November 2024
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Johny Pitts: Afropean: A Journal
Afropean: A Journal gives an alternative interrail map of Europe, taking the reader to places like Cova Da Moura, the Cape Verdean shantytown on the outskirts of Lisbon with its own underground economy, and Rinkeby, the area of Stockholm that is eighty percent Muslim.
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Lars Tunbjörk: Office / LA Office
Tunbjörk’s iconic 2001 photobook of corporate melancholy is re-published in a luxurious slipcased edition, alongside an exclusive, unreleased series.
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Mary Ellen Mark / Karen Folger Jacobs: Ward 81: Voices
Ward 81, photographed in 1976, was Mary Ellen Mark’s first independent long-term project. Mark and writer Karen Folger Jacobs set out to document the lives of the women in this locked ward at the Oregon State Hospital in Salem—the only one in the state.
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Sam Wright: Pillar to Post
Photographer Sam Wright became curious about Traveller communities after learning that his great grandmother had been forced to denounce her Irish Traveller heritage upon marriage. Over the course of two years he journeyed to eight fairs across the UK and Ireland to create a contemporary portrait of the resilient and vibrant Traveller and Romani Gypsy…
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David Hurn: On Reading
Since the late 1950s, photographer David Hurn has taken photographs of people engaged in the act of reading. He had captured moments of repose and absorption in cafes and bars, at dog shows and railway stations, strip clubs, museums, the seaside, film sets, parks and streets. His forthcoming book brings together these images for the…
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Katrin Koenning: between the skin and sea
Spanning three years (2020-2023), between the skin and sea emerges at a time of great collective upheaval. The hyper-local takes centre-stage; made among the artist’s immediate communities, tales of entanglement, relation, connection and intimacy unfold. Leaning into the shadows, the photographs trace networks of love, grief, kinship, shelter and repair.
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Rebecca Topakian: Dame Gulizar and Other Love Stories
For Dame Gulizar and Other Love Stories, Rebecca Topakian’s starting point is the unique story of her Armenian family, who lived in Turkey before her grandfather emigrated to France. This story is the love of her great-grandparents – Garabed and Gulizar. The book includes her own pictures mixed with her family archives, establishing a link…
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Pia Riverola: Días
Días is a tonal collage of places and days by Spanish photographer Pia Riverola. Renowned for her evocative, hazy imagery, the delicately-sequenced Días uses motion, blur, and dappled light to create a sensory and synaesthetic experience, transporting you to a memory long-forgotten, plucked from time.
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Elias Holzknecht: Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf
While exploring the society he grew up in, Elias Holzknecht (AT) ended up in the village of Micheldorf in Upper Austria by chance. There he found beauty in the everyday: a small community of almost 6,000 people who sleep, eat, walk, and work, and for whom Micheldorf is the centre of their lives.
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Olivia Arthur: Murmurings of the Skin
Murmurings of the Skin is a photographic exploration of the human connection to the body. The starting point for the work was Olivia Arthur’s own pregnancy and the project developed to encompass series about physicality and sexuality, stability and robotics, touch, gesture and solitude.
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New Books by Gregory Halpern and Luigi Ghirri
Luigi Ghirri: Viaggi is a beguiling new publication bringing together work from across Luigi Ghirri’s oeuvre focussing on the theme of the journey. King, Queen, Knave features a new series of photographs by Gregory Halpern made in and around his hometown of Buffalo, New York, over the course of twenty years.
