PhotoProjects
a photobook publishing company
Four years ago, we founded our own publishing house to address the challenges artists face in accessing publishers and securing contracts for experimental photobooks. Since then, we have successfully published 7 photobooks and 3 catalogues, with many more exciting projects on the horizon. The whole income is reinvested into the next year's photobook call, ensuring a continuous cycle of creativity and innovation. Join us in our mission to support and showcase experimental photography!
I Wish it Was Just a Nightmare
Sergei Stroitelev
This photobook delves into the harrowing aftermath of the war in Ukraine, ignited by Russia's aggression in 2022. The narrative, presented through the lens of a displaced freelance journalist fleeing censorship, unfolds as a haunting portrayal of personal turmoil amidst societal upheaval. Stripped of freedom of speech, the protagonist grapples with guilt and shame while navigating a landscape marred by repression and fear. The book captures the visceral impact of conflict on the individual psyche through a multi-layered visual narrative, including diary entries, nightmarish red visuals symbolizing trauma, and chilling news screenshots. Set against the backdrop of a blue forest—a metaphor for self-discovery amid chaos—the protagonist's journey becomes a poignant reflection of resilience and the quest for identity amidst adversity.
ISBN: 978-84-09-57291-5
Pages: 120
Size: 15 x 21cm
Year: 2024
Camera Intima
Stéphanie Probst
This photobook explores womanhood, body image, and self-perception through a series of intimate portraits. Guided by feminist principles of empowerment and consent, the project creates a safe space for women aged 23 to 53 to discuss their experiences and emotions candidly. Participants engage in open dialogue before deciding whether to join the photographic endeavour, granting permission for their words and images to be used. The artist, grappling with her body changes due to health issues, initiates conversations about normalcy and body image, inviting others to reflect on these themes. Employing pinhole photography for its contemplative nature, each exposure becomes a performance, capturing a slice of life and fostering a sense of reverie. The resulting portraits, paired with selected sentences, form a collective narrative, blending voices and images to create a multi-dimensional portrayal of womanhood.
ISBN: 978-84-09-57290-8
Pages: 90
Size: 15 x 21cm
Year: 2024
ID is a research into the emergence of myself, a complex chaotic mess of memories and impulses through the means of transformed photography, a medium inexplicably linked with memory. My experimentations with mordançage in black and white and colour have given me various transformational degrees which I use to answer questions: how do we recognise objects? How does a tiny patch of red, green and blue coloured gelatine show us the faces of our loved ones? What role does memory play in our ability to recognise? What are the required features of an object for it to be recognisable? Where lies the perceptual limit of our recognition of an object and which aspects are of importance?
ISBN: 978-84-09-50186-1
Pages: 96
Size: 21 x 28cm
Year: 2023
SOMBRA DEL UNIVERSO
Morgana Costa Ucher
Shadow of the Universe is a visual journey through the hidden macrocosm accompanied by a poetic voice. 97% of the matter that makes up the universe is dark matter. This matter holds secrets related to the origin of the universe, in different forms such as dark stars, filaments, nebulae or galaxies. The abstract imaginary allows us to recompose and imagine from our own subjectivity the meaning of the photographs. Moving away from a scientific discourse that seeks truth and objectivity, this photobook praises the intuition and imagination that shadows and dim places foster.
ISBN: 978-84-09-50294-3
Pages: 48
Size: 21 x 24.5cm
Year: 2023
100,000,000 YEARS
Ed Back
What traces will modern human civilization leave to be found in millions of years’ time? This book visually explores the notion of the Anthropocene through the conceptualisation of a fossil legacy shaped by mass consumption and waste. The images are composed of photograms, a cameraless photography technique that involves placing the subject directly onto the photosensitive paper and exposing it to light. This technique captures the shadows of the object leaving an imprint stripped of familiar contexts. Reframing these objects as something unfamiliar that deserves our time and attention reflects the collective impact that they are having on the planet.
ISBN: 978-84-09-50292-9
Pages: 40
Size: 15 x 28cm
Year: 2023
NOT STREET PHOTOGRAPHY
Antonella Calcagno
In March 2020 I started cutting figures that I found in books and magazines. In the midst of the collective lockdown, I moved to Barcelona where I found myself with a different type of confinement. A deeper and more emotional one. There I decided to create a book and I meet again with these cut images. Playing with them became a dialogue. A way to connect two closures and start to give them movement. This experimentation process managed to get me out of that place where I was. Connecting the inside with the outside. Like a path. Not Street Photography is a small segment of my history.
ISBN: 978-84-09-50293-6
Pages: 40
Size: 14 x 20cm
Year: 2023
PARA ADENTRO | INTO
by Belén Vilanova
This photobook is a laboratory on self-image. It is an introspective game, a record of processes that show a way of operating on my own memory, on the changes and fragility of life.
This book is divided into four chapters, one for each stage lived:
C1. Solidifying Childhood;
C2. Youth is Boiling;
C3. Incinerating Adolescence and;
C4. An Evaporated Present
ISBN: 978-84-09-20519-6
Pages: 64
Size: 20 x 20cm
Year: 2020