How Hanno Ketterer Turned 1,000 War Letters Into a Powerful New Photographic Story About Love and Survival
It starts the moment Hanno opened his grandmother’s box. Inside, he found almost one thousand letters his grandfather wrote during the war. Photography Book Spotlight
How Ghana Turns Funerals Into Art: Regula Tschumi’s 20-Year Journey
For over two decades, Regula Tschumi has photographed funerals that look like festivals. In Ghana, saying goodbye to the dead can mean dancing, music, and coffins shaped like cars, fish, or teapots. Photography Book Spotlight
How a Hollywood Location Scout Turned Real Places into Scenes from Movies That Don’t Exist
What makes a photo feel like a film you’ve already seen? Maybe it’s the light that looks borrowed from a dream or a person who seems to be acting without knowing it. Photography Book Spotlight
Frederik Rüegger’s I Am a Stranger in This Country Reveals the Last Refuge of Traveller Traditions
Traveller traditions survive in horse fairs, and Frederik Rüegger documented them. These events are the last places where Europe's nomadic communities can live without restrictions. Photography Book Spotlight
How Do You Photograph a Country That Won’t Let You Look? Inside Tariq Zaidi’s North Korea Project
Photographing North Korea means working under constant watch. Two government guides followed London-based photographer Tariq Zaidi everywhere for two years, monitoring every frame he captured. Photography Book Spotlight
How Patrick Lefèvre Turned Iceland’s Harsh Winter Into Soft, Dreamlike Photographs
Patrick Lefèvre transforms Iceland’s brutal cold into gentle beauty. His book Vetur shows winter not as a postcard, but as a place of silence, emptiness, and strange softness. Photography Book Spotlight
How Ragnar Axelsson Turns Storms, Ice, and Silence Into Photographs That Feel Eternal
Ragnar Axelsson has spent his life chasing the Arctic before it disappears. For 45 years, this Icelandic photographer has traveled to places most people will never see. Photography Book Spotlight
When Words Fail: Pamela Thomas-Graham Found Light In NYC's Darkest Hours
Some losses are too deep for language. After two years of trying to process the loss, Pamela Thomas-Graham picked up a camera for the first time. Photography Book Spotlight
Ed Kashi on 45 Years of Photography: Chaos, Clarity, and the ‘Abandoned Moment’
What can 45 years behind a camera teach us? Ed Kashi has spent his life photographing the world, from small personal stories to major global issues. Photography Book Spotlight
A Visual Love Letter to Cuba. On a Given Day by Anneke Wambaugh & Claire Garoutte
What does it take to truly see a country, without cliché? Most people visit Cuba for a few days and take the same photos: old cars, crumbling buildings, and cigars. Claire Garoutte and Anneke Wambaugh did something different. They kept going back for 25 years. Photography Book Spotlight
This Photobook Lets You Hear the Images — And Rethink What Photography Can Be
In this photobook, silence speaks louder than any picture. Cristina Dias de Magalhães stopped taking photos after becoming ill and losing her father. But even when she wasn’t creating, her way of seeing the world didn’t disappear. Photography Book Spotlight
Ghaleb Cabbabé’s How Can It Still Be Home? Turns 5 Years of Film Photography Into a Haunting Portrait of Lebanon
Photography can reveal truths words will always fail to capture. Ghaleb Cabbabé’s How Can It Still Be Home? shows this in a powerful way. Photography Book Spotlight
How Stephanie Pommez Used Photography to Keep Amazonian Legends Alive in The Enchanted Ones
Photography keeps the Amazon’s fading myths from disappearing forever. The stories of the river people are passed down by word of mouth. Stephanie Pommez spent years with the midwives who tell these stories. Photography Book Spotlight
How Russell Hart Preserved Family Memories in As I Found It: My Mother’s House
Preserving memories is the only way to keep them alive, especially when time and illness begin to erase the stories we once thought were permanent. This interview explores how photographer Russell Hart turned the emotional task of clearing his mother’s home into a project of preservation and discovery. Photography Book Spotlight
How 15 Years of Shooting in Macau Revealed Layers of Transformation You Won’t Find in Any Travel Guide (by Adam Lampton)
Macau is proof that capitalism reshapes culture in unexpected ways—just like your neighborhood, every photograph could be a record of what’s lost forever. Adam Lampton’s decade-long project documenting Macau’s evolution reveals the urgency of using the camera as a tool to archive what progress tends to erase. Photography Book Spotlight
How a Single Blue Wall Became the Heart of a Visual Diary – Le bateau ivre, Paris by Martin Essl
One blue wall changed the way Martin Essl saw Paris. He walked past it again and again, always at the same time of day, always watching how the light, shadows, and reflections shifted. Photography Book Spotlight
‘Why Am I Sad’: Dana Stirling’s Poetic Exploration of Loneliness and Resilience
Can photography make sense of emotions words fail to capture Dana Stirling’s Why Am I Sad tries to answer this question by using beautiful and emotional photographs. Her work shows sadness and resilience in a way that everyone can understand, even without words. Photography Book Spotlight
These Pictures Feel Like Movie Sets - The Cinematic Magic of David Graham’s Photography
I used to think photos couldn’t evoke true cinematic magic—until I saw David Graham’s work. His photography doesn’t just capture locations; it transforms them into untold stories. Every frame feels like a scene waiting for its actors, its script unwritten but alive with possibility. Photography Book Spotlight