IMAGES OF

1.

Dahlia by Vera van Dam

Dahlia explores the overlapping identities of a flower, a vehicle, and a mother figure. In this project, Vera sought to take back what has long been dominated by a masculine gaze—both women and cars, often portrayed as symbols in advertising or as domestic objects. By examining the tension between their intimacy and anonymity, she came to see the car as something deeply personal and widely shared—much like the female body. Both skin and metal serve as protective layers, shielding our inner lives from the outside world.

Setanta Books, 2024

2.

CÉLESTIAL by Vincent Ferrané

In his new photo book Célestial, French photographer Vincent Ferrané delves into the emotional realm through a visual investigation rooted in perception. Drawing inspiration from warm-up poses used in contortion training, the series transforms the twisted human form—photographed within everyday interior settings—into something elevated. By layering multiple images taken during the same session—each slightly different yet visually aligned—he constructs symmetrical compositions that generate entirely new, unified visuals.

The resulting images hover between hypnotic repetitions, psychological inkblot tests, and playful optical illusions, where the relationship between the center and edges of the frame feels deeply intertwined. As with his earlier publication Inner (2022), also with Art Paper Editions, a female figure remains central. This time, a private domestic environment sets the stage for a carefully composed visual choreography.

That figure is Céleste, a professional dancer reimagined as an ethereal, shape-shifting presence. The book becomes a kaleidoscope—an artistic object through which bodily movement, emotion, and perception unfold across its pages.

Art Paper Editions, 2025

3.

Distant Intimacy By Marie Déhé

“Imagine our bodies and souls leaving their gaze... escaping endless judgment, silent pressures, and the violence imposed on our flesh and dreams. We will be free.” —Marie Déhé

Since 2016, French photographer Marie Déhé has photographed women—often nude—through intimate sessions that begin with conversation and trust. These fleeting yet meaningful connections form the core of her practice. During the COVID-19 pandemic, as physical distance became the norm, Déhé began to rethink how intimacy could be experienced and represented. Her book Distant Intimacy explores this shift—using video calls and screenshots instead of traditional photography to create an equal space between photographer and subject. Through spontaneous images and handwritten texts, Déhé offers a quiet liberation from the gaze, celebrating the courage of women who reveal themselves on their own terms.

Art Paper Editions, 2022

4.

Rules for Photographing a Scoliotic Patient
by Woong Soak Teng

Developing out of personal experience with scoliosis and a chance encounter with medical archives at the Wellcome Collection, rules for photographing a scoliotic patient finds its way through found images, text, materials and objects related to the abnormal curvature of the spine. Through arrangement of visual and tactile materials and collaboration with other scoliotic individuals, this ongoing exercise attempts to make sense of various inventions of spinal interventions, the role of image-making in the medical field, the male gaze towards the female body and human experiences of living with spinal deformity.

The Book Show, 2022

5. A Nose on a Date

MONOGRAM 5 : JOHN YUYI, IN MEMORY OF ...

“In memory of my ear bone that was once in my nose for two weeks. The day before it went back to my ear, I decided to take my nose on a date to an amusement park, just the two of us.“

Monogram, 2023

6. The Collective Mourning

#INGRID

On February 9, 2020 in Mexico City, a 25-year-old woman named Ingrid E. V was murdered by her companion. Grisly photographs of this femicide committed by Erik Francisco Robledo Rosas, taken at the scene of the crime by the authorities, were avidly circulated by Mexican tabloids, which had no qualms in plastering the young woman’s dismembered body across their front pages. This opportunistic move by the gutter press, and the complicity of the police in making it possible, sparked a wave of protests. Spurred by a tweet to do their part in ridding the internet of these gruesome images, social media users around the world posted numerous photos of peaceful lakes, sunsets, fields of flowers and other scenes of natural beauty under the hashtag #IngridEscamillaVargas. Moved by this collaborative effort, Zoé Aubry, who has been working on the systemic and structural phenomenon of femicides and the issues raised by their media coverage since 2017, has produced a book that pays homage to the memory of Ingrid Escamilla Vargas, denounces violence against women, and assails the voyeurism of a certain segment of the press.

RVB Books, 2022

7. Public Memory

Volker Renner : Potential Sightings

The website Faces of the Riot went online after a raging mob stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. It displays the faces of individuals who presumably participated in the assault. Remarkably, the photographic material comes from the alleged perpetrators themselves: it was they who uploaded the pictures to social media platforms like Parler, bragging about their acts before a like-minded audience. Far from serving as a gallery of profiles in courage, however, Faces of the Riot is a pillory. In the tradition of the Wild West’s “Most Wanted” posters, the site solicits information on suspects for the FBI.

Volker Renner, 2025

8. A Passing Glance

Marie Valognes : Edited Stories

Edited Stories by Marie Valognes, edited and designed by Florine Bonaventure, presents a box set of 5 volumes, 5 unique narratives presenting unseen works produced between 2013 and 2024. Central to these series are fleeting moments captured on the streets and within Marie’s immediate surroundings, subjects are captured furtively, inviting viewers to interpret the curiosity and observations they evoke.

Bonaventure, 2025

9. Post-Internet Folk Archive

Anouk Kruith of Universal Tongue

Universal Tongue celebrates the vast diversity of global dance in the age of the Internet. Initiated by visual artist Anouk Kruithof, the project stems from her fascination with online dance videos as expressions of identity, empowerment, and joy.

With the help of 50 international researchers, Kruithof collected over 8,800 online dance clips, ultimately distilling them into 1,000 unique styles featured in an 8-channel, 4-hour video installation accompanied by a unified soundtrack. Each style is documented with a short text and video stills, forming a playful “dancyclopedia” of global movement culture.

The book is not definitive or academic—it’s a statement. Alphabetically organized to bypass conventional geographic or cultural categories, Universal Tongue envisions a more inclusive world of endless exchange—where everyone is a dancer.

Art Paper Editions, 2022

10. Lo-Fi Seeing

The Beautiful Flower Is the World by Jerry Hsu

The Beautiful Flower Is the World brings together the best of Jerry Hsu’s blog, which began in 2009 as a repository for cell phone photos collected alongside his traditional photography and film work. The result is a sharp, funny, and visually rich chronicle of modern life—capturing its absurdities, contradictions, and fleeting moments of truth with unfiltered wit and a singular eye.

Anthology Editions, 2024

11. Youth

BUMPS by Lola & Pani

Bumps, a photographic series by Lola Paprocka and Pani Paul, captures the raw intensity of youth through a mix of portraits and landscapes. Depicting scraped skin, uncertain expressions, and rugged environments, the work reflects the cyclical, often awkward journey of young adulthood. Rooted in documentary photography, the series explores themes of subcultures, renewal, and the search for belonging, offering a deeply personal and empathetic lens into the lives of its subjects.
Palm* Studios, 2024

12. Intimate Strangers

Nuage Lepage, The Sea Around Us by
Marie Deteneuille

“Nuage” means “cloud” in French—and like a cloud, she drifts gently and quietly, almost unnoticed, from place to place. Nuage is from Los Angeles, a city shaped by sunlight and shadows. But here, in France, she becomes an image.
What does it mean to take a journey? Is it about the destinations we reach, the landscapes we frame, or the fleeting faces we pass by? Or is it something more internal—a story that unfolds through the lens, captured in moments of light and shadow?

The Sea Around Us is a tender exchange between photographer and model—two strangers spending 24 hours together in Normandy. Through the book’s pages, their distance fades, and a quiet sense of intimacy begins to surface.

Self-Published, 2025

13. Returned Gaze

Another Love Story by Karla Hiraldo Voleau

"Another Love Story" by Karla Hiraldo Voleau revisits a personal relationship that unraveled when the artist discovered her partner was leading a double life. The project spans the same year as the relationship itself, tracing a journey from intimacy to betrayal. Rather than retreating into silence, KHV reclaims the narrative through reenactment—restaging scenes with exacting detail using costumes, locations, and call sheets, turning her real-life experience into a constructed performance.

Blending photography, writing, and performance, KHV explores how love is imagined, staged, and socially coded. Her work blurs fact and fiction, revealing how identity and intimacy are shaped not only by emotion but also by social scripts. In retelling her story, KHV doesn’t just reflect on heartbreak—she reclaims agency, positioning herself as both subject and author. Her practice foregrounds the body, gender, and desire, framing intimacy as a space of critical reflection.

Morel, 2023

14. Returned Gaze

Baroness by Yushi Li

Photographer Yushi Li takes us on a journey of desire, fantasy and looking, through a photographic study of the male body. For Li’s debut book cover, the photographer has chosen a photograph of a penis. In a heteropatriarchy, where men are represented in the media as big and strong, here the penis is small, flaccid and trapped, presenting a playful, slightly violent, but gentle and almost comical gaze.

The naked male bodies in Li’s works are not intended for consumption. Instead, the male body is represented in its relation to other elements in the frame, which always involves a staging of a scene, a fantasy. The domestic space and the mundane activities in the works, invite the viewer to see beyond the naked body. The man in her images is the phallus, the signifier of desire – the desire of the (m)Other. Li’s portrayal of the body is a condensation of the imaginary: the unknown paternal and maternal body– and the fantasy of the absent (m)Other.

Baron, 2022

15. Returned Gaze

SMUT Volume II : Voyeurism

SMUT: Voyeurism explores fantasies and desires from a queer perspective—specifically the act of “watching”—while also questioning how audiences understand and engage with voyeurism itself. The inspiration came when Ezekiel stumbled upon a “sleep livestream” on TikTok, where the streamer lay asleep on camera as viewers sent tips in hopes of waking him or prompting him to reveal more skin. This phenomenon, reflecting contemporary media consumption and the public’s voyeuristic urges, sparked Ezekiel’s curiosity about the true nature of voyeurism.

In response, he collected depictions and commentary on voyeurism within queer contexts found online, drawing from common category labels on gay porn sites to build staged, comedic scenes that deconstruct and reimagine classic gay erotic imagery. For instance, the fantasy of the handsome, heterosexual neighbor across the street pokes fun at the performance of pretending not to notice being watched—an act that feels both absurd and affected, whether in real life or online. After all, “real voyeurism depends on the subject being completely unaware of being observed or recorded.”

Smut, 2023

16. -

I Speak A Language That Is Not Mine
by Alessio Bolzoni

“It’s an observation of reality as I see it—a personal, social, and political registration of reality filtered through the lens of photo notes. Every detail tells a story and reveals something about my practice of living. This is my language.”- Alessio Bolzoni.

Etude Books, 2022

17. A Failed Encounter

A Failed Attempt To Photograph Reality by
Julian Slagman

“I tend to photograph my own family, the space in front of my door, or my workplace itself. I have to take a lot of images. It is mostly about trying something, and failing, a lot. The core element in my work is transience; an emotional look at the impermanent existence of a state, a moment or a person.” — Julian Slagman

Self-Published, 2025

18. In-Between

Flying Freehold by Mikey Masse

Flying Freehold borrows its title from a legal term describing property that extends into space beyond its rightful ownership—serving as a metaphor for the fragmented, ephemeral quality of contemporary life. The book explores the paradox of possessing the intangible—like air or sky—and uses this to reflect on human relationships marked by invisible boundaries, shared yet contested spaces, and fleeting encounters. Through themes of anonymity, routine, and emotional distance, it questions what it means to claim space—physically, emotionally, and socially—in a world shaped by impermanence.

Materially, the book echoes architectural references. The softcover features a black-and-white image printed on white light cardboard, partially obscured by a translucent jacket with silver text. Inside, images unfold across warm, uncoated pages in a carefully paced sequence, blending color and black-and-white photographs with intentional moments of stillness and space.

Action Motion, 2025

19. In-Between

Mise En Abyme by Jan Mammey

In Mise en abyme, German photographer Jan Mammey breathes new life into his own archive. As the title implies, each image in the book is a photograph of a photograph—shot directly from the walls of his studio. These pinned-up images, left untouched, are rephotographed in situ, forming a visual recursion.

The motifs reflect the fragmented visual culture of postmodern life: advertising, diagrams, architectural models, shop window displays—images within images, subjects within subjects. As readers flip through the book, subtle connections begin to emerge. Repeated shapes, colours, and textures create an invisible thread, gradually forming an abstract visual narrative from seemingly unrelated scenes.

Kodoji Press, 2018

20. Ancient Flesh

Cycladic Blues at the Cycladic by Marlene Dumas

This publication serves as both a visual sketchbook and the official catalogue for Marlene Dumas’ exhibition Cycladic Blues at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, now set to open in 2025. Originally published ahead of the show—driven by Dumas’ enthusiasm and deep connection to the museum’s collection—the book stands as a prelude to the exhibition, offering an early glimpse into its themes and dialogues.

Featuring over 40 paintings and works on paper from various phases of the artist’s career, the catalogue presents a cross-section of Dumas’ raw and intimate portrayals of the human body. The works are grouped into four categories: family portrait, erotic figure, fragmented body, and portraits of sculptures—each curated to resonate with the museum’s enigmatic Cycladic figurines, dating from 3000 to 2000 BCE. In this way, Dumas’ work enters into a rich, anachronistic exchange with ancient forms, bridging contemporary expression and timeless abstraction.

Roma Publications, 2022, 2025

21. Form

Pour Allumer Un Feu by Lalie Thébault Maviel

This artist book brings together 110 flint lighters, spanning from the Middle Ages to the present day—the earliest iron tools used to spark fire through oblique percussion. Sourced from online archaeological archives and everyday auction platforms like eBay and Etsy, the objects are distilled into minimalist alphabetical silhouettes, offering a typological study of form, function, and survival.

By removing context and reducing each lighter to its essential outline, the publication reveals the remarkable formal diversity of a utilitarian object whose basic use has remained unchanged for centuries—bridging epochs, cultures, and technologies.

The book includes a quote from anthropologist André Leroi-Gourhan, describing the cross-cultural significance of fire-making and its material tools—drawing connections between prehistoric innovation and the rituals of modern life.

Dumpling Books, 2025

22. Photographic Archive

Mariken Wessels : Miss Cox

‘Miss Cox (Nude – Arising from the Ground)’ is a many-sided artistic translation of artist Mariken Wessels’ fascination for an anonymous woman who had posed for Eadweard Muybridge’s camera in 1885. In the 24-image sequence ‘Arising from the Ground’ (plate 286) the obese woman, who was supposedly named Miss Cox, can be traced from lying down to a full upright position. Affected by her appearance, Wessels began to make large clay sculptures and to photograph obese female models swimming underwater. In these photographs Wessels focuses on the landscapes which a body assumes impressed by water. Besides the underwater series and photographic views of the sculptures, ‘Miss Cox’ also contains studio views including sketches and other research materials.

FW Books, 2020

23. Photographic Archive

Pyrocumulus, A Mushroom Atlas

Pyrocumulus is a collaborative project by French photographer and visual artist Valia Russo and Franco-Japanese graphic designer Émilie Noyer. Together, they explore the uncanny relationship between mushrooms and nuclear power, both in form and in symbolic resonance.

A pyrocumulus is a cloud of vapor or dust that forms above intense heat, often resembling a mushroom—hence the term "atomic mushroom." On this visual and analogical basis, Russo submits images of nuclear tests and explosions to mushroom identification apps. These AIs, trained to detect subtle morphological differences, are repeatedly deceived: the bomb becomes a bolete, the cloud a chanterelle.

Through Russo’s diptychs and Noyer’s accompanying text, the book investigates the entangled logics of nuclear catastrophe and fungal life: systems of spread, resistance, decay, and rebirth. Between absurdity and disquiet, Pyrocumulus offers an analogical reading of two dissonant forms—linked by resemblance, yet worlds apart.

Highway Of The Sun, 2024

24. Cultural Cannibalism and Tribute

Walking Loaves by Luca Trevisani

Walking Loaves is both a cannibalization of and a tribute to Bread of Dreams, the seminal 1980 work by Italian philologist, anthropologist, and literary critic Piero Camporesi. Camporesi’s book explores bread as a cultural artifact—tracing its role in baking practices, ritual, and the history of how we have nourished ourselves as human beings.

Luca Trevisani extends this exploration through sculpture, using bread as both material and metaphor. His shoemaking experiments reflect an effort to crystallize movement and bodily transformation—treating bread as a form of collective memory, material history, and biological text.

After three years of sculptural and editorial inquiry into bread, Trevisani returns to Bread of Dreams, layering images of his work and handwritten annotations directly onto an anastatic replica of the original. The result is a kind of parasitic homage: a new book that emerges from within the cracks of another, merging reverence with quiet subversion.

Nero Editions, 2023

o. Projects

o. Publications (bookshop)

o. Info

o. Publications
(bookshop)