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Photobook Review: Responds Quickly, Friendly By Marens Van Leunen
‘Responds Quickly, Friendly’ is an inventory of the belongings of the photographer’s father. It’s a creative inventory: the lamps, coffee pots, and chairs that he owned are photographed as sculptural forms that constitute a domestic uncanny.
Photobook Review: PÂLE By Gabrielle Duplantier
PÂLE is a book of dreamscapes, a book where Duplantier creates a world that is both timeless but also very specific. Through images of rural settings, tousle-haired women and girls, and technology free interiors, she takes us into her sensory world.
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Photobook Review: Down By The Hudson By Caleb Stein
Down By The Hudson features images of the upper reaches of the Hudson River and the people who swim there. It’s a book about the flow of water around you, being surrounded by trees and the sky, and the freedom that brings.
Photobook Review: Traces By Ishiuchi Miyako
Traces is a catalogue of the work of Ishiuchi Miyako. Its heart revolves around the traces of life, of war, of her mother, of the histories that linger on in the fragments of threads, skin, shadows, and hair that they leave behind.
Photobook Review: Goalkeepers – From The Fields Of Europe By Hans Van Der Meer
In Goalkeepers, Hans van der Meer continues his search for the soul of football in the lower reaches of the European fields; a soul found in the location of the pitch, the struggle against the elements, and the ultimate absurdity of the beautiful game.
Photobook Review: Water Over Thunder By Larry Sultan
Water Over Thunder by Larry Sultan combines images from his hugely influential photography projects with Sultan’s thoughts on how we think about photographs, how we make photographs, and how we read photographs.
Photobook Review: Maputo Diary By Ditte Haarløv Johnsen
Maputo Diary is a photographic expression of love for the city of Maputo, and for its people, in particular the Manas, the queer community that Johnsen befriended and photographed over a period of 20 years.
Photobook Review: Juno By Louise Honee
Juno is the Goddess of childbirth, of marriage, of loyalty. This is a photobook that celebrates both the mythology and the reality in a book where the lightness of the design brings the worlds of nature and womanhood together.
Photobook Review: The Killing Ditch By Damien Wootten
Head to the North of England and eventually you reach Hadrian’s Wall. This was the northernmost reach of the Roman Empire in Britain. The Killing Ditch records the wall and the traces of empire, borders, and exclusion that still resonate in Britain today.
Photobook Review: Inspiration By Matilde Søes Rasmussen
Audrey Munson was America’s first great model. She posed for statues, she starred in films, she was committed to an asylum, and that’s where she died at the age of 104, meeting the tragic fate that seems to be a condition of muse-hood.
Photobook Review: Riverland By Marjolein Martinot
Riverland is a book about a river, about the water that flows through it, the flora that lives along its banks, the people that paddle, and swim, and bathe in it. It’s a book about a river that preserves, sustains, and elevates life.
Photobook Review: Quartet By Daido Moriyama
Quartet is a collection of the images from Daido Moriyama’s early photobooks. It details the time when Moriyama was photographing Japan through its economics, politics, and culture, together with the cynicism he felt for photography.
Photobook Review: Too Many Products Too Much Pressure By Janet Delaney
Too Many Products Too Much Pressure is a photobook about a father who sells beauty products to California beauty salons at the turn of the 1980s. It’s a book about love, about understanding, about a way of earning a living that has all but disappeared.
Photobook Review: With Love. From An Invader – Rhododendrons, Empire, China And Me By Yan Wang Preston
With Love From An Invader tells the story of rhododendron ponticum. Native to Southwest China and the Mediterranean, it’s a species of plant which contains multi-layered histories; of colonialism, landscape, and ideas of migration, invasion and belonging.
Photobook Review: Our Hidden Room By Mohamed Hassan
Our Hidden Room tells the story of Mohamed Hassan’s father. It’s the story of how he became a photographer, the brutal treatment meted out to him as he suffers from bipolar disorder, and his eventual unexplained death in 2007.