#nyc is Jeff Mermelstein's multifarious, comic and heartbreaking survey of contemporary life as learned through overseen text messages. Written in the new language of acronym and initialism, truncation and cipher wordplay,...
Suicide rates in Northern Ireland are amongst the highest in the world. More lives have been lost to suicide than those lost during the 'troubles'. In January 2020, Samaritans reported...
IN FRENCH ONLY The work of the recently deceased Bay-area photographer, Henry Wessel, is renowned for its fragmentary and compelling nature, each image urging imaginative leaps towards the fatalism and...
a Handful of Dust is David Campany’s speculative history of the last century, and a visual journey through some of its unlikeliest imagery. Let’s suppose the modern era begins in...
American artist, Helen Hooker O’Malley's (1905-1993) most important source of inspiration for over half a century was Ireland. Her decades-long love affair with the landscape, history and people of Ireland...
On 30 April 2020, District Magazine, Junior Magazine, and PhotoIreland announced the launch of A New Normal, an open call created in response to an unprecedented event in our life-times:...
This multi-layered work explores the Black experience of driving in America over the past 85 years. By picturing how it has too often been marked by fear, violence and death,...
For six years (2014-2020) Tel Aviv-based photographer and artist Iris Hassid followed the day to day life of four young Palestinian women, citizens of Israel, who are part of a...
This project by George Selley on the released CIA document “A Study of Assassination” is broken into two sets of images. The first is concerned with repurposing the manual, which...
Since the 1980’s Ken Grant has photographed football culture in Liverpool, his home city. From youth games and local bar teams playing in district park leagues, to the weekly rituals...
Above The Fold is the culmination of an ambitious long-term project (2012-2020) from Irish artist Noel Bowler. Using his signature medium format film camera to photograph newspaper newsrooms across Europe, the United States and...
A chick, horse, dog, turtle and human beings…Some creatures are to die soon after the birth; some creatures are born only to be eaten by the others to sustain their...
In 2018, a brochure entitled “If War Or Crisis Comes” was sent to every household in Sweden by the government with the purpose of informing citizens how to act in...
Robin Hammond has dedicated his career to documenting human rights and development issues around the world through long-term photographic projects, including the impact of climate change on Pacific Island communities,...
At the top of Carlotta di Lenardo grandparents’ house in Italy there is a room which houses the library. A hidden door amongst the bookshelves opens into a secret attic,...
An error has occurred is the major new book project by Melbourne-based photographer Rohan Hutchinson. The publication is based around a core series of large-format photographs that Hutchinson took during an expedition...
In these works, Sibéal performs “healing rituals” as a means of healing the mind and body. This body of work is where we first see her exploring performance within the...
The rhythm made by all different human beings in the same space. This is the scenery which we can see from the top of a high-rise apartment. Every person seen...
Born to an English father and a Peruvian mother, Ian Howorth inherited a fascinating and culturally rich background. Such an upbringing can be very liberal and mind-expanding, but a downside...
This body of work documents the nightclub scene in Melbourne, Australia. The artist was drawn to the mechanics of club life, the interactions, desires and dramas that swim together in...
This is a fully revised and updated edition of Martin Parr’s highly successful book Autoportrait which was first published in 2000. Redesigned, it features a playable ‘labyrinth’ puzzle on the front cover...
Christina Riley’s Back to Me is a raw look at the use of photography to bring oneself back from the brink of mental illness. Published by Straylight Press and on its...
Martin Parr's Bad Weather is the debut book from Britain's most world-renown and prolific photographers. Armed with wry humour (and a water-proof camera), Parr captured the social landscape of the...
For the sixth edition of Baron, artist Petra Collins flips the camera lens onto herself... more specifically into herself. Uninhibited, gross, disjointed, and confusing, Collins places us in a world...
During the Rwandan genocide of 1994, members of the Hutu ethnic majority in the east-central African nation of Rwanda murdered an estimated one million people (UN, 2012), mostly of the...
As part of the 1916 commemorations, the Royal Hibernian Academy approached the photographer David Farrell to consider responding to the broader global situation of that time with the war in Europe raging on...
Café Royal Books (founded 2005) is an independent publisher based in Southport, England. Originally set up as a way to disseminate art, in multiple, affordably, quickly, and internationally while not...
Awoiska van der Molen has been producing monochrome landscape photography since 2009. Blanco is the result of extended periods of isolation, during which the Dutch photographer penetrates deep into the...
Bláthanna, the Irish for 'flowers', is such a simple word. This book, however, is a testament to the magic that can be conveyed when artistic vision meets a deep knowledge...
The title, Buddleia, comes from the name of a plant, otherwise known as the Butterfly Bush, that Eric has began to associate with more over the course of the project,...
The sequence of photographs can be experienced as an allegory of life, at times dark but often playful and sarcastic. The book centres around Dublin's Inner City and documents the...
Café Royal Books (founded 2005) is an independent publisher based in Southport, England. Originally set up as a way to disseminate art, in multiple, affordably, quickly, and internationally while not...
Visually compelling, Cameraless Photography is an outstanding introductory overview of the major creative, cameraless processes running throughout the history of photography – including photograms, chemigrams, luminograms, dye destruction prints and...
Most people have memories or associations with caravan parks and camping grounds, the people and surroundings. Rikard Laving's images reflect his personal experiences from the Flatenbadet camping ground south of Stockholm....
Edward West uses the metaphorical power of shadow to foreground the shifting visibility of South Africa’s black population post-apartheid. From 1997-1999, he travelled in South Africa to photograph the country’s...
Tony O'Shea's Christmas Turkey Market, Dublin 1990-1993 was published as an edition of 200, in December 2015 Cafe Royal Books are a weekly photographic publications focussing broadly on aspects of change, usually within...
In addition to his well-known work as an artist, Joan Fontcuberta is an art historian, curator, and educator whose work has long challenged widely held ideas about photography and history....
In Capital, Carl Marx notes the proliferation of mills in the island of Ireland, and comments specifically on the difficult and dangerous working conditions documented there. These mills are now...
The catalogue for exhibition Daily Life is a visual story of everyday life in Lithuania, where on the horizon for the past fifty years, more and more new things, actualities,...
Day X is a series of 5 publications, each featuring a one-day collaboration between a writer and a photographer working in Europe. For the first book in the series, Lapse Rate, photographer Pedro...
Day X is a series of 5 publications, each featuring a one-day collaboration between a writer and a photographer working in Europe. For book number three in the series author Marie...
DERIVE (Drift) is a collection of photographic reportages concerning the social and environmental issues in Italy between 2008 and 2013. It chronicles the lives, hopes and dreams of Italian people,...
Antone Dolezal and Lara Shipley return to their home region of the Ozarks in the American Midwest, where locals persist in their search for a legendary floating orb of light...
In her highly anticipated book, Discharge, New York-based artist and photographer Petra Collins presents images of self-discovery and femininity that explore the emotional, complex intersection of life online and off....
Male DJ's get booked more for festivlas and club nights than females on a regular basis. In the years 2017-2019, only 20.5% of festival acrys were female, while 70.3% were...
The photographs were taken during Skype video chats that lasted between fifteen to forty-five minutes. During these sessions, each male who participated would undress, they were required to be bare-chested...
In Dream Villa Singh explores how the night transforms what seems ordinary by day into something mysterious and unsettling. This series of colour photographs presents a landscape which exists as...
Café Royal Books (founded 2005) is an independent publisher based in Southport, England. Originally set up as a way to disseminate art, in multiple, affordably, quickly, and internationally while not...
For over twenty years, Krass Clement’s book Drum, photographed in a single evening, has long been regarded as one of the most iconic photobooks ever made. RRB are pleased to...
It hasn’t been a problem getting pregnant over the years. Staying pregnant, however, has been riddled with bodily dysfunctionality for Janemaria. Professional insemination and pharmaceutical aid did not change the...
This substantial review of Eamonn Doyle's practice has been published to accompany a large exhibition that took place at Mapfre Foundation 12 September 2019 to 26 January 2020, Madrid. Including...
CONTENTS The present pack offers Eamonn Doyle’s two photobooks: – Eammon Doyle, i. This is a unique chance to get a copy of Doyle’s first book, initially launched at The...
CONTENTS The present pack offers Eamonn Doyle’s two photobooks: – Eammon Doyle, i. This is a unique chance to get a copy of Doyle’s first book, initially launched at The...
Created as both installation and publication, End. is a collaborative work by Eamonn Doyle, Niall Sweeney and David Donohoe. Built around the photographs of Doyle, it also features drawing and...
Winner of the Photobook Week Aarhus Dummy Award 2018. Stijn van der Linden's photobook is an exploration of how spaces become spaces and how photography can influence this process, presenting...
Etnomanie is a tribal style bible. Fashion stylist Ellie Uyttenbroek (known from Exactitudes) made a personal selection from the ethnographic photo collection of the Nederlands Fotomuseum. Using her eye for...
Born in 1929 in Accra, James Barnor is considered a pioneer of Ghanaian photography. His career covers a remarkable period in history, bridging continents and photographic genres to create a...
Photography has long been uncomfortable with its very nature as a recording device. The same tangible connection to the subject that affords the photographic medium and process its singular charge...
"My entire family, whose image I see inverted in the frosted glass, will die one day. This camera, which reflects and freezes their images, is actually a device for archiving...
Café Royal Books (founded 2005) is an independent publisher based in Southport, England. Originally set up as a way to disseminate art, in multiple, affordably, quickly, and internationally while not...
In 1963 President de Gaulle initiated a new urban planning project, known as 'La Mission Racine', to develop a stretch of French coastline between Montpellier and Perpignan into a series...
Fight Night takes place over two nights in Dublin city in the Summer of 2007. It follows members of the Wild Geese kickboxing club as some prepare to go out...
After its first printing sold out in just five days, Stanley/Barker now present a second printing of the first edition. Often considered Jim Goldberg’s seminal body of work, Raised By Wolves collages...
In China, Christophe Bourgeois's quest for travel experiences found the ideal conditions for an extended visit of locations conducive to his desire to approach elsewhere and other people, and also...
Fix was produced to coincide with the exhibition of the same nae at Hang Tough Gallery. The book features work from the show; by Ciaran Og Arnold, Cait Fahey, Rich Gilligan, Johnny Savage...
For Those That Tell No Tales began as a series of conversations between Dara McGrath and Dan Breen, curator of Cork Public Museum, around how the museum and Cork city...
‘Every activity in the relationship with a father allows “I” to develop, and at the same time destroys “I”. I find the father everywhere, where I think it’s me. There...
The work imprints the rituals, decisive moments and flow of a GAA club game onto the backdrop of the local environment. Football, hurling, camogie and ladies football games – Ireland’s...
Generation '74 profiles 11 European Photographers born in 1974.Introductory texts of the book lead the reader from the idea of the joint project of the 74-ers generation in European photography...
Ghostnotes is an extended photo essay with more than two hundred images that represent a mid-career retrospective of B+’s photography of hip-hop music and its influences. Taking its name from...
Girl Plays with Snake by Clare Strand comprises images sourced from the darkest recesses of the artist’s extensive archive. The project continues Strand’s decades-long engagement with the scrapbooks, magazines and...
In the autumn of 2012, artist Erik Krikortz initiated a workshop in photography and writing for teenagers in Gottsunda, a suburb in Uppsala, Sweden. The workshop was held by photographers...
Winner of PHotoESPAÑA Photo Book of the Year 2019 GÜLISTAN brings us the story of Kenan & Filiz, two residents of Istanbul celebrating their lives through the cities finest establishments...
Consider these facts. In Italy the right to worship, without discrimination, is enshrined within the constitution. There are 1.35 million Muslims in Italy and yet, officially, only eight mosques...
Consider these facts. In Italy the right to worship, without discrimination, is enshrined within the constitution. There are 1.35 million Muslims in Italy and yet, officially, only eight mosques in...
Holy Pictures captures the last vestiges of popular devotional practices once widespread in Ireland. Tony Murray’s vivid images from the late 1970s and early 1980s are a compelling record of an...
Traditionally, instruction manuals have been the perfect source for practical solutions. Experts in specific subjects provide written authority on how to repair faults and carry out tasks from scratch. McCullough...
During his two days in Ireland for the World Meeting of Families in August of 2018, Pope Francis made three public appearances, culminating in a mass in Phoenix Park. In...
Published by A.P.E. and Dashwood Books, How To Do The Flowers draws upon the extensive archives of Ruth van Beek. The images from this archive are constantly conversing with one...
How to Look Natural in Photos is a book about a totalitarian system which uses photography for its purposes. It includes reflections on the mechanism and relationships connected with looking...
Switzerland is well-known as one of the safest countries on earth and as a prime example of efficiency and efficacy. One of the central reasons that such a country exists...
Reduced price due to creased corner on cover. How We See: Photobooks by Women includes one hundred historical books by women photographers, an annotated chronology, author and visual indexes, and essays...
Taking its name from a line in the Wallace Stevens’ poem “The Gray Room,” Alec Soth’s latest book is a lyrical exploration of the limitations of photographic representation. While these...
"The photographs that form i gestated as I started to feel my way back into photography following a long break. Around that time I was re-discovering the work of Samuel Beckett,...
“At a moment when the world is facing the world’s largest refugee and migration crisis since the Second World War, Incoming by Irish artist Richard Mosse deals with the major humanitarian and...
The Gini Index is a statistical measure of inequality, also used to measure residential segregation. The optimism associated with recent declines in racial segregation in U.S. metropolitan areas may be...
An ongoing series that conceptualises photography as an act of prayer with a central focus of the work being concerned with Irish histories. The work reflects on multiple concerns dealing...
In 2008, Reiner van der Lingen's wife was diagnosed with breast cancer and both of their world's were turned upside down. A mother of two responded to a post by...
It Starts With Silence is a poignant story, in which the artist takes the reader on a deeply personal journey, as he searches for under-standing and solace. It depicts his...
Café Royal Books (founded 2005) is an independent publisher based in Southport, England. Originally set up as a way to disseminate art, in multiple, affordably, quickly, and internationally while not...
This comprehensive book acts as a catalogue raisonné of the work of Irish artist Janet Mullarney and showcases the diverse, innovative, personal and original nature of her work over the...
Cristina de Middel and Kalev Erickson found a bundle of old Polaroid pictures at a flea market in Mexico City. They believed that the images had all been taken by...
In his Dublin trilogy (i, ON and End.) Eamonn captured the combined actions of the city and its population as they played out in front of him. With K, he...
Photographers Sanne De Wilde and Bénédicte Kurzen investigate the mythology of twins in Nigeria where the rate of natural twin births is higher than anywhere else in the world. As...
Leopold’s Legacy is a reflection on both the visible representations of colonialism in present-day Belgium, and the hidden traces of its gruesome past. Oliver Leu (DE) presents an eclectic collection...
From the Publisher; '' “Beauty knows no pain” is a phrase that, upon closer scrutiny, is shocking and disturbing. The French artist Annette Messager (*1943 in Berck) began pursuing this...
Let’s Take the Wrong Way Home is a collection of photomontage works representing landscapes that do not exist, an exercise in creation, destruction and after Vilém Flusser ‘playing against the...
I wanted to capture the vitality of Lima in such a way as to embrace its many interwoven cultures. I love religious iconography, just as I love kitsch, and when...
Lockdown In An Irish Rural Community is a snapshot of what life was like from March to September during the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020. Most of the photos were taken...
Pavilion Books’ Lost series traditionally looks at the cherished places of a city that time, progress and fashion have swept aside. However, using the new expanded 176-page format of the...
"Lots of Cake! was born out of a conversation with my friend on the way to set up an exhibition. I had just celebrated my graduation and my mum had,...
Café Royal Books (founded 2005) is an independent publisher based in Southport, England. Originally set up as a way to disseminate art, in multiple, affordably, quickly, and internationally while not...
“At first the focus of my project was my gender transition, but along the way I found out that it’s about an ongoing search for myself: being a human with...
Materia Oscura is an artist book presenting a projection of the future of humans as a dominant species in the natural order. Inspired by an imaginary Wunderkammer creatures, objects, scenes...
Memento is a limited edition photobook published for the 5th anniversary of the red mud catastrophe by award-winning documentary photographer Péter Kollányi. Péter Kollányi’s poetic images of the red mud...
London, once known as the Metropole, was the mother city at the heart of a vast empire which at its peak encompassed a quarter of all land on the planet. Its...
Esù is one of the most enigmatic entities in the cosmogony of West African religions and he crossed the Ocean hand in hand with the the slaves to land in...
When Miguel Calderon’s grandfather died he left Calderon a box of unexplained images, photographs and newspaper cut-outs of a man with various women. Calderon’s republication of that material intermixes it...
A damning examination of Monsanto’s ecological impact on America, through archival documents and photographs. In the second edition of this already widely acclaimed photobook, winner of the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation...
Monte Cassino: Con Amore is an exploration by Steven Nestor of the destruction of a small Italian town Monte Cassino and its monastery in the Second World War. Surviving copies...
Journeys, expectations, dreams and reality weave alongside the ordinary every day in Novi Sad. Captured in 35mm, Nebo, meaning ‘sky’ underscores the bold colours and textures of life in the...
Café Royal Books (founded 2005) is an independent publisher based in Southport, England. Originally set up as a way to disseminate art, in multiple, affordably, quickly, and internationally while not...
Art, more than anything, opens up the possibility of approaching one’s own sexuality beyond the limits imposed by taboos. Not only does it allow for a risk-free, playful exploration of...
Café Royal Books (founded 2005) is an independent publisher based in Southport, England. Originally set up as a way to disseminate art, in multiple, affordably, quickly, and internationally while not...
Novogen is a project focusing on the eponymous breed of chickens that was developed in order to use its eggs in the production of pharmaceutical products such as medicines and...
Vytautas V. Stanionis (b. 1949) printed photographs from the film of his father, also Vytautas (1917–1966), which contained photographs of Seirijai and surrounding districts’ inhabitants created for documents, they were...
Vytautas V. Stanionis (b. 1949) printed photographs from the film of his father, also Vytautas (1917–1966), which contained photographs of Seirijai and surrounding districts’ inhabitants created for documents, they were...
Of No Abode is an artist book of Brian Ormond's work, designed by Gerard Mullin. Ormond's work includes painting sculpture and photography. The art work is curated to fit in with...
Eamonn Doyle’s second photo-book, ON, follows last year’s i, a widely acclaimed collection of street portraits that drew significant plaudits from, among others, Martin Parr. In ON, black and white...
Under ‘natural’ circumstances, the average woman would get pregnant about 15 times in her life, resulting in ten births. Seven of those babies would survive childhood. For centuries, people have...
In 2010 David Monahan invited people emigrating from Dublin to participate in his Leaving Dublin project. Its success in articulating the feelings of the everyday losses and gains associated with emigration has led to the work being locally and internationally recognised. It is a significant artistic contribution to the conversation around the current...
In Finglas during the 1970s, an area known as Dunsink, a wild place mostly used for recreational purposes by the local community for walks and amateur horse racing, was destroyed....
This book gathers together work from two photographic series, Our Present Invention (2012-14) and All My Gone Life (2014-17), as well as two text collages all made in and focused specifically on the United...
Shot over three days in the attic of Pelči Manor – a grand,19th-century, art nouveau structure in the small Latvian town of Kuldīga – the latest book by young Australian photographer Sarah Walker offers...
Photographic Treatment consists of a series of five books, Daily Photo Dose 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, each with thirty black and white photographic diptychs collected and edited by Laurence...
Recent upheavals and rapid changes in Eastern Europe have clearly left their mark on Monika Sosnowskas work. The traces of bygone utopias and recent cultural fissures in cities like Warsaw...
An attempt to lay out and capture a profile of Berlin’s everyday life and the documentation of the current bustle and constant change of the metropolis. A recap of the last...
The artist Ari Marcopoulos came upon the Polaroids reproduced in this volume and its' companion, Polaroids 92- 95 (NY), while moving studios in 2018. Only a few have ever been...
The artist Ari Marcopoulos came upon the Polaroids reproduced in this volume and its' companion, Polaroids 92- 95 (CA), while moving studios in 2018. Only a few have ever been...
Café Royal Books (founded 2005) is an independent publisher based in Southport, England. Originally set up as a way to disseminate art, in multiple, affordably, quickly, and internationally while not...
Chauncey Hare made highly detailed photographs of the interiors of working-class homes and workplaces across America in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This new book contains twice as many...
The iconic Italian Vespa by Piaggio holds a special place in the hearts of Indonesian motorists. The earliest version that can be seen on the street dates back to the...
Walter Niedermayr (born 1952 in Bolzano, Italy) is a notable European photographer in our time, with his sensitive visual language marked by its subtle blend of colours. Niedermayr become familiar...
Algirdas Musneckis (1936) collects instant cameras. He acquires them in auctions or at flea markets, very often with exposed films inside, which he develops and prints, and becomes the owner...
Red Illuminates, a multimedia work comprising still and moving images, explores the concept of culture in socialist countries and how loyalty to the state is cultivated. The catalyst for the...
In Roxane II, Viviane Sassen and her muse Roxane continue writing their shared visual journal. The dynamic gallery of poses and moods touches noted at times sensual, at times tender....
Following the survey monograph, this publication is dedicated to Masahisa Fukase’s emblematic series on his two cats: Sasuke and Momoe, combining unpublished and iconic images. In 1977, Fukase turned his...
Second Sight by Sarah Walker is the winner of the inaugural 2018 Perimeter Small Book Prize. Taking its bearings from the adage that seeing is believing, the debut book from young Melbourne photographer Sarah Walker, Second Sight,...
Seeds From The Zoo (2016) is a self-published photo book that includes a selection of images — some of which were included in the Townhouse Gallery exhibition They Usually Lie Around A...
The tulip was introduced into Europe at the end of the 16th century, having been exported from the Ottoman Empire. The Dutch took to the flower and started to...
For this project, Mark Ruwedel travelled across Los Angeles between 2011-2014, following in the footsteps of friend and author Nigel Raab. His carefully planned route spanning 72.5 miles began at...
Sharkification is about the “favelas” and the Brazilian government’s strategy to attempt to control them during the soccer World Cup by involving armed units. It created a militarisation of the...
Since 1983, over 170,000 women and girls crossed the Irish Sea to avail of abortion services abroad. In 2018, there was a referendum to repeal the law that made abortion...
Shelter Island comprises a body of work made by Roe Ethridge during a summer stay in Long Island, New York. Renting an all-American kit house, Ethridge and his family discovered...
Café Royal Books (founded 2005) is an independent publisher based in Southport, England. Originally set up as a way to disseminate art, in multiple, affordably, quickly, and internationally while not...
If you opened the local newspaper in the small New England town of Amherst, Massachusetts, as Aaron Schuman did one day, you might find a section entitled ‘Police Reports’ –...
Dennis Dinneen was born in 1927 in the small market town of Macroom, County Cork. In 1944 he was studying medicine at University College Cork when his father passed away...
Café Royal Books (founded 2005) is an independent publisher based in Southport, England. Originally set up as a way to disseminate art, in multiple, affordably, quickly, and internationally while not...
Some Kind of Heavenly Fire is Maria Lax’s first monograph. Inspired by her grandfather’s book she combines her own photography with family archive and newspaper cuttings to pass on the...
Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness is the long-awaited monograph from one of the most powerful visual activists of our time. The book features over ninety of Muholi’s evocative self-portraits,...
The book features images taken over the past decade from some of the quieter, less well known boroughs of south west London.
Published by Hey Little HeroesEdition of 450Hardback250 × 250 mmISBN 9780992697020
On the islands in the Strait of Hormuz, off the southern coast of Iran, there is a common belief that the winds can possess a person, bringing illness and disease....
In 1977, Stephen Shore travelled across New York state, Pennsylvania, and eastern Ohio – an area in the midst of industrial decline that would eventually be known as the Rust...
Shot and produced over two years, it offers an intimate view of the artist's daily encounters and surroundings. This carefully edited, self-reflective work shows a world that existed for the...
