Photobook Friday

SPECTATOR captures the after-hours in the city of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.Through Spectator, the photographer Kelvin Mah reveals his journey of finding connections with the city he grew up in. Oftentimes, Kelvin feels like he is a spectator, striving for success,...

The Banda Journal berkisah tentang warisan penjajahan dan eksploitasi selama berabad-abad di Kepulauan Banda. Terdiri dari dua belas pulau kecil yang dikepung lautan luas, Banda adalah saksi paling awal peraduan nasib orang-orang Eropa di Asia dan memegang peranan penting dalam...

At their best, the pictures add to our understanding of the surface event documented and reveal something profound about the people pushing that history forward. ― The Los Angeles Times. This exceptional book, published here in an accessibly priced paperback...

LOVER TO LOVER "Row to row, back to back, lover to lover and black to red". This series of street snaps gets inspiration from a line of "Lover to Lover", a song by Florence+the Machine. Serjenq imagines that there is...

"The objects I capture include daily used items, flowers I’m obsessed with, and retransformed packaging items. Work got more challenging during the pandemic, and being confined to one place worsened. Taking pictures is a safe space that allows me to...

DAMNSEL is a visual compendium showcasing over 50 young women and femme-identifying individuals in Singapore who express their identities through their style, unveiling their inherent strength and power. DAMNSEL also serves as a time stamp in history documenting the current...

The iconic Italian Vespa by Piaggio has a special place in the heart of Indonesian motorists. The earliest version that can be seen on the street dates back to the 1960s, when the Indonesian peacekeeping mission in Africa returned to...

“We want people to be able to see us from afar.” Ironic, given the fact that most of them — the owners and workers — want to stay invisible. This photobook is a tribute to Tom Yam restaurants, known locally...

  A photo-novel of Dayanita Singh’s earliest years as a photographer. A return to a time when Dayanita Singh (born 1961) did not yet consider herself a photographer, Let’s See is the probing remembrance of “an eye I no longer...

An inveterate traveller, Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004) captured the world with his camera, justly earning himself the title of ‘the eye of the century’. Between trips overseas, he regularly photographed Paris, although he rarely spoke about the city that he had...

For the past thirty years, Japanese photographer Naoya Hatakeyama has undertaken a photographic examination of the life of cities and the built environment. Each of his series focuses on a different facet of the growth and transformation of the urban...

Ansel Adams (1902-1984) produced some of the 20th century's most iconic photographic images and helped nurture the art of photography through his creative innovations and peerless technical mastery.The Print--the third volume in Adams' celebrated series of books on photographic techniques--has...

An-My Lê: On Contested Terrain is the first comprehensive survey of the Vietnamese American artist, published on the occasion of a major exhibition organized by Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. Drawing, in part, from her own experiences of the Vietnam...

Curator and writer Marvin Heiferman has focused on the influence of photographic images on culture and history in projects such as Fame After Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1999) and Image World: Art and Media Culture...

When Diane Arbus died in 1971 at the age of 48, she was already a significant influence—even something of a legend—for serious photographers, although only a relatively small number of her most important pictures were widely known at the time....

Over the last seven years, Melissa O’Shaughnessy has photographed daily on the streets of New York. As one of a growing number of women street photographers contributing to this dynamic genre, O’Shaughnessy enters the territory with clarity and a distinctly...