Having recently submitted a best of list to this very blog*, I also devoured all the other contributions, in the hope of finding any of...

I love street photography. If it is done well, then you truly get a sense of atmosphere, of place. These days, we are all participants in...

Very rarely do I see a photo book these days and find myself at a loss for words. Every artist has a story to tell or a point to make....

At first glance it is likely that very few people will be upset by this book….but look a little closer, and it very quickly becomes...

Every now and again, without warning you stumble across an absolute gem of a book. A concept where everything is right. The subject, the...

About eighteen months ago I bought a book called Betwixt and Between by American artist Dennis Neal Vaughn. It was a beautiful little...

Books of landscape photography are tricky things. How do you present what is very often flawlessly beautiful, but somehow clichéd...

The day seemed very appropriate for the discovery of the book. The sky was watery grey, the London streets were wet with the rain that...

The new book by Polish photographer Pawel Jaszczuk, High Fashion, is at first glance a collection of pictures of drunk and exhausted...

For a book that appeared out of nowhere from an artist I had never heard of, One Eyed Ulysses is not only of the most impressive releases...

It is not unusual for photographers to produce work that rides the zeitgeist, however this long term project by Yusuke Hashida not so...

“Manila is a shit hole….and you’re going to love it !” Well, it got my attention. Brian Sergio is a name that is going to be big, of this...

In 2013 Amani Willett released Disquiet, one of the most beautiful books of that year. A sequence of images that contrasted the first...

Although regularly listed as one of the wealthiest countries on the planet, we – the UK –  along with most other “first world” countries...

In 2013 one of the most beautiful photo books that I have ever seen was released. The majestic Grays the Mountain Sends by Bryan...

“I wonder where he’s gone? He went out on his motorbike and hasn’t been back since” This moving new book from Japan, The Absence of Two,...

I’m no Elvis Presley fan….but my mum is, and as I was growing up, the strains of songs like Wooden Heart, Blue Suede Shoes, Return to...

One of the first images in Yusuke Takagi’s Kagerou is the shadow of a hand hovering over the swollen belly of a pregnant woman. A gesture...

Over the last few years I have been delighted to see the appearance of some fine work emerging from the Philippines, and about time is...