Insiders tip

The opulent photo volume 'Desert of Pharan. Unofficial stories behind the mass expansion of Mecca' by Ahmed MATER offers a unique access to this site and the associated social and religious rituals as well as the planned architectural urban development.

'Good Hope' by Carla LIESCHING, combines essays and found photographs with sources ranging from apartheid-era trade journals, tourist pamphlets, magazines to current newspapers and family albums. A critical examination of contemporary settler colonialism.

For over three decades, Toshio SHIBATA has traveled throughout his native Japan and the United States. The images in his out-of-print volume 'Contacts', taken in this area, have the cool detachment characteristic of many contemporary landscape photographs

'Le Collége' by Florian van ROEKEL deals about everyday life at school and about growing up. Possibly the young people are enabled by the pictures to see themselves, each other and their school with new eyes and learn to discover poetry in everyday life.

Der Band 'Blue Prints', ist eine Hommage an eine Pionierin der Fotografie und eine große britische Künstlerin, Anna ATKINS, die 1843 den ersten Fotoband der Geschichte schuf. Er enthält eine Auswahl der schönsten Cyanotypien sowie Texte von Rolf Sachsse.

In 'Surfacing', Katinka GOLDBERG searches the confrontation with the picture of her mother. The combination of current portraits and older photographs brings to light both differences & commonalities. The idiosyncratic book develops its power over time.

The photo book 'Far Away' by Ahmet UNVER examines the Turkish community that still does not feel part of Swedish society. His parents moved to Sweden as migrant workers from Turkey. The images illustrate feelings of isolation and the search for identity.

The images taken during the 'Great Depression' in the USA in the out-of-print book 'When Innovation Was King' by Lewis HINE and the message they contain are particularly relevant today in the face of high unemployment in a rapidly changing global economy.

'A Parallel Road' by Amani WILLETT, explores in a nuanced & multi-layered way the themes of history, racism, violence as well as black identity in the USA. It reflects on the past & present within a major American theme and encourages an integral dialogue

Strictly limited to 130 cps., 'Panopticon' by Riccardo DOGANA is a reflection of media content. Using selected topics from the last decade - emigration, climate change, wars, organized crime, terrorism - the truthfulness of the WorldWideWeb is questioned.