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
Time Travel, Resistance, and Ghosts in the Landscape: Raymond Thompson Jr.’s Photobook About Maroon Histories
Some stories are too powerful to stay buried. Raymond Thompson Jr.’s project It’s Hard to Stop Rebels That Time Travel brings hidden histories back into view: stories of maroons, runaway slaves, and lives erased from the American record. Photography Book Spotlight
How Tristan Duke Built Cameras From Melting Ice to Capture the Fragile Gaze of Glaciers
Imagine a lens that disappears as it photographs. This is not science fiction. It is what artist Tristan Duke built using ice from Arctic glaciers. Photography Book Spotlight
How Anna Arendt Turned Silence, Memory, and War Into One of the Most Unforgettable Photo Books of the Year
Can photography capture what memory leaves unsaid? Anna Arendt spent 15 years taking pictures to try to find out. 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 Larson & Shindelman Turned Tweets Into Haunting Portraits of Political Dissent and Digital Propaganda
What if your tweet became a political portrait? Larson and Shindelman take real tweets and show where they came from. 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
Robin Hinsch’s Lonely Are All the Bridges Captures the Fragile Connections That War Destroys
Can photography capture what war tries to erase? Robin Hinsch spent 15 years photographing Ukraine to find out. Photography Book Spotlight
The Hidden Beauty of a Florida Fairground: How Anthony Blasko Turned a Strawberry Festival Into Art
Strawberries, fairground rides, golden light: the perfect storm for art. Anthony Blasko didn’t plan to turn a small Florida festival into a long-term project. Photography Book Spotlight
How Hannah Altman Used Jewish Folklore to Reinvent What a Photo Can Say About Memory
A photograph can carry generations of memory. This is the idea behind Hannah Altman’s book We Will Return to You. She combines Jewish folklore, ritual objects, and careful use of light to explore how personal and collective memory can live inside an image. Photography Book Spotlight
How Nick Prideaux Turned the Loss of His Family Home Into a Poetic Meditation on Grief and Memory
A flood destroyed everything, so Nick Prideaux turned it into art. Instead of letting it fade away, he built something new: a photo book that blends fiction and truth, grief and beauty. Photography Book Spotlight
Marjolein Martinot Picked Up a Film Camera During Lockdown and Discovered Her Own Fairy Tale in the Rivers of France
One frame at a time, Marjolein Martinot photographed her way back to herself through the rivers of France. She wasn’t planning to make a book, just trying to stay grounded during a time of emotional chaos. Photography Book Spotlight
Wahala: How Robin Hinsch’s Global Journey Reveals the Violence Behind the Oil and Coal We All Use
Not every moment should be photographed, and knowing which is which takes courage. Robin Hinsch’s project Wahala shows the hidden cost of oil, coal, and gas in places most people never see. Photography Book Spotlight
How James Florio Turned Patrick Dougherty’s Ephemeral Sculptures Into a Lasting Photographic Legacy
What happens when art is built to disappear? Photographer James Florio spent years chasing sculptures that were never meant to last. Photography Book Spotlight
Blinked Myself Awake: A Photographic Journey Through Memory, Astronomy, and Bieke Depoorter’s Most Personal Book Yet
It was night in Ghent when Bieke Depoorter saw a man watching the moon. She didn’t expect that moment to change the direction of her work. Photography Book Spotlight
Sweet Noise: A Holocaust-Era Love Story Told Through Photos, Silence, and 700 Letters
Can a photograph carry the weight of a family’s silence? That question followed Max Hirshfeld when he traveled to Poland in 1993 with his mother, a Holocaust survivor. Photography Book Spotlight
Americans Seen: A Theater of the Streets in the Pre-Digital Era by Sage Sohier
Photographing real people means stepping into their world. It’s about more than just capturing moments; it’s about understanding people and their stories. In Americans Seen, Sage Sohier focused on trust and collaboration, creating portraits that feel personal and honest. Photography Book Spotlight
How Jeffrey Marqusee Turned Walt Whitman’s Poetry Into a Visual Conversation Across Time
Can a photograph carry the emotional weight of a poem? That’s the question Jeffrey Marqusee asked when he began pairing his photography with the poetry of Walt Whitman. Photography Book Spotlight