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08/06/2026

While photography, Yasuhiro Ogawa’s medium of choice, is decidedly visual, it was sound that ultimately inspired him to create the mesmerizing series of black-and-white street photography in his photobook “Tokyo Silence”. Feeling an odd disconnect between the organic cacophonic chaos he experienced in the streets of Shanghai or Chongqing and the orchestrated noise consisting of background music and video adverts that numbs his ears in Tokyo, he compared his experience of Tokyo’s streets to walking at the bottom of an aquarium, everything strangely silenced by the surrounding water. With this idea in mind, he went out and photographed Tokyo’s streets.

The series, shot in the early 2000s but only published now, indeed seems to show a world captured through a thick, decelerating medium in which each movement requires deliberate attention. As with his previous photobooks, Ogawa’s photographs are again able to extract something otherwise invisible from the world around us; this time, he captured noise as silence.

07/06/2026

Printed on black paper, the photographs in Yasuhiro Ogawa’s “Lost in Kyoto” convey a sense of fleeting existence, as if they might fade back into darkness once the page is closed, despite the intensity of their colors. Ogawa, who according to his afterword only fell under Kyoto’s mysterious spell in 2014, photographed the city in search of something transcendental – the invisible layers of history that quietly shape and define it. Focusing on motifs that feel eternal rather than timeless, Ogawa evokes an image of Japan’s ancient capital emerging from the shadows, one that few will ever truly see.

“After walking for about thirty minutes, sweat beading on my forehead, I finally reached a small temple, surrounded by cedar trees. It was the inner sanctuary of Kurama Temple.
I didn’t see anyone on the way from the main hall to the inner sanctuary, and there was no sign of anyone inside. But that was a good thing for me. I hadn’t been alone in the silence of a temple deep in the mountains since I traveled to Tibet a long time ago. I wanted to enjoy the silence. I lightly placed my hands, sat down to take a breath at the entrance, and looked up at the clear blue autumn sky beyond the old cedar trees …
It is this kind of history of Kyoto that I have been trying to visualize over the past decade. Not history as a superficial record, but history as a "living creature" that has been nurtured and cultivated throughout people's lives. Yes, Kyoto's history deserves to be called a "living creature." It has a pulse; it breathes.”

05/06/2026

Sisters, Saints and Sibyls is a tribute ‘to all rebellious women struggling to survive in society.’ Focusing on the tragic life of her sister, Barbara, Nan Goldin weaves together a tapestry out of medical records, family photographs and mythical allusions to Saint Barbara to compose a haunting meditation on the mistreatment of female mental health in the twentieth century. Barbara’s story is intertwined with Goldin’s own descent into, and emergence from, addiction, shining a brutal light on the realities of trauma, abuse and mental illness.

22/05/2026

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12/05/2026

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‘A constant quiet terror’: Getting lost in Irish folklore – in pictures

Maria Lax’s images are inspired by the phenomenon of ‘stray sod’, in which patches of enchanted land are said to lead astray anyone who steps on them

12/05/2026

Stray Sod by Maria Lax

Stray Sod investigates the phenomenon of the same name in Irish folklore: enchanted patches of earth that will lead astray whoever steps on them. Inspired by first-hand accounts found in the Irish National Archives, Maria Lax reimagines rural Irish landscapes through this otherworldly lens.

The stories therein describe instances in which individuals are forced to navigate a world characterised by sudden shifts into unfamiliarity and strangeness. A world in which established reference points distort and slip away, causing great distress to those experiencing it. Stray Sod draws timely parallels between these stories and the destabilizing effects of the fast-changing political and technological environment of today.

“Many of the stray sod accounts seem to take place during periods of great change, such as a time of grieving, but can be equally seen as a metaphor for depression, addiction, shifting political landscapes or rapid technological advancements that have the power to completely upend our lives. They are stories about becoming lost; about the invisible realities that can change our lives overnight, and the unknown landscapes through which we must travel.”

11/05/2026

Photographer Lars Tunbjörk (1956–2015) saw Sweden like no other. His camera eye was sharply revealing and ironic, but not without tenderness. He saw the country from the perspective of the periphery. From Borås, Lars Tunbjörk’s career spanned the world. His way of seeing became so powerful that people talked about a ”Tunbjörker” as if it were its own genre. The images that raised so many questions have been integrated into the collective memory. In Landet utom sig (Country Beside Itself), Tunbjörk’s breakthrough project, he seeks out people at campsites, shopping centers and department stores to tell the story of the market economy’s sudden arrival in Sweden, a social development that in the 90s was also global. With his medium format camera and homemade flash, he created absurdist images full of both humor and sadness. A ’tunbjörkare’ became a concept, and he wrote himself into the history of photography. This is a new, updated edition of the original book, first published in 1993. In addition to the original photographs and texts, the book includes a new foreword by Lena Kvist and an updated text by Göran Greider.

24/04/2026

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24/04/2026

Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004) studied painting before taking up photography in his early twenties. One of the founders of the photography agency Magnum (together with Robert Capa and others), he is best known for the consummate skill with which he captured the most fleeting of scenes.This volume, introduced by Michael Brenson, includes selections from his photographs of France, Spain, America, India, Russia, Mexico and pre-revolutionary China.