We can never fully know a person, a place, or a story, however, if I ...

In the era of social networks, insatiable kings of our connected ...

The images in this book, collected under the title Works for a Cosmic ...

The project The Circular Ruins takes us to a contemporary South ...

The project The Circular Ruins takes us to a contemporary South ...

Soleil of Persian Square is an investigation into the visual identity ...

In Cursed, Charlie Engman harnesses generative AI’s uncanny ...

“There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed ...

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Among the many recurring interests that connect the rich and ...

This book is a fleeting story of a summer, with images that emerge ...

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We can never fully know a person, a place, or a story, however, if I were an angel, then I could listen to every single person, I could get to know you – at long last – I could understand you all; understand everything. Perhaps though, it’s in the mystery of in-comprehension, and of not knowing, where the magnitude of life resides. That incom- prehension that renders both the world and humans unpredictable, illogical, and full of vital, and at times explosive, energy. Maybe we don’t need to know the true inten- tion and nature of a beautiful gesture when something is just beautiful and that’s it. In fact, often it would be better not to seek out answers or explanations because this is what life is: sometimes authentic, sometimes fake; sated or miserable, overf lowing or empty. Wenders’ angels knew this all too well, so well they decided to become human.
They wanted to touch life with their own hands, to savour every tiny detail of what, before, was just the product of a sight that was real but sterile, like their own vision in black and white. The first time that I arrived in Łódź, it felt like I was in East Berlin, and, like the angels, in almost four years of brief but intense travels, I have collected the traces of what touched me. I was seeking photographs that were words; light, sparse, evanescent, evocative. Snapshots that illustrated not only my Polish present but also the present – and in a certain sense the past – of a place that made me feel like an angel, a place that made me feel at home.  

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
Der Engel  . Iacopo Pasqui

96 pages
17x23 cm
Hard cover
Editing and design by Tommaso Parrillo
Graphic design by Bartłomiej Talaga
Text by Krzysztof Candrowicz
Coordination by Franek Ammer
Co-publishers by 19 Rivers, Fotofestiwal
Published June 2024
ISBN: 979-12-80177-39-1n with  Cnap & Destin Sensible gallery
Published May 2024
ISBN: 979-12-80177-40-7

In the era of social networks, insatiable kings of our connected lives, encouraging self-disclosure and selfie culture, Vincent Ferrané's photographic series "IRL Corps " presents the individualized and embodied body in everyday reality ("In Real Life") where it takes on a political dimension by challenging society through the dissemination of its image on digital media. Rather than a grand narrative, the image producer engages in conversation with nine people with vibrant sensitivities who bare themselves, revealing their openness to the world as much as an initiation into being: between universality and specificity, Aimé, David, Hosanna, Manouchka, Moon, Niamh, Nicky, Violette, and Zoé have turned their bodies into screens and their digital networks into modes of writing and exploration, sometimes serving as a Safe Place, an Icon, or a Trojan Horse. Their utopian seclusion celebrates differences, intimacy, non-conformity, and dreams of large-scale inclusion in a relationship of immediacy. By reversing the roles of the perceiving subject and the perceived world, the experience of "Corps IRL" invites us to see through them, according to them. Through a questionnaire echoing their images the interpreters of " IRL Corps " reveal certain aspects of their personality, their tastes and personal preferences to describe themselves succinctly.

RL Corps . Vincent Ferrané

60 pages
22x32 cm
Soft cover / Singer binding
Design by Tommaso Parrillo
Text by Jos Auzende
in collaboration with  Cnap & Destin Sensible gallery
Published May 2024
ISBN: 979-12-80177-40-7

The images in this book, collected under the title Works for a Cosmic Feeling, create a map, and an ode at the same time. They map out the universe of the author, the constellations that guide him and inspire his wonderings, the pathways and crossroads where he gets lost and finds himself back again. Just like god and the devil being hidden in details, Barile’s images oscillate in a constant flux of conscience, a rigorous yet abstract system of reference that includes and connects, builds and constantly destroys. There are no certainties nor statements, rather associations, at times vertigo. Just like in a quantum system, the narratives included are drenched in probability and chance. Nature is what encompasses all things, whether dissected in its traces and remains or triumphant in its decadence and complexity.

Works for a Cosmic Feeling . Fabio Barile

288 Pages
18x29 cm
Soft cover
Design by Etaoin Shrdlu Studio
Text by Elisa Medde
With the support of Matèria
Published in May 2024
ISBN 979-12-80177-38-4

The project The Circular Ruins takes us to a contemporary South Lebanon, nicknamed Nabil (the inverted version of “Liban”, meaning Lebanon in French) where neither the Sun nor death can look each other in the eye.

Spearheaded by photographer Orianne Ciantar Olive, the project tackles the issues of violence, occupation and forced exile, which have cyclically affected the territory for decades, and how these events impact both individuals and communities.

Through the visual research and experimental approach to the photographic medium, this body of work takes a sensitive look at the unfolding disaster, bearing witness to the complexity of territories in the making.

​Inspired by philosophy, literature, and poetry - the works of Etel Adnan, Jorge Luis Borges and Mahmoud Darwich in particular - The Circular Ruins is a photographic essay halfway between a metaphysical journey and a documentary account, rooted in the land of southern Lebanon and right up to the wall of Kfar Kila. An emblematic and empirical example of the endless repetition of history, including violence, forced exile and the impossibility of achieving peace, the wall becomes here, through a game of inversions, the prelude to an actuality that reveals itself in the shadows of reality. The use of inverted names, fictitious identities, inverted films and solarisations aims to reveal another side of history. By approaching the question of disaster visually, and by creating a dialogue between external tensions and internal conflicts, this project reveals the complexity of the future within a territory under constant threat from partisan or colonialist impulses.

LES RUINES CIRCULAIRES . Orianne Ciantar Olive

Signed

Poems: Orianne Ciantar Olive 

Postface: Sabyl Ghoussoub

THE BOOK

​French & English

138 pages

52 color photographs

22 B&W photographs

Graphic Design : Bureau Kayser

Format: 16 x 24 cm

Spiral metal binding

Papers:

-     Arena Rough

-     Sirio Pearl

-     Splendorlux 

Print run: 1000 copies

ISBN: 978-2-9576132-2-9

The project The Circular Ruins takes us to a contemporary South Lebanon, nicknamed Nabil (the inverted version of “Liban”, meaning Lebanon in French) where neither the Sun nor death can look each other in the eye.

Spearheaded by photographer Orianne Ciantar Olive, the project tackles the issues of violence, occupation and forced exile, which have cyclically affected the territory for decades, and how these events impact both individuals and communities.

Through the visual research and experimental approach to the photographic medium, this body of work takes a sensitive look at the unfolding disaster, bearing witness to the complexity of territories in the making.

​Inspired by philosophy, literature, and poetry - the works of Etel Adnan, Jorge Luis Borges and Mahmoud Darwich in particular - The Circular Ruins is a photographic essay halfway between a metaphysical journey and a documentary account, rooted in the land of southern Lebanon and right up to the wall of Kfar Kila. An emblematic and empirical example of the endless repetition of history, including violence, forced exile and the impossibility of achieving peace, the wall becomes here, through a game of inversions, the prelude to an actuality that reveals itself in the shadows of reality. The use of inverted names, fictitious identities, inverted films and solarisations aims to reveal another side of history. By approaching the question of disaster visually, and by creating a dialogue between external tensions and internal conflicts, this project reveals the complexity of the future within a territory under constant threat from partisan or colonialist impulses.

LES RUINES CIRCULAIRES . Orianne Ciantar Olive

Poems: Orianne Ciantar Olive 

Postface: Sabyl Ghoussoub

THE BOOK

​French & English

138 pages

52 color photographs

22 B&W photographs

Graphic Design : Bureau Kayser

Format: 16 x 24 cm

Spiral metal binding

Papers:

-     Arena Rough

-     Sirio Pearl

-     Splendorlux 

Print run: 1000 copies

ISBN: 978-2-9576132-2-9

Soleil of Persian Square is an investigation into the visual identity of the lifestyle of the Iranian diaspora in Los Angeles. It attempts to give a face to this fictional city called Tehrangeles, which Hannah Darabi discovered through images associated with popular music in her teenage years. The aim here is to weave links between ordinary landscapes of Los Angeles and Orange County - as bearers of traces of this Iranian diaspora - portraits of its inhabitants, and objects from popular culture, such as cassette sleeves, song lyrics, screenshots of music videos from the 1980s and 1990s, or even pages from directories devoted to the activities of this diaspora. Soleil of Persian Square is not just a journey from real to imaginary space, but also a way of life and a way of thinking embodied in popular culture. This culture, which today stands in opposition to the moral values of the current Iranian regime, and which secular intellectuals criticise for its ‘low art’, has nevertheless survived, notably through the pop music of Tehrangeles. This music that we love to ‘hate’ has never lost its place in the heart of this scattered nation, and has never ceased to move our bodies, whether in a taxi in Tehran, at a friend's house in Paris, or at a concert in Toronto.

With publishing support from the Centre national des arts plastiques.

SOLEIL OF PERSIAN SQUARE . Hannah Darabi

22 × 28 cm
220 pages
ISBN 979-10-94060-35-3
Text: French / English
October 2021
Éditions GwinZegal

In Cursed, Charlie Engman harnesses generative AI’s uncanny distortions of the physical world to explore the pleasure, humour, and horror of the body. This captivating portfolio of images unpicks AI’s characteristic gap between expectation and outcome, challenging our preconceptions of how the world should be and appear. Can simulation and collective knowledge drive innovation and individuation, or does the recycling of images and ideas doom us to repeat our failures? Can AI’s detachment from reality illuminate the blessing and the curse of “real life”?

Cursed stands as a testament to Engman’s visionary role in a rapidly evolving and highly contentious field, offering an immersive exploration of uncharted artistic territories and proposing a new paradigm for the future and possibilities of photography.

Cursed . Charlie Engman

Embossed hardcover with tip-in
22.5 x 22.5 cm, 112 pages

ISBN 978-1-915743-58-9
October 2024

“There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting. A man is walking down the street. At a certain moment, he tries to recall something, but the recollection escapes him. Automatically, he slows down. Meanwhile, a person who wants to forget a disagreeable incident he has just lived through starts unconsciously to speed up his pace, as if he were trying to distance himself from a thing still too close to him in time. In existential mathematics that experience takes the form of two basic equations: The degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory; the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of forgetting.”

The Season . Giulia Vanelli

witty-books

80 Pages
24x29 cm
Hard cover
Design by Tommaso Parrillo
Published in February 2024
ISBN 979-12-80177-37-7

In Cursed, Charlie Engman harnesses generative AI’s uncanny distortions of the physical world to explore the pleasure, humour, and horror of the body. This captivating portfolio of images unpicks AI’s characteristic gap between expectation and outcome, challenging our preconceptions of how the world should be and appear. Can simulation and collective knowledge drive innovation and individuation, or does the recycling of images and ideas doom us to repeat our failures? Can AI’s detachment from reality illuminate the blessing and the curse of “real life”?

Cursed stands as a testament to Engman’s visionary role in a rapidly evolving and highly contentious field, offering an immersive exploration of uncharted artistic territories and proposing a new paradigm for the future and possibilities of photography.

Cursed . Charlie Engman

Embossed hardcover with tip-in
22.5 x 22.5 cm, 112 pages

ISBN 978-1-915743-58-9
October 2024

Among the many recurring interests that connect the rich and open-ended oeuvre of Luigi Ghirri, a fascination with travel resonates through his photographs, publications, and writings. This book by curator James Lingwood charts a course through Ghirri’s photography between 1970 and 1991, exploring the manifold ways in which journeys – viaggi – appear: in iconic landscapes in the Dolomites and the lakes of northern Italy; in the mirror-worlds of seaside resorts along the Adriatic and Mediterranean; among museums, archaeological sites, and theme parks; inside atlases and on postcards; and along his own bookshelves, with their evocative titles and mementoes. This vividly curated book maps a route through Ghirri’s work that takes in familiar landmarks and surprising detours, interleaving many of his best loved photographs with unseen discoveries from the Ghirri archive.

Luigi Ghirri: Viaggi introduces an essential artist of the late twentieth century through one of his most enduring and beloved themes, delving into Ghirri’s uniquely playful and profound conception of image-making in an age of popular photography and tourism. It is completed by in-depth essays by Tobia Bezzola, James Lingwood, and Maria Antonella Pelizzari, which situate Ghirri’s work in relation to Italian and international contexts and the wider world of image-making and consumption with which he enthusiastically engaged.

Co-published with MASI Lugano, this book accompanies the exhibition ‘Luigi Ghirri: Viaggi. Photographs 1970–1991’ at Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, 8 September 2024–26 January 2025.

Luigi Ghirri . Viaggi

James Lingwood (ed.)

OTA-bound buckram flexicover with tipped-in image
21.5 x 25 cm, 184 pages

ISBN 978-1-915743-61-9 (English Edition)
ISBN 978-1-915743-54-1 (Italian Edition)
September 2024

This book is a fleeting story of a summer, with images that emerge like apparitions, devoured by light and seemingly on the verge of fading and vertigo. Martin Bogren's A Summer of a Thousand Years is the kind of tale that is as intimate as it is universal, so you could say "once upon a time" on the edge of a wood, a deer, the sea gone with the sun, nearly chimerical creatures, a furtive kiss...

This volume, offset printed on Freelife Vellum paper, is published in a limited edition of 350 signed and numbered copies, each accompanied by a pigment print on lightweight paper, also signed. The cover is covered with a dust jacket designed by Laure Gilquin, printed on pure cotton paper and featuring a photograph. 

A Summer Of A Thousand Years . Martin Bogren

Published by l'axolotl

Conception   Caroline Benichou   

Compositions   48 pages - Two-colour printing on offset paper   Cover   Sewn binding, 4-page covers   Specific Features   Two-colour printed dust jacket on pure cotton paper   

Dimension   24 x 18 cm 

ISBN   978-2-9588393-1-4

‘We, the Free’ is the final volume in photographer Matt Eich’s four-part series of monographs that began in 2016. Altogether the series considers the weight of collective memory in the shaping of American identity. Departing from the formula seen in the previous volumes of depicting a regional microcosm, the final book features images taken across the entire United States. Spanning nearly fifteen years, Eich’s photographs were made as he came of age and over a period when the American superpower began to decline as it faced increasing national tensions. This significant body of work is a photographic chronicle of modern American society entering a point of no return.

Matt Eich . We the Free

first edition of 1000 books

168 pages
24.5 cm x 25 cm
hardcover, linen printed cover.
Sturm & Drang publishers 2024
ISBN 978-3-906822-55-6