Volker Hinz (1947 - 2019) is one of Germany's great photographers and photo journalists. After starting out at Sven Simon’s agency in Bonn, he switched to the magazine stern in 1974, for which he produced legendary photo and travel reports, portraits of artists, politicians, and celebrities in the following decades. Never seen without a camera, he left his mark with his pictures - not only on colleagues, friends, and the many people he portrayed, but also in German photojournalism, whose "g...

((Please scroll down for English version)) In Anlehnung an den Ausspruch des französischen Filmregisseurs Robert Bresson »Mach sichtbar, was vielleicht ohne dich nie wahrgenommen worden wäre«, fotografierte der Berliner Fotograf Günter Steffen zwischen 1984 und 1989 einen beeindruckenden Zyklus über Ostberlins Mitte in der er damals lebte und arbeitete. Meistens in den frühen Morgenstunden streifte er durch scheinbar unberührte und leere Straßen, Plätze, Hinterhöfe, Ruinen und an d...

This book tells the extraordinary story of what later became known as the “CIA’s Secret War” in the Asian country of Laos in the 1960s and 1970s. It was the largest clandestine CIA operation to this day. A guerrilla army of Hmong people fought against the North Vietnamese communist-supported Pathet Lao. While the war in next-door Vietnam was widely covered by the media, the Secret War was decidedly not. Reporters who came to investigate rumors about a war were turned away at gunpoint—...

Each series of images and tableaux in Barbara Probst’s Exposures consist of up to fourteen individual images that capture the same moment from multiple perspectives. This enables the viewer to grasp the same moment from different perspectives without having to move—a visual paradox, so to speak. This book presents her latest, mostly unpublished works from areas that actually belong to classic genres of photography rather than to conceptual photography: street photography, fashion, nudes a...

((Please scroll down for English version)) Das Châlet - im Sinne der luxuriös-romantischen abgelegenen Berghütte, in der »splendid isolation« einer sonnenverwöhnten Winterlandschaft ist eines der beliebteren Klischeebilder der Schweiz. Die eigentliche Bedeutung des Begriffes »Châlet« (von lat. cala, geschützter Ort) ist aber einfach nur Sennhütte oder Unterstand. Auf vielen Reisen durch seine Wahlheimat ist Patrick Lambertz immer wieder Häusern begegnet, die sich dem typischen Kli...