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• Moom 2025
• Hardback, 2nd edition, 240p
• New

“I am Bang, and Hsien is my big brother. We are only a year apart in age. Due to our parents’ inability to care for us, Hsien, at the age of two, was sent to live with our grandmother in Chiayi. I, on the other hand, was sent to Chiayi at the age of six when our parents decided to divorce.” - from Tsai Ting Bang’s afterword

Born from the Same Root is presented as a gatefold book, with the left side dedicated to the photographer, Tsai Ting-Bang (A-Bang), and the right side to his brother (A-Hsien). The sequence of images moves from childhood family photos to the vastly different lives they lead as adults. As you turn the pages, the dividing line continually separates the two brothers, symbolizing how, despite sharing the same origin, they have developed into two completely different people. A-Bang chases after worldly success through artistic creation, while A-Hsien, working manual jobs, battles depression and delves into a deeper internal search for meaning. Yet, despite seemingly moving toward opposite extremes, the connection of their shared bloodline continues to pull them towards each other.

This work was initially published as a limited-edition handmade photobook by Shuhezi, with only 100 copies made. It won the Singapore Photography Book Award and was shortlisted for the Arles Photobook Award.

In 2024, Born from the Same Root received the Paris Photo Aperture Foundation Photobook Award, becoming the first Taiwanese creator to win this prestigious prize.

Hardback 2nd edition, limited to 500 copies.

Signed and numbered copy.


Video courtesy of Aperture Foundation.

• Nazraeli Press 2025
• Softcover in acrylic engraved slipcase, 1st edition, 180p
• New

Immersed in a monochromatic landscape of surrealism, Tin Lizards is a testament to the enduring allure of train travel. Each location featured was reached by train, departing from Robert LeBlanc's home base in Los Angeles. As the rhythmic clatter of steel on steel propels LeBlanc forward, he captures the essence of exploration and discovery, weaving a captivating tapestry of photographs from the places he encounters, showcasing the delicate balance between stillness and movement. Tin Lizards is a harmonious collaboration between artistic vision and wanderlust. In this world of monochromatic surrealism, dreams collide with reality, as memories are etched in silver halides, and the world becomes a canvas for contemplation and wonder. From the solitude of his sleeper car to the enchanting hush of small towns and the bustling energy of major cities, LeBlanc adeptly frames these diverse landscapes with an artistic eye that finds beauty in even the quietest moments. This body of work invites us to embark on a poignant voyage, one where the soul of the country reveals itself through the gentle embrace of train travel.

Presented in collaboration with Carhartt Work In Progress, Tin Lizards is printed on silver art paper, its edges bathed in crimson and encased within a crafted acrylic vessel. This inaugural edition is limited to 600 copies and launched in tandem with a co-exhibition with Carhartt WIP and Fahey/Klein Gallery. A set of 20 special editions accompanies the release, each pairing the volume with archival prints and housed in a hand-numbered acrylic box.

• Setanta 2025
• Softcover, 1st edition, 48p
• New

"My photographic work begins with slowness — with looking, waiting, and allowing the image to form gradually. I’m drawn to the quiet edge of things: the way light hovers on a branch, how a shadow moves across a face, or how a single gesture can hold a sense of myth or memory. These moments are often subtle, almost invisible at first, but they stay with me until I find a way to bring them into form.

Process is not separate from meaning in my practice — it is how I come to understand what I’m seeing. I work with both analog and digital tools, often blending darkroom techniques with layered imagery. I’m interested in how light behaves through different materials, how an image can soften or distort through time, and how a photograph can hold something both tender and unresolved.

Figures, natural elements, and symbolic objects recur across my work — not to tell stories, but to create a sense of presence. I think of these images less as documents and more as emotional landscapes. They offer places to pause, to feel, to remember.

In making them, I try to stay open — to let the process guide me as much as I guide it. That openness is what I hope the viewer can feel: a moment suspended, attentive, and quietly alive."  - Sara Silks

Sara Silks is the twenty-third in an ongoing Bi-Monthly series publishing the work of emerging photographers.

48 Page softcover 21cm x 16cm book with card wraparound cover in an edition of 350 copies.

• Setanta 2025
• Softcover, 1st edition, 48p
• New

"My photographic work begins with slowness — with looking, waiting, and allowing the image to form gradually. I’m drawn to the quiet edge of things: the way light hovers on a branch, how a shadow moves across a face, or how a single gesture can hold a sense of myth or memory. These moments are often subtle, almost invisible at first, but they stay with me until I find a way to bring them into form.

Process is not separate from meaning in my practice — it is how I come to understand what I’m seeing. I work with both analog and digital tools, often blending darkroom techniques with layered imagery. I’m interested in how light behaves through different materials, how an image can soften or distort through time, and how a photograph can hold something both tender and unresolved.

Figures, natural elements, and symbolic objects recur across my work — not to tell stories, but to create a sense of presence. I think of these images less as documents and more as emotional landscapes. They offer places to pause, to feel, to remember.

In making them, I try to stay open — to let the process guide me as much as I guide it. That openness is what I hope the viewer can feel: a moment suspended, attentive, and quietly alive."  - Sara Silks

Sara Silks is the twenty-third in an ongoing Bi-Monthly series publishing the work of emerging photographers.

The special edition also contains a 19x14.7cm signed and numbered Giclée print (one of an edition of thirty) - select from dropdown.

Special editions begin shipping 18th July.

• Journal 2025
• Hardback, 1st edition, 152p
• New

When Anders Petersen was a student at Christer Strömholm’s photo school in Stockholm 1966-68, Christer went through Anders’ contact sheets and marked a C on the few photos he could come to terms with.

“I copied several of the negatives marked with C, small strange and hard images that were really just imitations of Christer’s own. They were vulnerable, and I liked them. But they felt as if they didn’t belong to me. After some searching through the contact sheets, I was overwhelmed with all sorts of other photos, ones that neither Christer nor I had previously cared about. Perhaps the eyes become softer over the years and more forgiving. The visual perception changes and the sheets open up to a different interpretation. Not many of the C-marked images remain in this final selection.”

Afterword by Gerry Badger, who writes: “… The pictures contained here were made between 1967 and 1970 in Paris, Genoa, Stockholm and Hamburg, and many of them have been hitherto unpublished … Anders Petersen is in relatively rare company in that he can be regarded as one of the best photographic portraitists. This book can be considered yet another example of why that is undoubtedly the case …”

• Journal 2025
• Softcover, 1st edition, 120p
• New

Published in conjunction with the exhibition and film The Left Shore at the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, 12 June 2025 - 11 January 2026. The exhibition and film bring together photographer Anders Petersen and filmmaker Johan Renck, where the latter has selected images from Petersen’s production from different periods. Johan Renck is also responsible for the selection of images in this book. The meeting was initiated by Angie Åström, who is also curator of the exhibition at the Nationalmuseum.

• Skeleton Key Press 2025
• Hardback, 1st edition. 152p
  
• NEW

In her fifth monograph, A Naturalist Guide to Magic, Norwegian photographer Anja Niemi again embodies a solitary, self-cast character. However, this time, the spotlight drifts toward the essence of nature itself. Niemi’s black-and-white photographs, set against expansive cinematic landscapes, transcend mere imagery to become a hopeful exploration of returning to the instinctual bond between humans and the natural world.

The narrative follows the fictional character, The Naturalist, on a transformative journey of discovery, initially inspired by Niemi’s experiences with a young horse, Mercury. Through lyrical imagery interspersed with Niemi’s poetic notes, the book captures the profound dialogues that can occur between different species, showcasing the magic often overlooked in everyday life. As The Naturalist navigates her adventure, she uncovers a language of connection she had forgotten, learning vital lessons about kindness, equality and the significance of listening.

A Naturalist Guide to Magic invites readers to reflect on the lessons we can learn from the natural world and its sentient beings. It serves as a gentle reminder of how far we have strayed from our instinctive connections with nature and its invaluable wisdom we often disregard. It encourages us to develop a deeper appreciation for the world around us and become more harmonious participants in the natural order.

Signed copy.

• Skeleton Key Press 2024
• Hardback, 1st edition. 112p
  
• NEW

Øyvind Hjelmen’s 30-year practice in photography—as any fortunate gallery director, book publisher, editor, critic, or friend can attest to—has been his presentation of an entire portfolio of photographs contained within a matchbox-sized container. Being Here, Hjelmen’s fourth monograph, a clothbound limited edition of 360 signed and numbered copies, expands and recontextualizes this experience in book form. After opening with a poem by Nobel laureate Jon Fosse, the book takes readers on a visually poetic and interior journey of Hjelmen’s enigmatic photography. The collection reflects a human desire or inclination (similar to photography itself) to leave a mark, to express “I was here” or “We were here,” even if only momentarily. Like Hjelmen’s portfolios, the expertly printed photographs in Being Here are reproduced small but reveal a surprising amount of clarity and possess a quiet resonance. As the open narrative unfolds page by page, evocative themes emerge: home, travel, awakening, abandonment, transcendence, wandering, loneliness, reflection, and memory. The book allows viewers to decode the layers and narratives while inevitably drawing their feelings, memories, and associations into the personal yet universal images. Being Here is a unique book that may be the most true-to-form expression of Hjelmen’s photographic journey.

Signed copy.

• Akio Nagasawa 2025
• Softcover, 1st edition, 120p
• New

"Most of the images that I have been capturing in my photographs, have appeared in the journal “Record” over the twenty years from its launch up to this latest issue, No. 60. In other words, rather than a “Record,” one may actually understand it as my “ID” proper. In addition to the photos shot here in Japan, there are quite a few that I took in other countries, and with 120-180 pages each, each volume of this journal is very much a personal record and memento of my own life and memories.

Me, I will again be clicking away with my camera tomorrow, and the day after that. After all, photography is such a wonderful thing."

- extract from the afterword by Daido Moriyama

Signed copy.

Due in stock mid July, available for pre-order now.

• Fw:Books 2025
• Softcover, 1st edition, 128p
• New

Mountain ridges forming a jagged path towards the horizon. A small mountain lake reminiscent of a womb. Rampantly proliferating barren tree roots. In the photographic project Between the Mountain and the River by Rick van der Klooster, nature is simultaneously overwhelmingly beautiful, eerie, mysterious, and bursting with symbolism.

When he was still a boy, Van der Klooster’s mother, who died at a young age, often took him to her favourite destination: the Alps in western Austria. For the project Between the Mountain and the River, Van der Klooster revisited this area, with the camera serving as his intermediary. During his travels, which took place between 2018 and 2023, he experienced how nature not only mirrored his personal sadness and loss, but also offered comfort and hope. For the first time in years, the artist was able to hear his mother again, in rustling pines and whispering mountain streams. ‘The landscape returned to me what I had lost,’ he explains.

In his work, Van der Klooster is often searching for metaphoric qualities in nature. The series Between the Mountain and the River aims to highlight the spiritual importance of nature to human beings. In his photographs, the mountain landscape is much more than just a place of leisure; it is a portal to a different world, where no-one really dies as long as the landscape remains alive.

• Guest Editions 2025
• Hardback, 1st edition, 88p
• New

The first photobook from US artist Brian Chorski explores the American West and it's role in providing a place to find freedom. Over the course of several summers, Another Patch of Sky moves dream-like through open and undefined spaces, in search of nothing but escape. Without asking for explanation or reason, the only question is whether the land can provide the same. To offer solice without judgement. Absorb without reflection. Exist as a pure object of our desire and desperate need to be somewhere else.

• Guest Editions 2025
• Hardback, 1st edition, 196p
• New

"While we destroy the natural world around us, we have become masters of a stage-managed, artificial ‘experience’ of nature—a reassuring spectacle, an illusion."

Over six years, across four continents, Zed Nelson has examined how we humans immerse ourselves in increasingly simulated environments to mask our destructive divorce from the natural world. From theme parks, zoos and natural history museums, to national parks, African safaris and alpine resorts, this work reveals not only a global phenomenon of denial and collective self-delusion, but also a craving for a connection to a world we have turned our back on.

In a fraction of our Earth’s history, we humans have altered our world beyond anything it has experienced in tens of millions of years. Scientists are calling it a new epoch, The Anthropocene – the age of human. We have concentrated in cities and divorced ourselves from the land we once roamed and from other animals. Yet we cannot face the true scale of our loss.

This work reflects on how, at a time of environmental crisis, a consoling version of nature has been packaged as a curated ‘experience’ – an illusionary spectacle designed to obscure and reassure.

• MFA Boston 2025
• Hardback, 1st edition, 160p
• New

Called "a poet with a camera" by Edward Steichen, Robert Frank (1924–2019) was one of many artists who searched for creative freedom in postwar Paris. It was while he was living in the city in 1949 that Frank produced a seminal volume in his oeuvre: a rare, personal photobook made for his then-girlfriend, artist Mary Frank (née Lockspeiser). In Mary’s Book, the photographer chronicled his time in the city with his poetic, insightful and inquisitive eye, and experimented for the first time with combining text and image.

This singular object proved an important bookmaking exercise for Frank, and remains as evidence of his maturing artistic vision, which led to one of the most influential photobooks of the 20th century, The Americans (1958).

Mary’s Book reproduces this love letter in full for the first time, accompanied by insightful essays from leading scholars. This facsimile clothbound volume, inscribed "this is for you" in Frank’s handwriting, re-creates the series of unbound pages nestled within one another, filled with handwritten notes and hand-cut prints. Readers can experience the Paris of the late 1940s through the visual harmonies of Robert Frank.

Note that care shoud be taken when removing the facsimile edition from the main volume - it is easy to remove but must be gently pulled away.

• Libraryman 2025
• Hardback, 1st edition, 80p
• New

Eriko Masaoka (b. 1983, Japanese) began taking photographs at the age of 20, by visiting small villages across Japan, and while living on a ranch in Hokkaido and in an Ainu community—the latter, of which experiences, shaped her artistic direction.

Without a specific intention in mind, Masaoka decided on her destinations, followed her thoughts, and continued her journey while taking pictures. Subsequent to a decade in the making, this story was concluded.

In this book, people, animals, man-made objects, herself, and nature all have souls and emit life as living organisms, as if in an animistic worldview; comparing all life to a drop of rain and celebrating all life that may be short and fleeting.

The photographs were taken in Hokkaido, Okinawa (and its surrounding islands of Iriomote and Aguni), Kagoshima, Kikaijima, the Tōhoku region (Akita, Aomori, Nagano and Niigata), Tokyo, Osaka, Mount Kōya, Rotterdam in the Netherlands, Gullfoss in Iceland, and the Azores of Macaronesia.

The book contains a preface, in Japanese, written by Eriko Masaoka, with an English translation.

First edition of 700 copies.

• Chose Commune 2025
• Hardback, 1st edition, 168p
• New

Between agitation and lightness, Fusako Kodama depicts the effervescence of modern Japan. From 1960 to 1980, she captures the atmosphere of places and the energy of people. 

Movement is constant; disorder occurs at times; gestures are carefree and instinctive: Fusako Kodama captures forward momentum. Her spontaneous photographs summon surprising perspectives where subjects appear slightly out of sync.

Between restlessness and lightness, Fusako Kodama portrays a certain effervescence of modern Japan. From 1960 to 1980, she captures the atmosphere of cities and villages inhabited by animated beings. Through her unusual and spontaneous framing, the prolific photographer casts a gaze that is both gentle and vibrant over twenty years of Japan.

1960-1980 is the first book by Fusako Kodama published in the West, where she is still relatively unknown. This work aligns with the ongoing efforts of Chose Commune, which aims to shed light on contemporary Japanese photographers beyond their country of origin.

• Kehrer 2010
• Hardback, 1st edition, 104p
• Near fine

Photographer Andrej Krementschouk tells a moving story about homeland and homelessness, roots and identity. The setting is a dilapidated old cottage in the center of a small Russian town, where a group of orphanage-raised homeless people have made a home for themselves on the fringes of society. When Krementschouk chanced upon this group in 2006, they invited him inside and he made some touching observations, capturing despair and addiction on the one hand, but also warmth and tenderness. "Come bury me" – with these words one of the women bid farewell to Krementschouk when he promised to come back to visit the following year. Upon his return in winter 2008, he found nothing but a burned-out shell and learned from the group's sole survivor that the house and its inhabitants had fallen victim to arson. A new building is now going up on the site. This book is dedicated to the memory of the singular people who once made their home there.

New but with faint rubbing to corners of cover.

• Steidl 2011
• Hardback, 1st edition, 326p
• Used: very good - see below

This is the first book of Sternfeld’s largely unseen early colour photographs. In 1969 Sternfeld began working with a 35 mm camera and Kodachrome film, and First Pictures contains works from this time until 1980. Here Sternfeld develops traits that appear in his mature work: irony, a politicised view of America, concern for the social condition. But there are also pictures that bear little relation to his later work: colour arrangements that parallel those of Eggleston, as well as street photography which Sternfeld ceased making in 1976. The photographs in First Pictures were made at a time when colour photography was struggling to assert itself against the authoritative black and white tradition, making this book a revelation both in Sternfeld’s oeuvre and in the history of contemporary photography.

Used book in very good condition but with marking to cover and light handling wear.  Inside excellent, near fine.

• Twin Palms 2025
• Hardback, 1st edition, 96p
• New

In his debut monograph, American photographer Henry O. Head reimagines the peaks and valleys of a defining teenage friendship in the Ozarks where he spent his adolescence. From spring 2023 through summer 2024, Head revisited the terrain of northwest Arkansas and southwest Missouri. He returned to Ponca and Jasper, Purdy, Monett and Pioneer— wild country with limestone bluffs shot through with quartz, where cottonmouths coil on exposed roots by slow creeks, and alligator gar glide like phantoms through the dark.

Twelve Acres recalls boyhood outside of city limits, in the shadows of sycamores, away from institutions and the pressures of social order. In a progression through the seasons, a restlessness presses in, a longing to stave off the rupture of entering an adult reality, with its responsibilities and mundanity. In this meditation on personal history, worlds quiver in a chaos of past and present forms and stark flashes of image begin to wobble in an opaque well. Tops spin. Animals with thirst cup liquid light. Memory remains an ineffable mystery. Twelve Acres is a reverie, wherein the past re-emerges as boys with tick-bitten feet, ears ringing from homemade explosives, clothes stained by the smoke of shoplifted cigarettes, and arms stretched toward higher branches.

• Setanta 2025
• Hardback, 1st edition,192p
• New

• Delpire & Co 2025
• Hardback, 1st edition, 216p
• New
  

Upon visiting Iceland in 2019, Kawauchi encountered geysers like the breadths of Earth, glaciers surpassing human time, and the inner space of a dormant volcano that was reminiscent of the inside of a womb. She had thus experienced the connection to this planet she had never felt before. Iceland was her point of departure; she continued to experience similar sights such as the nature around her home after the COVID-19 pandemic and the winter land of Hokkaido. She opened her majestic solo exhibition “M/E On this sphere Endlessly interlinking” and showcased a fraction of the “M/E” series. Even today, this body of work is been exhibited around the world.

The title “M/E” comes from the first letters of the words “Mother” and “Earth”, “Mother Earth” if read in sequence, and also hints at the word “Me”. It reminds us of the certainty that nature as an infinite existence and the small ubiquitous occurrences from our daily lives are not unrelated, but inseparably connected. As the most recent body of work by Kawauchi who returned to her point of origin –the connection between nature and human beings– and thus took a different look at the world during this turbulent time, this series goes beyond “Ametsuchi” and “Halo” through which she had established her perspective by contemplating nature. Bound by Hans Gremmen, the book appears to be a singular book object. A beautifully written essay, the like of a heartfelt letter, by author, photographer, and art historian Teju Cole concludes this publication.
　

Text in French and English.