13 Photobooks For Spring 2026

Browse the latest titles that caught the eyes of PhMuseum's Artistic Director through this new curated guide, aiming to spotlight publications by artists from our community and beyond.

3,350 gr. Photographs And Letters On Obstetric Violence by Valeria Cherchi, published by Mousse Publishing

3,350 gr. Photographs and Letters on Obstetric Violence arises out of this personal story to investigate obstetric violence as a widespread, yet often unacknowledged, form of abuse. Moving between image, archive material and letters, Cherchi constructs a polyphonic narrative that brings together the myriad voices of the characters involved, opening up a space in which previously silenced experiences can finally be heard.

Mixedness Is My Mythology by Farren van Wyk, co-published by FW: Book and Deadbeat Club

Mixedness Is My Mythology examines the deep historical ties between South Africa and the Netherlands, focusing on the complex links between migration, race, and the legacies of colonialism and apartheid. By juxtaposing her current life in the Netherlands with her roots, van Wyk explores how personal stories collide with the heavy legacies of colonialism and power. This dual upbringing serves as a cultural crossroads, allowing her to blend South African, Dutch, and African American influences into a unique visual narrative.

The project has been supported through the 1st prize of the PhMuseum 2022 Women Photographers Grant.

The Skeptics by David De Beyter, published by RVB BOOKS

David De Beyter’s project investigates UFO counterculture, using the visual culture surrounding this phenomenon both as subject and method. Rooted in the “Canary Islands sightings” and the skeptical practices of scientific ufology, the work examines how images participate in the construction and deconstruction of collective imagination. Bringing together photographs, 16mm film stills, and archival materials, the project operates within a space where documentation and speculation continuously overlap. The essays by Gil Bartholeyns and Michel Poivert position the project within broader reflections on visual belief, myth-making, and the shifting role of documentary practices today.

The project has been exhibited at PhMuseum Days 2024 International Photography Festival.

Cara Foresta by Guido Gazzilli, published by Grani Edizioni

This intimate body of work is shaped by time, the landscape, and material processes. The project arises from the artist's physical and emotional immersion in the forest, where he seeks an escape from a city that drained his spirit. Surrounded by nature, he listens to the quiet life of the forest and begins to shed the heavy burden of his past, particularly the dark, painful cycle of his relationship with his father. Inspired by the forest, its light and shadows, its humid air, and its slow rhythms, the images are formed through experimental techniques and natural interventions, allowing nature itself to leave its mark on the work.

Wet Ground by Aria Shahrokhshahi, published by Loose Joints

Wet Ground is a long-term project by artist Aria Shahrokhshahi, created while he lived and volunteered in Ukraine from 2019 through the ongoing war. Rather than focusing on stereotypical imagery of war, these black-and-white images capture the quiet, often strange realities of daily life under pressure. A recurring focus on youth and subculture finding ways to survive and thrive reflects the radical and improvised paths life in Ukraine takes in the present moment. Wet Ground lingers in the spaces around conflict, where threat, loss and anticipation shape the daily existence of a generation of young Ukrainian men and women, even as they continue to carve out moments of resistance, rebellion, and joy.

The project was presented in a 12-page feature on PhMuseum Annual #01 and won the Photo-Match at Lodz Fotofestiwal 2025 prize through the PhMuseum 2025 Photography Grant.

LAMF: Three Days In Berlin, 1987 by John Gossage, published by Magic Hour Press

Originally conceived as a hand-assembled book for his friends, John Gossage’s LAMF: Three Days in Berlin, 1987 is an intimate document of a place. Images shot with a telephoto lens and 6000 ASA film portray the darkness and division of the areas around the Berlin Wall and the space of the “no-man’s land”. This new edition of LAMF, made in collaboration with the photographer, features an expanded edit of 44 images printed in lush tritone with special silkscreen UV varnish to emulate the original's tipped on gelatin silver prints. The book also comes with a new interview with publisher Jordan Weitzman about the book’s genesis and Gossage's long fixation on Berlin.

Axolotl by Francisco Cantón, published by Art Paper Editions

Axolotl is a quiet, immersive visual journal by Francisco Cantón, shaped over seven years of suspension—between countries, identities, and moments that refuse to settle. Like the creature it’s named after, the book resists resolution. It does not arrive; it lingers. The axolotl, an animal that never completes its metamorphosis, exists in a permanent in-between—neither beginning nor ending, neither youth nor adulthood. Cantón’s images inhabit this same state. They observe rather than declare, hovering between movement and stillness, surface and depth. What emerges is a tender tension: a fear of change, of becoming someone else, of losing curiosity in the act of moving forward.

The book dummy was developed through PhMuseum 2024/25 Folio Online Masterclass On Photobook Making.

Probable Cause by Henri Airo, published by Kult Books

In January 2012, Henri Airo’s sister was killed by a repeat drunk driver, an event that split his family’s history into a permanent "before" and "after." While the media focused on sensationalist drama and the police on technical data, the deeper social realities of addiction and circumstance were left unexamined. After discovering the original police report, Airo felt the official record was incomplete. Probable Cause is his attempt to fill those gaps. By weaving together police archives, media narratives, and personal testimony, Airo uses re-enactment to visualize the moments the documents glossed over. In reconstructing the perpetrator's final hours, the project moves beyond simple blame to explore the complex, often ignored layers of addiction in Finnish society. Through speculation and shared memory, Airo reclaims a personal perspective from the cold precision of the official file.

The project was developed through PhMuseum 2021/22 Criticae Online Masterclass On Documentary Photography.

Genocídio do Yanomami by Claudia Andujar, published by Void

Yanomami Genocide: Death of Brazil is a body of work by Claudia Andujar, first presented in 1989 at the São Paulo Museum of Art as an immersive installation combining projected colour slides, plastic screens and mirrors. Originally produced in black and white, the images were later re-illuminated by the artist, shifting their tone and urgency in response to the political moment. In its recent book form, the project is once again recontextualised, bringing the images into the present and renewing their relevance as the Yanomami continue to face ongoing threats. The photographs move between portraits and landscapes, tracing a close relationship between the people and their environment. Through experimental techniques, Andujar evokes the spiritual and shamanic dimensions of Yanomami culture.

The Axe Will Survive The Master by Matthew Connors, published by SPBH Editions / MACK

Created over the course of twelve years and across continents, Matthew Connors’s photographs trace the contours of an era shaped by confrontations with authoritarian power. From the Arab Spring to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Connors traverses scenes of global upheaval marked by disintegrating social contracts, political violence, and the lingering reverberations of the Cold War. Bringing together photographs made between 2013 and 2025, this volume concludes a trilogy meditating on power, resistance, and the fragile fate of democratic ideals. His images move between the geopolitical and the intimate, drawn as much from the fabric of daily life as from the front lines of history.

It Can Never Be The Same by Lorenzo Tugnoli, published by GOST Books

A collection of photographs by Lorenzo Tugnoli, shot in Afghanistan between 2019 and 2023. The images capture a crucial period of transition for the country, moving beyond the conventions of traditional reportage. The work examines the ethics of the gaze and the power inherent in visual storytelling. Tugnoli explores the gap between those who document a conflict and those who endure its reality, questioning how our external perceptions of a complex nation are constructed. With contributions from Habib Zahori and Francesca Recchia, the project serves as both a historical record and a critical inquiry into the privilege of representation.

Moon City by Mimi Mollica, published by Dewi Lewis Publishing

Moon City is a quiet meditation on the tension between the ancient influence of the Moon and the relentless ambition of London's financial district. The work is fueled by a contemporary sense of urgency, reflecting a world fractured by climate change, political instability, and social isolation. Through this dialogue between nature and capitalism, Mollica invites us to step out of our individual bubbles and look upward. Featuring texts by Iain Sinclair and Brad Feuerhelm, the project serves as a necessary pause, a reminder of the vast forces that dwarf our modern anxieties and the vital perspectives we often lose in the noise of daily life.

A couple of images from the project were published in INSIDE, the 2nd book of PhMuseum trilogy on mobile photography.

Marca de Agua by Stella Meyer and Sarah Schneider, published by Fluq Ediciones

Marca de Agua by Stella Meyer and Sarah Schneider is a long-term visual investigation of water privatization in Chile, focused on the Aysén region. The artists follow water’s path across the territory through photographic interventions, translating research on water rights and extraction points into visual form with a cyanotype technique. The project explores how water is marketed, including advertising from bottling and energy companies. The work centers on water as a vital resource, tracing its presence in daily routines, and all stages of life, showing the unique connections between people and water across the landscape. Arranged in a flowing sequence, the images investigate the paradox of water as a vital source of life, yet a commodified resource.

The project was developed through PhMuseum 2023/24 Criticae Online Masterclass On Documentary Photography.

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Join us in Bologna on 3–4 October for the second edition of Photobook Mania, our publishing fair taking place at Serra Madre in conjunction with PhMuseum Days 2026.

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