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Disco Night Sept 11 by Peter Van Agtmael, reviewed by John Darwell
Every once in a while a book comes along that is so powerful, it defies the bland description of ‘photography book’. In a world full of cleverly designed and intellectually rigorous, but often...
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Grays The Mountain Sends by Bryan Schutmaat, reviewed by Harry Rose
“You might come here Sunday on a whim. Say your life broke down. The last good kiss you had was years ago. You walk these streets laid out by the insane, past hotels that didn’t last, bars that did,...
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Country Fictions by Juan Aballe, reviewed by Christer Ek
A woman sitting on a sofa, a deserted road, a painting on a wall… and many more. Apart from being in Spain, what do those photographs have in common ? Maybe a certain sense of quietness or the praise...
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The Milky Way by Hannah Modigh, reviewed by Harry Rose
“Where does it all lead? What will become of us? There were young questions and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.” – Patti Smith in her book Just Kids, 2010...
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Moisés by Mariela Sancari, reviewed by Erik Kessels
Many artists return to themes like love, birth, and death in their works. The best give these universals a unique and personal quality. In my experience, one of the strongest examples is Seichi Furuya,...
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Out West by Kyler Zeleny, reviewed by Ollie Gapper
“I aimed to explore a version of rural beauty that is a landscape in tension with its past and present.” The number of books printed for Kyler Zeleny’s book ‘Out West’ could far out number the...
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Andreas H. Bitesnich Deeper Shades series, reviewed by Josef Chladek
Andreas H. Bitesnich’s self-published ‘Deeper Shades’ city books New York (2011), Tokyo (2012), Paris (2013) and the newly-published volume on his home town Vienna (2015) follow classical photographic...
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Santa Muerte by Angus Fraser, reviewed by Ollie Gapper
A quick flick through of Santa Muerte does absolutely no justice to its delicately balanced power and insight. The images within the book are transformed by one another and simultaneously require and...
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Taratine by Daisuke Yokota, reviewed by Robert Dunn
Taratine, the wildly talented and experimental young Japanese photographer Daisuke Yokota’s latest book (unless he’s whipped up something quick and newsprint-dirty in the last few minutes, which is...
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Ser Sangre by Inaki Domingo, reviewed by Ollie Gapper
The complex space, time and narrative of the family holiday exists similarly to the beach as described by John Fiske in his 1983 essay “Surfalism and Sandiotics: The Beach in Oz Culture”. It exists as...
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Alec Soth’s Gathered Leaves, reviewed by Ollie Gapper
The Genius of Photography was one of the first ‘serious’ programmes on photography I had ever watched. F-numbers still baffled me, as did most of the equipment (though I still wanted it). I was...
View ArticleMissing Buildings by Thom & Beth Atkinson, reviewed by Ollie Gapper
I’m an unapologetic sceptic when it comes to any amount of hype, particularly around something as reliant on taste and perspective as a book....
View ArticleLe Désert Russe by Ljubisa Danilovic, a response by Ollie Gapper
Locked to the rails, hurtling through – looking, searching for them, but they’re not here, or at least not anymore.The landscape engulfs us. I am swallowed by it....
View ArticleAtem by Massimiliano Tommaso Rezza, reviewed by Annakarin Quinto
ATEM is a big book. To read it you have to comfortably nest it between your thighs and womb. The best position is deeply...
View ArticleNow Here Then by Huger Foote, reviewed by Robert Dunn
Although in most ways I’m an analog kind of guy, when I shoot for my photobooks, I shoot digital—unapologetically. Since I’m coming to my...
View ArticleSharkification by Cristina de Middel, reviewed by Ollie Gapper
The controversy invited by projects made by “privileged outsider pointing a camera at underprivileged subject” is a well established and largely derogatory reading to...
View ArticleBy the River of Kings by Jacob Aue Sobol, reviewed by Robert Dunn
Jacob Aue Sobol’s new book, By the River of Kings, plants him in Bangkok. Last year he put out a Leica tie-in book called...
View ArticleAthens Love by Ren Hang, reviewed by Keenan McCracken
Poet, political dissident, and perhaps one of the most exciting photographers to emerge from China in the past decade, Ren Hang has come to...
View ArticleSombras Secas by Marcelo Greco, reviewed by Robert Dunn
Marcelo Greco’s Sombras Secas (Dry Shadows, in Portuguese) is a black-and-white Provoke-era-style photobook comprised of 35 recent shots from Greco’s home city of São...
View ArticleŌtsuchi Future Memories by Alejandro Chaskielberg, reviewed by Rodrigo Orrantia
Very few projects I’ve seen lately manage to marry concept and medium in such a startling way. Perhaps it was coincidence, but I think...
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