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....
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....
Roberto Calasso wrote about “singular books” (i libri unici) when recounting conversations he had with Roberto Bazlen in his 2013 L’impronta dell’editore.1 Two co-conspirators of what would blossom into the respected Italian publishing house Adelphi Edizioni, a young Calasso and an aging Bazlen dreamed to publish unique, singular books. Singular books are books in which “it is clear that something has happened to the author and has been put into writing,” Calasso writes reflecting on the conversations with Bazlen....