AFROSURF is the first book to capture and celebrate the surfing culture of Africa. This unprecedented collection is compiled by Mami Wata, a Cape Town surf company that fiercely believes in the power of African surf.
Aisha is Yemeni Egyptian American photographer and filmmaker Yumna Al-Arashi’s first artist’s book. This powerful, delicate publication, inspired by Al-Arashi’s great-grandmother, Aisha, is an homage to the lineage of women that she descends from; women of the multidimensional and many-layered landscapes of the MENA region.
A Year of Disobedience is a beautiful photo-documentary on the demonstrations, civil disobedience, arrests, and trials of thousands of people against the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant during the one-year period between April 29, 1978 and April 28, 1979. With Photos by Joseph Daniel, text by Keith Pope, preface by Daniel Ellsberg, poetry by Allen Ginsberg.
A collection of rarely seen photographs that provide an entirely fresh perspective on male friendship in the 19th century. The poignant images in more than 100 early photographs, drawn from both public and private collections, suggest a surprisingly broad-minded attitude towards physical intimacy between men, challenging the conventional view of the Victorian era.
Football explores the deep-rooted presence of the game across the Middle East and North Africa, where it transcends sport and becoming an integral part of the region’s daily life. The publication is motivated by a love of the game and a desire to showcase an underrepresented football culture in the MENA region. The book includes photographs taken between late 1980s up to 2023, in Morocco, Algeria, Iraq, Tunisia, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Egypt, Oman, Yemen, UAE, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Kurdistan, and other countries in the region.
The book features a variety of photographers including Abbas, Nikos Economopoulos, Karim Sahib, Jinane Ennasri, Marco Di Lauro, Alex Webb, and Salah Malkawi.
Heavyweight studies the contemporary, violent visual culture using the Dutch underworld as its source. Pouria's introduction offers insight into the violent world of cocaine smuggling in the Netherlands.
Lindokuhle Sobekwa began this project after finding a family portrait with his sister Ziyanda’s face cut out. He describes her as a secretive, rebellious, and recalls the dark day when she chased him and he was hit by a car: she disappeared hours later and returned only a decade later, ill. Employing a scrapbook aesthetic with handwritten notes, I Carry Her photo with Me is a means for Sobekwa to engage both with the memory of his sister and the wider implications of such disappearances – a troubling part of South Africa’s history. The book complements his wider work on fragmentation, poverty, and the long-reaching ramifications of apartheid and colonialism across all levels of South African society.
In the Name of God highlights Western misconceptions around Islam and showcasing the faith’s peaceful nature. Set against the backdrop of rising Islamophobia in France, it underscores the importance of accurate representation. The book celebrates the cultural and religious life of the Muslim diaspora in France, highlighting their resilience and devotion through photography. It portrays daily expressions of faith, communal practices, and the integrated blend of tradition and modernity, aiming to reshape perceptions and celebrate the beauty of Islam and its ummah.
Living Rooms celebrates the central role of family life and hospitality across the Middle East and North Africa, focusing on the communal spaces where connections are made, traditions upheld, and stories shared. Through a curated collection of archival and contemporary photography, the book explores the rich interplay of design, culture, and identity reflected in these spaces. From intricate textiles and low seating arrangements to gold accents and elaborate décor, these rooms embody the pride and character of the families who inhabit them.
The book features the work of 41 photographers, spanning archival and contemporary collections. Contributors include Olivia Arthur, Miriam Stanke, Abbas, Sabiha Çimen, Olgaç Bozalp, Mariam El Gendy, Sakir Khader, Aly Saab, Lara Chahine, Nariman El Mofty, Rena Effendi, and others.
Middle East Archive: From the Collection of Fouad ElKoury is the debut book by Middle East Archive, expanding its digital curatorial project into print. The platform brings its spirit of simplicity and hope into the physical world through a collaboration with Lebanese photographer Fouad ElKoury. The book features photographs taken between 1980 and 1997 in Oman, Palestine, Egypt, and Lebanon. Accompanied by interviews with B 018 founder Naji Gebran, contemporary Omani photographer Mahmood Najali, and a historical overview of Egyptian cinema’s golden age, the images are recontextualized within a broader cultural landscape.
Ronda Goyesca presents the newest work of Spanish photographer Aitor Lara (born 1974), documenting the astounding Corrida Goyesca – a legendary bullfight that takes place every year in the Andalusian city of Ronda, the oldest bull ring in Spain.
Born in Iran and currently living in the US, Shirin Neshat's work sits at the centre of two very different cultural universes. This book documents all of her activity, including her first black and white photographic work in which she gave voices to Iranian women by tracing onto their faces, hands, and naked feet the verses of ancient Persian poets.
Sidewalk Stories showcases some of New York City’s most remarkable individuals—the homeless—and their integrity and courage despite the stigma of homelessness. For five years, photographer Salvo Galano visited a park near the Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen in New York. There, tens of thousands of homeless men, women, and children have gathered daily for food, friendship, and guidance since its inception in 1982. Galano set up a makeshift studio with a simple burlap backdrop and photographed the fascinating characters he encountered, documenting their stories of love, loss, and survival.
For this book, the Dutch designer Annelys de Vet invited Palestinian artists, photographers and designers to map their country of Palestine as they see it. Given their closeness to the subject, this has resulted in unconventional, very human impressions of the landscape and the architecture, the cuisine, the music and the poetry of thought and expression.
A portrait of the Andes mountain range in South America. Across 131 photographs and text contributions, Claude Arthaud andFrancois Herbert-Stevens present this extraordinary country of cold heights with startling immediacy.
The Castle is a meticulous record of refugee camps located across mass migration routes from the Middle East and Central Asia into the European Union via Turkey. Using a thermal video camera intended for long-range border enforcement, Mosse films the camps from high elevations to draw attention to the ways in which each interrelates with, or is divorced from, adjacent citizen infrastructure.
In this magnificent collection, the lost world of Eastern Europe's Jewish communities once again comes to life. Between 1936 and 1939, Roman Vishniac travelled through the Jewish settlements of Carpathian Ruthenia, Slovakia, and Poland, passionately documenting a rich and vital culture that would soon cease to exist.
Published to coincide with Welcome to Iraq, an Iraqi participation in the 55th International Art Exhibition la Biennale di Venezia, 2013. Texts by exhibition curator Jonathan Watkins and acclaimed Iraqi writer Tamara Chalabi. Illustrated with images of selected work and recent photographs of everyday life in Baghdad, Babylon, Basra, Erbil and Sulaimaniya.