Shinya Arimoto’s third publication with Tokyo-based publisher Zen Foto Gallery is a deep dive into the world of bugs, critters and insects. Shot between 2010 and 2019, Arimoto travelled to the mountainous areas of Okutama and Hinohara – far away from the city but still part of Tokyo Prefecture.
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Jerry Berndt: Beautiful America (Steidl, 2018)
Jerry Berndt documented the period between 1968 and 1980 in America like no other photographer. Personally involved in the anti-Vietnam War activities of the 1960s, Berndt’s work combines photojournalism with documentary, conceptual and street photography to create a
unique view of America’s social constitution during these decisive years.
Martin and Inge Riebeek: The Essential (The Eriskay Connection, 2020)
Since 2010 artists Martin and Inge Riebeek (NL) have been collecting stories from people around the world for their video art project
The Essential. This book offers a selection of 225 video portraits with transcipts of the touching monologues and additional photos.
Ronghui Chen: Freezing Land (Jiazazhi Press, 2020)
Ronghui Chen is a Chinese photographer and storyteller based in Shanghai/ New Haven, whose work focuses on China’s urbanization. Known for his interest in the issues arising from the position of the individual within the urbanization and industrialization of China, Chen published his first collection of photographs named Chen Ronghui, now part of China’s Contemporary Photography Catalog.
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Short Cuts 16
Short Cuts 16 presents 4 new photobooks: (1) Rinko Kawauchi: As It Is (Chose Commune / Torch Press, 2020) (2) Felipe Romero Beltrán: Magdalena (Ediciones Anómalas, 2020) (3) Kacey Jeffers: Uniform (Self-Published, 2020) (4) Osamu Yokonami: Kumo (Libraryman, 2020).
Read MoreVasantha Yogananthan: Afterlife (Chose Commune, 2020)
Drawing inspiration from the imagery associated with The Ramayana and its pervasiveness in everyday Indian life, the 7-book project A Myth of Two Souls mixes daily life with staged pictures combining a wide range of techniques, including colour photography, hand-painted photography and collages.
Read MoreWalter Moser (Ed.): Helen Levitt (Kehrer, 2018)
Helen Levitt (1913 – 2009) numbers among the foremost exponents of street photography. As a passionate observer and chronicler of everyday street life in New York, she spent decades documenting residents of the city’s poorer neighbourhoods such as Lower East Side and Harlem.
Read MoreJuan Diego Valera: Diente de Chucho (Ca L’Isidret Edicions, 2014)
Diente de chucho shows the state of confusion and permanent alert of a disoriented photographer in an unknown place. Photographs desperately taken during a 28 day inquiry in Ciudad de Guatemala.
Read MoreMaude Arsenault: Entangled (Deadbeat Club, 2020)
Maude Arsenault is a photographer, artist and curator and the mother of three children. Entangled encapsulates a pivotal moment for Maude Arsenault’s work, representing a shift in perspective and personal responsibility.
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Alberto di Lenardo; Carlotta di Lenardo (Eds.): An Attic Full of Trains (Mack Books, 2020)
Unknown in his lifetime, Alberto di Lenardo’s work offers a precursor to some of Italy’s best-loved photographers, from Luigi Ghirri to Guido Guidi, with work made across Italy, the USA, Brasil, Morocco, Greece and beyond.
Read MoreShort Cuts 15 – The Japan Edition
Short Cuts 15 – The Japan Edition presents 4 new photobooks: (1) Yurie Nagashima: Self-Portraits (Dashwood Books, 2020) (2) Koji Taki: Searching for the Language of a House: Architectural Photography of Koji Taki (House of Architecture, 2020) (3) Momo Okabe: Ilmatar (Mandarake, 2020) (4) Joji Hashiguchi: We Have No Place to Be 1980-1982 (Session Press, 2020).
Read MoreBrenton Hamilton: A Blue Idyll – Cyanotypes and Dreams (Schilt Publishing, 2020)
For over 25 years visual artist and historian Brenton Hamilton has created a sustained body of work, mostly concentrated within the historic processes employing XIX century photography techniques, such as gum bichromate forms, platinum, collodion ambrotypes on black glass, French variants of paper calotype and the embellished cyanotype.
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