To inhabit a home means to leave traces; it is a place of self-expression, a place of one’s own. We collect and display what we choose: a print, a chipped...
On the special occasion of Tsundoku Art Book Fair, PhotoIreland presents a limited edition tote bag that is the ideal book carrier; strong and wide, made with 100% certified organic Fairtrade cotton, this...
Sparks art practices, art education and creativity by setting inspiring frameworks and questions Stimulates cooperation and cross-disciplinary thinking and practising Funny, crazy, awe-inspiring, poetical, bold; in its bandwidth a truly...
'Visual artist’ is a term with untold interpretations, nuances, variations and meanings. But how, as an artist (or designer, photographer, or other ‘independent creator’), do you become who you are...
Capitalism could not exist without the coins, notes, documents, graphics, interfaces, branding and advertisements; artefacts that have been (partly) created by graphic designers. Even anti-consumerist strategies such as social design...
A lot of people think that for a good picture it is enough to buy an expensive camera and then success will be guaranteed but without careful studying and many...
Catalina Lozano, born in Bogotá in 1979, is a Colombian curator and independent writer based in Mexico City. Analysing colonial narratives and deconstructing the perceived progress of modernity have forcefully...
Imaginative in nature, people have gazed up at the constellations since prehistory, assigning them meaning and form. Issue #3 of SEED reflects this pull of the stars and presents work...
Drawing from the Well takes us on a personal journey; a pilgrimage from west Wales to Wexford seeking a deeper understanding of ancestry, roots and inheritance. What is passed from...
Emerging from a lifelong relationship with Pieter Bruegel’s sixteenth-century painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, artist Adam Chodzko’s extensive new writing weaves a path through a vast ocean of associative...
Saint Aidan of Ferns is written by Christopher Power, a historian and librarian living in Ferns. He has tracked the story of St Aidan, the founder and first bishop of...
Song of the Water presents two stories set in the time of the early saints by Diana Powell. In ‘Gift’, we are submerged into the birth of St David in...
Journal du Thé (JdT) invites readers to explore contemporary tea culture. Created and edited by Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck and Tilmann S. Wendelstein in 2018, Journal du Thé wonders what is...
The Oldest Music has been compiled by Phil Cope, a photographer and author based in south Wales who has several published works on the subject of holy wells. It explores...
Terra is a personal exploration of the image culture of 'Ireland's largest motor and classifieds website' DoneDeal.ie. As the author becomes engrossed by found imagery of cars, farm machinery, animals...
The exposed and elusive soul is the essence of these texts. To relish, little by little, following its music, without trying to understand, but understanding it all. ‘Why bother trying...
The Bright Plain contains two short stories by Michelle Dooley Mahon; ‘The Deacon’ and ‘The Meadow of Women’, in which ritual devotions are placed in contemporary contexts. She writes of...
This essay examines the ubiquitous presence of Venus in the archive of Atlantic slavery and wrestles with the impossibility of discovering anything about her that hasn’t already been stated. As...
‘Feminisms’ (as a plural) is widely used today to draw attention to inequalities and to critique the status quo in limiting women’s roles/ positions/ lives/ potential. Art can offer a...
Come per magia is an artist's book about OCD., role-playing, and portals of the unconscious. Nan Tarpey Heyneman is a lens-based artist and writer based in Dublin, Ireland. Their work...
The purpose of the em dash is wide-ranging —as an appropriation of silence, as acting dissonance, as interruption, as occupying space. This anthology zooms into the pointed use of em dashes...
TACTICAL MAGIC publication edited by Kerry Guinan for TULCA 2019. Included in the publication is a specially commissioned essay by Pádraic E. Moore titled: Art and Magick in the 21st...
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 lenses...
Today, many feel fettered by insomnia, untouchability, and restrictions on movement. Looking for a more holistic approach to bodily and mental health, this book explores architectures and elementary forms of...
Every year FOMU selects ten promising artists and photographers with a Belgian connection. They are taken on a one-year journey where they are given several opportunities to present their work to...
Ringforts are Ireland’s most common archaeological monument, liberally spread throughout the countryside. Seen as circular enclosures in the rural landscape and many existent for hundreds and thousands of years, they...
What does it mean to dream about tomorrow? This new title articulates how dreaming about tomorrow can be an act of bravery. The publication follows an exhibition of the same...
It is with the story, the one preceding the click of the shutter but also of the brain when an idea pops into it – that Sophie Calle opens Because. She...
It is still time to leave your certainties on the plane. OFF TO is landing in Dakar. From the utmost poetic situations to the most improbable scenes of life, you...
PullSwingStep backOpenStep forwardPullSwingClose ‘Science of the Secondary: Door’ is the fifth edition in the series of ongoing research conceived and developed by Atelier HOKO. Published by Atelier HOKOSoftcover60 pages175 x...
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...
Isabelle Graw’s latest book reflects on the purposes and struggles of friendship in competitive social milieus. By focusing on her own social milieu—the art world—Graw demonstrates how friendships are neither...
As printmakers, we follow patterns of iter and reiteration in our marks and processes, ever mindful of the necessity of each step. Just like optimistic gardeners, the marks we make...
This second investigation in the Street Report publication series looks at the Sungei Road Thieves Market in Singapore, a place where an informal and fluid network of market vendors come...
Golden Persimmons II by Brian Kanagaki, is a continuation of an on going documentary project spanning 6 years. The new self titled book (‘Golden Persimmons’ – a rough Japanese to...
“Among the many clothing types in our wardrobe, none leads a more unappreciated existence than the sock. Wavering between undergarment and outerwear, the staggering amount of pressure and force applied...
The first photo-book by Alice Peach (Bari, 1996) compiles a series of photographs taken between 2017 and 2022 in Berlin, London, Milan, Torre a Mare, Amsterdam and Antwerp. Following a...
“It is true that the pleasures of consumption have always been accompanied by the burdens of rubbish. This can be considered a modern problem facing human beings today. Rubbish is...
“In spite of the plate’s supposed ubiquity, very little is known and discussed of this practical tableware beyond fine craftsmanship or pretty decorations. While the use of plates has long...
White Fungus is an arts magazine based in Taiwan. "That gesture also is a kind of gesture you make towards the reader, saying, "I trust you", and in a way...
Errant Issue 3 takes the ambiguous feeling of discomfort as a productive space to think from. What if instead of avoiding discomfort, we lean into it, dwell on it, stay...
Compiled here for the first time, the selected writings of Aria Dean (b. 1993, Los Angeles) mount a trenchant critique of representational systems. A visual artist and filmmaker, Dean has...
“…cool morning air drifting through, conversations between neighbours downstairs, thin yet unbreakable streams of sunlight intruding, clop-clop-clopping shoes on the sidewalk, straying dust kicked up by a speeding motorcycle, an...
“The life of toilet paper is fundamentally short-lived; smeared with shit and left to disintegrate in smelly water, it is found in almost every toilet as a sign of hygienic...
TRIGGER publishes (longread) essays, interviews, opinions, new gazes, and opens up research to the broader public. TRIGGER is a publication platform concerning photography, which originates from and is supported by...
For this edition of PVA, we decided to focus on association football (soccer) – from essays on the aesthetics of football, to the systems of its governance, to how the game has...
Atelier HOKO’s encounters with public bins reveal how unexpected or “improper” use or interactions, no matter how minor, are rich areas for study and observation, sometimes humorously so. This well...
“To remove their rubbish, human beings have long since relied on the bin: they fill it up with all sorts of garbage and when it is more or less full...
This issue utilises creative works as mediums to understand the relationship between humour, cultural diversities and social issues. Esse Menino discusses anger as the underlying emotion behind humour and in...
Caged is a collection of photography by artist Rachel Naughton. 'Caged' speaks to being at a point in life where you begin to feel trapped in the routine of it...
We have entered a phase of radical reconfiguration of our methods of learning, of perceiving history, of sharing knowledge. manuel arturo abreu, a LatinX artist and writer of Dominican descent,...
Island Chapter II is the second photo zine in a series that documents contemplative walks around island cities, peripheries and natural areas. The sequencing of these books is influenced by...
“When do we actually notice a pipe? When it is clogged, leaking, contaminated and about to burst? When it is standing alone, without a nearby wall or pillar to blend...
“Ever since the egg has been perverted as a rich and readily available source of food for human beings, we have not thought much of it beyond its role in...
“In general, there are two different kinds of clocks. The first tells time in the form of a common factor that most of us can relate to, a concept of...
The Beginning The End is a collection of quotes taken from 212 classic and b-fiction books, and involves writing one book with two parts: The Beginning and The End. The...
This is the first arts education book project in Hong Kong that focuses on artists as parents. Through delivering ‘Instructional Art’, the participating artists investigate the numerous possibilities of how...
“The expression ‘A for Apple’ is almost always the first thing we learn as a child. Why is ‘A’ always for Apple and never for Ant? What makes the apple...
“…but what does it mean to drink? Do we drink with our skin when the hands are hugging the cup? Are we drinking with our body posture while sipping earl...
“With its near-phallic shape stirring in most fully-grown adults sexual imageries condemned by many religious and proper people, the banana remains a highly popular fruit enjoyed by millions around the...
This issue is a celebration and exploration of identity through creative works. It seeks to understand the struggle of finding and reclaiming one’s identity. It unpacks the privileges that come...
This issue sets off from the term ‘slow violence’ because we believe that the relation with violence should be front and centre in the discussions of the ‘climate crisis’ in...
Titled after Soft Cell's version of the original 1965 Gloria Jones track, Tainted Love is the first book-length inquiry into the subject of the twisted romantic ballad, giving a sense...
This issue explores the concept of memory from the lens of the creative industries. We explore Solenne Tadros’ virtual reality to uncover the quality of immersive technology in recreating her...
Bandari ya salama, Take a deep breath, we’re heading East, straight to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. From its burgeoning but yet visionary creative scene, OFF TO magazine gathered the best...
As its name indicates, + is the result of a sum, a work whose scenes, apparently unconnected, dialogue with each other through mystery and the poetics of randomness to generate...
Productive Archiving discusses a variety of problems archival organizations. It mainly focuses on the following three issues with archival organizations that are usually overlooked: first, the question of inclusion in...
'Amongst the millions of palm trees in Los Angeles there is one that stands out: The Exposition Park Palm Tree. Having been moved three times within its lifetime, the palm...
This limited edition book is published on the occasion of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, 2020, titled The Law is a White Dog. Curated and edited by Sarah Browne, the...
УYY is an acronym for Україна Yelena Yemchuk, meaning the Slavic word for «Ukraine» followed by the name of the Kyiv-born author of the present book. Given the misleading resemblance...
Over the last ten years, Alex Llovet's work has been structured around two main themes: identity and memory. Using the photobook format to conceptualise and present his projects increasingly focused...
The poetic universe of Spanish photographers duo Albarrán Cabrera is presented here through a dreamscape journey in the land of birds. Between reality and illusion, their photographs questions our relationship...
"Seninle Başım Dertte/I'm in Trouble with You" is the story of a distance that will never close, a matted knot that can't be untied, a wound that never stops itching....
A novel in three parts, Sinkhole: Three Crimes submerges readers in a grotesque and comical world on the edge of collapse – much like our own. Britain is immersed in a...
A master of landscape photography, Michael Kenna’s images reveal a world that is almost evanescent. One where diaphanous light enshrouds nature in mystery, with islands, rivers, and even summits standing...
Curating has evolved into much more than creating interesting exhibitions, promoting artists, and caring for artworks: in this millennium, art and business are fused, transforming capitalism from the inside out....
Broken English Goodbye brings together ES Kibele Yarman's illustrations and poems on departure and detachment, produced between the years 2015-2020. 'Broken English Goodbye is an assemblage made up of 20...
Ste Murray’s first photobook, self-published "Have Pass, Will Travel", documents an active retirement group from Tallaght who travel all over Ireland using their free travel pass. Ste built a collaborative relationship...
Today I left home and by Camille Kaiser is a compilation of short episodes written from the perspective of a first-person-narrator describing little incidents happening to her after leaving the...
'There are many good reasons to disappear from society. There are many bad reasons to want to. There are many good ways to disappear from society and there are many...
In this photobook, Salih Basheer collects the few memories he has of his parents, who passed away when he was three years old. These memories, seen from a child’s perspective...
BLAME THE ALGORITHM As guest editors of issue 12 of DER GREIF, Broomberg and Chanarin sent out a call for images that are too private, too quiet, too violent, too...
There is widespread consensus that we are living at the end—of democracy, of liberalism, of capitalism, of a healthy planet, of the Holocene, of civilization as we know it. In...
Valerie Solanas’s rarely published, legendary play, Up Your Ass, explodes social and sexual mores and the hypocritical, patriarchal culture that produces them through her signature irreverence and wit, incisiveness and...
Going beyond tensions between individuals and institutions, Artistic Ecologies: New Compasses and Tools examines avenues for engaged pedagogies, collective learning, and artistic ecologies that can engender new institutionalities. If learning for life...
'Sounds are swollen, expanded and layered, steadily unfolding through time. However, these smooth resonances are also disrupted through Jatinder’s attempts to imitate the synthesiser by plucking the smaller strings of...
Ankommen is a study of architectural infrastructure for state-provided accommodation for refugees in Germany. During the so called European migrant crisis from 2015 on Germany got known for its 'welcome...
What can a reclining marble sculpture, conceived through a myth in Greek antiquity, tell us today about the fluidity of our gender construction? What has been the role of aesthetic...
Gitai (Gitai means biological mimicry in Japanese) is an art book collection with the theme of "object’s mimicry" by a Japan based designer, Tomoyuki Koseko. By applying the concept of...
As Marie Belorgey writes in her essay: “The pictures open and fold back on themselves by turns. They renew their sound, their weight, unfold their depth, or don’t, depending on...
Clouds hold a special fascination for humans – we cannot help attempting to decode them, either to predict the weather or just for fun. But certain clouds signify something more...
Created in the space of her personal garden in Washington DC, Terri Weifenbach’s photographs reveal the secret world of nature populated by birds that nest in urban gardens. Oscillating between...
This publication tells us a story about two children who were talking about trees during a train ride: “Is there a bottle-tree? No! But when you place a bottle on...
In her debut photobook, "Cloud Gazing', Holly Rae Jones leads us through a dreamy and hedonistic world scattered with clues of the decadence of the past. Vending machines dispensing only...
For the seventh instalment of Baron photographer Richard Kern explores the dichotomy between girl and woman, between the nude and the dressed, and between playfulness and seriousness. Kern does not...
Disko Bay is proud to present Vokseværk (growing pains), a new photobook about friendship and teenage heyday by the acclaimed visual journalist Mads Joakim Rimer Rasmussen. The book portrays the...
Holes is a compilation of photographs depicting sinkholes in various formats and shapes. Inspired by the human urge to control nature, the book evokes a feeling of disjuncture and break...
Artist Christiane Geoffroy’s work addresses the many ways in which scientific knowledge and plastic sensibility come together, reverberate and nourish each other. We now know the extent of the multiple...
Yamamoto started to photograph when he was 16 years old. He also studied painting but later chose gelatin silver print as his media. His first gallery show in the U.S....
Portraits by Waiters contains images of Sveinn Fannar Jóhannsson posing in front of his own camera in different rooms, on different occasions. When reading the photos one will follow his...
‘A mosquito barges into your sweet dreams, a gecko hides itself at home, a whale sweeps the town, a wild boar intrudes a kid’s wear shop in a mall, a...
Drawing on the documentary tradition, in combination with contemporary concerns of participation and egalitarianism, Vox Populi, Tokyo continues this ever-expanding mappo mundi. Vox Populi, Tokyo is published to coincide with...
A Room with a View takes place in and around the Pensione Seguso, a historic, family-run hotel in Venice. Guided by architecture professor Verena von Beckerath, the contributions to this...
Leila Jeffreys takes us with this book into a journey through tropical forests and jungles all over the world towards astonishing bird species that she has been taking studio portraits of...
‘Sleep Creek’ is a landscape filled with trauma and beauty. It’s a place where animals are only seen when they’re being hunted and humans balance between an unapologetic existence and...
The world today faces overwhelming ecological and social problems and the concern for material existence on earth is more pressing than ever. Making Matters spells out various roles that visual...
Hands are the physical tool of transmission and the part we use to touch the world around. This publication studies the way we look at them, the way we identify...
On 26 July 2020 Alex Llovet landed with his wife and two daughters in Bristol, UK. Because of COVID-19, a few hours earlier the British government had imposed a fourteen-day...
Oil Sands documents the devastating effects that the extraction of Oil can have on a landscape as well as the complicated human relationship with the oil industry. Hidden within the vast...
'Serge Najjar writes with lines and plays with shadows. [...] For me, some images evoke the utopia of the architects of the Enlightenment era, who had dreamt of them but...
Peace Dance is a praise to the every day’s fleeting encounters, with a touch of mystery and banality, depth and lightness, melancholy and shallowness at the same time. Published by...
Tripple Dribble is a long term project by French artist Julia Borderie. It was initiated in collaboration with basketball players in Montreal (2015) and Val-de-Marne (2018, with Céline Bouffard) and...
Guy Bolongaro (born Crewe, 1978) studied sociology before moving to London to become a social worker. Around 2014, burnt out by work and frustrated by his attempts at making documentary...
"Duble Lasmit", the second volume of Onagöre's multi-volume publication project on Istanbul, Tefrika Istanbul, presents Kıvılcım Sir Güngörün's photographs with the cover illustration by Bora Başkan. As the photographs depicting...
A mythical artist from New York in the 60s and 70s, living as a recluse in the Chelsea Hotel from 1972 on, Bettina Grossman (1928- 2021)—Bettina to the art world—developed...
This book is dedicated to little Laura. Within the lines of it you will be able to see what your near future brings. Safe secret burrow shapes the characters you...
Öykü Önal's photo book, which consists of self-portraits, contains traces of the ambiguous and veiled areas of his life. The quest that the artist started when he returned to his...
Alongside Mathilde Vaveau’s photographs, Alice Lognonné’s short story is the erratic evocation of a trip in Ireland. Between Belfast, capital of Northern Ireland, and Coleman Island – a minuscule enclave...
Nollaig Molloy’s A Confection of Photographs investigates the assembly of archives and Ireland’s working class histories. Almost one hundred images, each scanned and reproduced from a single storage box found in...
The author explores the generational disconnection of the new city and, through this, the lost memories of the old Gibellina. With the weight of history on their shoulders, it's now...
Commissioned to make a new work for the Norwegian Parliament in Oslo, Fiona Tan collected family photograph albums from as broad and varied a background as possible, eventually selecting two...
Cave Canem or “Beware of the Dog.” Is this warning intended to protect the reader or the dog dozing under the car so that we don’t step on its tail? Esra...
Marshall Scheuttle’s Morningstar shows us a Las Vegas in which the sky and the city, both blinkered with stars, stare back at each other impassively. The space between flashes moments which loom...
Finding order in disorder, walking to look and keeping an eye open to all the surprises: Marc Riboud has surveyed the planet for more than sixty years. On the occasion of...
"As I was saying hum, hum was happening. I was saying haw and haw was happening. With a mildly higher voice, my chin a little bit up, eyes staring just above the...
On 13 March 2020, home confinement was ordered due to the pandemic caused by the Covid-19 virus. Ana Mari was 92 years old and she had been living alone in...
YES TO ALL!'I chose YES TO ALL as the theme for this issue as a gesture towards freedom and openness after recent restrictions and limitations. From early on in the...
After the success of 2016, Bráulio repeats the formula in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and lastly, 2022. Making use of the fact that he rarely repeats formulas to offer...
Peter Granser's photo series shows selected buildings by the Bolivian architect Freddy Mamani Silvestre in El Alto, Bolivia. The 42-year-old Mamani calls his style "new Andean architecture". The shapes and colors are...
The American West has been the home of many countercultures. Gay rodeo is one of them. Still marginal and little known even among the gay community it contradicts the prevailing...
Siggie is a story of transformation, beauty and complexity. The fluid and quiet come together in a narrative about time, life and dreams told through 48 Polaroid images. The pictures...
'In 2016 I did more than a hundred posters. This is a collection of (almost) all of them. I took some out because they were really really really bad. Others...
Erdem Varol’s Dolana Dolaşa [Tangle and Meander] is the first title in the multi-volume publication project by Onagöre from Istanbul, on Istanbul, produced in Istanbul. Erdem Varol contributes a drift through streets...
A text describing a scene for an imaginary film set on the Aran Islands
Published by Coracle PressEdition of 300Letterpress wrappers inserted in plastic sleeve8 pages145 x 90 mmISBN 0906630126
Traveller-photographer Pentti Sammallahti captures the mysteries of nature on his travels and among these, the world of birds. Coastlines, swamps, parks, endless plains, forest clearings, snowy landscapes… In these isolated...
Ways of Working, starts from an article in the 5th issue of Dot Dot Dot (April 2003). Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey, a British graphic designer, contributed an article to the 5th issue...
An unprecedented survey, William Klein – Yes brings together all of the artist's work through nearly 400 pages, from the first abstract series to his films and painted contacts, including...
'In the spring of 2020, panic surrounding COVID-19 erupted and mandatory shelter in place orders went into effect, forcing me to abandon long-planned portrait shoots, travel, and work in progress...
The work shows a photographic journey to a visual ideal – here embodied by the bearded seaman. An imagescape of eye-twinkling, fragile romanticism takes the viewer on a quest to...
This work presents every second of the day according to international standard notation ISO 8601. The notations have been arranged to fit within a standard broadsheet newspaper format, a publication...
DD/MM/YYYY is a series of personal photographic explorations of place and presence. It explores time and what remains of it as it flows between us. In a way, it is...
A collection of more of Living Locally, some seen as postcards, from the ongoing series which continues as a translation of the vernacular speech of where the author lives. Published...
No one knows exactly where or when Wolf was born. What we know is that he lived with his uncle above a local shop in Manhattan. Published by Stolen Books Edition of...
After the success of 2016, Bráulio repeats the formula in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and lastly, 2022. Making use of the fact that he rarely repeats formulas to offer...
The world today faces overwhelming ecological and social problems and the concern for material existence on earth is more pressing than ever. Making Matters spells out various roles that visual...
The project was photographed in the early 90s when Cammie Toloui was working as a stripper at the Lusty Lady Theatre in San Francisco to fund her photojournalism degree at...
Dmitri Markov is a russian documental photographer, social worker, volunteer and journalist from Pskov. His only camera is an iPhone, with a sharp eye he documents life in the ex-URSS...
‘A pacifist is a rare beast in a bomb shelter.’ The war in Ukraine challenged our idea of pacifism. Should Europe take up arms or not? Can it ease its...
Gitai (Gitai means biological mimicry in Japanese) is an art book collection with the theme of "object’s mimicry" by a Japan based designer, Tomoyuki Koseko. By applying the concept of...
The first issue of Errant Journal critically examines the concept of the ‘contemporary’ and questions time’s claim to universality. Titled When Are We? this issue is about the politics of...
This ambitious book brings together a wide international selection of new and recent writing by educators and practitioners who question the rules and hierarchies of graphic design education today. It...
Our present is defined by contemporaneity—the interconnection of heterogeneous times, histories, and temporalities. These many and various times do not merely exist in parallel with one another, simultaneously. Rather, they interconnect...
Wandering in an imaginary city, Metropolia invites the viewer on a dreamlike stroll punctuated by enigmatic encounters. The urban space is apprehended in fragments, guessed over the silhouettes that we cross there....
