The only constant in life is change. Through time one's life changes, a city develops, a journey continues or ends. In the last six years I have lived in and out of Jakarta, I collect snapshots of the big city, and also when I travel, temporarily unattached to any system ...

10.04.2013[ read full story ]

In early 2011, the publisher Michael Mack, the entrepreneur John Koh and the designer Jean-Michel Dentand launched MAPP, a digital publishing platform. On the platform are digital-only books, as well as different versions of books published by MACK, often with extra content, availabl...

09.04.2013[ read full story ]

Light From the Middle East: New Photography (Steidl) begins with a portfolio from Abbas, a collection of images inset discreetly on the page. Humble. Quiet. Telling stories without saying a word. Bringing us, deep inside a land shrouded in veils. The first photograph is titled “Hands dipp...

08.04.2013[ read full story ]

Darkness of Noon is a unique collaboration between photographer Derek Henderson and illustrator Kelly Thompson where photography and drawing intersect seamlessly. Featuring nudes of Zippora Seven the resulting imagery reflects Henderson’s d...

03.04.2013[ read full story ]

Document. What we have. What we do. Create and collect and trade keepsakes, images and stories set down in print, a pleasure and a joy for the senses. The thrill of the page, thick between fingers that turn one after another; the inks spilled lavishly into rich and evocative pict...

03.04.2013[ read full story ]

Samer Mohdad grew up not far from Beyrouth. For the last 30 years since he became a photographer he has wandered the street of the city in time of war, in time of peace. 
He is the witness of history and of all the changes, of the rough passages of this city that wa...

01.04.2013[ read full story ]

The world is a ghetto. We of the first world forget this but it is everywhere, more common than not, people living below the poverty line in conditions too raw for us to fully comprehend. When we do consider it, we vilify or romanticize; we imagine it not as it is, for rarely do we ventur...

28.03.2013[ read full story ]

The 24-page book Conventional Photography has all the makings of a collector’s item. The title is a nod to Unconventional Photography, distributed in 1976 by Richard Kalvar and his cronies at Magnum, during the 1976 Democratic National Convention. The latest version has kept t...

01.04.2013[ read full story ]

Two years ago, in March, Japan drew the world’s attention with millions of viewers glued to their television sets in disbelief as images of the tsunami that engulfed a 400 kilometer swathe of the country’s coastline were beamed into homes around the globe. The sheer scale and ...

25.03.2013[ read full story ]

Renée Jacobs' pictures have a combination of intensity and honesty that I don't often encounter ... She's making the pictures because she wants to keep them fixed in her head and heart for all time. Her models trust her to tell the truth about them. And she do...

03.04.2013[ read full story ]