THE UNCERTAINTY OF GRAVESEND'S MARSHLAND

With Simon Martin

THE EVANGELICAL AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

With Evan Perkins

NAVIGATING THE SUBCONSCIOUS

In Conversation with Foam Talent Simon Lehner

SKETCHING THE LAY OF THE LAND

With Eva Louisa Jonas

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Palm · Rich Stapleton

£30.00

PALM: A Visual Study of Palm Springs is the first book by photographer Rich Stapleton, Cereal‘s Creative Director.

A collection of photographs from the city of Palm Springs, California, all shot on 35mm black and white film.

The book is cloth bound, 80 pages, printed on uncoated, G.F. Smith paper in the United Kingdom. Dimensions: 295 x 195mm.

Immortal Mushroom · Samuel Bradley & Kat Chan

£35.00

Taking its name from the nickname for lingzhi, the revered medicinal mushroom in Asia, Samuel Bradley and Kat Chan’s debut book Immortal Mushroom is a collaborative exploration of Shangri-La, a remote city in northern Yunnan, China’s most culturally and biodiverse province.

Referred to locally as the Wild West, Shangri-La’s high altitudes of over 9,800 ft and often imposingly grandiose landscapes can seem impenetrable. While positioning itself as a travel destination after being renamed in 2001 by the government after the fictional paradise in James Hilton’s novel The Lost Horizon, Shangri-La remains remarkably unknown.

Bradley’s perspective-bending still life experiments with fruits and vegetables are interspersed with unexplained local characters – some presenting their offerings to camera while others inhabit the edges of frame or the far-away distances of sweeping, fantastical vistas. Shunning a traditional documentary approach, Bradley depicts Shangri-La as a surreal, technicolour stage upon which inanimate objects, people and landscapes perform for the camera.

Chan’s essays and poetry are a guide to the uncharted photographic narrative, offering a mix of explanation, history and cultural insight into a China we are rarely shown in the mainstream media. An interview with Professor Zhao Kaicun illuminates the philosophy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, challenging common assumptions about what it is, and defining a modern approach to the ancient practice.

88 pages, 205 × 260 mm, cloth bound hardback

Published by Holiday Deluxe

One Sun, One Shadow · Shane Lavalette · Signed

£55.00

First Edition · Signed

One Sun, One Shadow is a photobook exploring the musical tradition of the American South. Rather than providing a visual documentary about musicians, the project moves through the “minor genres” —portraits, landscapes, agricultural scenes, still lives – to capture a lyric feeling that comes from music. The book includes an essay by photographer and poet Tim Davis.

“Having grown up in the Northeast, it was primarily through traditional music—old time, blues, gospel, etc.—that I had formed a relationship with the South. With that in mind, the region’s rich musical history became the natural entry point for my work. I was not interested in making a documentary about Southern music today, but desired to explore the relationship between traditional music and the contemporary landscape through a more poetic lens. Moved by the themes and stories past down in songs, I let the music itself carry the pictures.”

Feet in Madrid, Head in London · Maite de Orbe

£18.00

In the midst of lockdown, in the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic in Spain, photographer Maite de Orbe developed several rolls of film only to discover that, by accident, the film had been exposed twice. First in the London night club scene prior to the outbreak of the virus, and again following her return to Madrid for the lockdown.

The resulting double exposures provide a remarkable reflection of the photographers experience of this strange time: that of being physically present in Madrid, but with her mind still wandering longingly on those last nights out in London.

Published by Dossier Industries.

32pp
200mm x 260mm
Softcover
English language
Edition of 100
2020
ISBN 978-0-6489790-0-5

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Let's Sketch the Lay of the Land · Eva Louisa Jonas

£18.00

Read our interview with Eva

Let's Sketch the Lay of the Land draws together encountered forms, surfaces and assemblages. The images are both peripheral and intimate, alluding to the seer and seen, mapping the photographer's own wonderings within structures of order and chance. In this, pairings and associations are found in skin and grass, mark making and fallen trees, open fires and shaded vistas. The gathering together of these observations for the printed page forms an exchange and dialogue between partially visible photograph's, creating work that isn't about one image but, a union of images.

68 pp.
20 x 28 cm
Saddle Stitched
Publisher & Design: September Books
150 copies
November 2020
Isbn: 978-2-490572-04-5

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Northern Rivers · Lola & Pani

£18.00

Our habitat is part of what we experience. It affects us and leaves its mark on us, just like we leave our mark on it. The eponymous Northern Rivers is a region of the Australian state of New South Wales, Famous for its white beaches, wild nature and perfect surfing conditions. This land harboured hippie communes and communities looking for alternative ways of living. This is where the characters depicted in Lola Paprocka and Pani Paul’s photograph live. A group of teenagers self named “Our Strong Brotherhood” are a family of boys, a small community brought together by friendship and growing up together.

These portraits of young men were taken against the background of their homes and nature whose awe-inspiring beauty determines who they are and who they will become. It is hard to tell when the photos were taken. The hair- styles and clothes provide little information. One thing is certain – the hot summer will last forever- Lukasz Rusznica

Photography by Lola Paprocka & Pani Paul
Curated by Lola Paprocka & Pani Paul
Design by Moonmadness.eu
Original Artwork Hand Printed in London by Daren Catlin
September 2018, Printed in the EU
First Edition 500 Copies

Artist: Lola & Pani
Publisher: Palm* Studios
Publication date: 23/09/2018
Pages number: 40
Cover: Softcover
Size: 24cm x 30cm
Isbn: 978-0-9934450-9-5

Gathered Leaves · Alec Soth · Signed

£140.00

Signed first edition, un-opened.

Published by MACK.

Alec Soth’s reputation as one of the leading lights of contemporary photographic practice is largely predicated on the books he has published. This unusual catalogue accompanies a touring exhibition which uses the four major bodies of work which Soth has published as books since 2004 as the structural basis for both a mid-career retrospective and an investigation of Soth’s prescient understanding of the various and distinct applications of photography as a tool for storytelling across diverse media. The title of the exhibition comes from Walt Whitman’s poem Song of Myself [1855] and references both the pages of his books gathered for consideration and the notion that his work is also a story about Soth himself.

Soth's meteoric rise to international acclaim began with his first book, Sleeping by the Mississippi, published by Steidl in 2004. The book has sold through numerous print runs and has long been out-of-print. It embodies not only a moment in which a new and original voice emerged with an unusual ability to transpose subtle and highly personal stories of local American life, but also marked a significant early event in the photo-book publishing boom we are currently experiencing. The success of his two subsequent volumes, Niagara [2006] and Broken Manual [2010], combined with the hugely influential exploration of self-publishing under his Little Brown Mushroom imprint, have all reinforced Soth’s position as a master of the book form. The recent success of Songbook [2015] has seen a return to the mainstream of book publishing.

This catalogue is a special object, bringing together an essay by Aaron Schuman spread across 29 large format postcards, with mini facsimile versions of Soth’s 4 books [3 of which are now out-of-print], all housed together in a luxurious printed and embossed clamshell box.

Box:
Embossed cardboard box with 4c printed paper cover and interior printed 1c. [228 mm x 223 mm]

Postcards:
29 large format postcards printed one side with the images from the exhibition. With an essay by Aaron Schuman spread across the backs of the cards. One additional card printed with an introduction by Kate Bush, curator of the exhibition and Director of Media Space, London.

Four mini facsimile books:
Sleeping by the Mississippi [113 mm x 108 mm] Niagara [109 mm x 128 mm] Broken Manual [86 mm x 112 mm] Songbook [113 mm x 108 mm]

Loupe · Issue 12 · Play

£6.00

Play is the starting point for how we interpret the world around us, it develops the tools to navigate the world and form relationships. In this issue through photography and writing, Loupe explores playful processes of photography, play therapy, nightlife, performance and identity, collaboration, virtual realities and war play.

PHOTOGRAPHERS
Courtney Craven, Natalia Kepesz, Joe Magowan, Mitchell Moreno, Tom Pope, Andy Price, Oliver Raschka, Red Rubber Road (AnaHell and Nathalie Dreier)

WRITERS
Courtney Craven, Elliot Pearce, Tim Saunders, Rachel Segal Hamilton, Megan Wilson-De La Mare

Format: 100 pages
240mm x 170mm (Portrait)

Living for the City New York 1994–2009 · Janette Beckman

£6.50

Published by Cafe Royal Books

36 pages
14cm x 20cm
b/w digital

Café Royal Books publishes weekly photographic titles focussing on British documentary photography. As well as work made in the British Isles (by home and international photographers), the publisher includes international work made by photographers from the British Isles. Café Royal Books is run and founded (2005) by Craig Atkinson, in Southport, UK.

All CRB publications are printed in the UK by small, family run firms. All paper used is FSC, environmentally friendly and ethically produced.