Can a Photograph Humanize a Murderer Without Excusing the Crime?
Vladimir Karamazov entered prison looking for humanity. For one year, he photographed inside Belene, Bulgaria’s most heavily guarded prison. Photography Book Spotlight
Mac Stone Spent 20 Years Photographing the American Southeast. His Book Shows Why It May Be America’s Most Overlooked Wilderness
The American Southeast is not empty swamp. For Mac Stone, it is a place of ancient forests, living waters, orchids, alligators, salamanders, turtles, springs, rivers, and species many people never hear about. Photography Book Spotlight
Newsha Tavakolian’s And They Laughed at Me Turns 20 Years of Imperfect Images Into a Portrait of Iran’s Lost Hope
Newsha Tavakolian returned to the images she rejected. Not the perfect images, not the famous images, but the failed ones she had left behind. Photography Book Spotlight
In Plain Sight: How Jens Krauer Photographed The Quiet Human Stories Hidden Inside Crowded Cities
Street photography begins when most people stop looking. For Jens Krauer, the street is not only a place of movement, noise, and strangers passing each other. Photography Book Spotlight
Shingo Kanagawa Lived With 3 Artists For 5 Years. A Bright Room Became A Photograph Of Family Without Fixed Labels
Family does not always begin with relatives. Sometimes it begins with people who decide to share a home, daily tasks, private space, and time. Photography Book Spotlight
William Meyers Spent 25 Years Photographing New York. Civics Shows The Ordinary Work That Keeps Democracy Alive.
William Meyers photographed democracy at street level. In Civics, he looks at New York not through presidents, campaigns, or political slogans, but through the everyday places where public life happens. Photography Book Spotlight
Harrison & Turnbull Turned 11 British Landscapes Into Fallen Flowers
Fallen Flowers turns women into living landscapes. In this book, Claire Harrison and Adelaide Turnbull bring women, flowers, body paint, and the British countryside into one visual world. Photography Book Spotlight
João Linneu Photographed His Son’s NICU Stay. 10 Years Later, It Became A Book About Fear, Care, And Survival
João Linneu photographed fear before he understood it. When his son Valentín was born at 31 weeks and 1 day, photography was not a project yet. Photography Book Spotlight
Albes Fusha Photographed Albania’s Forgotten Monuments And Found A Different Kind Of Heroism
These monuments are visible, but no longer central. They still stand in Albania’s public spaces, but the attention around them has changed. Photography Book Spotlight
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