Amazonia

For four decades Sebastiao Salgado has been documenting the human and natural world, from gold mines in South America to migrants in Africa his images have shown parts of the world rarely seen by most humans. His latest gigantic work is Amazonia, which takes us on a journey through an Amazon basin threatened by climate …

Lost Not Found

Elliot Erwitt is 93. That’s a lot of time to take photos. Some of his images are the most iconic of the twentieth century but some never made it into print before the book ‘Found Not Lost.’ It gathers unseen shots from his vast portfolio. Many have all the trademark wit and lightness of touch …

Preston Bus Station

Probably most of you reading this have never been to Preston. You’re not missing anything. A northern western town in England with a football team that used to big in the nineteen fifties, it doesn’t have too much to recommend it. Yet Jamie Hawkesworth thought different. He spent many days in Preston Bus Station, which …

Scarecrows

Peter Miller has known for taking photos of his hometown Leeds for over 40 years. However, it seems that that isn’t only photographic interest. He also loves scarecrows. It led to a fascinating photo series of these hitherto rather ignored country icons

Driving in the Eighties

Time can make almost anything seem interesting. Those pictures of your cousins in leisure slacks , the family picnic with its multi-colored tupperware containers, the neighbors dog; things that would seem to be hardly worth noticing become a thing of fascination Take Chris Dorley-Brown’s pictures of drivers in eighties London. Suddenly a moment in time …

Motel Vegas

The motel is a quintessentially American thing. A place that speaks of road warriors and road trips and people running from some unseen moment in their past. They are the stuff of film noir and speak to the transient nature of American life. They also have a weird beauty. Fred Stigman’s ‘Motel Vegas’ shows them …

The Station

Chris Killip is known for his superb book ‘Sea Coal,’ which showed the desperate side of eighties England. Yet Killip also took pictures of the anarcho-punk scene in the north-east of England. His son discovered some old forgotten contact sheets lying in a cardboard box and so ‘The Station’ was born. Named after the venue …

The Coast

The strange world of the Indian night is the subject for Sohrab Hura’s 2019 book ‘The Coast.’ It features a series of startling juxtaposed images that vividly expose the secrets of the darkness. Documentary in feel, the images also have a highly emotive fine art quality that rises them above the average photojournalism.

Golden Days

Austrian pub culture is not something I’ve ever given much thought to until seeing Clemens Marschall’s photobook, ‘Golden Days Before They End.’ It’s reminiscent of Anders Peterson’s ‘Cafe Lehmitz,’ which did something similar in the 1970’s with a bar Hamburg’s red light district. Whereas Peterson worked in black and white, Marschall works in a rich …

The City Within

Brooklyn is my home.And it’s also the subject of photo book by Alex and Rebecca Norris Webb. They have attempted to capture Brooklyn in all its diversity using their brilliant grasp of color photography and composition.