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The photobook "Across the Sea" consists of photographs taken by Yoko Kusano during her first stay in London. For Kusano, whose photography captures everyday life's intricacies in sharp detail, it is her first contact with the city and its sights. Her story begins from somewhat distant viewpoint, but gradually Kusano accepts the muted loneliness she feels in this new world and begins to react purely and harmoniously to everything her eyes encounter. Her gaze somewhat blurred and sleepy, her vision yet lights up occasionally. The loneliness of London is the same loneliness she had known in Tokyo, after moving there on her own from her home in Fukushima. What Kusano sees before her is, after all, nothing but the same present moment as it exists anywhere else in the world. With great care, roshin books has combined Kusano's experiences into a single photobook. Born in Fukushima in 1993

When we talk about "Ba ling hou" (born after the 1980s) in China, we are actually talking about the first generation born under the one childpolicy and raised during the reform and opening up led by Deng Xiaoping after the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). This generation grew up together with the Internet and social media, melting into a consumer society that is totally in rupture with the preceding generations. Luo Yang, a photographer born in 1984, is also one of them. In 2007, at the age of 23, Luo started the series Girls, which brought her international recognition. For ten years, Luo Yang followed more than a hundred of women from her generation, recording changes to their bodies and their lives, observing and capturing their delicate transition to adulthood. It's as if the photographer was capturing their (her) emotions as a young woman by holding a mirror up to her own growth and evolution alongside those of her models. Now, Luo Yang is in her late 30s. In the new series Youth that she started in 2019, Luo shifts her focus to a younger generation born in the late 1990s and early 2000s. She continues to explore through Generation Z the changes of contemporary China now globalized and reached on a new scale and tries to preserve a photographic trace of these "atypical characters" in a social context. From Girls to Youth, Luo Yang keeps "documenting" the post-teenagers and young adults that she met in her everyday life, using her works to tell the "story of youth" across generations. She depicts an emerging Chinese youth culture through her work that defies imposed expectations and stereotypes, showing evidence of her subjects' individuality and personality. It is a personal account at femininity, gender, and identity that reflects the profound and ongoing changes taking place in our society.

This is the second in a long-awaited series of photographic books from Union Publishing Limited. Following on from theprevious edition in Los Angeles, this time the setting is the aptly titled London. In 2022, the year of the Queen's death,the city we have become accustomed to seeing has a different look. The photographer is REIKO TOYAMA, one of themost popular fashion photographers of the moment and a frequent collaborator with Union Magazine, and this time,London as seen through her lens is the setting for a collection of gems of photographs that capture the people who liveand breathe the city from a beautiful perspective. By witnessing the miraculous moments that suddenly appear inordinary life, this book will take you on a wonderful journey from place to place.

When we dream, no matter how strange the dream is, we are only carried along by it as a raft adrift on waves. Turn the pages of A Fallen Angel too as if you were a raft adrift on waves. Don''t think for a minute that the girl with the stars and stripes wrapped around her body straddling a broomstick in the manner of a witch is a critique of civilization. Be a spectator of dreams. Yoshihiro Tatsuki is a driver of dreams and at the same time a spectator as well. Therein lies the newness of this photograph collection. Of course, his photographs differ from the great number of subjective photographs and photographs of images that appeal to the heart of the photographer. Tatsuki tentatively abandons the sort of photograph that is not affected by the elastic force of literature and pictures, in other words the fascination of intuitive feeling (meaning) and composition that tends to fall easily into symbolism. And there is the myth that the essence of the photograph is to record and inform. More aptly, it is like the thoughts a mother holds in her heart. By abandoning intuitive feeling, Tatsuki also draws near to these thoughts (recordability). The photographs are not a group of good friends that tell a photo story. They may seem to be because they record a series of encounters of physical and psychological mechanisms that happen to one girl. This approach avoids the intentional. This concentrated encounter with nonsense is more a documentary than a story. However humorous and sorrowful the girl is, it isn''t her fault; it is a statement of accounts, the marks left by burns of 27-year-old Yoshihiro Tatsuki. Commentary: Shinichi Kusamori

For his photo series "Words", Japanese artist Koichiro Kimura attached a camera to the ceiling of his family home. For two years, the camera automatically took a picture every ten minutes, over 100. 000 photos in total. The resulting images - selected by Kimura - offer an unadulterated record of the life of a family. In the intimate photos, it seems like the scenery is already talking to us - showing us parents sleeping with their child, the kid taking a nap, the mother reading to her son. Perhaps there is no need for words. "If the photos allow you feel like you are looking at a picture book, as if you are looking down into and watching over the house of another family, then I've succeeded. "- from the artist's statementThe images in this series have been exhibited at the Epson Imaging Gallery Epsite in 2014, and received an honorable mention at the Canon New Century of Photography competition of the same year.

Family love, childhood moments, parent-child relationships are defining themes in the photography of Koichiro Kimura. For his photobook "Tomodachi" ("Friends"), Kimura took photographs every time his son went to poop on the toilet (the son, still too young to wipe himself, needed his father's assistance when going to the toilet), capturing the fine differences in his facial expressions - from the toughest fight to clear expressions of boredom. "I think that children live each and every day wholeheartedly, and going to the toilet is just one aspect of that. Children seem to consider pooping an amicable activity rather than a dirty. "- from the artist's statement

Cropping the Ocean is a book made out of a single negative containing an image of a splashing wave. By cropping the negative and making several new images from the initial one, the works create room for a stronger depiction of the force of the ocean, thus exploring the potential of the single images body through repetition.

Do Not Send Me Out Among Strangers is a consideration of shame, isolation, and the strange terrain where private and public grief meet. 'Beautiful, strange, captivating' Olivia Laing. 'Clear-eyed and brilliant and desperately sad' Sara Baume

"Have any conversation with Donna Trope and it will somehow wind its way back to sex. It lies at the heart of everything she does, every image she creates. If the legendary beauty photographer isn't aroused on set, then she might as well not be on set at all. "One of my earliest beauty memories is watching my young stepmother getting ready for my father to come home," she says. "Her hair and makeup were akin to that of a fashion shoot. They had a decidedly sexual aura. Her getting ready was almost ritualistic and I watched this, maybe as a voyeur, and was fascinated enough to remember it all my life. " Dazed BeautyDonna was born in Los Angeles and bred in London. Being self-taught, she drew from her own experiences and developed a look and a style. Donna Trope is an award winning, world-renowned photographer specialising in beauty images Her sexy, conceptual, ground breaking beauty shots went against the grain of what was considered commercially beautiful and are now the much imitated status quo. She has shot campaigns for clients such as Guerlain,Lancôme, Pantene, Rochas, Guinness, Christofle, France Telecom, Maybelline, Vichy, Revlon, Bic, Coty, Sephora, ITV, Boots, Bobbi Brown, Hennessey and Roger et Gallet. Her editorial clients include The Sunday Times, Vogue, Vogue Hommes, L'Officiel, GQ, Jalouse, Tush , Flaunt, Forme, Harper's Bazaar, Glamour, In Style, Cosmopolitan, Dazed and Confused. Donna's work has been exhibited in galleries worldwide. She has photographs in the permanent collections of The Victoria & Albert Museum as well as in selected private collections. Donna Trope has been a master of beauty photography for decades. She has always used Polaroids on her shootings as a test before the final take on film, even in the digital era. Preciously stored away, there are over 25,000 of them now. Here is a short selection of them.

Moemoe? explores the revival of traditional voyaging in Hawaii and how the canoe became a catalyst for connection, cultural empowerment, and fostering humanity's relationship with the natural world. It is a story of how ancient knowledge and modern science coalesced to revitalize a nearly extinct cultural tradition and a testament to the power of dreams, or moemoe?. The first book, The Spell, opens with a series of lush photographs that capture life on the open ocean, lulling the reader into a sensory experience. Drawn from ancestral voyaging mythology and the artist's own visionary dreams, fragments of narrative text ebb and flow through the book, while illustrations by Sophy Hollington serve as visual footnotes. Taking inspiration from nautical logbooks, The Spell is wire-bound into a hardcover case and incorporates luminescent paper to evoke the glistening surface of the ocean. Tucked into a discreet back pocket, The Story features an essay by Jeremy Haik alongside Ko's documentary photographs that highlight the visionaries who breathed life back into Hawaiian voyaging. Presented through a framework of mythology and dreams, it is a story that begins with the ancestors of Polynesians who mastered the art of celestial wayfinding and the language of the ocean three millennia before the European Age of Exploration. This remarkable chronicle is anchored by H?k?le?a, a modern incarnation of an ancient voyaging canoe that became a catalyst for connection, cultural reclamation, and fostering humanity's relationship with the natural world.

Dorothy Sing Zhang unveils a compelling portrayal of humanity's vulnerable state during sleep. The scene is set in the bedrooms of others. One is asked to be asleep, a squeeze cable release is placed under the pillow. The chance of one's unconscious body rolling over and triggering the camera results in an exposure. Like Someone Alive expands these boundaries by withdrawing the traditional relationships between the photographer, the object and the camera. "About five years ago I was trying to realise a way where the approach towards the trigger would somehow be directly reflected in the image. How can the pressure craft the physicality upon the trigger that generates the exposure. I had this old exercise pull up bar. I would physically pull myself up while squeezing the cable release to make an image. A step further was to somehow dismiss the awareness of the approach, so sleep became the plot but photography is the story. "

Albany Arts Communications is delighted to announce the publication of Shiotani, a 23-year chronicle of life in a remote Japanese village by acclaimed Swedish photographer, Anders Edström. The book, which will be launched in the UK at Claire de Rouen Books on 9 September 2021, documents the life and times of Edström's wife's family and the small village of Shiotani, which is twenty-nine miles away from even the outskirts of Kyoto, Japan's second city. Edström made his first visit there in 1993 and has continued to do so intermittently. Shiotani is comprised of only forty-seven inhabitants and most of the people who live there still farm traditionally, harvesting rice, tea and mushrooms. The first pictures he took there were no more than a record of his trip. It only became an artistic project fifteen years later in the Christmas of 2008 when he made up a photo album for his wife's grandmother. Opening with rural vistas where houses and their inhabitants make only occasional interventions on the landscape, the book goes on to focus on the family's day to day activities. Edström brings the viewer on family trips, recording the train rides, car parks and lunch tables with as much care as he records the mountains and the details of the landscape around them. From late nights drinking to the passing of time and the losses that accompany it the focus of his photography remains on his extended family. Edström and his camera bear witness to the passing of both of his wife's grandparents, and the rituals that accompany death in the rural community. Over the twenty-three years this book covers, Edström notes that, 'There is a sense of change, but of slow change, a pace and energy quite different from my long-time residence in Tokyo. The village has a sense of isolation. When I first visited, my mother-in-law talked about the American soldiers giving them chocolate as they trooped past, but when I arrived, they hadn't seen a Westerner in a long time, and they were all very curious. They were curious, but also very welcoming, quickly becoming used to me and learning not to react to me taking pictures. ' For Edström, 'It's also not about one picture; the sequence of pictures is so important for me, [and deciding] which ones go together. ' In an essay which accompanies the book, writer and musician Jeff Rian described the layout of the photographs as 'story-board like', and indeed the images also inspired another project, The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin), in which his wife's family play themselves in a narrative, near documentary about the life of vegetable farmer Tayoko, and her dying husband. An eight-hour long narrative film created with his long-time collaborator C. W. Winter, who has also contributed an essay to the book, it won a Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival and will be shown on 12 September 2021 at the ICA London as part of the Open City Documentary Festival. Published by AKPE

Attached is a collection of texts that document a diverse range of artworks made by Jessie Bullivant (AU/FI) over the past decade. By replacing the default photographic documentation with written accounts, the artist raises questions about how immaterial artworks are preserved, accessed and ultimately remembered, allowing space for nuances often lost in photographic documentation. As an incomplete survey of the artist's work, the book blurs the boundaries between art and its documentation, between a conventional monograph and an experimental artist's book. It gives an exciting glimpse into a committed artistic practice tackling a variety of issues from representation, power and access to subtle social interactions. Author: Jessie BullivantDesigner: Tuukka Kaila

Between the finite human life and death, there is a suspended moment in which one passes from one to the other. Those who bear witness to this transition are the caretakers responsible for performing the final treatment. They cleanse the bodies, dress them, comb their hair and arrange them in a peaceful repose for the very last time. The caretakers attend to the deceased almost as if they were living, a testament to a uniquely human trait that has existed throughout time and across all cultures. The performance of these last rituals is a human way to demonstrate the ability to face and address mortality. In her debut book Transi, Margot Jourquin documents this liminal instant between the two realms and the people who prepare the dead for their burial. "I enter with the funeral home employee into a small, sterile room in the basement of a hospital. It's lit by neon lights, the floor is of linoleum. There are metal stretchers, metal fridge doors, metal tools. The zinc coffin lid, screws, a soldering iron. The only thing that warms the atmosphere slightly is the presence of fabrics. White sheets, pillows, decorated blankets. The funeral home employee takes the stretcher out of the fridge and gently lifts the sheet. I observe the scene through the camera viewfinder. I'm hiding, in fact. We're here for Mrs. R, an elderly woman with smooth grey hair. Shortly after I'm left alone with Mrs. R. I begin to really look at her, not focusing on making photos anymore. There are two of us in the room, and yet, I am alone. I can't comprehend that she's dead. I watch for any movement in her hands or in the sheets. By staring so intently, I get the feeling that they are moving. I fear she might open her eyes. I dare not turn my back on her. Confronted with something I can't understand, I'm petrified and frozen still."-Margot Jourquin

Billboards are strategically set up in high traffic areas, designed to catch our attention. They are positioned atop buildings, along highways, and in market squares. Even when devoid of advertisements, they continue to draw one''s gaze. The sculpture-like metal frames and blank canvases remind of things that have come and gone. Even in the absence of advertising content, a billboard remains a medium of communication. But when empty of advertisement, what message does it convey? Janne Riikonen''s book Notes For Our Legacy serves as a statement against the unsustainable culture of consumption and the values typically conveyed on billboards."For as long as I can recall, I''ve been bothered by advertisements-both their appearance and the values they most often promote. I wish I didn''t have to see them. The primary message of advertisements is very clear. Whether it''s a product, a service, an education, or a political agenda; they aim to sell something. Yet beneath this primary message lies a more subtle, subliminal note of inadequacy - You can do, look and behave better.The work is a manifestation agains these messages, both primary and secondary. The values they promote and with whose terms all of this is done. The constant exposure to advertisements has inevitably contributed to people becoming more materialistic and focused on status. I believe that in a society not as saturated with advertisements, we would be more compassionate and considerate towards one another."-Janne Riikonen

During a period of six years Alejandro Morales collected more than 500 photographs depicting bodies published his local newspaper P.M. in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. The time of extreme violence made Ciudad Juárez among the most violent cities in the world, marked by the large number of intentional homicides committed in its streets. The limits of what the press could publish were blurred as it was so common to find oneself in the middle of a shootout or come across an abandoned corpse. Morales removed all the corpses that he found in the photographs in the P.M. Newspaper by manually erasing them with a gum eraser. Morales approached the newspaper from its name, understanding it as a "Post Mortem" space. When what was supposed to be in the image no longer appeared, the void that was left opened up a chance to think about what was actually happening. The softness of the eraser, the duration of the erasing process and its ritual connotations confront the immediacy and brutality of these cases. These new images intend to grant an opportunity for mourning, a more dignified form of death.

Choi based in Seoul, Korea. Interested in discovering new urban landscapes using user-accessible map applications and satellite views. The new series Element is used to distinguish smaller-scale image fragments captured with a common framework. In 2022, three years after the publication of Location, a second photo book titled The Elements has been released. This book has discovered and documented unidentified patterns formed by accident as the result of urban development. He identifies grids and patterns amid interwoven urban landscapes. The genuine beauty generated by anonymous engineers and architects are key part of this book. Photographed by Choi YongjoonPlanned and Edited by The PhraseDesigned by Hwang SeongwonText by Park ChanyongPrinted by Munsung PrintingPublished by The Phrase

The book PATRIA is a moving account of the mourning of the father, of the questions of identity that it raises, and more generally of the history of Venezuela and its exiles since 2015, the date of the artist's last trip to his native country. "On June 9, 2020, I received a call. On this side of the Atlantic, it must have been ten o'clock, yes, it must have been ten o'clock. He's dead, she shouted at me. I found him dead. ' On June 9, 2020, artist Oleñka Carrasco learned through a video call that her father had died. The book Patria is the moving story of this mourning, of the identity questions it raises, and more generally of the history of Venezuela and its exiles since 2015, the date of the artist's last trip. in his native country. A human experience par excellence, the confrontation with death is told here through the artistic re-appropriation of family archives; photographs, videos, audios... thousands of documents sent by WhatsApp on which the artist intervenes and creates works in themselves. In addition, Oleñka Carrasco takes shots of her place of life in France, the "loaned house", clichés that she transforms, manipulates, alters by using a typewriter. The typewritten text dialogues with the images and seems, as the story unfolds, to reveal the mystery of these human lives while intensifying it.

Colorful windows, panels and altarpieces create a contemporary sacred space within an art museumInspired by church architecture and decoration, Danish artist Alexander Tovborg (born 1983) transforms the galleries of the Kunsthal Charlottenborg into an immersive, sacred atmosphere of space, shaped according to Tovborg's own interpretation of Christian iconography.

Boken RÅPUNK – The Birth of Swedish Hardcore dokumenterar den andra vågen av svensk punk.Boken dokumenterar band som Anticimex och MOB 47, men också de som var en del av scenen igenom sitt kreativa och/eller ideologiska engagemang. Råpunk innehåller ett stort antal aldrig tidigare publicerad fotografier, fanzines, posters, skiv- och kassettomslag.

In this revised and redesigned edition of Marilyn Monroe: An Appreciation, renowned photographer Eve Arnold takes us on a photographic journey of Marilyn Monroe's life.

Written by bestselling fashion writer Terry Newman and luxuriously illustrated, Marilyn Monroe Style celebrates Marilyn's ongoing influence on contemporary fashion by exploring her most dazzling looks.

The Cure "Stills" celebrates the changing faces of one of Britain's leading rock bands, captured through the lens of photographer Paul Cox.

A collection of world-famous and never-before-seen photographs of the iconic actress and singer, Marlene Dietrich by renowned photographers Arnold, O'Neill, Parkinson, Kirkland, Richee and Fried.

Written by Scarlett Conlon and beautifully illustrated, this latest addition to the bestselling celebrity style series celebrates Dua Lipa's biggest fashion hits.