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.
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.
Photobook Review: Yoko By Masahisa Fukase
Yoko is a book about Yoko Miyoshi, the former wife of Masahisa Fukase. When they were married he photographed her endlessy; at home, on the street, with family, and finally after she divorced him, through the images of ravens he made in his sorrow.
Photobook Review: Jejudo: Forbidden Forest By Hyung-Geun Park
Jejudo: Forbidden Forest tells the story of Jeju Island. The island has a wild, mountainous landscape that also serves as South Korea’s prime island getaway. Jejudo tells the flipside to that story; a history of occupation, conflict, and massacre.
Photobook Review: I Carry Her Photo With Me By Lindokuhle Sobekwa
I Carry Her Photo With Me is the story of Ziyanda, the photographer’s late sister. It’s the story of Sobekwa himself as he searches amidst his sorrow and guilt to piece together who she might have been, and it’s the story of South Africa itself.
Photobook Review: The Mothers I Might Have Had By Caroline Furneaux
When her father died, Caroline Furneaux found a box of slides he had kept. They showed his girlfriends before he married Barbro, who would become Furneaux’s mother. These are the pictures of his former loves, of the mothers Furneaux might have had.
Photobook Review: Frida Forever By Frida Lisa Carstensen Jersø
Frida Forever tells the story of chronic illness, of the broken back that Frida suffered, the hundreds of operations she has undergone. It’s a book of snapshot images, and snapshot words that cut through the pain with their dark humour and intelligence.
Photobook Review: Flashpoint! Edited By Russet Lederman And Olga Yatskevich
Flashpoint! Protest Photography In Print, 1950 – Present is a collection of protest publications: photobooks, posters, pamphlets, and zines are featured from a selection of photographers, artists, and collectives.
Photobook Review: Sons Of The Living By Bryan Schutmaat
Sons Of The Living is a photobook of epic landscapes from the American West. Minerals are taken from these landscapes, roads run through them, people live in them; sons of the living who are all made equal in these most hostile of environments.
Photobook Review: Tell My Love Now By Sara Aue Sobol
Tell My Love Now by Sara Aue Sobol tells the story of two winters, one in Russia, one in Denmark. Those pictures are united by another winter, the depression of the author’s partner Jacob Aue Sobol.
Photobook Review: I'm So Happy You Are Here
I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers From The 1950s To Now is a book featuring work by Japanese women photographers. It’s a book where ‘traditional’ gaze are reversed, identities examined, and the language of photography questioned.