Considering an uncanny medium and how we understand it, the Hungarian’s new book blends the playfulness with a welcome loss of control
Photobook
Collaborating with her childhood friend, Sophie Russell-Jeffrey was able to access the most difficult episodes of their past – and push her portraiture into raw new territory
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
“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