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 : December 2018
(Selection information quoted from links)
Books
Feng Li : White Night (2nd edition)
This is photographer Feng Li’s (generally known as “free pig” in China) first monograph, with a selection of his color works shot from 2005 to 2015. The title comes from a sentence in the Holy Bible, “By day they meet with darkness, and grope at noon as in the night.”
“I don’t know whether they are photographic works, but they do present another side of our reality. I can’t explain them specifically, as I can’t understand the world. The only thing I can tell is my questions. Most of the time I am the person who asks, and answers a question in front of me by asking a new. There is always a question mark following the answers. I can ask at any time with my camera. The seemingly calm world is torn by sharp flash, and deep shadows are left in the souls. The night outside my window is white as the day when the passengers walk in a hurry. This is my world, of white night.” — Feng Li
2018 2nd edition.
Uli Kaufmann : “Einszweidrei, im Sauseschritt läuft die Zeit; wir laufen mit”
Translated:
Edition 100
30 € + 5 € shipping
Stiff stitching, 21 x24cm, open Thread Bond, 56 pages
View/Purchase HERE
View/Purchase HERE
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Edas Wong : RE-FORM
Edas WONG is an amateur street photographer from Hong Kong. The public may find his name a bit unfamiliar. However, he has been working hard in photography. Besides keeps publishing his photographs on the web, he has also won many international awards and participated in exhibitions overseas.
The collection of photographs in “RE-FORM” for pre-sale this time is a series of photographs that Edas started taking in 2012. These photographs are different from street photographs taken casually or those that pay much attention to the composition of images. Edas intended to discard all known understandings and restrictive assumptions and use the way of child’s thinking to re-comprehend the world in front of him. Then he reformed all the elements with unlimited imagination and formed all the interesting photos.
This publication will be pre-sold at a discount price of HK$198. Oversea readers can order by email at info@brownie.com.hk.
Book Size：W215mm x H152mm (TBC)
Pages: 112 pages (TBC)
Printing：Color
Language: Chinese, English
Publisher: brownie publishing ltd.
Estimated publication date: Mar. 2019
Charalampos Kydonakis (Dirtyharry) : WARN’D IN VAIN
*This book was listed in the October edition of Street List as a crowdfunding campaign. It has since reached its funding goal and is now a published book ready for purchase.
‘Warn’d in Vain’ is a twin book of ‘Back to Nowhere’, a parallel Minotaur tale from Crete, hopefully to be out soon in the future. ‘W.I.V’ is a stranger’s questionmark inside the world’s most photographed city; made between the years 2014-2017 that I spent 7 months on the other side of the ocean. ‘B.T.N’ was made between 2009-2017 on my island; the only place I ‘ll never have the chance to see how it looks in the eyes of a stranger.
- Photographs & design by dirtyharrry
- A5 size
- 116 color images from NYC in 160 pages
- Edition of 950 copies + 50 special edition copies
View/Purchase HERE
View/Purchase HERE
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Tavepong Pratoomwong : Good day Bad Day But EveryDay (Second Edition)
*This was also also listed in the October edition of Street List, but after selling out has been reprinted under a second edition
GOOD DAY BAD DAY BUT EVERYDAY represents the first Photobook of an internationally-acclaimed photographer, Tavepong Pratoomwong. The photobook encompasses the curation and compilation of Pratoomwong most outstanding photos during his daily street jaunt since 2014. Several eyes-struck photos have experienced awards after awards. Pratoomwong, therefore, drapes the refined continuation of the self-categorized photos into this limited-hardcover photobook.
Foreword: David Gibson
Book design: Happening
Cover: hard
Dimensions: 248 x 313 mm
Number of pages: 120
Number of photographs: 52
Language version: English
Publisher: Tavepong & Happening
First Edtion : June 12, 2018
Second Edition : October 17, 2018
View/Purchase HERE
View/Purchase HERE
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Zines
Sven Kräuter : The World Is A Strange Place To Look At
“What is it that holds the world together? What is the secret red thread that connects every place on earth despite all the differences? What are the similarities between everyday life in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Neukölln, Shimokitazawa and Karakoy? Potentially quite some things, and in Sven Kräuter’s “The world is a strange place to look at” the global parallels that fascinate him the most are the movement of the people and the light they are dancing through. That, and the absurdities that lie hidden in everyday life. Hidden moments until you uncover them with photographs.”
Check the whole zine in this video
60 A5 pages, 31 photographs. Printed and staple bound in Berlin for your delight. 2nd Edition.
Available editions:
– Standard 15,- EUR
– Including an A6 print*, both signed 25,- EUR
– Including an A5 print*, both signed 45,- EUR
Shipping:
Germany 2,50 EUR
Worldwide 4,00 EUR
Published by снесжpоiит еdiтiоиs 2018
* The prints are archival quality pigment prints. They are printed on the 300 gsm fine art paper “Calumet Brilliant Museum Silver Gloss”
View/Purchase HERE
View/Purchase HERE
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Joe Aguirre : I Spent A Year Here, One Night
I Spent A Year Here, One Night.
Photographic diary 2014-2018.
Landscape, portrait and nude.
44 page zine printed size 8×11 true black and white on 130gsm coated silk paper with a laminated 300gsm TruCard cover.
Wire stitched.
Edit and design by Trey Micheal Derbes and Joe Aguirre
Edition of 200
Published by снесжpоiит еdiтiоиs 2018
View/Purchase HERE
View/Purchase HERE
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…
I published two ebooks of selected images, Street Photography: Life in Barcelona and Street Photography: Life in London. They are available from several sources, including Kindle, iBooks and Blurb. I would love to hear any comments