Artist: -> Yana Wernicke Book: -> Companions Publisher: -> Loose Joints © Yana Wernicke 2023 courtesy Loose Joints About The Book Concerned with modern humanity’s yearning for a deeper connection to ecology, Wernicke’s series is a touching portrait of two young women who have established profound relationships with animals. Rosina and Julie each independently save animals from certain death and create bonds of love and trust with animals typically considered solely for their economic value. In German, Companions, or Weggefährten, is a hybrid word that translates literally a ..read more

Artist: -> Anna Reivilä Book: -> Nomad Publisher: -> Kerber © Anna Reivilä by courtesy of Kerber © Anna Reivilä by courtesy of Kerber © Anna Reivilä by courtesy of Kerber About The Book According to Japanese religious ceremonies, ropes and ties symbolize the connections among people and the divine, as a means to identify sacred space and time. Inspired by Nobuyoshi Araki’s images and their combination of raw violence and beauty, I study the relationship between man and nature by referring to the Japanese bondage tradition. The Japanese word for bondage, kinaki-bi, literally m ..read more

Artist: -> Naohiro Harada Book: -> Tokyo Fishgraphs Publisher: -> Libraryman © Naohiro Harada © Naohiro Harada © Naohiro Harada About The Book Naohiro Harada’s (b. 1982, Japanese) series is an attempt to explore the origin of the eccentricity of Japanese visual culture through the usage of traditional methods by composing a fictional documentary for the audienceless 2020 Olympics, which was postponed due to the restrictions of the pandemic. During this phantasmal time, Harada decided to convert the strange experience into a series of contemporary Mitate-e, i.e. a genre t ..read more

Artist: -> Jens Olof Lasthein Book: -> Far – Near Publisher: -> Diep Publishing © Jens Olof Lasthein © Jens Olof Lasthein About The Book I grew up in a westerly wind. It swept in from the sea, scouring the flat landscape where I lived. Any solitary, unprotected trees grew sideways, bowed down in an unequal battle against the relentless wind. It was as far from the capital as you could get, a land on the edge of Europe. My home dialect was never one you heard on the television, and it always met with indulgent smiles from people in the big city. If they understood what we were sa ..read more

Artist: -> Ernst Haas Book: -> The American West Publisher: -> Prestel Ernst Haas, Snail’s Pace, 1960 © Ernst Haas/Getty Images Ernst Haas, Seattle Settlement, 1975 © Ernst Haas/Getty Images Ernst Haas, TV And Shadows, circa 1975 © Ernst Haas/Getty Images Ernst Haas, Premium Rates Apply, 1978 © Ernst Haas/Getty Images About The Book The photographer behind Life magazine’s first ever all-color photographic essay, Ernst Haas made – and captured – history as an early adapter of Kodachrome film. The Austrian-born artist had already established himself as a black and white photogr ..read more

Book: -> Broken Spectre Publishers: -> Loose Joints & 180 Studios & Converge 45 Artist: -> Richard Mosse Untitled film still from Broken Spectre © Richard Mosse 2022 courtesy Loose Joints Dionaea Muscipula with Mantodea © Richard Mosse 2022 courtesy Loose Joints About The Book Devastation in the Amazon rainforest and the climate change it triggers tend to unfold in ways that are too vast to comprehend, too minute to perceive, and too normalised to see. In an attempt to render the scale and urgency of the Amazon’s extensive, impending collapse, Richard Mosse’s m ..read more

Artist: -> Clément Chapillon Book: -> Les Rochers Fauves Publisher: -> Dunes Editions © Clément Chapillon by courtesy of Dunes Editions © Clément Chapillon by courtesy of Dunes Editions © Clément Chapillon by courtesy of Dunes Editions About The Book In his new series, Clément Chapillon explores the notion of geographical and mental isolation through an island space in the Aegean Sea. If the word “isolated” literally means “shaped like an island”, we can rightly ask ourselves what form do the time, the other, beliefs and the imaginary take in this finite world bordered by the ..read more

Artist: -> Wolfgang Bellwinkel Book: -> Vast Land Publisher: -> Hartmann Books Mandalay © Wolfgang Bellwinkel by courtesy of Hartmann Books Yangon © Wolfgang Bellwinkel by courtesy of Hartmann Books Naypyitaw © Wolfgang Bellwinkel by courtesy of Hartmann Books About The Book Between the year 849 and the present, Myanmar has had an astounding 22 capitals, while the seat of government has changed 39 times. Vast Land by Wolfgang Bellwinkel is a photographic study of the country‘s last three capitals: Mandalay (1857–1885), Yangon (1885–2005) and Naypyitaw (since 2005). All of them ..read more

Artist: -> Alys Tomlinson Book: -> Gli Isolani (The Islanders) Publisher: -> Gost Books Issohadore, Mamoiada, Sardinia © Alys Tomlinson by courtesy of Gost Books La Donna ‘Faldetta Cupaltata’, Tempio Pausania, Sardinia © Alys Tomlinson by courtesy of Gost Books Is Sonaggiaos, Ortueri, Sardinia © Alys Tomlinson by courtesy of Gost Books Sos Corriolos, Neoneli, Sardinia © Alys Tomlinson by courtesy of Gost Books About The Book The photographs in Gli Isolani (The Islanders) by Alys Tomlinson, inhabit a hinterland between fiction and reality. Over a period of two years ..read more

Artist: -> Saul Leiter Book: -> Unseen Saul Leiter Publisher: -> Kehrer Saul Leiter © Saul Leiter Foundation by courtesy of Kehrer Saul Leiter © Saul Leiter Foundation by courtesy of Kehrer About The Book Now widely acclaimed as one of the world’s greatest photographers and pioneer of color photography, Saul Leiter (1923–2013) remained relatively unsung until he was rediscovered by curators and critics in his early 80s, and his work has been drastically re-evaluated over the last two decades. Leiter’s images evoked the flow and rhythm of life on the mid-century streets of New Yo ..read more