Book Review
A Book Review.
-
Anna Bergold: Terra Salis
“Terra Salis” is a photographic exploration of the complex issue of potash mining in Heringen an der Werra, located in eastern Hesse.
-
Federico Clavarino: Italia O Italia
In Italia O Italia, Federico Clavarino constructs a fictional Italy from photographs taken across the peninsula. The images in the book show the remains of the country’s monumental past weighing on the contemporary landscape, signalling an inertia and inability to move on from a glorious past.
-
Pia-Paulina Guilmoth: Flowers Drink the River
Flowers Drink the River spans the first two years of Pia’s gender transition, as she photographs her small community in rural Maine, and the beauty and terror of living as a trans woman in a small right-wing town.
-
Jamey Stillings: ATACAMA
With ATACAMA, Jamey Stillings again shares his distinctive aerial perspective to examine dramatic large-scale renewable energy projects, the visual dynamic of enormous mining operations and the stark beauty of the Atacama Desert.
-
Xu Yong: Hutong 101 Photos
Xu Yong was one of the first photographers to focus on everyday life in modern China. He traces the history of the traditional residential district of Beijing, with its centuries-old buildings complete with rear courtyards and myriad narrow alleyways, the “Hutongs.”
-
Michala Paludan: The Unposed (EoAT)
The Unposed (EoAT) is the first monograph by Danish artist Michala Paludan, it consists of 101 photos of robot “hands”. From 2021-24 Paludan visited many different sites of robotics located in Germany, Denmark, Japan, Korea, and the United States.
-
Rahim Fortune: Hardtack
A significant theme in Hardtack is Fortune’s striking portraits of coming-of-age traditions. Inside, young bull-riders, praise dancers, and pageant queens inherit and gracefully embrace these forms of community ritual.
-
Katrien De Blauwer: Old Sweater Gets New Uses
De Blauwer collects and recycles photographs from vintage magazines and papers. She calls herself a ‘photographer without a camera’; the cut of her scissors being comparable to clicking the shutter release, with which she determines what remains visible from the original image and what not.
-
Francesco Anselmi: Borderlands
Borderlands is a documentary essay shot along the US side of the border with Mexico between 2017 and 2019, at the height of the Trump era.
-
Yumna Al-Arashi: Aisha
Aisha is Yemeni Egyptian American photographer and filmmaker Yumna Al-Arashi’s first artist’s book. This powerful, delicate publication, inspired by Al-Arashi’s great-grandmother, Aisha, is an homage to the lineage of women that she descends from; women of the multidimensional and many-layered landscapes of the MENA region
-
Richard Sharum: Spina Americana
Driven by both national and personal anxiety about the current divisions in the US, photographer Richard Sharum embarked on a journey through the central ‘spine’ of America. He was in search of the unifying elements of contemporary American ‘national character’.
-
Vuyo Mabheka: Popihuise
The Afrikaans word “pophuis“ refers to a dollhouse game familiar to children. Vuyo Mabheka builds the Popihuise series based on this game, using cutouts from rare childhood photos of himself.
