This week we are excited to offer you some great new books including Le Collège by Florian Van Roekel and signed copies of Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award winner Wiktoria Wojciechowska's Short Flashes.
You can now also pre-order the highly anticipated, self-published Foreigner from John Radcliffe Studio.
Also in we have The Narcissistic City by Takashi Homma and Tokyo: Visions Of Its Other Sides by Masatoshi Naito.
We also have a few remaining copies of Rivers Of Power / Rios De Poder by Alejandro Cartagena. Buy it now whilst stocks last!
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Florian Van Roekel - Le Collège - Signed
First Edition of 600 copies Hand numbered by the author
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Le Collège is a documentary on high schools and their students by Florian Van Roekel, creator of the much acclaimed photobook How Terry Likes His Coffee.
Designed by SYB, numbered edition of 600 copies.
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Wiktoria Wojciechowska - Short Flashes - Signed
Softcover / 48 pages / 300mm x 420mm / 28 full colour photographs / Text in English /
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During her time in North East China, Oskar Barnack Newcomer award winner Wiktoria Wojciechowska photographed intrepid, rain drenched cyclists as they fleetingly passed her by during the typhoon season. Although in China Wojciechowska had found an unexpected sense of home, she also found it eternally difficult to connect with people. Influenced by the words of Polish novelist Wiesław Myśliwski, Wojciechowska set out to capture a physical reference to the human faces that sped past her, using a flash on her camera. The result is a collection of photographs that are initially exciting, vibrant and seemingly playful, but infact embody a melancholic metaphor for a wistful sense of place. The work exists as a typological document and, as Wojciechowska describes, a collection of faces for memory, building ‘a new family album to remember the people she never knew’.
‘ There are infinitely many of these faces I carry inside myself. Conceived in short flashes. I don’t know whose, where, or when. I know nothing about them. But they live in me. Thoughtfulness, gazes, sorrows, pallor, grimaces, bitterness - they live in me, detained like on photographies.
‘ - Wiesław Myśliwski, A Treatise on Shelling Beans, 2006
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John Radcliffe Studio - Foreigner - Signed
240 pages / 167 colour plates / 21 cm x 29 cm / Screen printed cover / Self Published by John Radcliffe Studio /
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Foreigner: Migration into Europe 2015–2016 is a photography book that documents the lives of people at various stages of their migration to Europe. The book is divided into three sections, focusing on migration to Italy from North Africa, migration to Greece and through the Balkans from the middle east, and the migrant camp in Calais known as ‘The Jungle’.
Alongside the photography, written texts serve both as a context, and a means to share the stories of the people met during the project.
The book was created in response to the imagery used in the media to discuss the issue of migration, which we felt was sensationalist, alarmist and was not giving people the time and consideration they deserved. We wanted to approach the subject from a calmer perspective, using medium format portrait photography as a means of meeting the people at the centre the crisis face to face.
John Radcliffe Studio is the creative partnership of Daniel Castro Garcia and Thomas Saxby. We specialise in photography, film and graphic design and have spent the last year documenting the refugee and migrant crisis in Europe.
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Masatoshi Naito - Tokyo: Visions Of Its Other Sides
w21.6 x h28 cm / 44 Pages / 25 Images(b/w) / Softcover (hand-shawn), double gatefold cover. / Doubletone Offset / Limited edition of 1000 / Published in 2016 /
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For this book, Masatoshi Naito selected photographs by surveying all the negatives of a series in which the photographer extensively shot Tokyo's dark side from 1970 to 1985. None of the photographs in this book have been published before or included in his book, Tokyo: A Vision of Its Other Side (1985). This new book, compiled out of these unseen photographs and edited by Yasunori Hoki, the director of SUPER LABO, vividly portrays "the other side" of Tokyo in a different style from the previous publication and includes a new foreword written by Naito himself.
In Tokyo, there are layers of sediment from diverse times. Tokyo today. Tokyo in the time of the post-war black-markets. Tokyo in the Edo period. A day of the people in Tokyo commonly begins with getting up in the morning and going to work. When the day's work is done, they go home after stopping by shopping streets or drinking bars. Nowadays, I see crowds of people flooding all over the Tokyo city area from morning to night. The crowds are always there, from the first train to the last train of the Yamanote Line, the Chuo Line, subways and various private railways. However, when the last trains are gone, along with the businessmen and women, students, and the workers of restaurants and bars, Tokyo is deserted, and the "other face of Tokyo" emerges. Somebody gathers food dumped by bars and restaurants. Another one picks up cardboard boxes and cans that may sell. There are people sleeping on the street. Some of them are drinking alcohol. Homeless people begin to act lively. Exactly, Tokyo as a "huge life form" reveals itself.
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Takashi Homma - The Narcissistic City - Signed
Paperback with dustjacket and multiple gatefolds / 112 pages / 62 colour plates / 24 cm x 31.5 cm / April 2016 /
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What kind of gaze does the city license? What kind of gaze does it induce, determine, inform, program, organise? What is the nature of the city as reality, as image and as symbol? What is this object of desire, at once near and ungraspable, fascinating and repulsive, attractive and intractable, necessary and unbearable, intimate and impenetrable, available and inaccessible, that it is for itself as well as for the man of the crowd, for the man in the street, for the man of the city, for those who inhabit it and those merely passing through it, for anyone who knows that it is a labyrinth but nonetheless allows himself to remain trapped in it?
Hubert Damisch
Takashi Homma uses fragments collected in camera obscura constructed in metropolitan areas of Japan and the US to build a city image by image. Homma does not seek to index any particular city but to render a shadow world, a city's unconscious caught in a dark chamber, suspended in the camera’s box. The camera obscura offers a repetition, like the reflection shimmering in Narcissus’s pool. The narcissistic city is a city transfixed upon its own image – a mirror city, laced with repetition (modular) and reflections (glass). A city looking at its reflection, a city caught in a dark chamber, a city observing its camera obscura inversion – flickering inside the camera’s box.
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Alejandro Cartagena - Rivers Of Power - Signed
Softcover in Box / 490 Trade copies / 144 pages / 23x30cm / Introduction by Ximena Peredo / Essay by Gonzalo Ortega
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This is the story of the tragic relationship between two bodies: a critical narration of the long and failed relationship between a society and a river. Although today it is a long and winding sarcophagus, in the past the city depended on the abundance of its stream. Centuries later, with Monterrey transformed into a regional industrial enclave, the Santa Catarina River served as border between social classes: the employers on the north side, the laborers on the south.
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