Kinga Owczennikow Uses Internal Frames To Show How Photographs Can Reveal, Deceive, and Make Us Doubt What We See
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
Jessica Hays Watched Her Hometown Burn. Then She Spent 5 Years Photographing What Climate Grief Feels Like
The Sun Sets Midafternoon is about climate grief. Jessica Hays began the project after a wildfire hit her hometown. Photography Book Spotlight
Light, Darkness, and Everything Between: The Photographic World of Masao Yamamoto and Akira Uchida
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
How Paolo Simonazzi Photographed Havana Without Falling For Vintage Cars, Political Icons, And Easy Nostalgia
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
Darren Smith Spent 7 Years Photographing People Who Wait All Year To Become Themselves
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 Started Photographing Rome by Chance. 10 Years Later, It Became Liminal Space
Marina Sersale found mystery on her daily walk. What began as a simple habit slowly became a way of seeing. Photography Book Spotlight
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