‘Slowtime, Alabama & The Beautiful Sadness’ is about The Deep ...

‘Beirut, Epi-Centre Ville’ recalls the aftershock of the explosion ...

Photographer Rinko Kawauchi (1972–), known for her expressive mastery ...

In this book from the collection Des oiseaux (On birds), South Korean ...

Finding order in disorder, walking to look and keeping an eye open to ...

Since 2016 I am working on the subject of exile in Greece. Here, ...

Three years ago Dries Roelens of Stieglitz19 composed together with ...

Published in an edition of 700 copies, this book is a tribute to ...

At the age of 17, Mike Brodie left home, hoping a freight train to ...

Born of a desire to follow the seasons up and down America, and ...

In one of his last acts as mayor of New York City, Rudy Giuliani ...

Widely considered Japan’s most influential and prolific photographer, ...

The view from Lookout Mountain west of Denver is of natural forms and ...

In the fall of 1968, Robert Adams, a college English teacher, found ...

On her very first trip to India in 1968 Mary Ellen Mark visited ...

In this compendium, Lee Friedlander examines the ordinary pickup ...

In the capstone volume of his epic series “The Human Clay,” Lee ...

Having lived in Southern California during his university years, ...

‘Slowtime, Alabama & The Beautiful Sadness’ is about The Deep South, a highly complex and interesting part of the US. And is a fairytale-like photo/text book about good and evil, the human condition, an alt-right chipmunk who goes by the name of Jeremiah Day, and ultimately about the fear of the other. The book consists of photographs, and texts about things Sanne Peper experienced and tales people told her.

Sanne Peper . Slowtime Alabama & The Beautiful Sadness

190 x 245 mm | hardcover | 220 pages | English | Design by Michaël Snitker | isbn 978-90-833459-2-5

‘Beirut, Epi-Centre Ville’ recalls the aftershock of the explosion that hit Beirut in 2020. This blast gradually disappeared from the news. With this book Wilschut tries to make tangible the paralysis that remained in the city. The disaster killed 218 people and injured thousands. The devastation was enormous and many houses around the harbor were destroyed. Lebanon’s government subsequently fell, making the country politically unstable. The ensuing economic and administrative crisis is still ongoing. With an essay by Dominique Eddé.

Hans Wilschut . Beirut, Epi-Centre Ville

200 x 260 mm | softcover Japanese Binding | 128 pages | English + French | Text: Dominique Eddé | isbn: 978-90-832858-9-4

Photographer Rinko Kawauchi (1972–), known for her expressive mastery of gentle color suffused with light, has revealed the mystery, radiance, frailty, and strength of life in all its forms since her earliest works. Her gaze falls equally on the fragile and delicate beings in her immediate vicinity, be they flora and fauna or family members, and the vast workings of the earth, such as volcanoes and glaciers formed over long eons. The unique sensibility underlying her photography reveals the connections between these subjects, which all shimmer with the same vital glow. This will be her first major exhibition in Japan in six years, showcasing the essence of Kawauchi’s oeuvre through work from the past decade combined with never-before-seen images from her archives.
　
M/E, the main subject of this exhibition and inspiration for its title, is a new series Kawauchi began shooting in 2019. The letters stand for “Mother” and “Earth,” combining to form both “Mother Earth” and “Me.” At a glance, the series’ images of Iceland’s volcanoes and ice floes and Hokkaido’s snowy landscapes may seem distant and unrelated to the everyday scenes from the COVID-19 pandemic that accompany them in the series. However, both types of image depict events now taking place on the planet we live on, and Kawauchi’s artistry alerts us to the connection between them. This exhibition invites the viewer to reconsider a range of questions about the workings of human life and our relationship with nature.
　
In this exhibition catalog, Kawauchi herself has composed a sequence that allows visitors to relive the three-dimensional exhibition space, from the core series of the exhibition such as the new “M/E,” the yet unpublished “4%,” and “An interlinking” with new images, to her latest video work. The exhibition also includes a conversation with Haruo Saji, who was an influence on Kawauchi’s practice, and three essays, of which one is written by Masatake Shinohara, exploring the current state of Kawauchi’s work through both imagery and text. By changing the format and paper for each series, despite its simple binding, the book becomes a multilayered volume that embodies the depth of the exhibition.

Rinko Kawauchi . M/E On this sphere Endlessly interlinking

Torch press
　

Size: 285 × 225m / Soft Cover / 224P
Texts: Masatake Shinohara, Hana Takigami (Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery), Yasuhiro Arai (Shiga Museum of Art）
Edit: torch press
Design: Yuri Suyama
Languages: Japanese / English
Publisher: The Asahi Shimbun
Year: 2022

 

　　　

Rinko Kawauchi

Born in 1972 in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. Awarded the prestigious 27th Kimura Ihei Award in 2002 for UTATANE and HANABI (Little More). Other noteworthy publications include AILA (2005), the eyes, the ears and Cui Cui (both 2005), Illuminance (2011, revised 2021), and Ametsuchi (2013). Received the ICP 25th Annual Infinity Award, Art Category in 2009 and the 63rd Art Encouragement Prize for New Artists from the Ministry of Education in 2013. Major solo exhibitions in Japan include Cui Cui at the Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum (Shizuoka, 2008); Illuminance, Ametsuchi, Seeing Shadow at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (2012); and Rinko Kawauchi: The river embraced me at the Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto (2016). Recent publications include Des oiseaux, Illuminance: The Tenth Anniversay Edition and Yamanami.

In this book from the collection Des oiseaux (On birds), South Korean photographer Kyunghee Lee takes us into the winter forests of the far south of her country, to meet the crows. At nightfall, motionless, waiting for the birds during their migration from Siberia, the photographer hides among the trees, her tripod protected from the great cold that reigns at this time of year. Flocks of crows emerge from the distance, as if orchestrated by an invisible choreographer. The air is filled with their powerful cries, excluding any other sound from the forest. The photographer knows that she has little time, she carefully presses the shutter button, concentrated, mastering the slightest noise. Suddenly there is complete silence, the darkness is total and the cold air becomes almost compact. The forest offers birds its hospitality.

In a powerful black and white with shades of velvety gray, Kyunghee Lee immerses us in the mysterious world of these birds that populate our myths and legends. Standing out in powerful choreographies on milky skies or on immaculate snow, far from any human presence, the crows of Kyunghee Lee fascinate by the grace of their presence.

Des oiseaux . Kyunghee Lee

This book is part of collection Des oiseaux which celebrates, through the vision of different artists, their immense presence in a world where they are now vulnerable. Accompanying these photographs, the ornithologist Guilhem Lesaffre writes a special essay. Other titles in the collection include: Albarrán Cabrera, Roger Ballen, Graciela Iturbide, Leila Jeffreys, Rinko Kawauchi, Michael Kenna, Christophe Maout, Byung-Hun Min, Yoshinori Mizutani, Paolo Pellegrin, Bernard Plossu, Pentti Sammallahti and Terri Weifenbach.
Collection Des oiseaux (On birds)

Hardcover
20,5 x 26 cm
96 pages
37 B&W photographs
Text
Guilhem Lesaffre
Collection directed by
Nathalie Chapuis and Philippe Séclier
Limited edition with print available
Group exhibition Des oiseaux
Breda Kerk/Foto, The Netherlands
From September 15 to December 3, 2023
ISBN : 978-2-36511-361-8

Finding order in disorder, walking to look and keeping an eye open to all the surprises: Marc Riboud has surveyed the planet for more than sixty years. On the occasion of the centenary of his birth, this retrospective book bears witness to the abundance of his work and to the singular, empathetic way in which Marc Riboud looked at the world. It presents previously unpublished images, notably his very first ones taken in the Alps in the 1940s and others taken in New York in the early 1950s to those of the 2000s, almost pictorial.

Understanding the world requires careful observation and to form an opinion, the photographer went to places where societies were changing: the 1954 dockers’ strike in Great Britain, Algeria during its independence in 1962, North Vietnam in 1969, the crowds of the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979, not forgetting the metamorphoses of China, Ghana, Japan... «Photography cannot change the world, but it can show it when it changes,» he said. His images are as many encounters with other peoples as they are invitations to discover the beauty of elsewhere. Along the dusty or snowy roads, a science of framing and a search for harmony are outlined. «I take my hat off to the geometric and sensitive Marc,» said his friend Henri Cartier-Bresson.

A selection of contact sheets open the book, offering some keys to reading his approach to the subject. A text by Eric Fottorino, conceived as a poem, reveals various aspects of the life and work of Marc Riboud, completed by an illustrated biography of Catherine Riboud Chaine and Lorène Durret.

Marc Riboud . For the Long Haul

Hardcover
23 x 31 cm
232 pages
132 B&W photographs
Text
Éric Fottorino
This book has received the support of Pascal Duhamel
Exhibition
Marc Riboud - 100 photographies pour 100 ans
Musée des Confluences, Lyon, France
From February 24 to December 31, 2023
ISBN : 978-2-36511-350-2

Since 2016 I am working on the subject of exile in Greece. Here, "Breaking Point" is about people waiting for their papers. After my project "Exiles" (2016-2017) in Lesbos and Agios Efstratios, I traveled regularly on the island Chios and then Leros, Athens and Oenofyta, between 2017 and 2019.
In Chios I quickly met Edmond and Feras. Both of my age and forced to live in Vial camp since a few months already, we were spending a lot of time together, and they explained to me the conditions on the island, the process to follow, and their hopes for the future. I met Mustapha at the same time and he directly introduced me to Soumaya, Sally, Razan and their family. They arrived at the same time than Edmond and Feras and were rehoused in a temporary apartment. Often invited at their place, I followed their file processing, the positive answer for Athens, the school enrollment and their concerns for the future. Following my project in Lesbos, I witnessed the situation getting worse for people arriving in Greece. Going there regularly, I saw my contacts loosing hope and having to face a system seeking to discourage them from staying or going further.
“Breaking Point” comes from the time I spent with Feras, lively talks with Edmond, afternoons spent with Mariam and her sisters, explanations from Mustapha, empty days and some full along Diallo and Sylla, difficult times, wonderings in Athens, exchanges inside Oenofyta camp with Nazar and in Vial with Sadam, and from the time granted by so many people. I see the publication of this book as a necessary achievement and allowing me to pay tribute to their resilience.

Florine Thiebaud . Breaking Point

Binding :     Softcover
Size:     235 x 300 mm
Weight:     650 gr
Language:     EN
Number of pages:     160
ISBN:     9789464363197

Three years ago Dries Roelens of Stieglitz19 composed together with Ren Hang a poetic selection of his photographic work as a tribute to his mother for a soon to be made publication. In December 2019 Ren Hang, for my mother, published by Hopper & Fuchs in collaboration with Stieglitz19 is presented at the opening of Ren Hang's solo show LOVE at C/O Berlin. The publication will be distributed by Hopper & Fuchs and Stockmans Art Books.

Love, Ren Hang


Jet black hair, porcelain skin, bright red lips and fingernails; figures gazing intensely into the camera; young men and women posing acrobatically with bizarre props; animals and plants in the glaring light of the camera’s flash, situated in urban landscapes, private spaces, or in nature, among rice fields, lotus ponds, and cacti—Chinese artist Ren Hang’s photographs are painfully provocative, but also inward looking and dreamily surreal. His gender-queer compositions are explicitly erotic but never pornographic. Hang depicts the human body as an abstract form, often in idiosyncratic arrangements and perspectives, referencing and simultaneously overwriting well-known motifs and traditions from Western art. He combines iconic images of William Shakespeare’s dying Ophelia in a river surrounded by flowers; of Leda, daughter of a Greek king, and the Swan; and of female nudes seen from behind using a distinctive visual vocabulary that draws on abstraction, Surrealism, Dada, and both historic and contemporary photography. The artistic understanding revealed in his photographs is influenced by East Asian philosophy and, in contrast to Western art, does not endeavor to be original. His work instead continues a school tradition and strives for timelessness; for Hang, as for many Chinese artists, questions of authorship and of original versus copy only arise in confrontation with a Western understanding of art. The juxtaposition of these views gives rise to a new discourse on the forms and structures of collective and pictorial memory.


Ren Hang’s analog photographs use a playful, humorous visual language to relate the feelings, desires, fears, and loneliness of a young generation in China. His works stand as symbols of the youth’s rebellion against the conventions of a restrictive communist regime in which nudity and sexual freedom are subject to government censure and control even up to the present day. Most of the people portrayed are the artist’s friends, but they remain unnamed and anonymous, and the images bear neither title nor place nor date. Although carefully staged, they are infused with an element of fleetingness and evanescence that is often the result of the artist’s quick way of working. Ren Hang’s photographs are a rare ode to human beings, their bodies, sexuality, beauty, and vulnerability.


C/O Berlin will be showing the exhibition Love, Ren Hang for the first time in Germany. It is a comprehensive retrospective including over 150 recent works by Ren Hang, one of the most important contemporary photographers in China.


Ren Hang (b. 1987 in Changchun, China, d. 2017 in Beijing) was a photographer and poet. In 2010 he received the Third Annual Prize for Contemporary Art. His works have been shown in China and Europe at venues including Foam—Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, MdbK in Leipzig, Ostlicht—Galerie für Fotografie in Vienna (2017), and the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris (2019). He produced numerous photobooks and published his photographs on his website, Facebook, Instagram, and Flickr. His work has gained a growing posthumous following and immense popularity worldwide. Up to his death by suicide at the age of twenty-nine, Hang lived and worked in Beijing.

Ren Hang . for my Mother

Published by Hopper & Fuchs

ISBN number:     9789464002003
Binding :     Hardcover
Size:     220 x 280 mm
Weight:     0,65 kg
Language:     UK
Number of pages:     64
ISBN:     9789464002003

Published in an edition of 700 copies, this book is a tribute to Benjamin, singer, poet and figure of the American underground, and to Cabbageton, an impoverished district of Atlanta. Designed like a scrapbook, it combines photographs by Michael Ackerman, pages of Benjamin's notes and archive documents, with texts by Jem Cohen and Patti Smith. It reveals the infinite grace, urgency, delicacy and frenzy of a forgotten man and an era.


I remember my first time at Benjamin's house, my first time in Atlanta. It was late at night, after a Smoke concert. He was hanging out with a few friends in his room, talking, laughing, smoking. I hardly knew him. I still don't understand why I'd been invited. He was brilliant, charismatic, funny and tender. I sat in a corner, amazed and intimidated, and remained silent. Maybe I took a few photos, maybe not. At around 4 in the morning, I fell asleep on the floor in another room. A few hours later, I woke up, looked into his room and saw him asleep, also on the floor in front of his bed. Today, 27 years later, I'm trying to remember what it felt like to see him lying there, so fragile. I took a photo at the time, picked him up and carried him to his bed, then walked out into the daylight to discover Cabbagetown.



Smoke . Michael Ackerman

Photographer Michael Ackerman
Texts Benjamin, Jem Cohen and Patti Smith.
Design Caroline Benichou
Typesetting 136 pages including 3 fold-outs, 20-page booklet included
Cover Swiss binding, soft cover with flaps
Special features Four-colour printing on offset paper
Dimensions 26 x 20 cm
Weight 700 g
isbn 978-2-9588393-0-7

Desert Spirals by Sybren Vanoverberghe presents a new series of photographs taken in the captivating Moroccan desert. The images portray artifacts, shelters, and ancient engravings amidst the vast landscape. They capture the transient structures of human presence, built with materials often repurposed or left behind.

Vanoverberghe’s artistic approach delves into traces of a recent or forgotten past, capturing the essence of the desert’s nothingness. The photographs create a compelling visual journey that merges contemporary scenes with ancient engravings.

Through photography, Vanoverberghe captures these traces with evocative associations and powerful compositions. “Desert Spirals” offers a glimpse into the enigmatic beauty and timeless nature of the seemingly barren desert.

Sybren Vanoverberghe . Desert Spirals

14,5 × 19,5 cm, 88 p, ills b&w, hardcover Swiss binding
ISBN 9789464770834
Edition of 700
September 2023

Dorothy Sing Zhang unveils a compelling portrayal of humanity’s vulnerable state during sleep. The scene is set in the bedrooms of others. One is asked to be asleep, a squeeze cable release is placed under the pillow. The chance of one’s unconscious body rolling over and triggering the camera results in an exposure. Like Someone Alive expands these boundaries by withdrawing the traditional relationships between the photographer, the object and the camera. “About five years ago I was trying to realise a way where the approach towards the trigger would somehow be directly reflected in the image. How can the pressure craft the physicality upon the trigger that generates the exposure. I had this old exercise pull up bar. I would physically pull myself up while squeezing the cable release to make an image. A step further was to somehow dismiss the awareness of the approach, so sleep became the plot but photography is the story.”

Dorothy Sing Zhang . Like Someone Alive

24 × 33,5 cm, 112 p, ills colours, hardcover
ISBN 9789464770889
Edition of 1000
August 2023

The book "Madrid" is a captivating compilation of more than 150 images taken by the renowned French photographer Bernard Plossu, capturing the essence of the city from the 1970s to the present day. With a cosmopolitan and poetic gaze, this work offers a documentary portrait of the streets and their inhabitants, conveying the uniqueness and soul of Madrid in each photograph.

Discover the captivating work of French photographer Bernard Plossu in Madrid, a book that brings together more than 150 images that portray the city from the 1970s to the present day. With a cosmopolitan and poetic gaze, Plossu offers us a unique documentary portrait of the streets and inhabitants of Madrid, showing his particular way of feeling and being in the city. This book highlights the photogenic nature of a city often forgotten but captured by great masters of international photography.

It also accompanies the exhibition at the Sala el Águila in Madrid, curated by Rafael Doctor, as part of the PHotoESPAÑA 2023 International Photography Festival. Immerse yourself in the visual world of Bernard Plossu and discover his intimate and poetic vision of Madrid.

Bernard Plossu . Madrid

EAN13: 9788418934896
ISBN: 978-84-18934-89-6

Pages 144
Images 240
Language Spanish/English
Format 24 x 32 cm
Publisher La Fábrica
Year of edition 2023
ISBN 978-84-18934-89-6
Binding hardback with stamping

Bernard Plossu, one of the leading contemporary photographers, invites us to explore Madrid from his unique perspective. With a career full of travels and a deep connection to the city, Plossu has captured decisive moments and the magic of life through his camera. His images reveal a subjective truth and show us a Madrid full of surprises, reflecting his admiration for the people and their way of inhabiting the city. The exhibition is a sincere song full of admiration for the essence of Madrid and its inhabitants. Don't miss the opportunity to immerse yourself in the visual world of one of the great masters of photography and explore the city through his eyes.

Bernard Plossu (1945, Vietnam). The work of this French photographer is a wide-ranging response to his vocation for travelling. He has photographed a large number of countries, with special dedication to North Africa, African and American deserts and Mediterranean Europe. His work earned him the French National Photography Prize in 1998.

At the age of 17, Mike Brodie left home, hoping a freight train to Jacksonville, Florida. His first trip lasted little more than a few days but was the start of a lifelong journey that would see him become one of the most intuitive photographers of his generation.

On finding an abandoned Polaroid camera stuffed behind a car seat in 2004, Brodie began to produce a sprawling document of his journey riding the rails across the expanse of North America, alongside a tight-knit community of young punks and hobos, all searching for an authentic experience of the life less ordinary.

This new collection of masterfully reproduced polaroids was made by Brodie when travelling under the name The Polaroid Kid.

The 50 polaroids are presented in a bespoke silkscreened grey-board case, fastened by a heavy gauge elastic band - a design inspired by the punk ethos that the people pictured lived by, and the utilitarian train cars in which they ride.

Polaroid Kid . Mike Brodie

Shipping world-wide upon order
Size —130x170mm
Details — Foil Stamped case / Rubber Band / CMYK Offset and Silk Screened
ISBN — 978-1-913288-52-5