It was the streets that raised me, streets that paid me, streets that made me a product of my environment by Arne Schmitt and Andrzej Steinbach, Spector Books.

Coming from a Hiphop and Punk/Hardcore background, the streets are the place where all our relevant references come together: music, skateboarding, graffiti, political action. The book thus combines self-taken photographs of our surroundings and found footage ranging from movie stills to reproduced magazines and record covers. Both layers are intertwined in a fictional script, formulating an attitude which links Leipzig in 2010 to the New York City of the late 80s, for example. The title „It was the streets that raised me, streets that paid me, streets that made me a product of my environment“ is a reference to what motivates our work: the streets of the city (in this work, Leipzig) as the setting – as well as our favored forms of subculture as the “soundtrack” of our artistic work. That is why it comes in a printed record sleeve; the content is totally pure, just pictures, while all information, similar to liner notes, are found on the sleeve.

D 20€

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folio issue zero

offset print, full colour, saddle stitched.
Featuring artists and collectives Siân Robinson Davies, Bumf Collective, Ben Dawson
and Dead Photographers Project.
Every special edition includes 4 limited edition A5 size postcards by the featured artists.
Edited and published by folio in 2010. Edition of 1000. Special edition of 200/1000.

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issue zero, D 5€

issue one, D 7€

Everything Gentle by David Brandon Geeting, Café Royal Books.

“Everything Gentle” is a phrase my mother always used when I was a kid,
implying that I should take it easy, as I am clumsy by nature. These photographs are a light,
no-stress meditation on balance, or lack thereof.

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The Equation of Desire. Martin Soto Climent. Mousse Publishing.

The Equation of Desire is the outcome of Martin Soto Climent’s efforts to recognise, name and organise all the relevant and substantial aspects of his own life. Starting from this very personal standpoint, the research soon became an investigation into universal questions of life; it became a series of diagrams about the human condition and also a series of 366 photographs.

All of the photographs emerge from a similar process: Soto Climent rolls-up different pages of vintage photographic yearbooks in such a way that a new and surprising image arises. Being a combination of a number of pictures, the result is reminiscent of a collage, but with one essential distinction: the original pictures are not destroyed by being cut up, they are not even damaged by the act of rolling or other interventions, but just unravel back into their original shape after the shot. The whole process thus results in an ephemeral picture that will disappear again and only remains in the picture taken by the artist.

Pamphlet text in English
ISBN: 978-88-96501-64-1

D 28€

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Mirjam Wirz. Sonidero City / Mexico.

Double-sided poster, printed in Mexico City, 2010/2011
57 x 87 cm

D 12 €

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Revisiting Utopia: Modernist Architecture in the Post-regenerate City by Craig Atkinson / In Certain Places (Elaine Speight and Charles Quick), Café Royal Books

Revisiting Utopia: Modernist Architecture in the Post-regenerate City, was the third symposium curated by In Certain Places that used a situation or live project in Preston, to examine a wider national and international debate.

In Certain Places move people about the city to produce a discourse, which is grounded in the physical experience of the city.

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Akerselva-Oslo 2004-2011  by Johan De Wilde.

Between 2004 and 2011 Johan De Wilde went for brisk walks along the River Akerselva, which divides the city of Oslo into two parts, east and west. He kept a photographic record of four of those walks, collected together in Akerselva-Oslo 2004-2011. The artist creates an abstraction, a suggestion, a series of images that glides past in time and space, peopled by abandoned objects, chance passers-by who give the impression of being part of a story only to step out of it in the next picture. He accepts threat, mental and physical obstacles and minuscule events in a bid to evoke that curious feeling which is so closely linked in its interpretation to life as it happens.

D 50  € 

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FESPA Digital / Fruit Logistica.

Vor einem guten Jahr besuchte Wolfgang Tillmans die Berliner Messe “Fruit Logistica”, das führende Branchentreffen der internationalen Fruchthandelswelt. “Dort gingen mir die Augen über angesichts der verrückten Displays und der Vielfalt und Komplexheit des internationalen Fruchthandels und seiner Verarbeitungsmaschinen. Darauf reagierte ich sofort mit der Kamera, habe die Bilder aber dann erstmal liegen lassen, um sie mit Abstand betrachten zu können, obwohl ich gleich an ein Künstlerbuch im “Concorde”- Format dachte”. Jetzt liegt es vor!

D 19.80 €

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Love Book by Aneta Grzeszykowska, published by Raster.

“Photography is the amorous fetish par excellence, a fragment of the present that, like the relation between two lovers, links and realizes both the past and the future and, in doing so, deranges time altogether.” Eduardo Cadava

The primary medium in which Aneta Grzeszykowska works is photography. However, she treats it instrumentally, as a tool for the realization of advanced, artistic and ontological exercises. The artist is interested in the role photography plays in creating and documenting a personal identity. Therefore, in her film projects or doll sculptures, the human figure acquires the shape and aura of a marionette. One of the main topics of Grzeszykowska’s works is her own identity, with which she plays on many levels: by erasing her own figure from a family collection of photographs (Album, 2005), or by impersonating Cindy Sherman in her classic cycle Untitled Film Stills (2006). Some projects by Grzeszykowska – like the cycle of illusionist portraits of non-existent people (Untitled, 2006) – take advantage of the possibilities offered by digital image manipulation, while others use photography and film in a classic way by emphasizing the performative dimension of the artist’s activities. The motifs which she obsessively returns to in her works are absence, invisibility, disappearing, and the confrontation of body and thought with non-existence.

Teksty / Texts: Krzysztof Pijarski, Walter Seidl, in both English and Polish
Softcover with 143 pages.

Available for distribution.

D 25 €

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Nachtigall by Lena Grass

Nachtigall (Nightingale)
Release: 2012
First Edition, 100 Copies

Nachtigall is about the sensation of being out at night, when darkness embraces you. About the search for one’s identity,for what is left in solitude.

D 24 €

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