Booklist

FLOSS comprises a collection of monographs showcasing retrospective photographs by Roger Erickson, highlighting Hip Hop and Rock'n Roll music artists from the 1990s through the 2020s. These uniquely stylized images explore the aspirational, unrestrained and often extravagant nature of artists during an era when urban pop culture burst into international prominence. His wholly original vision captures the vitality of urban music, arts and culture in the ’90s. Often delving into the psyche of these personages for his inspiration, crafting iconic conceptual portraits that have become synonymous with the recording artists. The celebrities include Snoop Dogg, Dr Dre, Eminem, Joan Jett, Neil Young, Ozzy Osbourne, Ice Cube, Lil’KIm, Chaka Khan, LL Cool J, Fat Joe, Da Brat, Ja Rule, Nelly, EVE, and many more.

A photography zine.

Wash Day celebrates the unique bonds between Black mothers and their children through intimate photographs of their hair-care routines and insightful stories that detail their natural hair journeys. Faxio brings you into the homes of twenty-six different families, illustrating the many ways that these mothers have used wash day to instill love, acceptance, and confidence in their children about wearing their natural hair. Through hours spent with their children, typically at the kitchen sink, each of these mothers is resisting generations of hair discrimination by creating a space for empowerment, all while finding their own sense of self-acceptance along the way.

In Appalachian Ghost: A Photographic Reimagining of the Hawk's Nest Tunnel Disaster, author Raymond Thompson Jr. explores the possibilities of that tragedy by reviving the faces and spaces of Hawk's Nest. Using primary source materials to re-create the workers' experiences in photographs, Thompson recontextualizes archival images to present a counter-archive that positions the Black experience at Hawk's Nest within the larger story of the American labor landscape. His photographs and poetry give voice to the silenced, resisting revisionist narratives that often ignore the sacrifices of African Americans and erase their instrumental role in the development of America's infrastructure.

Publication created for the solo exhibition of the project at Photoforum Pasquart Biel/Bienne, Switzerland. All proceeds from the purchase go to support the project of the Autonome Schüle Zurich, Switzerland.

Neurodevelopment disorders are a broad and heterogeneous set of conditions and characteristics that can affect the physical, mental, cognitive, sensory, emotional, and social environment of a person and their family. According to the international classification of the American Psychiatric Association (DSM-5), Neurodevelopmental disorders have always accompanied the human species, with a prevalence in childhood between 15% and 20%.

By intertwining allegorical portraits and black and white photographs, this body of work utilizes portraiture and personal familial memorabilia to portray concepts surrounding indoctrination and identity within the confines of a religious upbringing. Whether conveyed through visual allegories or the artist's intimate and nuanced exploration of religion and family, each photograph symbolizes the introspective reflection and recollection that arises when one confronts their past religious experiences.

This photobook is a tribute to the patronal festival or “preste” (La Paz) by Manuel Seoane who began his career as a photographer recording these events for the local magazine Qamasa . This work triggered the author’s unique and insightful gaze, no longer towards what is best known (the typical postcard image of dark-skinned cholas dancing gracefully), but rather towards what surrounds the festival and the dialogue between various moments of and around it, including the trail it leaves or even the contemplative gesture of various spectators. Con fe y devotion al Preste is a work –finished manually with mastery– that offers a reading experience unprecedented in Bolivia: a dance between multiple images of these moments, carefully superimposed. The dust jacket and cover, whose graphic design dialogues with the aesthetics of the invitations to the “prestes” and with the new Andean architecture, invites the reader to enter into a great party welcomed this time by paper.

This photobook portrays the multifaceted aspects of the Covid-19 situation in the Kathmandu Valley during the years 2020 and 2021. It explores the silence that enveloped the city, the somber realities of mass cremations, the crisis within the healthcare system, and people's grievances against government actions among others. It includes two photo stories, recounting the experiences of a pregnant woman in isolation and the untold stories of frontline workers. The photobook features captivating images accompanied by text to convey the depth of the moments being captured.

In 2011, Maria Sturm began to photograph the lives of young people from the Lumbee Tribe around Pembroke, Robeson County, North Carolina. Through the process of documenting their lives, Sturm began to question her own understanding of what it means to be Native American. Her new book ‘You Don’t Look Native to Me’ combines photographs with interviews and texts to preconceptions and show Native identity not as fixed, but evolving and redefining itself with each generation.

Through this audiovisual project I engage with the concept of divinity as the transcendental power of demanding pleasure. I seek to examine the overlapping themes of sex, desire, and Asian identity while building community with Asian diaspora/Asian-Australian women and nonbinary femmes. What does pursuing joy look like as we reflect on the recent rise of gendered, anti-Asian violence? How do we, as frequent objects of desire, reclaim the gaze as active subjects? What makes us feel good, or ecstatic? What do we want?

This book was selected by WOPHA Foundation for Tropic Bound, Miami’s First Artists’ Book Fair in the Miami Design District, February 16-19, 2023. The book was also was invited to be included at FIU Special Collections. This is a limited edition and it won’t be reprinted in this specific format.

Huq : I seek no favor is a response to the misogynistic malfeasance that is the abortion ban. It brings together artists and thinkers who believe in collective political action! Each collaborator is assigned four distinct pages from the 213 page legal document and this series is a response to those pages. In an act of defiance, we speak back to the system which uses our bodies as a tool for our oppression and perpetuates historical inequality. Huq is an Urdu word for rights. I seek no favor originates from an Audre Lorde poem ‘a woman speaks’  The bilingual title articulates the multiple identities, cultures and diverse voices this abortion ban affects.

Isolated in the confinements of her Los Angeles home during the covid lockdown, Rohina Hoffman takes a metaphorical journey of connecting her roots to food through the rituals of daily meals. In Embrace she combines two photographic projects. In Gratitude showcases the food she used to make dinners for her family. Generation 1.75 is a visual memoir of identity, belonging, and the complexities of acculturation.  For Hoffman, photographing family members holding dinner ingredients turned into a tool of expressing new deep gratitude for the food. She often thought of all the effort and the hands that had touched the produce before it ended up with her family. The food also became the means of connecting with her family members and reconnecting with her Indian roots in a more profound way. As part of Generation 1.5/1.75 (a term coined by Professor Ruben Rumbaut in 1969 to distinguish those who immigrate as children from their parents who immigrate as adults), Hoffman has struggled with issues of identity and the feeling of “Otherness”. The photographs of food and family are seasoned with Hoffman’s poetry. Her essay, ‘Not All Peacocks are Blue’, published in English and Hindi, provides a deeper look into the photographer’s background and serves as a bridge between the two projects. Embrace is a visual examination of how life’s simple pleasures expand the quality of human existence and how that expansion helps an individual to secure their identity.

We believe that in the world of cooking and gastronomy, like life itself, we often feel lost or in a dark place where we don't know how we got there, from which we are almost sure we don't want to leave and we don't know how to continue. It is precisely that creative force, which exists in the kitchen as well as in life, that brings a little light. We don't really know what we're saying, but we feel something like that Something similar happened to us when creating Brote, we didn't really know what we were doing but we were sure that the creative force that drove us could help us bring more clarity to our gastronomic life.

Born in Port-au-Prince, which his family had to leave for France when he was three years old, Henry Roy has followed a singular path that has led him to transcend geographical, cultural and social borders.

For several decades, he has been building a universe marked by what he calls a "visual poetry" in which a sensibility representative of his hybrid identity unfolds. Involved in the field of photography for more than 30 years, he has published portraits and reports in major magazines and exhibited his work throughout the world. In his recent projects, he increasingly combines text with photography in the definition of a personal mystique influenced by animism.

Ibiza Memories, his 6th book, is a 30-year archive of photographs from his many trips to the island of Ibiza. The book is complemented by a booklet of texts, as well as an interview with photo critic Fabien Ribéry. Combining the family album, the photographic essay, the phantasmagoria and the self-portrait, Ibiza memories is a metaphor for exile and the construction of the gaze of a Franco-Haitian artist.

"Et dans la terre, je me souviens" (And in the land, I remember) is a posthumous photo dialogue between a daughter and a father who both share the love for the Tunisian land and for the Image. I started this project after the death of my father in 2018 when I found out in a ring binder several archive images he had left behind. He was a film director. We both shared the love of the picture and it seemed necessary to me to speak out about his death and the impact of this loss on my daily life. I chose to mix black and white images taken mostly by me and color archive images taken by him. These photos thus became a precious material that I incorporate into my own creation. They show the Tunisian land here, the land where I grew up.

By working on the representation of mourning and absence I noticed that I was afraid of losing part of my identity as well. I am French by my mother and Tunisian by my father who is not here anymore. Where are my memories ? Who am I now ? And where am I going ? So I cling to these images of a colorful past that no longer exists and that’s not even mine, because they were made before I was born. But I choose to make them my own by mixing them with my childhood and teenage years memories in Tunisia.

These back and forth between past and present express a space-time where I no longer have my landmarks.

“Stranger Fruit was created in response to the senseless murders of black men across the nation by police violence. Even with smart phones and dash cams recording the actions, more lives get cut short due to unnecessary and excessive violence. Who is next? Me? My brother? My friends? How do we protect these men? Lost in the furor of media coverage, lawsuits and protests is the plight of the mother. Who, regardless of the legal outcome, must carry on without her child.

When politicians and pundits talk about the heartland, or the heart of the country, they’re generally not pandering to places like Roger Richardson’s Middletown, which is located in Orange County, in New York’s Hudson Valley. Yet the people and places in Let Me Sow Love exist right smack in the middle of myriad 21st-century American realities. Refreshingly, though, there’s not so much as a whiff of polemic in Richardson’s photographs. As the title suggests, this is a book full of what feel like genuine and compassionate interactions and engagements, as opposed to the now-expected confrontations. You sense right away that Richardson knows this place intimately, and these are his people. As a result, Let Me Sow Love presents with remarkable clarity a compelling portrait of an utterly realistic human community at a unique and radically insecure moment in the country’s history.

"I love cars and I love Los Angeles for being a city of cars. Over the last decade or so, I have been intrigued by L. A.’s love affair with the automobile, tracing back to a time when cars themselves were objects of beauty. Those cars are no longer on the streets today but the buildings from that era remain. As an architectural photographer, I wanted to capture L.A.’s car-culture-induced optimism and ambition reflected in polychromatic, starspangled coffee shops, gas stations, and car washes, that once lured the gaze of passing motorists." —Ashok Sinha

Photojournalist Smita Sharma started investigating child trafficking in 2015, when she met Meena, a young schoolgirl from West Bengal, India, who was seduced by a man who approached her while walking to school. With gifts and a promise of marriage, he enticed her to run away with him in just a few days. A week later Meena found herself locked in a brothel 1,000 miles from her home. We Cry In Silence is a result of a six year investigation by Sharma where she documented cross border trafficking of minor girls in India and Bangladesh for sex work and a chapter on the under-reported issue of trafficking of indigenous girls for domestic servitude. The book will include photographs from Sharma's investigation, testimonies from sex traffic survivors and a self-defense educational add in with illustrations and drawings. 

In his second monograph, Little Cities, Rich-Joseph Facun guides viewers on a meandering meditation through Southeastern Ohio by depicting the vernacular post-industrial landscape. In their quiet formality, the images call to mind past dreams, present disillusionment, and gently nudge us to look beyond what can be seen on the surface. Through recurring motifs, Facun excavates remaining signs of the Indigenous communities who once called this region home. In mankind’s hubris, we want to believe we shape the land we live on. Facun’s photographs remind us that the landscape contains memory, and it is witness to our misdeeds.

Whatever type of device you use to take pictures – whether a phone or a pro-spec digital camera – the most compelling subject is always other human beings. Portraiture is one of the most popular genres in photography, but it can also be one of the most daunting to undertake, especially when you’re just starting out.

In this comprehensive guide, Demetrius Fordham shares his real-life experiences from years of portrait sessions, using these examples to impart the tips, tricks and knowledge that will let you take your own amazing images of people.

– Learn from real-life portraiture examples, shot by a top pro – Gain the skills needed to create a rapport with your subject – Get all the tips and tricks for perfect posing – Master every type of portraiture from casual-looking group shots to formal studio sessions – Discover techniques that will let you get amazing pictures of people in any situation

The Afterlives of Ismael Rivera: Music Inspired by El Sonero Mayor is a 40-page book of multi-color risograph printed photographs by Puerto Rican-American Bronx-born photo-based artist Christopher López. The publication's images are based on the songs of Afro-Puerto Rican musician Ismael Rivera. These images capture fragments of time—like Rivera's lyrics themselves—that offer a symbology of a people (Puerto Ricans) whose identities are found in constant flux.

Featuring stunning full-color photographs by Gabriela Hasbun, The New Black West celebrates the modern Black cowboys of the Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo and the community that comes together to witness their achievements year after year.  A powerful symbol of self-reliance, strength, and determination, the Black cowboy is a figure commonly overlooked in the histories of the American West. Held annually in cities across the United States, the Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo (BPIR) honors the historic accomplishments of Black cowboys and fosters a vibrant community dedicated to continuing that legacy. Bay Area photographer Gabriela Hasbun has spent more than a decade photographing this beloved event in the Oakland hills. Her images capture the joy and excitement of performers and audience members, showcasing the daring feats, spectacular outfits, and welcoming atmosphere that make the Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo an unmissable experience. In addition to Hasbun’s photographs, The New Black West features quotes and stories from the cowboys themselves and a foreword from the Oakland rodeo’s regional manager, Jeff Douvel.

Har Shaam Shaheen Bagh was made across several days and nights, over innumerable meals of biryani, warm embraces and tender exchanges. From the women of Standing Rock and Black Lives Matter, the women of the Dandi March and the Chipko Movement, for those at the frontlines of India’s non-violent protests, this book is an act of remembrance, to preserve the powerful legacy of women at the forefront of historic revolutions.

In February 1998 a businessman was murdered in Lima, Peru, it used to happen normally in different capitals of Latin America. He was an entrepreneur and he had a successful fabric business. I was 5 years old when this happened and he was my father. My family was really shocked and they didn't talked about the issue, so I grew up questioning lots of stuff about him and what happened and also having an urge to built a relationship with him. Besides talking with my family (who couldn’t really talk about it) and close family friends, I searched in my house for evidence about his existence or explanations of him suddenly disappearing. First, I found some objects my father had when he was murdered that my mother kept, with this I found a police document, I learnt about why he was murdered, how, where and what “exactly” happened. Then I found a plastic bag full of undeveloped film rolls, my mother told me my father used to make tons of photographs, I developed them and found 706 images. I googled his name and I found a tiny press picture of his murder, I looked for it in the newspaper archive and I found it but bigger. I found videotapes he made about a trip my family did before I was born, and I finally found one notebook he wrote before he got married to my mother, he writes about marriage, relationships and love. This project im working on is not only a journey of me trying to communicate with him through all these years. Is about how memory could work, how we try to remember and/or forget, sudden loss and death.

La Gente Deprimida Tiene Sexo Sucio y Ganas De Morir is a diary transformed into a book. Using Polaroid photography, drawings, and texts, the book explores the complex relationship between sex, depression, and identity. This diary-book-object brings together the crudeness, the chaos, and the beauty of two years of 150mg of Zoloft use, non-monogamous relationships, mourning and pleasure.

A collection of portraits and moments captured by Anthony Truth Gary during AfroPunk Atlanta.

• A separate booklet contains extracts from Karima Lazali’s book "Colonial Trauma: A Study of the Psychic and Political Consequences of Colonial Oppression in Algeria".
• Both elements are folded with a three flaps black jacket. 
• Edition of 500.

E se per imparare a fare il pane in casa si potesse... fare a meno delle ricette? È questo il 'segreto' che Laura Lazzaroni vuole condividere con chi, anche inesperto, si avvicina al mondo dei lievitati, il motivo per cui ha deciso di dedicarsi a un nuovo libro. Un libro capace di spiegare l'importanza di imparare un 'metodo', una sorta di masterclass che esamina tutte le variabili coinvolte, dalla gestione del lievito madre alla 'lettura' degli impasti, con trucchi, consigli e chiare spiegazioni anche dei passaggi più tecnici. Dopo una ricca sezione introduttiva sui grandi personaggi del grano e le farine più speciali, l'autrice presenta 3 metodi master e spiega come declinarli in 18 prodotti diversi, applicando modifiche in punti precisi del procedimento. Trasformare un pane in stile sourdough in un gustoso pane condito in cassetta, usare l'impasto della ciabatta per fare la focaccia, trasformare un morbido pane al latte in una bombetta fritta? È non solo possibile, ma divertente. Non resta che mettersi all'opera.

We The People is an interactive conceptual photography project celebrating the diversity of American identity.

First Class is a self-published photo book featuring a collection of portraits from a 4-year span of the first graduating class of Newark Collegiate Academy. These portraits now serve as archives of the graduating class before some moved to new states for the first time, got married, became parents, committed to being change advocates, and much more.

Black Diamonds is a personal endeavor to connect with the Appalachian region Facun now calls home. As a person of color, he defines his community based on personal experience, which diverges from the stereotypes of race, religion, gender, and politics that are often attached to the region by outsiders. His images hint at life as it once was, sharing the hyperrealism of what it is today and the uncertainty of what it is to become in the coal mining boomtowns of bygone days. Life in Appalachia is fraught with mystery and mischaracterization. Yet, in all his interactions, the simple needs of day-to-day survival loom larger than the abstract issues of politics. The images strive for an understanding of people and place in these rural, isolated foothills pocked with poverty; where a heritage of hospitality, not hate, is an unspoken psalm.

The Eyes of Earth tells a deeply personal story about the environmental disaster at Lake Urmia as seen through the eyes of Solmaz Daryani, a self-taught photographer, who grew up on the lake. Her grandfather ran a lakefront hotel in the tourist port of Sharafkhaneh and her uncles were sailors. She spent her childhood summers with her grandparents on the lake and, less than a decade ago, her grandfather hosted dozens of people every day. It was the disappearing lake and faded childhood memories that induce her to take the camera and start documenting what was left of the largest lake in the Middle East and the second largest salt lake on the planet. The book is designed by Fernanda Fajardo and Joao Linneu. The photography is edited by Manoocher Deghati who also spent his childhood summers on Lake Urmia some 40 years ago. A personal essay by the photographer and a short text of some of Deghati's memories provide personal narratives that reveal the intimate relationship between this human community and the ecosystem they depended on. Introduction by Amir AghaKouchak, professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth System Science at the University of California, Irvine.

To Be or To Become brings together portraits of women, as well as beautiful floral photography, taken between 2020 and 2021 on Polaroid600, 35 mm film and iPhone, the publication is the result of a collaboration with friend and co-editor Liliya Shapran and artist Bren Cukier – who created the free-flowing typography on the zine’s cover – along with hair stylist Timur Katz and florist Michelle Pelletier. First 10 zines come with a signed print.

I fell in love with J-Pop when I was 16 years old but never thought of travel to Japan until I further my study in Australia and discover Japanese Photography during my freshman year. After I completed my essays about Asian Photography where I mainly focus on Japan during my final senior year of University The urge to explore Japan especially Tokyo is getting stronger day by day. The year 2010 is a very memorable year for me. Freshly graduate and started my first job as a Photojournalist. Upon purchasing my first point and shoot digital camera, the Ricoh GRD II. With just a small compact camera, I brought myself to Japan backpacking for 20 days and explore the country from Tokyo to Fukuoka. My first sight in Tokyo upon touching the ground in Akihabara after landed at Haneda Airport still reminds me how exciting am I on that day. This is my first journey wondering around Japan. Let's explore Japan together in black and white with me in this photobook. — Flanegan Bainon

Chinatown Pretty features beautiful portraits and heartwarming stories of trend-setting seniors across six Chinatowns.  

Andria Lo and Valerie Luu have been interviewing and photographing Chinatown's most fashionable elders on their blog and Instagram, Chinatown Pretty, since 2014.

Chinatown Pretty is a signature style worn by pòh pohs (grandmas) and gùng gungs (grandpas) everywhere—but it's also a life philosophy, mixing resourcefulness, creativity, and a knack for finding joy even in difficult circumstances.

Street Culture is a stunning collection of photographs representing women and men of color who exhibit a unique style. Seleen Saleh’s photographs reveal individuality, fearlessness, and creativity in the most vibrant beings who collectively represent street style. This style is as varied as the people; it is a personal expression that changes day to day. It is an expression of a person’s culture, mood, influences, and aesthetics. Street style originated in the street where top designers look for inspiration for their next collections. The book preserves the integrity of street style and features some of the muses that have been forgotten or were never acknowledged. In the book Seleen combines photographs from her work at Essence Magazine with new images of jaw-dropping, creative and colorful moments. As a lover of fashion, art, and people, Seleen brings out the authentic nature of these known and unknown muses. Each person depicted here can be considered a brilliant artist in his or her own right. These portraits were taken in New York City—the perfect global destination—diverse and open and where people are not afraid to tell you who they are. There is an underfed audience for this book; the world is waking up and wants to see more diversity and more eclectic styles.

The photobook titled Un poco más alto [A little louder] by Abdo Shanan on the protests in Algeria is the result of the I Premi Mediterrani Albert Camus Incipiens, organized by the Trobades & Premis Mediterranis Albert Camus of Menorca. This project whose strength of vision is combined with the universality of the revolts against injustice shows the absence of crowds, flags and banners, despite the ever-present determination of the protesters. From an estranged proximity, Abdo Shanan questions and documents in his own way the hirak, the peaceful protest movement that has shaken Algeria since February 22, 2019 and that continues with vigor despite the pandemic.

The book Secret Sarayaku is a subjective photographic reinterpretation of the ancestral Kichwa knowledge of the "Kawsak Sacha" or Living Forest. This worldview affirms that all elements of the rainforest are alive, have a spirit and are interconnected. For this community, the conservation of their home is paramount to human survival. This book implements a circular narrative which on the one hand, focuses on the relationship between the community and the "Sacha Runakuna" or Supreme Protectors of the rainforest. These are mythological beings that cannot be seen by the bare eye (or bare camera lens, for that matter), but instead are accessed by the indigenous "Yachackuna" or wise men through a spiritual connection. On the other hand, this book provides a visual analysis of the relationship between the community and the outside world through technology, such as the Internet and social media. This book is a physical object that will endure in time as an emotional witness to the Kichwa philosophy.

More than any party, parade, team, or disaster, New Orleans is the people. The ones who persevere, survive, strengthen, and transform the city in all its unceasing vibrancy. For nearly a decade, photographer Akasha Rabut has documented this thriving culture. In Death Magick Abundance, her first book, she reveals the city’s spirit through the pink smoke of the Caramel Curves, the first all-female black motorcycle club; alongside the Southern Riderz, urban cowboys on horseback in the streets; and many others who represent the next generation of New Orleans. Seeking to interpret and preserve a sacred cultural heritage while redefining itself against a constantly shifting landscape, Death Magick Abundance is a conduit for the love and unending beauty of New Orleans and its people to flow to the rest of the world.

This book will take you to many diverse scenes of South India. I’ve spent more than a month travelling through Trivandrum, Varkala, Kochi, Kovalam, Alleppey and Munnar. And I realized that although we speak different languages there's a strong emotion that connects us all as Indians. In the end, we are all part of the same beautiful family. We shouldn’t fight between us, based on gender, ethnicity, colour, sexual orientation, or religion, but find paths that connect us to work together—women and men—and make this world a better place.

Uniform is his series of portraits of Nevisian kids in their regulation garb, shot in situ at Nevis’s fourteen schools.

The book Sueño “was born from that need to tell my place in an intimate way, to tell the soul of the mountains,” explains photographer Gianni Bulacio.

La paloma y la ley follows two women, Marta and Liset, who left Cuba in May 2016 with no plan, just the name of a coyote—a human smuggler— scribbled on a piece of paper, and a dream to make it to the US. They hoped to arrive before the imminent end of “wet foot, dry foot,” a policy that fast-tracked Cubans to asylum and permanent residency. Photojournalist Lisette Poole followed along on 51 days of this journey through 13 countries, across 10 borders and 6 days in the Darien Gap—a roadless stretch of jungle between Colombia and Panama. She posed as a migrant and photographed on several formats including a smartphone, 35mm film and a GoPro. Migration is one of the critical issues of our times, but the stories told are often hyper-dramatized, oversimplified, and rarely personal or intimate. La paloma y la ley upends these superficial narratives with one of the most comprehensive accounts of migration ever published. The book renders the journey in all its danger, complexity and humanity.

Award-Winning Journalist and Photographer Hal Banfield brings this photographic series to life in the pages of his first NAACP Image Award winning book capturing the grace, beauty, and strength of black dancers in motion. I Am Dance: Words and Images of the Black Dancer shines a spotlight on dancers from the concert to the commercial world of dance, and infuses stories from dancers, in their own words, about the space they hold in the world of dance, what dance means to them primarily and what being a dancer of color represents to them, especially. _I Am Dance _is an intimate encounter with dancers that will leave you not with just beautiful images to behold, but will also share with you a love and appreciation for the art of dance, with insight into the talent, passion, heart and revelations of dancers of color.

When Elliot Ross and Genevieve Allison traveled the 2,000 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border it was the spring of 2017. The post-election climate had presented a stark new context for looking at cultural and political difference in the United States — and so many of these fragmenting narratives had found expression in the border wall debate.

Hair Stories is a series of excerpted interviews and color portraits of a diverse array of women, that explores the complex relationship women have with their hair. Indian-born, Los Angeles–based photographer Rohina Hoffman deployed the interviewing skills she has developed in her training as a neurologist to establish an intimate rapport that allowed for a truthful dialogue about the role of hair in these women's lives. Though it was conceived and shot before the #MeToo movement, this salient project presents hair as a metaphor for identity, femininity and the manner in which women struggle for control over their own bodies in a misogynistic world. _Hair Stories** **_shows that hair is more than just style or aesthetics; it is a physical manifestation of the ongoing hope and history of women.

The fight for equality continues, from 1960 to now. Combining portraits of past and present social justice activists with documentary images from recent protests throughout the United States, _#1960Now _sheds light on the parallels between the 1960s Civil Rights Movement and the Black Lives Matter movement of today.

A Light Inside by photojournalist Danielle Villasana documents the lives of trans women in Peru. Villasana spent three years in a close knit community of trans women in Lima, following them through their daily lives and the discrimination and harassment they face when looking for housing, employment and health care. Her work counters the sensationalized and stereotypical depictions of trans women rampant in popular media. A personal introduction by trans activist Leyla Ariana Huerta evokes the conflict that trans women face with their families and overall in a patriarchal society where ‘machismo’ plays a critical role in gender identity. An afterword by anthropologist Xemena Salazar provides a clear an insightful analysis of the social conditions that confront trans women in Peru and the way in which trans women construct their identity facing these constraints.

During the activation and review of my photographic archive. I found a documentary/essay photo work that never was published. It's about one of the last finals of the world in the summer solstice of December 21-2012, in Isla del Sol, Bolivia. On the way to try to know more about what happened at the end of the world in 2012 in the rest of the world. Searching on the internet as a border, the history of the end of the world turned into a collected hundred of pictures on the research process. With my own photographic file and the material that was collected from the internet. All together expanded were the triggers for the realization of a photobook project. In times of global warming, pandemics, fake news, and many things more that broken the paradigm balance between reality and fictionality. Game Over proposes you, with a critical and playful look, to rethink everything that surrounds you.

It is often said that Bombay is “a city that doesn’t sleep” and also “the city of dreams”. The book explores this dichotomy in India’s urbs primus where a single day can oddly feel as long as a year!

On April 16th, 2016 an earthquake registering 7.8 on the Richter scale struck the coast of Ecuador. One of the worst quakes in the country’s history, it laid bare a situation of antiquated institutions, dysfunctional processes, and unapplied norms. But it also revealed a society of courageous and resourceful people who rose up in solidarity to rebuild their lives and their environment. “Siete punto ocho (Seven point eight)” is a book conceived in homage to the victims of this tragedy, combining snapshots taken at the time with texts they themselves have written about the images, along with other photographs that contextualize the places affected. The narrative of this photobook by Misha Vallejo and Isadora Romero proceeds slowly. The pace is one of memory and remembrance, of pondering absences, of perceiving how that sudden seismic upheaval transformed everything forever.

O livro é uma documentação realizada na fronteira entre Equador e Colômbia. O que acontece ao longo da estreita linha que delimita ambos os países é uma incógnita. Ninguém sabe ao certo o que se passa nos vilarejos localizados ali, mas todos concordam que não é nada bom. É um território marginalizado, esquecido, perigoso. O destino foi Puerto Nuevo, uma pequena comunidade com cerca de quinhentos habitantes, situada às margens do rio San Miguel, no lado equatoriano da fronteira, fundada em 2001 por colombianos deslocados pelo conflito armado no sul da Colômbia.

Death By Audio was a beloved underground venue that occupied a large warehouse space on the waterfront of Williamsburg, Brooklyn from 2005 until 2014. Within its walls were a music venue, a guitar effects pedal company, a rehearsal space / recording studio, and the home of over 10 artists and musicians. Shortly after its founders moved into the space in 2005, Williamsburg was in full swing as a hub of DIY music, cultural, and artistic activity in NYC. In a rapidly changing neighborhood transforming from affordable artist haven to tourist/shopping/dining oasis, Death By Audio was the longest lasting DIY space in Williamsburg and its closing in November 2014 not only signaled the loss of a physical space; on a broader scale, it sounded the final death knell of the neighborhood as an epicenter of creativity. The music venue part of Death By Audio was the public face of the space and it hosted thousands of concerts, giving much-needed support to local and touring bands operating outside the structure of official NYC concert venues. The space developed a reputation for nurturing the underground music community and curating shows with the best emerging bands from around the country. Throughout the years, the venue hosted a multitude of bands that went on to enjoy international acclaim, including A Place To Bury Strangers, Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall, Future Islands, Jeff the Brotherhood and Lightning Bolt, among so many more.

Portraits, landscapes, and still lifes from the interior of Bahia, Brazil.

A story about a midwife in the Colombian Pacific Region.