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Inbal Abergil on Photographing What Remains When Someone Never Comes Home
Photography Book Spotlight Martin Kaninsky 2/14/26 Photography Book Spotlight Martin Kaninsky 2/14/26

Inbal Abergil on Photographing What Remains When Someone Never Comes Home

Not every story of war involves the battlefield. This conversation looks at what remains after someone never comes home. Photography Book Spotlight

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How Valery Rizzo Used Imperfect Cameras to Preserve a Brooklyn That Was Slipping Away
Photography Book Spotlight Martin Kaninsky 2/4/26 Photography Book Spotlight Martin Kaninsky 2/4/26

How Valery Rizzo Used Imperfect Cameras to Preserve a Brooklyn That Was Slipping Away

hat happens when imperfection becomes the most honest way to photograph? Valery Rizzo began photographing Brooklyn with plastic toy cameras after an illness made movement difficult. Photography Book Spotlight

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Photographing the Last Days of Life: What Sibylle Fendt Discovered About Trust, Presence, and Death as Part of Life
Photography Book Spotlight Martin Kaninsky 1/31/26 Photography Book Spotlight Martin Kaninsky 1/31/26

Photographing the Last Days of Life: What Sibylle Fendt Discovered About Trust, Presence, and Death as Part of Life

Death is part of life and Sibylle Fendt photographs it. She does this by spending time with people who are dying at home, together with their families. Photography Book Spotlight

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How Mario Schneider Captures Intimacy on New York’s Streets
Photography Book Spotlight Martin Kaninsky 1/29/26 Photography Book Spotlight Martin Kaninsky 1/29/26

How Mario Schneider Captures Intimacy on New York’s Streets

Mario Schneider photographs New York by disappearing into it. He does not chase landmarks or famous places, but watches people until they forget he is there. Photography Book Spotlight

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Inside the World’s Most Secret Food Facilities: Gregor Sailer on Access, Control, and the Illusion of Plenty
Photography Book Spotlight Martin Kaninsky 1/27/26 Photography Book Spotlight Martin Kaninsky 1/27/26

Inside the World’s Most Secret Food Facilities: Gregor Sailer on Access, Control, and the Illusion of Plenty

These facilities feed millions while remaining completely hidden. They are insect farms, jellyfish labs, vertical greenhouses, virus institutes, and high-security research centers spread across the world. Photography Book Spotlight

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How Hanno Ketterer Turned 1,000 War Letters Into a Powerful New Photographic Story About Love and Survival
Photography Book Spotlight Martin Kaninsky 11/26/25 Photography Book Spotlight Martin Kaninsky 11/26/25

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

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How Ghana Turns Funerals Into Art: Regula Tschumi’s 20-Year Journey
Photography Book Spotlight Martin Kaninsky 11/15/25 Photography Book Spotlight Martin Kaninsky 11/15/25

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

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How a Hollywood Location Scout Turned Real Places into Scenes from Movies That Don’t Exist
Photography Book Spotlight Martin Kaninsky 11/9/25 Photography Book Spotlight Martin Kaninsky 11/9/25

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

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Frederik Rüegger’s I Am a Stranger in This Country Reveals the Last Refuge of Traveller Traditions
Photography Book Spotlight Martin Kaninsky 10/24/25 Photography Book Spotlight Martin Kaninsky 10/24/25

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

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How Do You Photograph a Country That Won’t Let You Look? Inside Tariq Zaidi’s North Korea Project
Photography Book Spotlight Martin Kaninsky 10/18/25 Photography Book Spotlight Martin Kaninsky 10/18/25

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

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How Patrick Lefèvre Turned Iceland’s Harsh Winter Into Soft, Dreamlike Photographs
Photography Book Spotlight Martin Kaninsky 10/6/25 Photography Book Spotlight Martin Kaninsky 10/6/25

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

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How Ragnar Axelsson Turns Storms, Ice, and Silence Into Photographs That Feel Eternal
Photography Book Spotlight Martin Kaninsky 9/25/25 Photography Book Spotlight Martin Kaninsky 9/25/25

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

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When Words Fail: Pamela Thomas-Graham Found Light In NYC's Darkest Hours
Photography Book Spotlight Martin Kaninsky 9/13/25 Photography Book Spotlight Martin Kaninsky 9/13/25

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

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Ed Kashi on 45 Years of Photography: Chaos, Clarity, and the ‘Abandoned Moment’
Photography Book Spotlight Martin Kaninsky 9/5/25 Photography Book Spotlight Martin Kaninsky 9/5/25

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

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A Visual Love Letter to Cuba. On a Given Day by Anneke Wambaugh & Claire Garoutte
Photography Book Spotlight Martin Kaninsky 7/23/25 Photography Book Spotlight Martin Kaninsky 7/23/25

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

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This Photobook Lets You Hear the Images — And Rethink What Photography Can Be
Photography Book Spotlight Martin Kaninsky 7/19/25 Photography Book Spotlight Martin Kaninsky 7/19/25

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

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Ghaleb Cabbabé’s How Can It Still Be Home? Turns 5 Years of Film Photography Into a Haunting Portrait of Lebanon
Photography Book Spotlight Martin Kaninsky 7/7/25 Photography Book Spotlight Martin Kaninsky 7/7/25

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

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 How Stephanie Pommez Used Photography to Keep Amazonian Legends Alive in The Enchanted Ones
Photography Book Spotlight Martin Kaninsky 7/1/25 Photography Book Spotlight Martin Kaninsky 7/1/25

 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

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