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The out-of-print photo book 'Keiko' by World Press photo awarded photographer Tomasz GUDZOWATY documents the life of ship scrappers in Chittagong, Bangladesh, where 30 to 40 percent of all 700 ocean-going vessels decommissioned each year are cannibalized.

Cloth bound HC (no dustjacket, as issued), 18 x 26 x 2,5 cm., 192 pp. with differently sized inserts, b/w & color ills., text language: English

In 'Color is Power' by Robert WALKER we encounter the colorful bustle of North American & European metropolises. The Canadian searched for the strange and absurd in the orderly chaos full of empathy for those who fight their way through the urban jungle.

For his self-published volume 'Am Platz ein Baum', designed as a fanfold, Björn ALLEMANN photographed for over two years at the same square (Paradeplatz) in Zurich. It is an idiosyncratic publication in which the sequence of images must be 'worked out'.

Humans and horses have a long history in common. A less documented part is the horse used for food. Starting with her grandfather, who was once a horse butcher, Belgian photographer Helen PEETERS examined and documented horse (meat) culture worldwide.

'The Island of the Color Blind' by Sanne de WILDE documents a hereditary disease of people in Micronesia. The image selection obscures or emphasizes their eyes, faces and their way of seeing - the viewer is led into a dream world of colorful possibilities

Zwei gebundene Ausgaben mit Schutzumschlag im Pappschuber, jeweils 24,5 x 27,5 cm., etwa 420 S., S/W-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

The photographic volume 'Hotel Pegasus' by Japanese photographer Sakiko NOMURA is a superbly printed unusual publication in a very modern layout, reminiscent of a comic book with its narrow white lines between the rhythmically arranged dark color images.

Fadengeheftete, gebundene Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 14 x 18 cm., 144 S., 80 S/W-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - TEXT ONLY IN GERMAN!

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 25,5 x 37,5 x 2 cm., 128 pp., approx. 68 b/w ills., no text