What does being Jewish look like today? It can be expressed through religion, culture, family, history, community, or small daily decisions. Photography Book Spotlight

Trust matters more than photographs in long-term documentary work. Carol Allen-Storey discovered this through Defying the Myth, a project that began with a Save the Children assignment in 2014 and continued for more than a decade. Photography Book Spotlight

Filamenta begins with what the fishing industry throws away. Fish scales, swim bladders, blood vessels, nets, and other remains become the material of K49814’s book. Photography Book Spotlight

How do you turn evidence into a compelling narrative? For Martin Cregg, this question became central while making The Plot. Photography Book Spotlight

The American Southeast is not empty swamp. For Mac Stone, it is a place of ancient forests, living waters, orchids, alligators, salamanders, turtles, springs, rivers, and species many people never hear about. Photography Book Spotlight

What happens when home becomes inherited memory? For Erdiola Kanda Mustafaj, this question began with Albania, a place she left very young and later returned to as both familiar and foreign. Interviews

Newsha Tavakolian returned to the images she rejected. Not the perfect images, not the famous images, but the failed ones she had left behind. Photography Book Spotlight

Street photography begins when most people stop looking. For Jens Krauer, the street is not only a place of movement, noise, and strangers passing each other. Photography Book Spotlight

Family does not always begin with relatives. Sometimes it begins with people who decide to share a home, daily tasks, private space, and time. Photography Book Spotlight

William Meyers photographed democracy at street level. In Civics, he looks at New York not through presidents, campaigns, or political slogans, but through the everyday places where public life happens. Photography Book Spotlight

Fallen Flowers turns women into living landscapes. In this book, Claire Harrison and Adelaide Turnbull bring women, flowers, body paint, and the British countryside into one visual world. Photography Book Spotlight

João Linneu photographed fear before he understood it. When his son Valentín was born at 31 weeks and 1 day, photography was not a project yet. Photography Book Spotlight

These monuments are visible, but no longer central. They still stand in Albania’s public spaces, but the attention around them has changed. Photography Book Spotlight

Kinga Owczennikow makes frames impossible to ignore. In Framing the World, windows, doors, mirrors, walls, and borders are not only parts of the scene. Photography Book Spotlight

Michael Behlen photographed water that would not stay still. For three years, he returned to Millerton Lake in California’s Central Valley, making all the photographs during storms, when the reservoir became harder to read. Picture Story

Some objects remember violence better than people do. In ARMAGEDDON, Augusto De Luca uses skulls, helmets, masks, and other symbolic objects to speak about war without showing war directly. Picture Story

The Sun Sets Midafternoon is about climate grief. Jessica Hays began the project after a wildfire hit her hometown. Photography Book Spotlight

A trilogy of photobooks moving from light through darkness and into the space between. Japanese photographer Masao Yamamoto and composer Akira Uchida write about each other, and in doing so, reveal how the work was made. Photography Book Spotlight

Paolo Simonazzi photographed Havana against its clichés. He did not want the usual Cuba of vintage cars, saturated colours, political icons, and easy nostalgia. Photography Book Spotlight

Some people wait all year to become themselves. In Mayflies, Darren Smith photographs people at festivals and events where identity, fantasy, and self-expression become visible for a short time. Photography Book Spotlight

Marina Sersale found mystery on her daily walk. What began as a simple habit slowly became a way of seeing. Photography Book Spotlight

Bill Ward photographs the ocean from inside the wave. He does not stand on the shore and wait for the sea to become a picture. Photography Book Spotlight

Daniel Gordon turns household objects into visual doubts. In Objects at Hand, glasses, bowls, cutlery, and other simple things become harder to trust. Photography Book Spotlight

Boxing saved Pete Doherty before photography returned. In his early twenties, he lost his passion, gave away his negatives, prints, camera, and darkroom equipment, and stopped seeing beauty around him. Photography Book Spotlight

Leonard Sussman photographed ice that may soon disappear. In From Brooklyn To The North Pole, he follows a 52-day journey on the USCGC icebreaker Healy, traveling from Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands to the North Pole. Photography Book Spotlight

Ethan Eisenberg photographed Jerusalem beyond its symbols. He did not want to make another book built around the Western Wall, the Dome of the Rock, or the images people already expect from the city. Photography Book Spotlight

Grain once moved through America by human muscle. Before automation, men climbed inside the holds of huge ships and pushed grain with metal shovels, ropes, and their own bodies. Photography Book Spotlight