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 ...

With elementary materials – wood, paper, clay, tape, paint – artist Fleur van Dodewaard creates ephemeral compositions that play with the possibilities of photography, sculpture, and painting. Situated at the intersection of these disciplines, her work uses photography to achieve the final result. ‘The Fold’ presents ten years of practice, reshaped according to the principles of book production methods such as folding, cutting, and binding. Operating like a “making-of” documentary...

For 'Real Dreams’ Beijing based photographer Ruben Lundgren immersed himself in the Chinese news cycle for six years. The photobook starts with a century old quote in which writer J.R. Chitty explains that China, within the Western mind, is choked with the most ‘ludicrous incongruities’ that need to be assimilated before one can come close to understanding the country. The photographs provide an exceptional wide-range of visual incongruities taken all over the most populous and fastest ...

'Teaching Objects' is a journey through art and culture. Jeroen Lutters takes us to see a number of artworks that give new insights into the foundations of twenty-first century civilisation and humanity. In this highly personal and passionate account, he discusses his individual choice of great works - works that not only reflect the history of Western culture, but also continue to be a source of inspiration and meaning.

Hans Appenzeller (1949) is een van de vernieuwende sieraadontwerpers van de twintigste eeuw. Vanaf de jaren zestig maakt hij sieraden van tot dan toe ongebruikelijke materialen als aluminium en rubber. De constructie en de sluiting zijn daarbij net zo belangrijk als het materiaal en de vorm. Direct na zijn opleiding aan de Rietveld Academie opent Appenzeller in 1969 in Amsterdam samen met Lous Martin de eerste Nederlandse sieradengalerie: Galerie Sieraad. Daarna heeft hij eigen winkels in Ams...

After Meijer's first artist's book about plants in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, 'The MoMA Plant Collection' includes over 400 photographs and drawings of exhibitions at the New York Institution, in which plants feature among the works. Inge Meijer wants to render museum plants visible once again, to make us aware of their real as well as metaphorical importance. Beyond her desire for institutional critique, she is also part of a new moment between nature and culture.

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...

'Teaching Objects' is a journey through art and culture. Jeroen Lutters takes us to see a number of artworks that give new insights into the foundations of twenty-first century civilisation and humanity. In this highly personal ans passionate account, he discusses his individual choice of great works – works that not only reflect the history of Western culture, but also continue to be a source of inspiration and meaning.