In Paris: On Abortion by Laia Abril
Laia Abril is no stranger to themes of distress. Bulimia, coping with the death of a child, the asexual community, virtual sex-performer couples – these are all topics that the Barcelona-based...
View ArticleSpain under the microscope in Ricardo Cases’ solo show
It’s little more than a decade since Ricardo Cases took his first tentative steps into the world with his personal work, exhibiting as part of New Spanish Photography at Lodz Fotofestiwal in 2007, a...
View ArticleArchive and found photography sweeps the board in the 2018 Arles Prix du Livre
Three winners and one special mention have been announced for the 2018 Prix du Livre at Rencontres d’Arles – and in all four cases, the books use archival or found photography. The Author Book Award...
View ArticlePhotobooks of the year (so far)
Anastasiia by Christian van der Kooy Published by Eriskay Connection Nominated by Rob Hornstra, photographer and self-publisher Dutch photographer Christian van der Kooy has spent over a decade working...
View ArticleTe ahi kā: The Fires of Occupation
When the Treaty of Waitangi was signed in 1840, most of the land in New Zealand belonged to the Māori tribes. The treaty prevented the sale of land to anyone other than the Crown, and was intended to...
View ArticleWinners announced for the 2018 Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation Photobook Awards
Out of nearly 1000 submissions, the winners for this years Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation Photobook Awards, established in 2012 to celebrate the photobook’s contribution to the narrative of...
View ArticleOut of the Shadows: The untold story of people with learning disabilities in...
It is estimated that 7% of the prison population in the UK has a learning disability, compared to around 2.2% of the general population. A study by Prison Reform Trust in 2008 found that people with...
View ArticleBJP-online’s month in photobooks
Salt Ponds by Peng Ke “I like objects that don’t have much of a style. Like patterns in colouring books, clean black lines, and primary colours. Things that aren’t trying to sell you an ideology or...
View ArticlePrivate Reality: A Diary of a Teenage Boy in 1976
It’s the summer of 1976 in Weymouth, England, and 19-year-old Iain McKell is working the length of a busy seafront with two cameras strung round his neck. One is for his summer job, which is to sell...
View ArticleAny Answers: Dewi Lewis
Dewi Lewis was the first director of Cornerhouse, the arts centre at the heart of Manchester’s cultural renaissance in the mid-1980s, setting up a publishing venture that included seminal photobooks...
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