As We Rise brings together over 100 powerful photographs celebrating African diasporic culture. Featuring Black artists from Africa, the Caribbean, North and South America, and Great Britain, the collection offers a vibrant and timely exploration of Black identity, creativity, and lived experience across both sides of the Atlantic.
Wilfred Thesiger’s portraits of tribes have earned him worldwide recognition as a photographer. Using a simple box camera which had belonged to his father, Thesiger began his photographic career during a short hunting trip in Ethiopia in 1930 and used the same camera to photograph Danakil tribesmen when he returned three years later to explore the Awash river. This book presents portraits taken over decades of travel in some of the remotest areas on the planet, documenting the slowly vanishing tribal communities across the globe.
Jessica Madavo and Phoenix Yemi for Ayvan Black Star is about immersing yourself in the unknown. The photography, along with the poems scattered throughout the book, are a testament to opening your heart to the present moment. Taken during the artist's time in Senegal, the images encapsulate the transformative experience of movement, discovery and unfamiliarity.
The portraits presented here reflect a universe unknown to most Brazilians and bring a vocabulary of gestures and expressions that demonstrate everyday knowledge of Brazillian people.
Carnival: A Photographic and Testimonial History of the Notting Hill Carnival captures the heart of London's largest street festival through powerful images and personal stories. From its roots in Caribbean resistance to its role as a beacon of culture and community, this book is a vibrant tribute to the people, music, and spirit that make Notting Hill Carnival.
Dawn of New Mesopotamia: The People of Iraq is the third Japan Press Photo Report. It is a collection of photographs to portray the Iraq in it's process of building a new era after its monarchy fell in 1958. Through photographs and texts, the book references the civilisations of Mesopotamia and Islam, as well details on the history of the the land.
Everyday Things, White City Generation 88-97 is a photobook that attempts to answer two pivotal questions; what is the everyday and what our are our everyday things? This photobook is compromised by a series of photographs made with a familial group of young Black adults living in White City, Shepherd's Bush, West London. Throughout the photobook, annotative reflections exploring what it was like to grow up in and live the area, are shared by the familial group alongside their perceptions of White City’s historical and contemporary representations.
Gold & Ashes is a visual series on the Grenfell Community by bereaved family member Feruza Afewerki. It features a collection of photo stories of the local community of survivors and bereaved, documented over 3 years, in hopes of highlighting the humanity and courage of the Grenfell residents, honour the memories of their loved ones lost and bring dignity to those directly impacted by the tragedy.
Ground is the result of a decade long documentation of the conflict between Palestine and Israel. With his camera, Bruno Stevens portrays the lives of many shapes by violence, loss and destruction.
The year in which photographer Jillian Edelstein turned 40 she came across an image of her great aunt Minna, of whose existence she had been unaware. The photograph of Minna became the catalyst for a journey to unearth her family history and the discovery of an unknown branch of her family living in Ukraine. 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.
In this book, Somali-British architect Rashid Ali and British photographer Andrew Cross present a fresh and uncommon portrait of the Somalian city, revealing how its architecture has reshaped and defined it--from colonisation to independence and from antiquity to modernism--as one of the most important cities in the Horn of Africa.
This entry into the Gwent College of Higher Education's 'Newport Survey' series takes an eye towards the domestic. Featuring photographic essays on employment, the area's Muslim community and conditions in housing estates, this is a vital piece of ephemera for those interested in the Welsh experience of the turbulemt 1980s.
Featuring photographs by Irving Penn, David Bailey, Bruce Bernard, Dorothy Bohm, Mark Boxer, David Hockney, Sue Davies, Bill Brandt, Chris Killip and more.
In 2022, Jamaica Society Leeds staged the Rebellion to Romance exhibition as part of the Out of Many Festival marking 60 years of Jamaica independence. The exhibition, and subsequent book, explored the lives of second-generation West Indians in the 1970s and 80s Leeds and the impact of Jamaican ulture.
Thames Log by British photographer and film-maker Chloe Dewe Mathews examines the ever-changing nature of our relationship to water – from ancient pagan festivities through to the rituals of modern life.