I Imagined It Empty by Ruth Lauer-Manenti
Will you dance with me? But you don’t dance. Will you sing with me? ...
Will you dance with me? But you don’t dance. Will you sing with me? ...
There is an undeniable talent in being able to tell a story within the boundaries of a single photograph, especially in the...
“Like a circle in a spiral Like a wheel within a wheel”* The promise of a new book from JM Ramirez Suassi is - for me - something akin to...
”And when I die Will you build the Taj Mahal? Wear black every day of your life? I doubt it” Graceland ~ Boo Hewardine /The Bible We...
"Every picture has its shadows and it has some source of light blindness, blindness and sight" Joni Mitchell I have been spending some...
We all have our private universes, our spaces away from the noises and demands of the outside world. Our retreats and safe places,...
People, always people. To understand what makes a book special, to recognise that moment when it evolves from merely elegantly...
In 2022 Morganna Magee released her debut publication, the hypnotic Extraordinary Experiences. Inspired by her lockdown experience, it...
“Do you have the need to know?” When we were kids our dads did ordinary jobs. They worked in factories or banks or hospitals. They made...
Without a doubt a passion project, this beautiful debut from Dutch photographer Monique Belier is a visual dialogue, a love letter to...
To understand where we come from is to understand who we are. To understand who we come from is to understand what we are. Ever since I...
Melts and blurrs. Lynch did it with cinema, Bacon did it with paint and Olga Karlovac does it with photography. Finding a unique voice in...
Deviation The action of doing something that is different from the usual or common way of behaving… Cambridge Dictionary Different, no...
It is somewhat telling that in a book entitled Dream Catcher, the first image we encounter appears as a receding passage with the word...
My association with Photobook Store and Martin Amis go back the best part of a decade now. I was a customer long before I began ...
As with pretty much any photo book that catches my attention, the initial lure has to be the work itself. In the case of The Island it...
To find out that Price Harrison has a successful career in architecture and design comes as no surprise. An initial examination of his...
Why shouldn't a zine get as much attention as a book? The answer of course, is that there is no reason. The zine is merely (generally...
I have no idea whether Dutch photographer Jennifer Drabbe has affiliations to the fashion industry, however if not then her debut...
Cultural identity and commerce, a fine balancing act. Stefan Canham's study of the northern Vietnamese town Sapa, highlights not only...