Far More Than “Pretty Vacant,” We Have No Place to Be by Joji Hashiguchi,...
There are plenty of photobooks of punk rock days, it being such a visually wild time that it’s hard to not have them filled...
View ArticleUtopia, rubber and dreams of madness, Fordlândia 9 by JM Ramirez-Suassi,...
Fordlândia – The Place In the 1920’s American industrialist Henry Ford embarked on an audacious, almost incredulous plan. In order to secure a guaranteed...
View ArticleIn Your Face: Street Photography and Jeff Mermelstein’s “Hardened,” by Robert...
What do you do if you’re into Instagram, but want to move beyond selfies and shots of food truck delicacies? How about becoming a...
View ArticleGhosts Are Real by Philip J Brittan, reviewed by Robin Titchener
People move in and out of our lives with no rhyme or reason. Some are there for just the blink of an eye, whilst...
View ArticleHalland / Gerry Johansson and the Windmills of your Mind, by Torsten Nyström
The slash stroke is used by Gerry Johansson for most of his photobook titles, ever since ”Amerika / Gerry Johansson”, 1998. Now he has...
View ArticleNothing’s Coming Soon by Clay Maxwell Jordan, reviewed by Robin Titchener
Nothing’s Coming Soon is the first book from young American photographer Clay Maxwell Jordan, and it is a thing of quiet meditative beauty. Jordan...
View ArticleDaichi Koda’s (back)ground, reviewed by Robin Titchener
From the moment we fight our way into the world they look after us and nurture us. They teach us right from wrong, and...
View ArticleArtistic Faith and the Photobook: Alec Soth’s “I Know How Furiously Your...
In Part 1 of my piece on Alec Soth’s new book, “I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating,” I wrote about how Soth,...
View ArticleWill and the World in Photography: Alec Soth’s “I Know How Furiously Your...
In the promo materials for Alec Soth’s long-awaited, and quite wonderful, new photobook, “I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating,” Soth says, “I...
View ArticleThe Defamiliarisation of Ephemeral Reality Issei Suda’s “The Mechanical...
It’s pretty old-school. Just bang out photos, taken on the street, and let them amass, then put them out in an inch-thick book of...
View ArticleThe Moor by Robert Darch, reviewed by Sebastian Bustamante-Brauning
Robert Darch’s The Moor photobook continues the successful publishing streak by Another Place Press, an independent publisher specialising in landscape photography broadly conceived. This...
View ArticleOkinawa by Anders Petersen, reviewed by Robert Dunn
I’ve come to not like the term street photography. I feel in a way it’s time is over; it’s what Robert Frank and William...
View ArticleLook, I’m wearing all the colours by Rikard Österlund, reviewed by Robin...
“Look I’m wearing all the colours” is the first book by photographer Rikard Österlund. A very personal study, which recounts his day to day...
View ArticlePublic Matters by Janet Delaney, reviewed by Robert Dunn
Here’s the thing with street photography, it’s too easy to just take pictures of people walking down the street. And pictures simply of people...
View ArticleShaky Ground by Peter Dekens, reviewed by Robin Titchener
In 2012 Peter Dekens arrived quietly onto the photo book scene with the wonderful Touch. A beautifully conceived, and elegantly simple study of a...
View ArticleApproximate Joy by Christopher Anderson, reviewed by Robin Titchener
Luxurious is one adjective that encapsulates the mood behind Christopher Anderson’s Approximate Joy. Before we even open the book, it’s beautifully screened cover exudes...
View ArticleKhichdi (Kitchari) by Nick Sethi, reviewed by Robert Dunn
In my last review for Photobookstore Magazine, I wrote of Morten Andersen’s roughly 8 x 12–inch, 300-plus-page, full-bleed-color photobook on his travels to the...
View ArticleBorder I Korea by Yusuke Hishida, reviewed by Robin Titchener
Border I Korea by Yusuke Hishida, has behind it a relatively simple concept. To show the differences between the people and culture of the...
View ArticleFast Cities by Morten Andersen, reviewed by Robert Dunn
Here’s one way to make sense of the world now, the unsettling of the old order, the historical tipping point we all seem to...
View ArticleHigh Fashion by Pawel Jaszczuk, reviewed by Robin Titchener
The new book by Polish photographer Pawel Jaszczuk, High Fashion, is at first glance a collection of pictures of drunk and exhausted Japanese businessmen...
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