Street Light is a bi-monthly series where I showcase photography work to purchase that might not have as much visibility or large production numbers. From smaller run-offs and zines to books and crowdfunding campaigns, I’ll try to feature selections of mostly newer work that you’re not as likely to find in bookstores everywhere. Hopefully, this can be a way to help talented photographers get their work seen for purchase, while also helping readers find great work they didn’t know was available. So, check here to find what’s out there, much of it before it’s gone. (All bi-monthly selections will be added to a permanent page, organizing them together so you can come check anytime)
And if you have a new photo book, zine or crowdfunding campaign, or if you’d like to recommend another photographer’s, please comment it below. (no e-books/e-zines, please)
Photo Books & Zines : March 2019
(Selection information quoted from links)
Books
Shyue Woon : DARK CITIES
DARK CITIES Trilogy, inaugural winner of the FIRST DRAFT Award by THEBOOKSHOW, is a series of three books of photographs re-imagining fringe spaces in the metropoles of Singapore, Tokyo and Seoul. CARPARK, first in the series, investigates the nocturnal meanderings of a dark multi-storey carpark in Singapore. CAPSULE, the second book, revisits a futuristic tower in Ginza built in the 1970s, through the imagined eyes and mind of its architect. The third book EULJIRO is a lost and found diary of a fading iconic Seoul district, once a symbol of the country’s modernization.
Co-published by Invisible Photographer Asia (IPA), DARK CITIES is the debut publication of Singapore-based architect and photographer Shyue Woon.
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Alison McCauley : ANOTHER CANNES
Through 56 unconventional black and white photos, Alison McCauley shows her distinctive and offbeat view of the Cannes Film Festival. Walking the streets, rubbing shoulders with the famous on the red carpet or letting chance lead her in the streets of Cannes, Alison captures the essence of this global rendezvous of cinema.
In ANOTHER CANNES, reality meets the artifices of a multi-faceted environment, an environment often unseen by the general public. Moving away from all forms of classicism, Alison unveils another Cannes, a different Cannes and certainly a Cannes that has not finished surprising you and making people talk about it.
Ovidiu Gordan : Familiar Place
The images in this book were made by Ovidiu Gordan in Romania between 2007 and 2017. The book is 23×23 cm, 52 photographs and 108 pages.
Charlie Kirk : Katil Var (pre-orders)
Katil var means “there is a murderer”. According to many, that murderer is Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkey.
A professed man of the people with multiple Swiss bank accounts and over $4,000,000 stuffed in shoe boxes. A man who ordered the police to tear gas thousands in Taksim, who weeps for a dead Egyptian girl and defames a dead Turkish boy. A man who steals and distributes opposition media to friends like candy. And a man who violates human rights to lock up Selahattin Demirtas, the most charismatic politician Turkey has seen in decades. Much of this is alleged of course. It can only ever be alleged.
Katil var. I first heard those words in the toxic and pivotal summer of 2013, during the Gezi park protests. Reverberating in and echoing around Taksim, Sisli, Okmeydani and Gazi Mahallesi. Words shouted with courage by the thousands of lithe youths that I had a crush on and wanted to be. Words painted on walls and quickly obscured with grey paint the next morning. Words that could only be voiced in the safety of a crowd.
Katil var. A photobook of what I saw between 2012 to 2015. The short period when Erdogan was at his most vulnerable, beginning with the lead up to Gezi, Gezi itself and covering the Soma mining disaster, the refugee crisis, Newroz festivals and culminating with the loss of the AKPs majority in the summer of 2015. A time perhaps predicted by Nazim Hikmet in his poem, Plea.
Katil var. My first and probably last photobook. It’s the result of nearly 40,000 shots with a Leica MP, llford HP5 and an oversized flash with a sticker of a heart on it. It’s the result of being detained and deported. It’s the result of friendships gained and even better friendships lost. And it’s the result of years of artistic insecurity, procrastination and of reconciling myself to loss.
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Zines
Matt Weber and Clay Benskin : Flash Memories VOL 2
The long awaited sequel designed by Ben Molina and featuring B&W photographs by Matt Weber and COLOR photographs by Clay Benskin from New York City is now available for $20 with postage included ($10 extra for international shipping)
All copies are signed by both artists in silver paint!
View/Purchase HERE
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VoidTokyo : Tokyo Street Zine Vol. 5
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CJ Crosland : Fishing With Dynamite #2: Zest
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=35&v=DpfMZn19eHY
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AllFormat Collective : AllFormat 3
ALLFORMAT 3 from The AllFormat Film Photography Collective contains 68 pages, 54 images and an exclusive interview with Bryan Schutmaat.
AllFormat Members who contributed to this issue include:
- Cameron Hoerth — USA
- Davide Padovan — Italy
- Giulia Agostini — Italy
- François Constant — France
- Ioana Marinca — England
- Jacqueline Badeaux — USA
- Jahan Saber — Austria
- James Moreton — Northern Ireland
- Kit Young — England
- Lorenzo Ferraro — Italy
- Mikael Siirilä — Finland
- Nick Mayo – USA
- Raph Hurwitz — England
- Sadie Bailey — USA
- Tatsuya Totsuka — Japan
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If you have a new photo book, zine or crowdfunding campaign, or if you’d like to recommend another photographer’s, please comment it below…
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