Photobooks of 2025 - A personal selection.

As another year draws to a close, it appears to be list time once again.

So here are a dozen of my personal favourites from 2025.

I haven’t wilfully tried to list the most esoteric or elitist titles, just beautiful books that have been published with love and respect.

Some are already gone, some you will have to be fast with and others will offer the luxury of (a little) time but in my opinion, they are all worth having. 

That - after all - is why they are here.

I hope you enjoy them.

Angela Boehm  - Minus 30 (Hartman Press)

Released in last gasps of 2024, this is my late arrival for this year. A stunning debut which is as much a comment on climate change as it is flawless landscape photography. 

A book which in itself exhales a flawless beauty comparable to anything within is covers.

Rather like breath in cold air, it rapidly disappeared but if you get the chance….

Important Flowers (Corinne Day, Sofia Coppola ed) - Virgin Suicides (Mack)

The late Corinne Day’s on set photography for Coppola’s feature-length directorial debut finally finds an audience in this beautiful Mack publication. Edited by Sofia Coppola.

Elizabeth Alderliesten - Not Shameless (Self published editon of 50 copies).

A reminder that for all the successes and failures in our lives, the fine clothes or the rags, the trapping of style and personality that visually reach out and whisper constructed realities in our ears.

These pictures say " none of it matters".

When all is said and done, standing here under this light, this is reality, this is who and what we are.

Each and every one of us.

No more no less.

A spine tingling limited edition from a fabulous emerging artist.

No. 223 (Lin Zhipeng) - La Liberté ou l' Amour (2003-2023) ( Kinakaal Forlag)

Twenty year anniversary (retrospective) comprising ten folded softcover books with printed and tied securing band.

In chronicling his own social circle we have been presented with a refreshing portrait of modern China and under the scrutiny of Zhipeng's lens, a more tolerant and welcoming image of - what is often portrayed as - an inscrutable, complex and very misunderstood country.

Anne Arndt - Vanishing (Charcoal Press)

Family, time and the deceit of memory. Arndt confronts the ambiguity of family histories in this stunning book from Charcoal Press.

Harrison Miller - Yellow Pine (Underlife)

Once again the presence of Miller’s father elevates his already flawless landscape photography by incorporating narrative and a human presence. 

Simultaneously delicate and masculine, Yellow Pine continues the artist’s unbroken run of pared back perfection.

Toshiya Murakoshi  - Not to find something, but to just keep staring (Self published)

The title says it all,  a beautiful meditative collection of seascapes which will understandably draw comparisons with the work of fellow Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto. However unlike Sugimoto, whose images were captured at various locations around the globe,  Murakoshi returned to the same area of coast in his home prefecture of Fukushima, in a series of monthly visits that spanned more than a decade.

A stunning example of design and construction, each copy is hand bound with the pictures designed to be viewed individually or folded out

concertina style to form a ten metre long scroll.

Takashi Homma - Portrait of J (Dashwood / Session Press)

“Socially engaged portraiture" A completely appropriate term to describe this elegant collection of portraits from one of the most prominent Japanese photographers, Takashi Homma.

Through sensitively judged images of children and adolescents to cultural icons and influential figures of the day, Homma presents a cartography of Japan through its people.

Fabrizio Strada - Strada (89 Books)

Strada is a portrait of a city at speed. The minutiae that makes the place tick and shapes its personality.

Through colour jewelled blurs to moments of pristine monochrome perfection, Fabrizio Strada succeeds in reminding us what is seen even when we are not looking.

Visual poetry in moments of mundane.

A wonderful surprise of a book that reveals more of itself with every reading.

Risa Uzuki - Yuumei (Between this World and the Next) (Self published)

The surreal and dreamlike world of Uzuki is committed to print in a quite astonishing and visceral document.

Almost poster sized, the images are bound together and presented rolled in a cardboard tube.

An incredible book with gentle nods to the cinematic worlds of Hideo Nakata and Koe Insoe.

Janet Delaney - Too Many Products Too Much Pressure

Too Many Products Too Much Pressure is an intimate personal "fly on the wall" documentary series in which Delaney shadowed her father, a beauty salesman for a week in the 1980s, shortly before his retirement.

It turned out to be a week that would open her eyes and help to see her father in a completely different light.

Another gorgeous example of design and execution from LA based Deadbeat Club.

Zora Sicher - Geography (Dashwood)

The interplay and connections between people and their environments is one of the major tropes utilized by Sicher in this massive debut photobook.

With a formidable heft, this is the second beautifully designed book from New York based Dashwood Books, to appear on my list this year.

Daniel Arnold  - You are what you do (Loose Joints)

I am sure that I will not have been the only person to have been eagerly awaiting this debut release from Daniel Arnold.

As ever Loose Joints do not disappoint. Bright, bold, energetic, empathetic, heartbreaking and celebratory. You are what you do is a book of street photography that reinforces and even redefines the core of the genre.