Personal favorites and recommendations from 36 people who know and love photobooks — lots of inspiring discoveries from around the world.

Agnieszka Sosnowska’s striking self-portraits chronicle rural life in the volatile landscape of her adopted homeland, East Iceland.

In her delicate study of everyday life in the region of mountainous Adjara, located in Western Georgia, Natela Grigalashvili documents a way of life and rich culture at risk of disappearing.

A riot of garish colors and plastic (or sad-looking real fast food burgers), Jonathan Blaustein’s still lifes subvert the visual language of product photography to explore the themes of American consumption and consumerism.

In “Wee Muckers – Youth of Belfast”, Toby Binder captures the ebbs and flows of teenage life across the divided communities of Northern Ireland.

First conceived as a visual letter to her daughter, Ursula Schulz-Dornburg’s recent book gives us an architectural portrait of a city in transition, photographed not long after the collapse of Communism.

A quiet ode to a brother loved and lost, Vivian Keulards’ book “to Hans” finds a form to dwell on the human stories behind addiction, and the complex web it spins around those it touches.

Through her tactile experiments in analog photography, textile arts, and performance, Brooklyn-based artist Hernease Davis treats the creative process as a healing tool.

Reading Time: 7 minutes Christiana Figueres discusses the role of photography and the arts in understanding the climate crisis, and how the world’s decade of change is faring so far.
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Reading Time: 5 minutes With portraits of the nations leading youth activists, Harry Rose’s Climate Generation follows the voices of those facing a future at risk.
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Shot over 12 years, Human Nature is a series of poetic, often breathtaking photographic stories about humanity’s dependence on nature in the context of the climate crisis
The post “There is no place on Earth unaltered by people”: Lucas Foglia’s lyrical survey of our place in the natural world appeared first on 1854 Photography.

Reading Time: 3 minutes Along the coast of Jakarta, a wall attempts to keep the rising sea at bay. From within the city, groundwater pumping sinks the city. Calvin Chow spent a month on the wall, documenting a cautionary tale for other cities.
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Launching today, SUB-MERGE presents £100 prints exploring the relationship between mental health, art, and technology, in aid of the charity MIND
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Imagining the world’s end, the photographer’s latest project guides us through a spiritual narrative exploring India’s colonial past, landscape and elusive, ghostly characters.
The post Soham Gupta’s Eden blurs the line of fact and fiction in a world where nature rises up and reclaims the metropolis appeared first on 1854 Photography.

Reading Time: 4 minutes Buck Ellison’s first monograph delves into the visual ambiguity afforded by a wealthy class of people
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Joined by new partner DELPIRE & CO, Paris Photo and Aperture have announced this year’s PhotoBook Award winners
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Valentina Tamborra works and lives in Milan. Since the beginning attracted by the concept of borders: “maybe because my origins had to deal with a border, a limit a frontier.
The post SKREI – IL Viaggio by Valentina Tamborra appeared first on Dodho.

The photographer Diane Arbus spoke about entering into people’s (actually strangers’) homes. “If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, ‘I want to come to your house and have you talk to me and tell me the story of your life.’I mean people are going to say, ‘You’re crazy.’ Plus they’re going to keep mighty guarded. But the camera is a kind of license. A lot of people, they…
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My photographs from the series World Was in the Face of the Beloved are about a character who is becoming one within the landscape.
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The fear of losing them made me return: my land, my mother. we are a land that feels, land that cries, land that thinks, that suffers and regenerates
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Diego Bardone, here, managed to tell us the sense of a historical moment characterized by an invisible enemy and the expected victory over it.
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Four generations of his ancestors have distilled the smoky spirit from ripe maguey, or agave, toiling under the Oaxacan sun in southern Mexico to provide the fuel for festivals and family celebrations in the village of San Juan del Rio.
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In George Orwell’s 1984, an unperson is someone who has been vaporized, whose record has been erased. Similarly, the North Korean defectors that Tim Franco chose to portray have decided to disappear, fleeing sometimes for ideological reasons and often out of despair.
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This series shows eight ladies as beautiful creatures in a natural pool. This set belongs to the third part of the project entitled “1 2 3 No Hashtags” which fights against any type of discrimination and prejudice and aims for equality.
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  “I actually have no idea what street photography is, but I can oddly sense its look-off-tilted cameras, bit of asphalt, coupla ppl, maybe a mean looking dog, some bit of crazy occurring in the corners, some action as it were”     It is becoming increasingly difficult for me to understand where street photography […]

  “The use of gold on the bodies of some of her models completed the circuit of transcendent feminine opulence meted out in carefully sourced locations”   This book never got its full due on ASX, though it was in my list for the end of the year in 2019 and I felt it pertinent […]

“The phrase “necessary fictions” both characterizes state-created realities, whether simulation in the military training context or the deployment and consumption of fictions in civilian society, and also comments on the documentary form.”

  “For artists who do stage their work and find it in situ, the photographic sketchbook is virtually unnecessary as a pre-game facilitator. I would suggest though, that the photographic notebook is an indispensable tool after cheap prints have been made available”   One technical tool that photographers often deprive themselves of thinking through is […]

  “The historical road of photography is paved with books and bodies of work about family. It is a natural resource for making work”     The historical road of photography is paved with books and bodies of work about family. It is a natural resource for making work. Emmet Gowin, Sally Mann, Judith Black […]

  “Struggle is often written in the foundation of our city’s (un)natural architecture”     Struggle is often written in the foundation of our city’s (un)natural architecture. In our rural areas, it is marked by temporary institutions-the grass, trees, fields and clearings bear the organization of bomb craters and sweeps of forest shoulder a mane […]

  “During these moments of quiet solitude in the bitter January cold, a transformation of emphasis on how I began to re-order the world was beginning, but I did not completely understand its momentum”   Childbearing presents a compulsion to re-order the world. You begin to notice things differently. This is due in course to […]

Contemporary Slovenian photography, or at least the selected fragment of it was presented to the domestic public in another exhibition of the Croatian Photographic Union, this time held in KlovićeviDvori. The curator, Sandra KrižićBoban moves the focus from the domestic art scene to the neighboring scene, the Slovenian scene, creating a collaboration with Gallery Fotografija…

In 1929, German photographer August Sander (1876-1964) published a book with sixty photographs portraying the people of his time. In genre terms, one might call these photographs portraits which either show individual persons, or several of them set in the same environment. It is clear that each person is aware that he / she is…

She began at this time to describe landscape as if anything she saw was a natural phenomenon, a thing existent in itself, and she found it, this exercise, very interesting and it finally led her to the later series of Operas and Plays. I am trying to be as commonplace as I can be, she used to…

Media-logged journey as transcendence of “the imminent conditions of consciousness” and the naïve art-phenomenology of “reality” Đukić versus Altamira and On Kawara Assuming reality is real, its media-trace/manifestation are also real. The significance of the media-projected reality uncovers itself through strengthening the awareness of necessity to transcend the realistic ideology frame. It is exactly this…

Where does the need to build an identity by reconstructing a family history come from? What is it in the past that is so strong that we could possibly rely on in an attempt to define our own existence?  Are we looking for an explanation? For reasons? Justification?  Or are we simply denying our own…

Davor takes interest in the fringe fields of light. What does he find in them? Fringe frequencies? But there is no such a thing, cause frequencies always move on, metamorphosing from visible to invisible, from light to sound and, further down to the oscillations that make up the universe. The given possibilities of our perceptions…

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