How Bill Ward’s IMMERSIVE Turns Surfing, ICM, and Breaking Waves Into a New Way of Seeing the Ocean
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
How Daniel Gordon Turned Ordinary Household Objects Into Photographs That Question What Is Real
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
Pete Doherty Lost His Passion for Photography. Boxing Helped Him Find It Again
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
From Brooklyn To The North Pole: How Leonard Sussman Photographed The Beauty And Fragility Of The Arctic
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 Spent 14 Years Photographing Jerusalem. The Result Is Not the City You Expect
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
How Mark Maio Followed One Forgotten Labor Story From Kansas Wheat Fields to Buffalo Grain Elevators
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
Inside Soviet Scientific Institutes: How Eric Lusito Photographed the Machines Built to Engineer the Future
Soviet science left behind a strange afterlife. Inside former Soviet scientific institutes, Eric Lusito found machines built for nuclear physics, radio astronomy, space research, and the dream of a technological future. Photography Book Spotlight
Ken Grant’s Cwm: The Fair Country Shows What Happens When Industry Leaves But The Land Still Remembers
The South Wales Valleys are not empty ruins. They are places where industry disappeared, but life continued. Photography Book Spotlight
Carl Martin’s Opportunities in Space Finds Creativity in the Buildings Most People Ignore
A building can become more than a subject. For Carl Martin, architecture is not only something standing in front of the camera. Photography Book Spotlight
How Alexis Martino Turned 30 Years of Photographs Into a Dreamlike Map of Intimacy
Some images explain less and reveal more. In 101 Pennies, Alexis Martino brings together photographs made across 30 years of looking, remembering, and returning to the same emotional questions. Photography Book Spotlight
Short Hope: How Keizo Motoda Found Dignity, Freedom, and Human Connection in Kamagasaki
Kamagasaki gave Keizo Motoda a second chance. He first came to this Osaka neighborhood in the 1990s, when he was still a photography student. Photography Book Spotlight
The Last of Their Kind: Joachim Schmeisser’s Intimate Portraits of Animals We May Lose Forever
Some animals disappear before we truly see them. In Last of Their Kind, Joachim Schmeisser photographs endangered animals with rare closeness and calm. Photography Book Spotlight
How Thomas Boivin Turned One Paris Square Into a Portrait of a Generation
Thomas Boivin photographed youth by standing still. For five years, he returned to Place de la République in Paris. Photography Book Spotlight
History Happens When You Least Expect It - Pete Souza on Photographing Obama Beyond the Official Image
One photographer spent 8 years inside Obama’s private world. Pete Souza was not there to make Obama look presidential. Photography Book Spotlight
Why Melonie Bennett Spent 20 Years Photographing Her Family’s Drunken Parties, Illness, Fights, and Private Moments
Melonie Bennett photographed what most families bury. Her book Holy Cow! follows more than twenty years of family life filled with drunken parties, illness, fights, jokes, rituals, and emotional chaos. Photography Book Spotlight
Wei Jian Chan Left Singapore For The UK. His Photobook Turns That Feeling Of Estrangement Into Geometry, Shadow, And Silence
Moving abroad can make the world feel strangely distant. Familiar routines disappear, and even ordinary streets can start to feel uncertain or emotionally cold. Photography Book Spotlight
How Damien Daufresne Turned Childhood, Animals, and Silence Into a Photographic Tale That Feels Like a Dream
Damien Daufresne photographs childhood like a fading fairy tale. The Overmorrow is filled with children, birds, shadows, gestures, and moments that feel suspended somewhere between memory and imagination. Photography Book Spotlight
From Chaos to Control: How Mark Cornick Learned to Predict Camera Movement and Shape Abstract Images
Abstract photography doesn’t have to be random. Most ICM work looks unpredictable, like the result of chance. Photography Book Spotlight