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...
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...
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...
Remembering the past always comes with an image or view attached. The Transcendence of Innocent Objects uses this premise to examine humankind’s continual forging of polymorphous stories. Exploring the remote Gaeltacht...
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...
Scaffold to the Moon is a tale of life, hope, dreams and aspiration, and an ode to those that inspire us. Exploring the lines of photographic and illustrative storytelling, Huw...
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...
Rumours, secrets and absent memories can affect the stories we tell about ourselves and where we come from. Conflicting narratives, faulty recollections and admonishments often bring unsettling questions to the...
The essential book for 2020, capturing the heart-breaking and uplifting stories that made it a year we will never forget In March 2020, the arrival of Coronavirus in Ireland saw...
‘I have known Arvida since 2012 when a mutual friend decided we had to know each other. I've known her as an artist, photographer, influencer, model, friend. At the beginning...
The Light of Day is a retrospective of O'Shea's work, spanning 4 decades from 1979 to 2019. "Tony O’Shea is interested in the moment where the ritual and the casual face...
Paradise Lost forms a portrait of an idyllic environment, a place, which has offered refuge for humans, animals, and flora. The lake and surrounding woodland have been sold. There remains...
Situated in the struggle between the greed for riches and love for the natural world, this work centres on humankind’s desire to devastate and destroy for profit. It portrays an...
Paradise Lost commemorates a lake and woodland, untouched and left to grow wild. Home to an abundance of nature, it was a place to be alone, to reflect. It was...
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...
Publishing an obituary in the Los Angeles Times seems to transform the lives of ordinary people into something extraordinary and poignant. Through the narrow column of an obituary, we glimpse...
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...
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...
From the mid 70’s through the 80’s, Saint Patrick’s Day was very special for Frank Miller. While often he shot the parade as a staffer for the Irish Press Group,...
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...
Within their subterranean layers, bogs hold remarkable preservative qualities, with the power to absorb and reveal the past in material form. Beofhód, an Irish word translating as ‘life beneath the...
75 years after the end of World War 2, members of an extremist nationalist party have been elected into German parliaments, once more. How was this possible? And what does...
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...
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 2012, photographer David Moore returned to the site of his celebrated 1980s colour documentary series Pictures from the Real World. Moore offered the full archive of the project to...
Sergey Melnitchenko was born in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, in 1991. He is a member of the Ukrainian Photographic Alternative, a collective promoting contemporary photography in Ukraine. His work has been shown...
An unprecedented visual history of African women told in striking and subversive historical photographs – featuring an Introduction by Edwidge Danticat and a Foreword by Jacqueline Woodson. Most of us...
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...
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...
Robert Darch’s latest work, Vale, presents a distinctly unnerving and disorientating experience. The expectation of a rural idyll is created from the outset; an archetypal English valley landscape pulled from...
Saïdou Dicko was born in Burkina Faso in 1979. He lives and works in Paris, France and is a self-taught visual artist (photographer, videographer, installer and painter). At the age...
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,...
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...
Taking its bearings from the adage that seeing is believing, the debut book from young Melbourne photographer Sarah Walker, Second Sight, assumes a cynical vantage on our collective relationship with spirituality, faith,...
Bec Parsons has built an international career around her sensitive negotiations of the ever-elusive space between photographer and muse. Chiefly known for her work in fashion, the photographer’s output radiates with...
Published to coincide with the major exhibition Entre Nous: Claude Cahun and Clare Rae at Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Clare Rae's Never standing on two feet serves as both an ode to the legendary avant-garde...
Air travel has informed Ari Marcopoulos’ life more than most. Beyond a necessary mode of transport, the passenger plane has proved something of quiet point of obsession for the Amsterdam-born, New...
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...
It is the seemingly peripheral details and gestures that come to anchor this collection of images. Like the building they document, these photographs of the Drawing Matter Archive at the working Shatwell...
This book is a photographic observation of a campaign and its outcome, focusing on Aodhán Ó Riordán - Minister of State for New Communities, Culture and Equality in the Fine...
What is it like to be in a relationship and be constantly separated from your lover? Fragments is a long-term black and white series in which Giulia Berto explores how...
Café Royal Books (founded 2005) is an independent publisher based in Southport, England and was set up as a way to disseminate art, in multiple, affordably, quickly, and internationally while...
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...
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 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...
"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...
What seems logical and meaningful to one can be the opposite to others. Lise was always fascinated by “the real”. This is what she makes film about, makes games about...
If one now embarks on a journey on foot or by bike along the 91 mile-long so-called Mauerweg (the wall trail) along the former border between West Berlin and Brandenburg,...
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...
Romances by musician 'The Late David Turpin' is a visual embodiment of Turpin's latest album of the same name. The softcover book includes a print with a download code for the...
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 of 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...
Tabriz to Shiraz is the major new book project by Melbourne-based photographer Sarah Pannell. The publication draws on a vibrant series of photographs taken during her travels through Iran in 2016 and...
Matera is one of the oldest cities on Earth. pre-dating the Pyramids and even Newgrange, this place holds an ancient memory, as well as all the trappings of modernity as...
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...
Photographer Gregory Dunn's second Photobook on Dublin and its people. Portrayed is based in Stoneybatter, where the photographer has lived for almost 30 years.
Published by Zero GEdition of 400Hardcover96 pages170 × 190 mmISBN 9780956043986
This is the story of the tragic relationship between two bodies: a critical narration of the long and failed relationship between a society and a river in Monterrey. Archival photography...
From the photographer Salvatore Santoro: "The photos of this book were taken during three years 2009-2011 in the places along the 54 km of the National Road n. 7 Quater...
"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,...
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...
This work is a study of space, in particular the functional spaces of the theatre. Below the stage, they act as a metaphor for the staging of reality that underlies...
Since the end of the Second World War and throughout the Cold War, devices have been developed which aim to affect the human nervous system, and ultimately manipulate thinking in...
The male psyche is a problematic entity, and when drawn out into the harsh light of analysis and discussion reels, yearning to retreat back into the darkness. In Modern Ireland,...
Descendants is inspired by the connections between Spain and Ireland. The work is concerned with the myths and legends of both countries and those journeys which never wither from memory...
1969 January 4th, the ambush of the Peoples Democracy Civil Rights march en route from Belfast to Derry, attacked by an organised group with rocks and clubs. The ambush took...
Året, København 2018 (The Year, Copenhagen 2018) is a monthly photobook publication featuring contemporary works by Danish photographers engaged in portraying the city of Copenhagen during 2018. Presenting different artists every...
Året, København 2018 (The Year, Copenhagen 2018) is a monthly photobook publication featuring contemporary works by Danish photographers engaged in portraying the city of Copenhagen during 2018. Presenting different artists every...
Året, København 2018 (The Year, Copenhagen 2018) is a monthly photobook publication featuring contemporary works by Danish photographers engaged in portraying the city of Copenhagen during 2018. Presenting different artists every...
Året, København 2018 (The Year, Copenhagen 2018) is a monthly photobook publication featuring contemporary works by Danish photographers engaged in portraying the city of Copenhagen during 2018. Presenting different artists every...
Menq Enq Mer Sarere (We Are Our Mountains) borrows its name from a film directed by Henrik Malian in 1969. Collages, photographs, poems intertwined seek a new way to think our memory - as something intrinsic...
The Camino Del Norte is a pilgrimage route to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, in a city of the same name in the east of Spain. The cathedral is...
Året, København 2018 (The Year, Copenhagen 2018) is a monthly photobook publication featuring contemporary works by Danish photographers engaged in portraying the city of Copenhagen during 2018. Presenting different artists every...
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...
Året, København 2018 (The Year, Copenhagen 2018) is a monthly photobook publication featuring contemporary works by Danish photographers engaged in portraying the city of Copenhagen during 2018. Presenting different artists every...
Ephemeral Uncertainty evokes the split second when rational thinking is challenged by a seemingly inexplicable occurrence of sensation, either visual or auditory. Such an occurrence can produce an uncanny effect,...
Lay Her Down Upon Her Back is a body of work that examines the legacy of the 1880s treatment known as The Rest Cure. It was generally prescribed to women who...
Året, København 2018 (The Year, Copenhagen 2018) is a monthly photobook publication featuring contemporary works by Danish photographers engaged in portraying the city of Copenhagen during 2018. Presenting different artists every...
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...
Året, København 2018 (The Year, Copenhagen 2018) is a monthly photobook publication featuring contemporary works by Danish photographers engaged in portraying the city of Copenhagen during 2018. Presenting different artists every...
Moyross was constructed in 1970 on the outskirts of Limerick City as a solution to a growing housing crisis. After the initial years of hope and optimism passed, Moyross began...
Året, København 2018 (The Year, Copenhagen 2018) is a monthly photobook publication featuring contemporary works by Danish photographers engaged in portraying the city of Copenhagen during 2018. Presenting different artists every...
Sarah Cullen’s work creates a psychological landscape within the domestic space in order to explore the experiences of pregnant people in Ireland who are faced with crisis pregnancies. By interrupting...
Swimmers come to the sea for many reasons. For over a year, photographic artist Gerry Blake has been examining the ritual practice of regular sea swimming. Visiting more than 10...
The decade 1982-92 was a difficult time for Irish women. The 8th amendment to the constitution passed in 1983 made it not just illegal to obtain an abortion in Ireland...
The photographs in Verges examine the potential for everyday resistance through the growth and habits of weeds. Attending more closely to our ordinary surroundings and appreciating the familiar undermines the capitalist desire...
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...
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...
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...
Året, København 2018 (The Year, Copenhagen 2018) is a monthly photobook publication featuring contemporary works by Danish photographers engaged in portraying the city of Copenhagen during 2018. Presenting different artists every...
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,...
Året, København 2018 (The Year, Copenhagen 2018) is a monthly photobook publication featuring contemporary works by Danish photographers engaged in portraying the city of Copenhagen during 2018. Presenting different artists every...
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...
Året, København 2018 (The Year, Copenhagen 2018) is a monthly photobook publication featuring contemporary works by Danish photographers engaged in portraying the city of Copenhagen during 2018. Presenting different artists every...
This photographic and editorial project combines a series of images shot in different locations across Ireland and Europe from 2014 to the present, exploring both the concept of instant photography...
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...
Catalan photographer Joan Fontcuberta is the 33rd recipient of the prestigious Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography. To celebrate the award MACK and The Hasselblad Foundation published a collection of...
David Farrell made his first photograph of what he would subsequently term The Swallowing Tree during the first official search for the bodies of Kevin McKee and Seamus Wright at Coghalstown...
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...
Walking through the Luxembourgish Ardennes, Gaffney documented his wanderings using polaroids. Later, he re-explored certain routes after nightfall, to photograph under the light of the full moon. Bathed in its...
In 130 photographs from the early 1990s, Wally Cassidy captures pre-boom Dublin in all its tattered glory. Loosely divided into four sections – Street, Protest, Smithfield and Punks – these...
Marrow by Jane Cummins is a work-in- progress body of work created during a recent six-week residency at Belfast Exposed, Northern Ireland. The series explores a new stage in the...
In ‘A Bower for Sisters’ Aisling O’ Rourke sensitively documents the final few months of Our Lady’s Bower Boarding School and Convent in Athlone, County Westmeath in the Republic of...
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...
A huge labyrinth skirts the outer rims of the city of Caracas, climbing up and over the valleys. It is Petare, home to some two million people and the highest...
A once super rich oil nation, Venezuela is now home to some of the highest crime statistics on the planet, hyper currency inflation, a severely damaged health care system, and...
Reasons is a photographic documentation of the artist’s experiential perception through a meditative journey. Cristina Gismondi uses this form of photographic reflection in order to process the energy that humans...
This body of work was made over a short period of time spent in rural Wexford, Ireland, “in a place so overwhelmingly familiar to me, it was as though I...
The emergence of the tourist gaze was largely brought into being by the invention of the camera. The newly invented medium adopted the aesthetics of 19th Century approaches to landscape...
Every year, thousands gather during the last week of July to attend the Galway Races, Ireland’s historic horse racing event. The ensuing chaos provides cover for Galway’s youth to engage...
Accidentally touch someone else’s fingers while going for the hand rail on the bus. Awkwardly side step to the same direction and do it a second time. Press the cross...
Lebanon is a country that has been in a continued state of flux for decades. After a bitter civil war was fought for over 15 years, a truce was agreed...
The King's Road was built in 1694 by King Charles II as a private thoroughfare stretching from St James’ Palace to Fulham. In more recent years, it became known as...
Proverbs is an ongoing body of work using photographic images and audio recordings that engage with the contemporary landscape of Uganda, exploring its layers of memory. While the age-old Ugandan...
LACUNA looks at the contemporary experience of borders in flux through an engagement with the landscape and inhabitants of the small village of Pettigo. Pettigo straddles the border between Donegal...
Eloquent Proof is a play on the term ‘elegant proof’ used during a dialogue between Lynch and a research mathematician. From this Lynch saw the resemblance between how a...
“Touching from a distance, further all the time...” -Ian Curtis Exploration is deeply ingrained in the make up of human kind. Our struggle is that of contact. The Arecibo message...
This research based photographic project takes place in some of the wealthiest neighbourhoods surrounding Hyde Park, in the centre of London. These areas - Kensington, Mayfair, Belgravia, Chelsea, Holland Park...
“Single mothers are fallen women and grave sinners, whose children are the product of wickedness” – Father Cecil Beaton, Head of the Catholic Social Welfare Bureau, 1952 The severe and...
Following a family bereavement in 2013, O’ Connor returned home to live and work on the family farm. Tomorrow is Sunday is an on-going photographic project which engages with this...
In 2006, cavers made exciting archaeological discoveries in the Burren, Co. Clare. Within the findings, a poignant revelation was also made: the skeleton of a Bronze Age child. The archaeologists...
Mass Paths is a series of handcrafted photographs, landscapes of the Irish countryside embedded with absence. They portray the traces of paths walked by Catholics to reach illegal mass during...
Shot between 2013 and 2014, If you lived here, you'd be home by now questions the existence and function of Ireland's ghost estates - housing estates that were built throughout...
***SOLD OUT******SET ONLY AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC COLLECTIONS AND LIBRARIES*** About New Irish Works Selected by an international panel of 23 professionals, New Irish Works brings you a selection of...
The paradox of utopia, as good-place but also no-place was the starting point for McCoy's project The Radiant City. The utopia is an ideal creation of the mind yet it...
This photographic series combines imagery from four disparate sources: neo-classical sculpture, west of Ireland landscapes, found images and the studio setting. The processes are quick and playful, using simple...
Bing, Bing, Bong, Bong, Bing, Bing, Bing is a study of the powerful and often visceral reaction of Americans who visit the Donald Trump Star at the renowned Hollywood Walk...
Note: This is a publication part of the New Irish Works series. Eanna de Freine’s already published book is available here. Tales from Beneath the Arches project is a visual exploration...
Note: This is a publication part of the New Irish Works series. Enda Bowe’s already published book is available here. At Mirrored River was inspired by the Gaelic word Teannalach (pron....
There's a common visual vocabulary used to represent Dublin. Whether you agree with it or not, it shapes how the city is perceived externally. The narrative, which Lynam has been...
This project presents a collaboration between Maria Hinds, Matthew Thompson and Herman Wallace. It documents the life of Herman Wallace, a former Black Panther and Angola 3 member, during his...
Cottages of Quigley's Point makes use of photographed interventions in abandoned houses to question romantic readings of the rural Irish cottage. An exploration of the numerous ruined dwellings near Jill's...
Note: This is a publication part of the New Irish Works series. Jan McCullough’s already published book is available here. Traditionally, instruction manuals have been the perfect source for practical solutions....
Project Cleansweep takes its name from a Ministry of Defence (MoD) report called Operation Cleansweep issued in 2011,identifying sites in the UK where tens of thousands of tonnes of mustard...
Young Dubliners is a celebration of the unique character of Dublin’s youth. During a time of economic struggle in Ireland, a housing shortage in Dublin and austerity measures squeezing public...
Promise is the story of a school, of lessons on bar stools, pupils and politicians, a rat named Elvis, classes on the green, stifling heat in summer and damp in...
Knowing her friend’s appetite for rough-hewn landscape and the minutia of family networks, Aisling Farinella invited photographer Linda Brownlee to visit her relatives in the Italian village of Gangi. This...
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 grow...
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...
Pieter Hugo’s There’s a Place in Hell for Me & My Friends is a series of close-up portraits of the artist and his friends, all of whom call South Africa home. Through...
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...
Human instinct chooses the shortest route to get from A to B. Urban designers and planners often decide differently. But why? In this book, the photographer Jan-Dirk van der Burg...
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...
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...
Taratine is the first US monograph by acclaimed Japanese photographer Daisuke Yokota. Highly regarded for his technical and aesthetic kinships with the avant-garde Mono-ha movement of the ‘60s and with...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Note: This is a publication part of the New Irish Works series. Noel Bowler’s already published book is available here. Union is a series of photographs made in the trade union...
What does it mean when you have roots in different countries? What are the stories that are known and what is there to find out? Debaltsevo, Where Are You? is a personal story...
Nothing Is Unseen is a book project about the idea of a city as a book: written and rewritten on by successive occupants and ramblers, their messages left for others to be...
Keisha Scarville has spent much of her life tracing routes of movement between the Caribbean and America in order to investigate her own lineage. Attempting to understand how notions of...
Focusing on the near-fifty-year period in which abortion was legal in the United States (1973–2022), The Last Safe Abortion recognises the care, advocacy, and community-building of abortion workers. Artist Carmen Winant draws...
