(back)ground by Daichi Koda
From the moment we fight our way into the world they look after us and nurture us. They teach us right from wrong, and believe in us when...
From the moment we fight our way into the world they look after us and nurture us. They teach us right from wrong, and believe in us when...
The nice thing about being in here is that it is warm. I can feel sunshine on my face, but a gentle breeze - always the perfect...
Well the dust has settled on the fifth annual Offprint London, so I thought I would take a few minutes to share my thoughts. Firstly I...
If you listen carefully you can hear the sound of brittle twigs and dry leaves as they give beneath your feet, and the sigh of the wind...
A number of adjectives spring to mind when viewing Peter Waterschoot's book At the Skin of Time. Sensual, sinister, threatening, erotic....
Nothing's Coming Soon is the first book from young American photographer Clay Maxwell Jordan, and it is a thing of quiet meditative...
Every year I start off wondering whether I will see enough new work to genuinely fill this list, and every year the wealth of talent and...
Mona Kuhn has been producing beautifully observed collections of nudes in natural settings for some years now. There is something gentle,...
“Look I’m wearing all the colours” is the first book by photographer Rikard Österlund. A very personal study, which recounts his day to...
In 2012 Peter Dekens arrived quietly onto the photo book scene with the wonderful Touch. A beautifully conceived, and elegantly simple...
Luxurious is one adjective that encapsulates the mood behind Christopher Anderson's Approximate Joy. Before we even open the book, it’s...
Ending by Leif Sandberg is not an easy book. It is not supposed to be. It is a powerful, cathartic work of raw honesty and self...
Japanese artist Eiki Mori is an openly gay man living in Tokyo. He has already produced two highly successful books that look at various...
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...