Eboundja is a project that occupies Reinout van den Bergh from 2011 onwards. Since 2009, the thirty families of the same-named fishing village in southern Cameroon are in great uncertainty about their future. The village is situated in the middle of a coastal strip where the Chinese, in exchange for Cameroon’s iron ore, are constructing a deep sea harbour. The inhabitants are vulnerable to the combination of a corrupt government and megalomaniac project developers. In a series of photograph...

Arctic Heroes takes a poignant look at the fate of the Greenland sled dog. In Greenland, where the melting ice sheet is irrevocably disrupting the hunters’ 4,000-year old traditional way of life, the stark reality of global warming is an immediate and direct threat to their everyday survival. The Greenland sled dog, essential to Inuit settlement and survival, now faces extinction as hunters are forced to adapt to the vanishing world around them. In over 150 images, and through hunters’ pe...

Bas Losekoot is presenting a photo essay in which he provides insight in the psychological journey of commuters in modern megacities. Placing his camera in the liminal spaces of the city, he is addressing the state of in-between-ness of the modern urban experience. With an intuitive eye, he observes the »presentation of self« and »micro-second meetings« that everyday urban encounters prevail. The book includes photography from the cities of New York, São Paulo, Seoul, Mumbai, Hong Kong, ...

After explicitly depicting the horrors of war in War Porn and commenting on its absurdity in hello camel, Christoph Bangert now reflects in the third and last volume of this series on his own past and role as a journalist on the front. Rumors of War is the personal diary of a now former war photographer who dares to admit that he misses the war and now has to find a way to cope with peace. Bangert impressively describes his inner conflict between the overwhelming, but also selfishly driven fe...

Peter Fink (1907, Grand Rapids - 1984, New York City) bereiste in den 1950er- bis 1970er-Jahren die Welt und fotografierte an abgelegenen Orten und in Industriestädten der Nachkriegszeit in Japan, Frankreich, Portugal, Nordafrika und im Mittleren Osten. Kunst und Kultur sind wiederkehrende Themen, ebenso wie das Leben von Arbeitern, Familien oder Kindern an jedem Ort, den er besuchte. Daneben entstanden expressive Porträts und Modefotografien, surreale Stillleben oder seine

radikalen Refrac...

Wie entscheiden wir, welches Tier zur Familie gehört und welches wir essen? Warum verblu¿fft uns ein Hahn, der aus dem Ku¿chenfenster schaut oder eine Henne, die ihr Spiegelbild betrachtet? Immerhin sind Hu¿hner in vielen Haushalten in Form von Schnitzeln oder Eiern präsent, aber nicht als Individuen mit eigenen Persönlichkeiten. 2017 traf die Fotografin Janet Holmes während ihres Freiwilligendiensts im New Yorker Tierheim Wild Bird Fund auf eine Henne, die unter einer schweren Krankhe...