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Shutter Hub Pop-Up Photobook Library Catalogue

 

The Shutter Hub Pop-Up Photobook Library features a curated selection of over 100 photobooks, zines, and independent publications created by photographers and publishers from around the world, highlighting and championing a broad selection of photobooks ranging across as many photography genres and themes as possible.

Running alongside the Shutter Hub OPEN 2026 at Cambridge University from 19 January to 02 April 2026, it’s tenure will also include two weeks as part of the famous Cambridge Festival.

The Photobook Library is open to everyone and fully accessible to the public to come in and view the books any time they like (as long as the building is open!). It will also be accessible during the Shutter Hub OPEN 2026 Exhibition Launch and the Shutter Hub OPEN 2026 Curator’s Talk and Tour. Visitors can also view this online catalogue of every publication featured in the library, providing a means for people to buy directly from the photographers, to get in touch, share and ask questions.

Click on the links in the catalogue below to find out more about the book, most books are available to order directly from the photographer or publisher.

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99 Photographs

Peter Pfrunder, in collaboration with Teresa Gruber (eds.) / Lars Müller Publishers

Since 1971 the Fotostiftung Schweiz has been collecting archives of photographers and outstanding works of photographic history. Now its 50th anniversary gives rise to a curated look at this collection.

ISBN 978-3-03778-678-9
19 × 27 cm / 232 pages / 99 photographs / hardback
£37 / Find out more about 99 Photographs here.

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A Collection of Latin American Modern Architecture

Leonardo Finotti / Lars Müller Publishers

Known for his non-judgmental approach, Finotti allows the viewer to get an insight into the richness and variety of Latin American architecture – from stadiums, to public buildings and private housing.

ISBN 978-3-03778-503-4
30 x 24 cm / 160 pages / 103 photographs / hardback
£42 / Find out more about A Collection of Latin American Modern Architecture here.

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a nail in his shoe

Denise Pensky / Self-published

Denise’s father was a decorated soldier when he returned from World War II, and he brought home some deep, invisible wounds that would affect their relationship for the rest of his days.  In this photobook, Denise incorporates his photographs of life as a soldier with images she has created in response to his story.

20.3 x 20.3cm/ 72 pages / soft-touch hardcover
£38 / Find out more about a nail in his shoe here.

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Across Ground

Lukas Felzmann / Lars Müller Publishers

Developed in tandem between 2017 and 2024, the two volumes of Across Ground take us on an allusive journey through the Golden State’s fifty-eight counties, revealing seemingly liminal zones located in between cities, national parks and landmarks.

ISBN 978-3-03778-764-9
20.7 x 31cm / 384 pages / 240 photographs
£65 / Find out more about Across Ground here.

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Architecture and Beauty

John Balsom / GOST

Architecture + Beauty is a compendium of personal projects by photographer John Balsom, drawing upon disparate series ranging from diving boards in Australia, the cadets on a USSR training ship, the interior of longest ship operating on the Great Lakes in the US and a multinational, multi-sport event for athletes from Portuguese-speaking nations.

ISBN 978-1-910401-67-5
28.8 x 22 cm / 132 pages / 35 duotone and 51 colour images / hardback clothbound
£40 / Find out more about Architecture and Beauty here.

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Artist Statement

Cesca Diebschlag / Self-published

“This book is a manifesto; a statement of why I make the work I make.” – Cesca Diebschlag

A5 / 16 pages / unbound
£10 / Find out more about Artist Statement here.

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AUTO PHOTO 01

Various Photographers / Shutter Hub Editions

Featuring The Top 100 images selected for AUTO PHOTO Awards 2022, AUTO PHOTO 01 celebrates and showcases creative automotive photography from photographers around the world.

ISBN 978-1-7399632-4-8
14.8 x 21 cm / 116 pages / 100 photographs / softcover
£15 / Find out more about AUTO PHOTO 01 here.

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AUTO PHOTO 02

Various Photographers / Shutter Hub Editions

Featuring The Top 100 images selected for AUTO PHOTO Awards 2023, AUTO PHOTO 02 celebrates and showcases creative automotive photography from photographers around the world.

ISBN 978-1-7399632-6-2
14.8 x 21 cm / 116 pages / 100 photographs / softcover
£15 / Find out more about AUTO PHOTO 02 here.

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AUTO PHOTO 03

Various Photographers / Shutter Hub Editions

Featuring The Top 100 images selected for AUTO PHOTO Awards 2024, AUTO PHOTO 03 celebrates and showcases creative automotive photography from photographers around the world.

ISBN 978-1-7399632-8-6
14.8 x 21 cm / 116 pages / 100 photographs / softcover
£15 / Find out more about AUTO PHOTO 03 here.

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AUTO PHOTO 04

Various Photographers / Shutter Hub Editions

Featuring The Top 100 images selected for AUTO PHOTO Awards 2025, AUTO PHOTO 04 celebrates and showcases creative automotive photography from photographers around the world.

ISBN 978-1-0685676-2-9
14.8 x 21 cm / 116 pages / 100 photographs / softcover
£15 / Find out more about AUTO PHOTO 04 here.

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Between These Times: From Land's End to the Scottish Border

Dan Bowhay / Self-published

What freedoms and independence does the disabled concessionary bus pass truly afford people with disabilities? Photographer Dan Bowhay spent 10 Days, 19 hours, 33 minutes, and 15 seconds travelling the length of England, from Land’s End to the Scottish Border near Berwick-upon-Tweed, on local buses and within the restrictions of a disabled bus pass.

22.86 x 31.75cm / 144 pages / hardcover
£265 / Find out more about Between These Times: From Land’s End to the Scottish Border here.

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Big Sky

Adam Ferguson / GOST

Adam Ferguson began photographing Australia’s interior in 2013 in an attempt to dispel sentimental and outdated narratives around the ‘Outback’. His photographic survey, made over a 10-year period, depicts fading traditional events, shrinking small towns, Aboriginal connection to Country, the impacts of globalisation and the adversity of climate change to illustrate the complex realities of contemporary life in the ‘Outback’.

ISBN 978-1-915423-44-3
29 x 35 cm / 88 pages / 46 photographs / hardback
£50 / Find out more about Big Sky here.

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BODY COPY

Mitchell Moreno / GOST

BODY COPY is a photo-text series by artist Mitchell Moreno (they/them) exploring the performance of queer masculinities in digital culture.

ISBN 978-1-915423-49-8
21.5 x 29.4 cm / 196 pages / 44 images/ hardback
£50 / Find out more about BODY COPY here.

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Brythonic

Dylan Garcia / Self-published

Dylan Garcia, the winner of 2024 Format/Daylight Award, explores the themes of, myth, history and the natural world, and how they relate to us today. The Brythonic Legends of Cornwall, Wales and Brittany are his starting point.

£35 / Find out more about Brythonic here.

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Buried in Style: Artistic Coffins and Funerary Culture in Ghana

Regula Tschumi / Kehrer Verlag

For more than twenty years Regula Tschumi has researched and photographed the Ghanaian funeral cult. Her astonishing, vibrantly colorful images depict Christian and traditional funeral ceremonies, bizarre installations, and various forms of laying out the deceased, as well as spectacular trends in figural coffin design over the past two decades.

ISBN 978-3-969001-89-9
28 x 22cm / hardback
£46 / Find out more about Buried in Style: Artistic Coffins and Funerary Culture in Ghana here.

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Canadian Rangers

Alan Gignoux / gignouxphotos

The Canadian Rangers are part-time reservists, taken mainly from the indigenous Inuit population, who provide a military presence in remote, isolated and coastal communities of Northern Canada.  Acting as the “eyes and ears in the north,” they are a vital component of the Canadian Forces in supporting national sovereignty.

21 x 14 cm / 52 pages / 41 photographs / softcover
£20 / Find out more about Canadian Rangers here.

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Charred Beauty

Zaklina Anderson / Self-published

Charred Beauty is a photographic project documenting the landscape in the aftermath of two forest fires in Cascais, Portugal. It explores the notions of destruction and rebirth. It also serves as a reminder of the consequences of human impact on the environment, particularly the escalating threat of forest fires in the Iberian Peninsula. Photographed between July 2023 and November 2024, it contains 70 pages.

33 x 28 cm / 70 pages / hardcover
£70 / Find out more about Charred Beauty here.

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Chernobyl

Pierpaolo Mittica / GOST

Chernobyl by photographer Pierpaolo Mittica is a document of the communities who inhabit and pass through the exclusion zone—an area covering approximately 2600 km2 around the site of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster of 1986.

ISBN 978-1-915423-38-2
19.9 x 27.2 cm / 224 pages / 126 phototgraphs / hardback
£50 / Find out more about Chernobyl here.

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Cines de Cuba

Carolina Sandretto / Skira

In 1953, Cuba had 694 cinemas and theaters. Havana alone had 134, more than New York or Paris. In 2014 photographer Carolina Sandretto set out to find and photograph, with a 1950’s medium-format camera, the remaining cinemas from that golden era. This book is the visual document of her journey.

ISBN 978-8-857241-41-8
394 pages / hardcover
£33 / Find out more about Cines de Cuba here.

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Death and Other Belongings

Will Green / GOST

Death and Other Belongings is a study of loss, fear and legacy. Photographer Will Green caught Covid and lost both his parents to the virus within the course of just two months. The photographs in his forthcoming book were made throughout this intense period when— concurrent with the Covid-19 pandemic—his personal world imploded.

ISBN 978-1-915423-59-7
29 x 21.3 cm / 104 pages / 48 images / hardback
£40 / Find out more about Death and Other Belongings here.

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Defense Language

Claire Beckett / GOST

The photographs in Defense Language show costumed role-players, elaborate Hollywood-inspired sets and staged tableaus on military bases across the United States. Artist Claire Beckett embedded herself on these bases between 2006 and 2023 to explore the depiction of Arabs and Muslims during counterinsurgency training for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

ISBN 978-1-915423-98-6
28 x 22.7 cm / 192 pages / 136 images / hardback
£45 / Find out more about Defense Language here.

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Dereenacappera

Caitriona Dunnett / Photoireland

“I carried out a place-based enquiry at Dereenacappera on the Beara Peninsula, West Cork. Over two weeks I explored and photographed the land. From Eyeries, I followed the coast to Kilcatherine Point, past the old British Coast Guard Station and the Hag of Beara where the fossilised face of Cailleach Beara can be found staring out to sea, forever waiting for her husband Manannán, the Sea God, to return.” –  Caitriona Dunnett

14.8 x 21 cm / 32 pages / softcover
£6 / Find out more about Dereenacappera here.

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Don't Worry, I'm Fine

Maryna Syrovatka / Self-published

Don’t Worry, I’m Fine is Maryna Syrovatka’s debut photobook, developed from a long-term project about displacement and personal trauma, an archive of a time when lives split into “before” and “after.”

ISBN 978-80-570-6748-1
24 × 32 cm / 340 pages / hardcover
£70 / Find out more about Don’t Worry, I’m Fine here.

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Edges of Recession

Steve Ferrier / Studio Contraflow

Photographs of the south and southeast coast in the late eighties/early nineties. From Clacton-on-Sea to Weymouth, with a short spin around the Isle of Wight.

21 x 14.8 cm / 80 pages /59 photographs / softcover
£12 / Find out more about Edges of Recession here.

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Encounters: Denise Scott Brown Photographs

Izzy Kornblatt (ed.) / Lars Müller Publishers

“Encounters” presents, for the first time, an essential collection of Scott Brown’s photography from the 1950s to the 1970s: the formative decades during which Scott Brown departed her childhood home of Johannesburg to study in London, traveled through Europe, moved to the United States, developed the profound interest in postwar suburbia from which “Learning from Las Vegas” would emerge and joined her husband Robert Venturi in practice.

ISBN 978-3-03778-794-6
24.5 x 17 cm / 434 pages / 383 photographs / hardcover
£56 / Find out more about Encounters: Denise Scott Brown Photographs here.

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Ephemera

Annika Thörn Legzdins / Self-published

The images depict urban vegetation – street environments and growing communities – in some of the world’s largest cities: in particular New York and Rio de Janeiro. These are places that create a sense of community, experiences, and other values for those that take care of and visit them, although here they are presented absent of people.

22.8 x 32 cm / 88 pages / softcover
£20 / Find out more about Ephemera here.

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EVERYDAY DELIGHT

Various Photographers / Shutter Hub Editions

EVERYDAY DELIGHT might be something to be enjoyed between the rise and set of the sun, it’s a prompt to look for joy, to appreciate the little things – flowers growing through cracked pavements, cake crumbs on a plate, rippled shadows, low sun through high trees, accidental colour schemes in the street, raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens… hang on!

ISBN 978-1-7399632-3-1
14.8 x 21 cm / 116 pages / 100 photographs / softcover
£15 / Find out more about EVERYDAY DELIGHT here.

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Far away from home: the voices, the body and the periphery

Hristina Tasheva / Self-published

“Far Away From Home: The Voices, the Body and the Periphery” investigates the questions of what it means to be a communist today or to define yourself as one and how the interpretation of history and politics of remembering influence the formation of our identities and our view of the future.

£62 / Find out more about Far away from home: the voices, the body and the periphery here.

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Faultlines

John Volynchook / GOST

John Volynchook travelled by bicycle and on foot to photograph fragments of UK landscapes under threat from fracking. The images in his book Faultlines, were made between 2015 – 2021 and inspired by the stories gathered from people he met along the way.

ISBN 978-1-915423-31-3
23 x 29 cm / 88 pages / 48 images / hardcover
£40 / Find out more about Faultlines here.

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Flower Feed Flourish

Lucia Ravens / Self-published

Featuring 120 stunning photographs of vibrant gardens and farm life, the book weaves together essays, prose, and an interview with an environmental ethicist, while also highlighting the voices of youth. It reflects on themes of food security, regenerative agriculture, and collective creativity, showing how grassroots artistry can inspire change.

20.3 x 25.4 cm / 250 pages / 120 photographs
£49 / Find out more about Flower Feed Flourish here.

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FOOD STORIES

Various Photographers / Shutter Hub Editions

From the simple fried egg to the Michelin-starred masterpiece, the grabbable snack or the family recipe passed on through generations, every meal has its place. Within the pages of FOOD STORIES, photographers invite you to join them at the table as they serve up a slice of their own food stories.

ISBN 978-1-7399632-7-9
14.8 x 21 cm / 116 pages / 100 photographs / softcover
£15 / Find out more about FOOD STORIES here.

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Frozen Resilience

Chris Wong / Self-published

Photographed during my second winter as an immigrant, Frozen Resilience is more than an artistic experiment. It is a journey of adaptation, transformation, and inner reflection. Through this project, I seek to capture the quiet strength that emerges in the face of life’s challenges.

19.4 x 28.4 cm / 22 pages / 23 photographs / hardcover
£42 / Find out more about Frozen Resilience here.

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Glad Tidings of Benevolence

Moises Saman / GOST

Published to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq, Glad Tidings of Benevolence brings together Moises Saman’s photographs taken in Iraq during this period and the following years, with documents and texts relating to the war.

ISBN 978-1-910401-77-4
19.5 x 26 cm / 384 pages / 200 images / softback
£65 / Find out more about Glad Tidings of Benevolence here.

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Global Village

Mark Eden / Self-published

Wherever we come from and wherever we’re going to, we all have hopes and dreams and needs. Through stunning images and immersive stories Global Village delves into the things that make us all different, the things that make us similar and why it matters.

ISBN 978-0-646-71728-9
30 x 25 cm / 228 pages / 100+ images / hardcover
£47 / Find out more about Global Village here.

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Grid 178

Nick Haseltine / Archidustrial Ltd

Based on OS map 178, Grid 178 shows the industrial landscape of the River Medway and borders to the River Thames.

21 x 14.5 cm / 38 pages / softcover
£9 / Find out more about Grid 178 here.

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Haddo Reimagined

Susan Orr / Kelly Pearl Publishing

Haddo Reimagined is an exciting collaboration between fiction writer Rae Cowie and photographer Susan Orr, focusing on a selection of the fantastic features that make Haddo Country Park so special.

ISBN 978-1-738469-90-1
21.6 x 21.6 cm / 82 pages / paperback
£18.99 / Find out more about Haddo Reimagined here.

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Haiti

Bruce Gilden / GOST

Bruce Gilden first journeyed to Haiti in 1984 to document the famous Mardi Gras festivities in Port au Prince. He has continued to return to Haiti, and this new expanded edition of his book includes over thirty additional photographs made up until 2010, completing Gilden’s vision of the county.

ISBN 978-1-915423-07-8
21 x 29 cm / 144 pages / 81 images / hardcover
£45 / Find out more about Haiti here.

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Here and There

Jillian Edelstein / GOST

Here and There documents Edelstein’s family odyssey and expands to encompass photographs made throughout her career, inextricably linked by the thread of human displacement.

ISBN 978-1-915423-00-9
24.5 x 19 cm / 264 pages / 166 images/ hardcover
£45 / Find out more about Here and There here.

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High Visibility (Blaze Orange)

Jaclyn Wright / GOST

High Visibility (Blaze Orange) combines original images, performance, archival photographs and maps to show the impact of late capitalism and settler colonisation on the landscapes of the Western United States.

ISBN 978-1-915423-02-3
16.5 x 24 cm / 192 pages / hardcover
£45 / Find out more about High Visibility (Blaze Orange) here.

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HOME

Various Photographers / Shutter Hub Editions

The holding of hands, the warmth of a smile, a sentiment, or sense of belonging. The comfort of home doesn’t always come with four walls. Home can be anything, anywhere.

ISBN 978-1-068567-61-2
14.8 x 21 cm / 116 pages / 100 photographs / softcover
£15 / Find out more about HOME here.

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How Can It Still Be Home?

Ghaleb Cabbabé / Kehrer Verlag

How can you feel safe and secure in a place marked by war and disillusionment? Ghaleb Cabbabé explores this question in How Can It Still Be Home?, a highly intimate, emotional, and multilayered documentary about his native Lebanon. Created over a period of more than five years, his work questions the perception and ambivalent notion of home, ties, and belonging.

ISBN 978-3-969001-92-9
24.8 x 21.6cm / 120 pages / hardback
£42 / Find out more about How Can It Still Be Home? here.

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Hundred Acre Wood

Jan Beesley / Self-published

Hundred Acre Wood is more than the home of Winnie the Pooh; it is the lost inner landscape of childhood and innocence. To Jan Beesley, it represents the capacity for wonder and joy, which can sometimes be hard to reach as an adult.

25 x 20 cm / 60 pages / softcover
£20 / Find out more about Hundred Acre Wood here.

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Hydroelectric Sublime

Beatrice Gorelli, Keiichi Kitayama (eds.) / Lars Müller Publishers

In Hydroelectric Sublime the photographers Beatrice Gorelli and Keiichi Kitayama set out to capture the area’s awe-inspiring terrain, and found themselves on a three-year odyssey to incover the intricate bond between humans, energy and water.

ISBN 978-3-03778-738-0
24 × 30 cm / 176 pages / 162 images / hardback
£47 / Find out more about Hydroelectric Sublime here.

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Hyenas of the Battlefield, Machines in the Garden

Lisa Barnard / GOST

Hyenas of the Battlefield, Machines in the Garden by Lisa Barnard, is a study into the ‘unholy alliance’ between the military, the entertainment industry and technology and the role of the screen in these relationships.

ISBN 978-0-9574272-9-7
21.6 x 28 cm / 192 pages / softcover
£35 / Find out more about Hyenas of the Battlefield, Machines in the Garden here.

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I Am a Stranger in This Country

Frederik Ruegger / Kehrer Verlag

Rüegger’s lively, multi-layered paintings capture all the excitement and social interaction in the rural cities where travellers traditionally meet to exhibit horses, but also to participate in a variety of cultural activities, including selling goods and making music together. Rüegger’s title I Am a Stranger in This Country reflects his status as a visitor and also that of the travelers as ›outsiders« in British and Irish society

ISBN 978-3-969001-91-2
24.5 x18.4cm / 96 pages / hardcover
£42 / Find out more about I Am A Stranger In This Country here.

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Instability

Eric Zeigler and Aaron Ellison / Snap Collective

Watch for long enough, and anything that appears to be stable will reveal its true perpetual state of instability. But imaging devices record single glances of the world: Crack! Trees fall, shutters snap, photographs are fixed. We have been conditioned to expect a photograph to capture decisive moments, but how do we know which ones are decisive?

ISBN 978-87-7620-398-6
£111 / Find out more about Instability here.

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Internal Memories External Memories

Carolina Sandretto / Self-published

Internal Memories is a project about memory and heritage. External Memories is a project about the passing of time. Independetly published in 2020 this double book speaks about the lockdown and what lies inside of homes and all of us.

£30 / Find out more about Internal Memories External Memories here.

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It Can Never Be The Same

Lorenzo Tugnoli / GOST

The photographs in It Can Never Be The Same were made by Lorenzo Tugnoli in Afghanistan between 2019-2023— a pivotal time of transition and upheaval. Rather than traditional reportage, the collection of images in the book form a reflective journey.

ISBN 978-1-80598-002-5
30.7 x 24.5 cm / 116 pages / 79 images / hardcover
£45 / Find out more about It Can Never Be The Same here.

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joining the dots...

David Morgan-Davies / Self-published

Following a move back to South Wales in 2019 David spent time exploring and re-connecting with the country and landscape he left as a child. On a walk around the post-industrial landscape of Blaenafon he took with him his 40-year-old SLR camera and some expired film.

20 x 25 cm / 56 pages / hardback
£25 / Find out more about joining the dots… here.

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Mountains of Change

Danny Bach / Self-published

Mountains of Change tells the story of Sa Pa’s transformation from 2017 to 2024. The changes driven by the wave of tourism development in Sa Pa serve as a typical example for many regions in Vietnam and other places around the world.

ISBN 978-604-613-552-4
25 x 25 cm / 284 pages / hardcover
£35 (signed edition) / Find out more about Mountains of Change here.

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Mutiny

Merlin Daleman / GOST

In 2017, photographer Merlin Daleman embarked on a journey through the economic North of the UK. Originally from the West Midlands, Daleman has lived in the Netherlands for most of his adult life. Driven by curiosity to understand the divisions in the UK made evident in the 2016 referendum, he returned to photograph. He revisited the previously familiar with the eyes of an outsider.

ISBN 978-1-915423-90-0
27.1 x 19.9 cm / 256 pages / 123 images / hardcover
£45 / Find out more about Mutiny here.

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My America

Diana Matar / GOST

In the US, approximately 1000 people continue to die each year in encounters with police.  More than any other industrialised nation. My America is an archive of and memorial to victims of these encounters.

ISBN 978-1-910401-43-9
19.5 x 25.4 cm / 304 pages / 110 images / hardcover
£50 / Find out more about My America here.

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NIGHT MOODS

Various Photographers (co-curated by Shutter Hub and Justin Carey) / Shutter Hub Editions

The night has long been a mysterious landscape. Today’s night photographers are inspired to uncover and disclose these nocturnal mysteries, that stubbornly endure despite our always-on 24-hour economy.

ISBN 978-1-7399632-5-5
14.8 x 21 cm / 116 pages / 100 photographs / softcover
£15 / Find out more about NIGHT MOODS here.

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Non Grata

Åke Ericson / GOST

Since 2009, Swedish photographer Åke Ericson has been documenting the everyday lives of Roma people across Europe. The resulting photographs create an honest portrait of a community ‘Non Grata’.

ISBN 978-1-910401-18-7
23 x 30.5 cm / 140 pages / 67 tri-tone illustrations / hardcover
£45 / Find out more about Non Grata here.

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North North South

Ayda Gragossian / GOST

Los Angeles is a constantly shifting, fragmented city with a landscape that is both navigated and determined by the car. To create the photographs in North North South, the Iranian American artist Ayda Gragossian wandered through different areas of the city. She documented the spaces, objects, and textures that are often overlooked when life is in constant motion.

ISBN 978-1-915423-81-8
19.5 x 25 cm / 104 pages / 52 images/ hardcover
£45 / Find out more about North North South here.

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Painters' Tools

Sarah Larby / Self-published

Painters’ Tools explores the hidden labour of creativity through an intimate study of artists and the tools they use. It is a typological series of close-up images of the objects of making that highlights the quiet beauty of everyday materials and the often-overlooked relationship between maker and tool.

20 x 15 cm /200 images / paperback
£30 / Find out more about Painters’ Tools here.

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People Have Always Told Stories

Lars Dyrendom and Inuk Jørgensen / Breadfield Press

Stories have always existed, but they are shaped, forgotten, or reclaimed depending on power, place, and time. Lars’ and Inuk’s work represent two narratives that in different ways illuminate Greenland’s history and memory and its colonial structures but now and then.

ISBN 978-91-988210-8-6
£35 / Find out more about People Have Always Told Stories here.

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Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Imperfections

Mandy Barker / GOST

Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Imperfections is a typology of discarded clothing fragments found around the coast of the UK. A homage to the work of pioneering botanist and photographer Anna Atkins (1799-1871) – the unique cyanotype images in the book mimic different species of marine algae found in waters around Great Britain.

ISBN 978-1-915423-79-5
19.9 x 25.6 cm / 160 pages / 76 images / hardcover
£50 / Find out more about Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Imperfections here.

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POETRY

Various Photographers / Shutter Hub Editions

The crumpled sheets of an empty bed, fresh cut flowers in a drinking glass, cellophane dancing in a gust of wind – what does poetry look like? In these 100 poems without words, photographers share the images that express their feelings and ideas, exploring poetry in all its connotations.

ISBN 978-1-7399632-0-0
14.8 x 21 cm / 116 pages / 100 photographs / softcover
£15 / Find out more about POETRY here.

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POSTCARDS FROM GREAT BRITAIN

Various Photographers / Shutter Hub Editions

Postcards from Great Britain is a largescale project from Shutter Hub, inviting photographers to share their visions of British culture through photographic images taken over the four year period of 01 January 2016 and 31 December 2020.

Not available for purchase / Find out more about POSTCARDS FROM GREAT BRITAIN here.

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Questions (After Brecht)

Karen Knorr / GOST

Karen Knorr photographed the building site of the disused Parisian Art-Deco Department store, La Samaritaine, in the summers of 2017 and 2018. In this new book, the resulting photographs, transformed with solarisation and infused with playful fantasy and surrealism are accompanied by lines from Brecht’s poem: ‘Questions from a Worker Who Reads’ (1935).

ISBN 978-1-910401-48-4
21.5 x 30 cm / 88 pages / 24 images / hardcover
£35 / Find out more about Questions (After Brecht) here.

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ROAD TRIP

Various Photographers / Shutter Hub Editions

There’s something wonderful about a road trip, a certain sense of nostalgia and adventure that can’t be matched. In ROAD TRIP, photographers transport us through their imagery, show us how they travel, where they go, the places they stop, the reasons they travel, and everything in between.

ISBN 978-1-7399632-2-4
14.8 x 21 cm / 116 pages / 100 photographs / softcover
£15 / Find out more about ROAD TRIP here.

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Rome – Las Vegas Bread and Circuses

Iwan Baan / Lars Müller Publishers

Released fifty years after Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi’s now canonical “Learning From Las Vegas” (1972), the images in this book capture the atmosphere of both cities from the sky to the ground, revealing unexpected similarities and rediscovering Las Vegas’s extravaganza on the streets of Rome.

ISBN 978-3-03778-753-3
17 × 22.7 cm / 320 pages / 180 images / paperback
£42 / Find out more about Rome – Las Vegas Bread and Circuses here.

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Route de la Belle Etoile

Daniel Stephen Homer / GOST

Route de la Belle Etoile (Route of the Beautiful Star) documents the world of amateur astronomers across four continents. Over five years, photographer Daniel Stephen Homer traced a tangled web of collaborators who have made an outsized contribution to professional astronomical research.

ISBN 978-1-915423-50-4
24.5 x 29 cm / 128 pages / 67 images / hardcover
£40 / Find out more about Route de la Belle Etoile here.

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Rückbau

Hans Schlimbach / Self-published

Rückbau is about the dismantling of a nuclear power plant in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It was supposed to be the largest nuclear power plant in the GDR, and if it had been completed, it would have been one of the largest in reunified Germany. The village of Niedergörne was razed to the ground for the construction, the residents were relocated. At times, up to 10,000 people worked on the 700-hectare site. The remaining reactor block, a huge concrete block, has been dismantled piece by piece for over 30 years.

£30 / Find out more about Rückbau here.

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Saved: Objects of the Dead

Jody Servon, Sonya Clark, Alex Espinoza, Swati Khurana, Leslie Gray Streeter / Artsuite

Saved: Objects of the Dead is a photographic and poetic exploration of the human experience of life, death, and memory by NC-based artist Jody Servon and CA-based poet Lorene Delany-Ullman.

ISBN 979-8-88680-764-6
27.94 x 24.76 cm / 136 pages / 48 images / hardcover
£35 / Find out more about Saved: Objects of the Dead here.

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Silent Witness

Cornelia Suhan / GOST

In Silent Witness photographs of private houses and public buildings in which war crimes—specifically rapes of women of all ethnic groups living in Bosnia and Herzegovina—were committed during the Bosnian War (1992-1995) are combined with testimonies from the women who survived.

ISBN 978-1-915423-21-4
17 x 23.4 cm / 192 pages / 89 images / hardcover
£40 / Find out more about Silent Witness here.

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Small Museum

Simone Rosenbauer / GOST

Photographer Simone Rosenbauer travelled across every state and territory in Australia to document the country’s small and unique museums, taking nearly 3000 photographs and conducted extensive interviews with museum custodians to delve into Australia’s cultural memory for Small Museum.

ISBN 978-1-915423-82-5
19.5 x 24.8 cm / 192 pages / 137 images / hardcover
£45 / Find out more about Small Museum here.

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Snow

Max Sher / The Velvet Cell

Snow is an intimate photographic exploration of Kars, a Turkish city steeped in centuries of complex history. Once the capital of Armenian kingdoms and later a strategic frontier for Byzantines, Seljuks, and Ottomans, Kars embodies the cultural and political entanglements of empires.

ISBN 978-3-911782-00-5
21 x 28 cm / 120 pages / hardcover
£33 / Find out more about Snow here.

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Soviet South

Jordan Nicholson / Self-published

Soviet South is about the unusual architecture of the former Soviet regions of Central Asia, the Caucasus and Mongolia. Explore these places with a look at all kinds of architecture, from bus stops to abandoned airbases, from concrete brutalist structures to colourful mosaics.

A5 / 195 pages / 190 images / hardcover
£24 / Find out more about Soviet South here.

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Spill

Daniel Beltrà / GOST

Spill features aerial photographs of the Deepwater Horizon Gulf Oil Spill. Collectively, these images present a damaged sea with the abstract appearance of veined marble in deep blue, green, pink and rust. The human presence takes the form of tiny toy-like helicopters and ships, and an oil platform that, on first glance, seems to be a fantastical Chinese sea palace.

ISBN 978-0-9574272-4-2
23 x 30.5 mm / 64 pages / hardcover
£30 / Find out more about Spill here.

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SPUD

Brian Griffin / GOST

SPUD, a new book by Brian Griffin, inspired by a residency in Béthune-Bruay in Northern France, marks the centenary of the end of World War I. With the coincidence of ‘SPUD’, the informal British word for potato also being slang for low ranking British soldiers in World War I, Griffin began to explore the relationship between the potatoes grown in the soil and the soldiers who were killed in the very same place, over 100 years ago.

ISBN
16.5 x 23.5 cm / 224 pages / 130 images / flexibound
£35 / Find out more about SPUD here

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Straw and Cold Stone

Anne Campbell / Self-published

This small artists’ book  contains a series of images taken of blackhouses in the Outer Hebrides, printed using Lith processes.Each of the 25 pictures is accompanied by a few lines, describing  various housing that the author has rented, subtly reflecting on the similarities still existing between migration past and present.

£20 / Find out more about Straw and Cold Stone here.

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Subject/Spaces

Larry Halff / Larry Halff Studio

Subject/Spaces traces the quiet architecture of perception through sixty abstract monochrome images of twelve iconic buildings across the world.

28.6 x 23.5 cm / 135 pages / hardcover
£50 / Find out more about Subject/Spaces here.

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Tangier Island

Alan Gignoux / gignouxphotos

Tangier Island is home to the Chesapeake Bay’s isolated community of “watermen,” who have lived off crab fishing since the mid-nineteenth century. The island is sinking and shrinking at an alarming rate because of geological changes and rising sea levels caused by global warming.  Without government support to construct sea walls, the island’s 436 residents may be the first refugees of climate change in the continental U.S.A.

ISBN 978-1-0684389-0-5
21 x 14.9 cm / 64 pages / 50 photographs
£20 / Find out more about Tangier Island here.

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Tarrafal

João Pina / GOST

João Pina draws upon his family history to tell the story of the Portuguese concentration camp at Tarrafal, Cape Verde which operated between 1936 and 1974. The visual history of the camp is told through the only known photographs taken inside the Tarrafal camp, combined with correspondence, archives, objects and Pina’s own contemporary photographs.

ISBN 978-1-915-423-37-5
22.8 x 18.6 cm / 284 pages / 172 images / hardcover
£65 / Find out more about Tarrafal here.

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The Analogue Dispatch - Issue N.2

Sara Sieger, Mariya Sizova, Nuno Alexandre Serrão, Henny Jenkins, Elliot Masters, Darina Motuzenko, Camilla Bettinelli, Beatriz Tamarit Carabias, Henry Vowles, Michaela Ritter, Kyle Fennessy, Karolina Maranowska, Bryan Berryeater, Jacob Ackarath, Jana, Tyler David Hollenkamp, Cristóbal Escanilla / The Analogue Dispatch

The Analogue Dispatch is an independent, editorially curated platform dedicated to the global film photography community. Through our curated magazine, we showcase the work of contemporary film photographers across the globe, and the inspiring stories behind the images.

14.8 x 21 cm / 80 pages
£22 / Find out more about The Analogue Dispatch here.

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The Barra Collection

David McKeran / Self-published

Barra is one of Scotland’s most remote populated islands. it’s part of the Outer Hebrides and is known as the “Hebrides in miniature”.  It’s increasing popularity as a destination suggests something very special about the island. The Barra Collection is a series of 20 portrait photographs which captured the essence of the people of Barra (known in Gaelic as Na Barraich) and modern island life in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.

£30 / Find out more about The Barra Collection here.

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The Enchanted Ones

Stephanie Pommez / Kehrer Verlag

In the vastness of the Brazilian Amazon Forest lives a community known as Ribeirinhos or river dwellers. Their traditional midwives not only welcome life, but also carry on stories as they travel the rivers that run through the landscape. The Enchanted Ones by Stephanie Pommez is a tribute to her legends and myths.

ISBN 978-3-969001-74-5
27 x 24.6cm / 128 pages / hardcover
£44 / Find out more about The Enchanted Ones here.

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The Fumes of Mars

Katerina Angelopoulou / GOST

One of the deadliest wildfires ever recorded took place on 23 July 2018 just 30km from the historical centre of Athens in Greece. Artist Katerina Angelopoulou survived the fire and her forthcoming book The Fumes of Mars combines her photographs with personal testimonies from other survivors, timelines, maps and reports.

ISBN 978-1-915423-88-7
19.5 x 25.5 cm / 232 pages / 101 images / hardcover
£45 / Find out more about The Fumes of Mars here.

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The Good Citizen

Benjamin Rasmussen / GOST

The Good Citizen explores how American society came to be what it is today. Over a period of eight years, photographer Benjamin Rasmussen travelled to 43 states and was introduced to over 500 people as he investigated the impact of the country’s complex history on contemporary society.

ISBN 978-1-910401-80-4
20 x 25 cm / 240 pages / 131 images/ hardcover
£45 / Find out more about The Good Citizen here.

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The History War

Larry Towell / GOST

The History War is a book of photographs, collages and ephemera which begins with a timeline tracing Ukraine’s evolution from the 5th century and its long struggle for independence.

ISBN 978-1-910401-33-0
19.9 x 28.5 cm / 372 pages
£75 / Find out more about The History War here.

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The Holding Place

Emma O’Brien / Photoireland

The Holding Place is a meditation on the physical, psychological, and political landscape of Motherhood. The small world they inhabit, the recurring daily routines, the scant time available, and the intimacy of the mother-child relationship all shape the work.

ISBN 978-1-999739-43-0
26 x 32 cm / 124 pages / softcover
£30 / Find out more about The Holding Place here.

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The Intimacy of Making Three Historical Sites in Korea

Hélène Binet / Lars Müller Publishers

Swiss French photographer Hélène Binet takes us on a visual journey through a world of stone, walls and gardens that define and celebrate the Korean art of making.

ISBN 978-3-03778-652-9
24 × 30 cm / 236 pages / 151 images / hardback
£56 / Find out more about The Intimacy of Making Three Historical Sites in Korea here.

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The Leopard Print Portraits

Gemma Taylor / Shutter Hub Editions

Gemma has captured a unique and joyful series of street portraits, focusing on people (and sometimes their four-legged friends!) proudly wearing leopard print. The result is a captivating collection of 100 portraits – a heartfelt tribute to self-expression, everyday style, and the bold spirit of this iconic pattern.

ISBN 978-1-0685676-0-5
14.8 x 21 cm / 116 pages / 100 photographs / softcover
£15 / Find out more about The Leopard Print Portraits here.

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The Powers That Be

Alan Gignoux / gignouxphotos

Inspired by political campaign posters from the Polish 2023 parliamentary elections, The Powers That Be photobook contemplates the links between electioneering and political outcomes.

ISBN 978-1-9999610-9-1
21 x 26.2 cm / 78 pages / wire bound
£35 / Find out more about The Powers That Be here.

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The Roman Conceit

Don McCullin / GOST

25 years ago, Don McCullin embarked on a journey to create a cultural and architectural survey of the remains of the Roman Empire. The previously unpublished photographs in this book focus on the marble sculptures of the heroes of antiquity preserved in museums in Denmark, Germany, Italy, Lebanon, Libya, Turkey, United Kingdom and the USA.

ISBN 978-1-915423-54-2
29.2 x 37.5 cm / 128 pages / 60 images / hardback
£80 / Find out more about The Roman Conceit here.

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Russian Rust Belt

Alan Gignoux / gignouxphotos

Russian Rust Belt incorporates Gignoux’s photographs of the Ural industrial region taken during a residency with the National Centre for Contemporary Art in Yekaterinburg in 2009.  The design of the book takes as its inspiration the Soviet era photobooks produced between 1920 and 1941.

ISBN 978-1-9999610-6-0
18.6 x 27.7 cm / 264 pages / 182 images / hardbound
£80 / Find out more about The Russian Rust Belt here.

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The Spirit of Birds

Robert Broughton / Self-published

An artistic and spiritual exploration of avian life as a reflection of the human spirit, blending black-and-white photography with reflective writing to inspire connection, reflection, and a renewed bond with the natural world.

ISBN 978-1-0687546-0-9
80 pages / 21 images / hardcover
£30 / Find out more about The Spirit of Birds here.

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This Bittersweet Life

Paul van der Stap / Slowdocs Publishers

Between 2018 and 2024, documentary photographer and filmmaker Paul van der Stap made numerous trips to Transnistria, a difficult-to-access, unrecognised mini-state wedged between Moldova and Ukraine. What began as curiosity about a forgotten corner of Europe, evolved into a years-long quest for the soul of a country sandwiched between East and West. He photographed, observed, and spoke to the people while he was working under the radar of the authoritarian regime.

ISBN 978-9-08093-759-8
23 × 17.5 cm / 252 pages / hardcover
£39 / Find out more about This Bittersweet Life here.

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TIME. Permanence and Variations

Claudio Zainrato / pamphlet

TIME. Permanance and Variations, part of a trilogy of TIME. books, focuses on the Venetian islands of Sottomarina, Pellestrina, and Burano, documenting the passage of time on the walls of the urban scene – a continuous and almost imperceptible renewal, drawn out from its latent background through repeated photographic campaigns in the exact same places, alleys, and canals, along which unfolds a disordered multitude of colors: a tradition that has become the taste and style of an entire community.

£90 / Find out more about TIME. Permanence and Variations here.

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To Pigeon-Fill the Sky

Duncan Petrie / Self-published

A photographic storybook about the creative process, artificial intelligence, and, of course, pigeons. To Pigeon-Fill the Sky is the story of an artist. It contains 100 pages of analog photography, digital photography, real pigeons, and digital pigeons.

£15 / Find out more about To Pigeon-Fill the Sky here.

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TO THE SEA

Various Photographers / Shutter Hub Editions

TO THE SEA reminisces on childhood holidays and collecting seashells, dog walks on the beach, and the soothing sound of gently lapping waves. But we must remember, although it’s bigger than all of us, vast and powerful, the sea very much needs us to look after it.

ISBN 978-1-7399632-9-3
14.8 x 21 cm / 116 pages / 100 photographs / softcover
£15 / Find out more about TO THE SEA here.

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Travel in Time - Lochaber, Scotland

Estelle Slegers Helsen / New Traces

William Sutherland Thomson MBE (Glasgow, 1906 – Isle of Skye, 1967) was a Scottish photographer who roamed his beloved country. Estelle Slegers Helsen (Belgium, 1965) is a photographer and history researcher who has contributed to various social and cultural projects. In Travel in Time she revisits landscapes, streetscapes and seascapes from the past.

A5 / 64 pages / 60 images
£7.50 / Find out more about Travel in Time – Lochaber, Scotland here.

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Valentin

Ana Blumenkron / Self-published

Valentín asks what is love and what is its purpose. The book seeks to challenge accepted ideas about how love is experienced, with the stereotype that romantic love is the most important in our lives.

A5 / perfect bound
£20 / Find out more about Valentin here.

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We The Spirits

Jason Gardner / GOST

Photographer Jason Gardner travelled across 15 countries to document traditional Carnival in its myriad of manifestations. Seeking out villages and towns where festivals are at their most folkloric or least visited by outsiders, Gardner collaborated with ethnographers and local experts to engage with and understand each festival.

ISBN 978-1-915423-14-6
22 x 26.5 cm / 232 pages / 127 images / hardcover
£50 / Find out more about We The Spirits here.

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You Can See Me But I Don't Exist

Alan Gignoux / gignouxphotos

While photographing refugees in France, Belgium, Austria, and Sweden in 2018, Alan Gignoux noticed that a recurring theme among them was the gradual erosion of self, resulting from prolonged periods of living in limbo at the fringes of society. You Can See Me But I Don’t Exist is a visual metaphor for the corrosive impact of the asylum process on individuals.

ISBN 978-1-9999610-7-7
34.1 x 29.7 cm / 87 pages / 33 images / hardbound
£75 / Find out more about You Can See Me, But I Don’t Exist here.

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