Colin Pantall on Thomas Sauvin’s Quanshen
China – The Shiny Black Book
China – The Shiny Black Book
Netherlands – The everyday lives of two gender dysphoric teenagers, pictured by the documentary photographer Willeke Duijvekam. Mandy and Eva are girls, even though they were born as boys. Willeke
Pakistan – Massimo Berruti’s long-term assignment in the Swat valley, in the provinces of Khyber Pakhtonkhawa, is keeping up with the daily life of the Lashkars. Lashkars are civilian militia
USA – W. Eugene Smith’s The Big Book is a very interesting and unusual three volume set that includes a two volume facsimile of the maquette (book dummy) developed by
Ireland – Paul Gaffney sent me his lovely book, We Make the Path by Walking. It’s a gorgeous book that creates a narrative path by following the paths created by people walking.
Turkey – Taksim Calling is an unconventional poster book that contrasts spontaneously taken iPhone pictures of the Gezi protests by Frederic Lezmi with idealized and oversized vintage postcard-images from Taksim
United Kingdom – In the vein of Francis Alÿs’s Fabiola and Andy Warhol’s Time Capsules, Linda Fregni Nagler has collected seemingly nondescript images and accumulated a meaningful archive, thereby giving
Russia – Rob Hornstra and Arnold van Bruggen have been working together since 2009 to tell the story of Sochi, Russia, site of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games and the
Lithuania – For ten years Andrew Miksys traveled the back roads of Lithuania photographing teenagers in village discos. Most of these discos are located in Soviet-era culture houses where Miksys
Australia – Young Melbourne photographer Emma Phillips’ new body of landscape images is so striking in its minimalist visage that it almost borders on abstraction. Shot amid the dramatic manmade
Japan – I see a photo. I took it. Although many decades have not passed since the shoot, I cannot remember that time in detail. At least I must have
THIS STORY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT India – I had started working on my project CYBERSEX during the months of March and April. I have come to the point where I