Photographs copyright 2010 Andre Cepeda published by Le caillou bleu Andre Cepeda  in his photobook titled Ontem (English translation: Yesterday) provides an interesting investigation of a specific set of places that abound around Porto, called islands. Apparently these are areas that were previously built as working class neighborhoods which over time have seemed to have outlived their... Continue Reading →

Copyright the photographers published by The Aftermath Project The Aftermath Project has just published the fifth (V) of it series of volumes in which they examine and create a dialog around War, which is "only half the story", or perhaps better stated by Sara Terry, Founder of The Aftermath Project; "offer(s) a rich and complex... Continue Reading →

Photographs copyright 2012 Brian Finke published by Decode Books While curating my photobook exhibition for Fotografia di Roma last Fall, while exploring the theme of Work, one of my disappointments was the late arrival (at least too late for me to include in the exhibition) of Brian Finke’s photobook Construction. Finke explores, as he has... Continue Reading →

Photographs copyright 2012 David Schulz published by the Book Bakery (Publication Studio, Toronto) Lone Wolf is one in a series of photo-bookworks developed by David Schulz. He investigates various “motifs (which) act as gears that engage the photographs and provide opportunities for (mis) aligning the visual content through the graphic structure of a bookwork. As... Continue Reading →

Photographs copyright Florian Van Roekel self-published, first edition 2010, second edition 2012 Of the photobooks I selected for the theme of “Work” for 2012 Fotografia di Roma’s photobook exhibition, “How Terry Likes his Coffee; A Photo Odyssey into Office Life” by Florian van Roekel resonates the strongest with me as it relates to my day... Continue Reading →

Copyright Chris Coekin 2011 published by Walkout Books The background story on the industrial setting for Chris Coekin’s The Altogeher is a UK factory that began manufacturing copper wire over one hundred and fifty years ago in 1834. Recently the factory was shut down in conjunction with the laying-off of all the employees. Coekin has... Continue Reading →

photographs copyright 2012 Ron Jude, published by MACK On the surface, this photobook is Ron Jude’s narrative about the work and identity of an animal trapper near Lick Creek, Somewhere in the Western United States. The story that slowly emerges is an investigation into cultural and environmental change and the resulting conflict between old traditions... Continue Reading →

Copyright Charlotte Dumas 2011 published by FantomBooks The animal portrait photographs by Charlotte Dumas for her photobook Al Lavoro! (At Work!) are of dogs at their places of “work." The book investigates how might “work” be defined for an animal, as surely we can speculate that these dogs might not define this “work” in the... Continue Reading →

Copyright Christian Patterson 2011 published by MACK This photobook is Christian Patterson’s retelling of the murder spree of a psychopath, Charles Starkweather, and his young girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate, that occurred in late 1958 and early 1959. As elegantly described by Luc Sante “(Patterson) followed Starkweather and Fugate’s trail, visiting all the places where they... Continue Reading →