tokyo the day after, with taking snapshots in the Shimbashi-Yurakucho area as his goal. For Moriyama, even a slow and relaxed stroll with his camera still generates a wealth of images.
120 p, ills bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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