Individual photographers Books
GOST Books Sourpuss-The Opera
Book SynopsisSour-Puss came into being some five years ago. Her creators, Portuguese photographer Diogo Duarte and psychotherapist Jessica Mitchell, who originally hails from Brooklyn, speak of her as being 'born.' In reality, the birth of Sour-Puss has been a gradual one, and her character has developed as her story has unravelled.
£33.25
GOST Books Leave and Let Us Go
Book Synopsis‘I became acutely aware that what a foreigner is able to capture through an image does not always embody the lived reality of locals. Several days into an embed with Iraqi Special Forces, a way of bridging that divide became evident when a soldier shared the pictures on his phone with me: his wife, his children, the people he had killed, his university graduation day, his wedding. Similar interactions like this happened so often during my time there, I began asking to download these images in order to create an archive of the personal accounts of people who wanted their stories witnessed, not just represented. In total I have collected roughly 350,000 images and videos from over fifty different people across the country. I also began to scan the family photo albums of many of the people I met to create a multi-generational view of Iraq, dating as far back as the 1920s. These photos were supplemented with interviews, found objects, newspaper and magazine clippings, along with images recovered from found cell phones of suspected ISIS militants and those who lived under their rule.'
£45.00
GOST Books Campesino Cuba
Book SynopsisThe histories of these communities have formed the backbone of Cuba, and yet they are rarely depicted in photographic representations of the country. Sharum began researching Campesino communities in late 2015 and his resulting black and white photographs depict the intertwined relationship of people and the land they depend on.
£42.75
GOST Books Sin Salida
Book SynopsisSin Salida (No Way Out) by photographer Tariq Zaidi documents the impacts of the notorious Mara Salvatrucha gang (MS-13) and its rival Barrio 18 gang members on El Salvador. By depicting the gang members, police, prisons, murder sites, funerals, and the government's war against the gangs, Zaidi illustrates the control the gangs have over the wider Salvadoran society, the violence through which they operate and the grief and loss resulting from the violence.
£33.25
GOST Books The Settlements
Book SynopsisKen Taranto had been visiting Israel once or twice a year for seven years when he decided to visit the settlement, Ma’ale Adumim, the first he had ever been to. He had seen the signs for it on the highway from Jerusalem to the Dead Sea and could see clusters of apartment buildings on the hilltops. Six months later Taranto and his family moved to Israel and he printed out a map of all the settlements and began to research them. He learned there were six distinct regions of settlements in the West Bank—Shomron, Binyamin, Gush Etzion, East Jerusalem, the Jordan Valley and the Hebron Hills. They were of various densities and ages. There were small settlements with a few hundred residents, some with a few thousand, and others with over ten or twenty thousand people. There were also many unofficial settlements, called outposts, with populations made up of a small number of families.
£33.25
GOST Books Architecture + Beauty
Book SynopsisThese concepts are explored through four distinct sections of the book focusing on pictures he took of public diving boards in New South Wales, Australia, The STS Kruzenshtern—a German ship that was surrendered to the USSR in 1946 as a war reparation, the MV Paul R. Tregurtha—the longest ship operating on the Great Lakes complex, and the Lusophony Games—the multinational, multi-sport event for athletes from Portuguese-speaking nations.
£38.00
GOST Books Bank Top
Book SynopsisEaston’s photographs, alongside texts by writer, poet and social researcher Abdul Aziz Hafiz, aim to confront stereotypes and question the dangerous over-simplification of the challenges facing such communities. They do so by presenting the contemporary experience of residents as an ‘alternative history telling’. The black and white photographs in the book were all made in an area less than half a mile square in Blackburn during 2019 and 2020. Working with a large-format wooden field camera, Easton spent long days and weeks in the neighbourhood talking to residents and sometimes making pictures. The project melds image and text — Easton’s portraiture and landscapes combined with poetry and an essay by Aziz Hafiz and with the testimonies of residents. This long-form collaboration acknowledges the issues and impacts of social deprivation, housing, unemployment, immigration and representation, as well as past and present foreign policy. The result is a collective and nuanced portrait of the town — a sensitive response to the oversimplistic representation of such communities in both the media and by government, which deny the right of Bank Top to tell its own story.
£42.75
GOST Books The Truth is in the Soil
Book SynopsisAfter the death of her father, Sakellaraki's photography emerged as a passageway to navigate her personal grief. The project evolved to explore collective mourning in Greek society, ancestral rituals, private trauma and the passage of time-inspired by the last female communities of mourners in the Mani peninsula of Greece. 'In the wake of witnessing loss globally within our cultures and civilisations, I want to stimulate the viewer to rethink mortality through this imagined path of departure onto a new landscape. ..The Truth is in the Soil, reflects on how my personal story has transformed into a collective narrative of loss aiming at contributing to the collection of tales of human struggle for meaning. To me, these images work as vehicles for mourning perished ideals of vitality, prosperity and belonging, attempting to tell something further than their subjects by creating a space where death can exist.'
£42.75
GOST Books Wahala
Book SynopsisDrivers of the global economy such as oil, gas and coal wreak havoc on the environments and everyday lives of those living near where these resources are mined. Through his images, Hinsch addresses global power relations and mechanisms of capitalist exploitation and sheds light on those who endure long-term damage to the environments they call home.
£38.00
GOST Books Glad Tidings of Benevolence
Book SynopsisTwenty years ago, Moises Saman was working in Iraq as a photojournalist during the US-led invasion and occupation. Glad Tidings of Benevolence combines his photographs taken during this period and the following years with disparate documentation and texts. Collectively, these materials raise questions about the complex representation of war, competing narratives and the truths buried within the clamour—at a time when the war begins to recede from global public memory. ‘My photographs are not meant to represent an objective account of the Iraq war against which to compare the textual references. Rather, the book grapples with my own role and power as a narrator - particularly one with access to foreign publications - and the biases and limitations inevitably embedded in my work.’ Saman began working as a newspaper photographer in Iraq just before the invasion. He has covered the US occupation and withdrawal, displacement, ethnic cleansing and other human rights and humanitarian crises, governance issues and the rise and fall of ISIS.
£58.50
GOST Books Angel's Point
Book SynopsisIt is a piece of tranquil wilderness that overlooks the sprawling concrete of the city below, enveloped in thick brush and old trees, accessible through small winding trails. Photographed over a period of four years, Angels Point, in the words of Ianiello, ‘… stands at the edge of the new and the forgotten. A place to hide, to explore, with no commitments, no judgments.
£42.75
GOST Books Gli Isolani (The Islanders)
Book SynopsisWorking with a large format 5x4 camera, Gli Isolani draws upon the visual language of Tomlinson’s previous projects, lending the black and white photographs a veil of timelessness. At the project’s genesis, Alys researched the literature and poetry connected to the history and culture of the islands of Italy, exploring tradition and identity, ancient myths, folklore and fairy tales. Set against crumbling stone and rural fields, the images depict the elaborate and uncanny costumes and masks worn for Holy Week, and other events and festivals, sometimes inspired by pagan ritual and beliefs. The fantastical tales and precious costumes have been passed down many generations within these communities where customs run deep. The gestures and the costumes depicted in the photographs draw on the relationship between man and the land, the sacred and the profane, and good and evil.
£38.00
GOST Books The Good Citizen
Book SynopsisThrough images taken by Rasmussen across dozens of states— introducing him to hundreds of people along the way—and essays by renowned legal scholar Frank H. Wu, the book seeks to provoke thought and conversation around the complicated nature of American identity. ‘The Good Citizen does not pretend to provide answers,’ says Rasmussen,“This is not a polemic, a textbook or a political tract. Rather, it is a series of images and essays that seek to provoke thought and conversation around the complicated nature of American identity.’
£42.75
GOST Books Thatcher's Children
Book SynopsisThatcher’s Children was born out of a series first made in 1992 focusing on two parents and six children living in a hostel for homeless families in Blackpool, England. The project was made in response to a speech by Peter Lilley, then Secretary of State for Social Security, in which he announced his determination to ‘close down the something-for-nothing society.’ French newspaper Libération dispatched a journalist to northern England to find out what this society looked like, and Easton was commissioned to take the accompanying photographs. His resulting monochrome images of the overcrowded two-bedroom council flat in Blackpool sparked a reaction by both the public and the press. His images attached human faces and nuanced realities to a group of people casually maligned by politicians and media as an ‘underclass of scroungers.’
£42.75
GOST Books The Things Not Seen are Eternal
Book SynopsisIn 2021, Dyal passed by Riverside Baptist Church on a weekday afternoon, and after not being inside the building for over 50-years, spotted an open door and entered. He began to return regularly to document the interior and the many rooms and spaces which are no longer in use, without electricity and slowly deteriorating. His painterly photographs are devoid of people but heavy with the echoes of past human presence—chairs, toys, robes, furniture, artificial flowers and books— relics of an earlier time. Dyal’s background as an architect is evident in his portrayal of the building, its details and negative space. Multiple doorways lead the viewer through the book, and objects in the photographs often appear as sculptural inventions. A series of archival black and white photographs at the end of the book, show the church in its heyday offering a counterpoint to what remains. Although firmly rooted in one church, the images are representative of a wider pattern of diminishing church attendance across the US.
£42.75
GOST Books Tuck and Roll
Book SynopsisUsing the artist’s close friends and trans siblings as stand-ins for biological family, Houston’s images ‘manifest a desire to have unconditional relationships’ without losing the landscape they grew up in. The images are made up of materials fundamental to queer nightlife and include friends, family, partners, interiors, and landscapes addressing the multi-layered erasure queer communities have experienced.
£38.00
D Giles Ltd Trevor Paglen: Sites Unseen
Book SynopsisTrevor Paglen is an American artist, geographer, and author. What I want from art," says Paglen, "is to help see the historical moment we live in." His photographs make visible things we're not meant to see; he regards this invisibility as emblematic of that moment. Looking toward the earth, sea, or sky as earlier artists have, Paglen captures the same horizon seen by Turner in the nineteenth century or by Ansel Adams in the twentieth. Only in Paglen's images, a drone or classified communications satellite is also visible. "For me," Paglen observes, "seeing the drone in the twenty-first century is a bit like Turner seeing the train in the nineteenth century." Turner was less interested in the technology than its effects on perception, by its ability to accelerate human motion. Paglen is interested in our evolving perception in space. Standing in the Western landscape where Adams worked, Paglen photographs the drone as it photographs him. His images suggest that our conceptions of space and visuality are undergoing radical change; the physical limits of vision are no longer a reliable measure of what is visible to (often mechanical) others.Trevor Paglen: Sites Unseen is the first major career survey for the artist in the United States. it presents Paglen's key photographic series: Limit Telephotography; Tapped Underwater Cables and Cable Landing Sites; and The Other Night Sky and Untitled (Drones). Other works included are Code Names, NSA Triptych, 89 Landscapes, Trinity Cube, Autonomy Cube, and The Fence. The volume includes an essay by curator John Jacob; an essay by Luke Skrebowski of the University of Manchester; and a conversation between the artist and Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and Katherine Crawford.
£36.00
Dewi Lewis Publishing Push The Sky Away
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£31.50
Dewi Lewis Publishing Shout It Loud, Shout It Clear
Book SynopsisA unique and timely overview of the contemporary protest movements within UK society
£23.75
Dewi Lewis Publishing Coney Island
Book SynopsisA fascinating photographic insight into Coney Island - an icon of American culture.
£21.60
Dewi Lewis Publishing Mother
Book SynopsisQuiet domestic interiors act as a stage for life's everyday details, and though the focus is on the individual the bond between mother and son is a powerful constant, even as the balance of that relationship begins to change.
£27.00
Dewi Lewis Publishing The Lament
Book SynopsisHarvey Benge continues his investigation into the nature of things through a celebration of the democracy of images.
£22.50
Dewi Lewis Publishing Well Heeled
Book SynopsisWell Heeled captures details in a dog's eye view that we bipeds would not usually see.
£23.40
Dewi Lewis Publishing The Englishman And The Eel
Book SynopsisA journey into that most London of institutions, the Eel, Pie and Mash shop.
£26.10
Dewi Lewis Publishing Battleship Island
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£27.00
Dewi Lewis Publishing Empty Days
Book SynopsisIn run-down streets and shabby cafes Summerfield found his pictures for Empty Days. Among the tragic lives he encountered, lives that touched him because they reflected his own struggles, he made images that would tell their stories, his own story.
£27.00
Dewi Lewis Publishing Photographic Treatment Vol 3
Book SynopsisConducted in collaboration with neurologists, gerontologists and psychologists, the project aims to provide an image-based therapeutic tool to improve the well-being of senile dementia patients.
£12.34
Dewi Lewis Publishing Photographic Treatment Vol 5
Book SynopsisConducted in collaboration with neurologists, gerontologists and psychologists, the project aims to provide an image-based therapeutic tool to improve the well-being of senile dementia patients.
£12.34
Dewi Lewis Publishing The Month Before Trump
Book SynopsisA fascinating study of The United States just before the election of Donald Trump.
£23.40
Dewi Lewis Publishing Out Of The Shadows
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£18.00
Dewi Lewis Publishing Te Ahi Ka (green/female Cover): The Fires of
Book SynopsisFascinating book which explores the Maori people of New Zealand's Whanganui River area.
£31.50
Dewi Lewis Publishing Metamorphosis: The Reuse of Albanian Bunkers from
Book SynopsisOver several years Robert Hackman has photographed Albania'smilitary bunkers - strange mushroom-like structures which have now also become an element in Albania's burgeoning tourism industry.
£27.00
Dewi Lewis Publishing The Men Who Would Be King
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£35.10
Dewi Lewis Publishing Let Us Not Fall Asleep While Walking
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£31.50
Dewi Lewis Publishing The Holiday Pictures
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£27.00
Dewi Lewis Publishing Private Reality: The Diary of a Teenage Boy
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£31.50
Dewi Lewis Publishing Disneyfication
Book SynopsisA photographic investigation into how ordinary reality is disguised and hidden as our public spaces are changed through the intervention and use of imagery.
£31.50
Dewi Lewis Publishing House Music
Book SynopsisA self-portrait documenting beginnings and endings.
£27.00
Dewi Lewis Publishing The House Of Mirrors
Book SynopsisA beautiful, intimate exploration of female sexuality and the female body.
£25.20
Dewi Lewis Publishing Moods In A Room
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£31.50
Dewi Lewis Publishing In The Land From Under The Sea
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the greek island and its history through personal photographs
£22.50
Dewi Lewis Publishing Give My Regards to Elizabeth
Book Synopsisa fascinating historical document representing England in the 1990s.
£27.00
Dewi Lewis Publishing Xmas Vindaloo
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£22.50
Dewi Lewis Publishing My Brother's War
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£31.50
Dewi Lewis Publishing Place In Time
Book SynopsisAn overview of the recent photographic and video work of Tim Simmons, accompanied by essays from artists, writers and curators.
£27.00
Dewi Lewis Publishing The Plain
Book SynopsisA photographic exploration of everyday militarisation, focussing on the British Army training ground of Salisbury Plain.
£27.00
Dewi Lewis Publishing Visitation Scenes
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£27.00
Dewi Lewis Publishing Colour Works: The 1980s and 90s
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£31.50
