For four months in late 1958 and early 1959, the Chilean photographer Sergio Larrain took his Leica camera to London. He was there on a British Council grant to work on a photography project about London. Apart from what we can gather from the photographs he published in his book London, 1959, little is known about his time in the city. But perhaps that’s okay. Larrain’s images — and his life — are appealing because they are shrouded in mystery....
Janet Delaney’s job in the 1980s required her to take last-minute flights to New York City from her home in San Francisco. During her free time in New York City, she’d wander the streets with her Rolleiflex camera and take photos of the people she’d encounter. Now, nearly 40 years later, her photographs are published in her book Red Eye to New York. The images give us a glimpse of what New York City was like in the 1980s: beautiful, dirty, diverse, brimming with promise and life....
Since 2001, Christopher Wise has lived in Thailand, a place he has photographed for various publications like Forbes, Monocle, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal. He has been building a body of work over the last 20 years and, during the pandemic, he decided to Kickstart a publication of his work. He was successful. Near the end of 2021, Thai/ Life/ Style/ generated the $12,000 it needed for publication....
Craig Mod’s Kissa by Kissa: How to Walk Japan is a paean to walking, Japan, and that post-war Japanese dish called pizza toast served up in Japanese cafés called kissaten (kissa, for short). Mod walked over 1,000 miles along the Nakasendo Highway, from Tokyo to Kyoto, and through the countryside where he’d chat with tomato farmers, cooks, and the aging customers of the kissaten he’d visit. Is it a photobook, a long photoessay, or something else entirely?...
In the spring of 2019, François Prost set off on a road trip from Miami to Los Angeles. His mission: to visit strip clubs and photograph their façades during the day. His new book Gentlemen’s Club (Fisheye 2021) features 200+ images of strip club façades on his route across the United States. While unsung and dismissed as lowbrow or part of the underbelly of society, strip clubs take on a specific architectural form and their façades have a particular aesthetic....