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New releases:
Michael Wolf :: Hong Kong Inside Outside
Jo Röttger :: Wilson's World
Peperoni Books-titles arranged in descending order according to their publication date
Michael Wolf :: Hong Kong Inside Outsid
For more than 14 years German photographer Michael Wolf has been living in Hong Kong. Focused on the specific visual elements he has depicted high density living in one of the world’s most crowded cities like nobody has before. HONG KONG INSIDE OUTSIDE combines two major series of his work titled Architecture of Density and 100 x 100.
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Jo Röttger :: Wilson's World
Jo Röttger has accompanied Robert Wilson, the great man of theater, on his unresting global flight. In the Watermill Center, Long Island, in his apartment in New York, during preparations and rehearsals of different productions in Warsaw, Paris, Berlin and Taiwan, during the encounter with dervish dancers in Istanbul and Athens, during the opening of the VOOM exhibition in New York. Jo Röttger has kept distance and therefore has come that close.
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Isadora Tast :: Mother India
In her insistent series “Mother India” Isadora Tast shows sensitive portraits from very diverse people, who came to India during their search for a homeland and for meaning and just stayed there. Short vitas and extracts from conversations, which Isadora Tast held with the emigrants complement this photo series.
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Oliver Möst :: Clackastigmat 6.0
Oliver Möst is a spectacles wearer. He is shortsighted, without cut glasses in front of his eyes he sees everything blurred – and that badly. Primarily because of that, he is bothered by the question, in how far the things he sees equal the things others see, with or without spectacles. Because the world does not provide pictures, we create them ourselves.
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Rufina Wu, Stefan Canham :: Portraits from above - Hong Kong's informal rooftop communities
Self-built, informal settlements on the roofs of high-rise buildings are an integral part of Hong Kong’s urban landscape. The rise of rooftop communities is closely linked to the migration history from Chinese Mainland to Hong Kong. With each of China’s tumultuous political movements in the 20th century, like the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, there was a corresponding wave of Mainland Chinese migrating to Hong Kong.
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Rufina Wu, Stefan Canham :: Portraits from above - Hong Kong's informal rooftop communities :: 2nd Edition
Self-built, informal settlements on the roofs of high-rise buildings are an integral part of Hong Kong’s urban landscape. The rise of rooftop communities is closely linked to the migration history from Chinese Mainland to Hong Kong. With each of China’s tumultuous political movements in the 20th century, like the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, there was a corresponding wave of Mainland Chinese migrating to Hong Kong.
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Henrik Spohler :: Global Soul
It is not possible to locate where exactly the soul is at home. Yet the
soul stands not only for an identity, but also for a principle that has
gained general validity far and wide. In his new publication Global Soul,
the Hamburg photographer Henrik Spohler (*1965) presents unusual,
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H.J. Hack :: Climate Refugee Guide Berlin
This “Guide for Climate Refugees“ is perhaps your first encounter with a topic which so far has hardly entered public consciousness. The artist Hermann Josef Hack sees himself as a “sensor“ for social and political challenges. For years he has been drawing the public‘s attention to serious and pressing social problems with his “happenings“ on topics such as unemployment, poverty or climate change.
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Julia Baier :: Sento
A public bath house in Japan is called “Sento” and is usually a hidden, intimate place. Japanese people don’t go there to swim but to wash and to clean themselves and to relax. Aside from this personal aspect bathing in Japan has a highly spiritual meaning.
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Andreas Müller-Pohle :: The Danube River Project
Berlin photographer and media artist Andreas Müller-Pohle has pro-duced an extraordinary portrait of this mighty river in his “Danube River Project”. The photographs, taken from both below and above the river‘s surface, provide a “intriguing fresh vision” (Ivaylo Ditchev) of the Danube with its unique urban panoramas and natural phenomena, its bridges, harbors and factories.» more
Iris Czak, Marei Wenzel :: Schauplatz : Berlin
Iris Czak and Marei Wenzel are location scouts. On their rambles through Berlin they have photographed thousands of places and rooms, which merge to an irritating image of the city in this comprehensive book. An essay by Roger Boyes accompanies this photo series.
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Wanderer, Göx :: Die Rote Burg
In this book Andreas Göx and Hannes Wanderer provide the big portrait of the broadcasting area of the DDR, which has been lying nearly unused in a big sleep for many years. The future is uncertain. With over 200 colored illustrations and a detailed text by Bettina Baltschev.
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Maki Shimizu :: Makis Haustierbuch
Maki Shimizu found „The Haustierbuch“, a book from 1955, rejected at the attic of a youth hostel in the Southern Germany. At that time she could not understand the texts. Nevertheless she enjoyed the book, so much that she made drawings and prints of all of the old photographs from the book and finally she also typewrote the whole text word by word.
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Stefan Canham :: Bauwagen | Mobile Squatters
In Germany over 10.000 people permanently live in “Bauwagen” (contractor’s sheds). The photographer Stefan Canham traced this phenomenon and shows sensible indoor and outdoor photographs from a nearly unknown environment. A detailed essay by Goesta Diercks deepens the discussion.
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Wanderer, Göx :: Time Out | Leere Läden in Berlin
The photographers Hannes Wanderer and Andreas Göx have photographed more than 3.000 empty shops in Berlin. Everyone knows them, scarcely anyone has seen them.
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