What scares a nation - gunmen who hold children ransom or infamous terrorists? Useful Photography 011 rifles through the history of human targets culled from US shooting ranges. In this age of high impact gun crime, are the participants seeking protection or accelerating the violence?

Collected and edited by Erik Kessels, this selection of photos pays tribute to one of photography's most common mistakes: part of the photographer's hand appearing in frame. Stray fingers mar candid family snapshots, sunny beach holidays, visits to foreign cities, pristine landscapes and historic architecture alike, demonstrating just how prevalent this amateur accident has been since the advent of the handheld camera, right up into the digital age. At times humorous, the results can also be ...

This continuation of the well-established and popular series of found photography books, provides another collection of intriguing images. This time its subject is one of the earliest successful photographic blogs, a site documenting the story of Oolong, a Japanese rabbit whose unusually flat head made it ideal for balancing objects. Starting in 1999, hundreds of images were posted by Oolong’s owner, Akutagawa Hironori, each showing this otherwise ordinary creature with an unusual item place...

The fourteenth edition of Erik Kessels' found photography series presents a semi-nude detective story: who chopped the heads off all the sunbathers? This latest series was discovered in the late eighties by the photographer Toon Michiels. Edited & designed by Erik Kessels.

Noud and Ruby decided to spruce up their living room in 1965 by refurnishing the fireplace and adding a new sofa, a tufted corner piece in a classy shade of beige velveteen; not a right-angled design, but a soft, sensual curve snaking around the corner of the room. Noud and Ruby’s redecorating set the scene for what would become a sincere and erotic collaboration between the couple that spanned almost ten years and documented both fashion and fantasy. But the pictures were never intended to...

This edition is entirely dedicated to photographs from Fred and Valerie, a couple from Florida who share a passion for "wet fun adventure". One is the photographer, one is the model, and water is the medium. They take every opportunity to get wet, no matter what they are wearing or what they are doing, the more spontaneous the better. Public or private, silk or leather, winter or summer - none of these elements matter. The adventure is all of this combined.

The magazine's focus is to explore images created for practical purposes, in this case, the photographs used to guide solvers of jigsaw puzzles in their endeavours. These pictures, from animals, television and sports to postcard-perfect destinations, are printed on cardboard and cut into various pieces of different shapes that must be fitted together to form the whole. Usually found on the puzzle box's exterior, they are exact duplicates of the completed game - the perfect version of the puzz...