Since starting out as an intern 25 years ago, Aperture foundation’s creative director Lesley A Martin has edited scores of photobooks, including cultural touchstones by artists like Rinko Kawauchi, LaToya Ruby Frazier and Antwaun Sargent
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“I was speaking to four different publishers and I really wasn’t sure about which direction to go in, but then Brian said, ‘why on earth aren’t you self-publishing this?’ and I realised he was right.”
With a new Kickstarter campaign underway, the British photographer is set to turn her acclaimed cinematic series, Looking Out From Within, into a photobook. Ahead of her photobook masterclass in partnership with Academy 1854, she tells us more about the project
To coincide with Female in Focus 2021, Gulnara Samoilova – one of last year’s judges – discusses her latest photobook
The author of Me + Mine discusses her origins in zines, graduating to photobooks and the importance of clinging onto print
Leese’s grainy portraits, made over Zoom during the global lockdown, coopt a genre conventionally serving the male gaze
The latest book by Shanghai-based publishing studio Same Paper, Still Life brings together 13 international photographers exploring their lockdown experience
In a new book, A Voice Above the Linn, Lawrence tells the story of Jim Taggart and his gardens, hidden amid a remote valley on the western coast of Scotland
The Japanese photographer’s latest work revisits formative themes, gently reminding us to appreciate the familiar
Westra reflects on the presence of the female body in her work, and her latest photobook and exhibition, Afternoons