Emily Nkanga

Unyọñ Ufọk

Publication date: March 2025

Photobooks
Emily Nkanga, photographer and filmmaker, presents Unyọñ Ufọk (translation: Going Home), a photo book exploring grief, identity, and home.

Through analog photographs shot on Mamiya RZ 67 and Olympus OM2, Nkanga captures fleeting moments of everyday life in her hometown of Akwa Ibom, Nigeria. The images act as a time capsule, preserving the beauty of life’s transient moments.

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About Unyọñ Ufọk:


Emily Nkanga
ISBN ‎978-1-3999-9820-8
Hardcover, 172 Pages, 6 x 8 Inches
Essay by Isaac Huxtable
Design by Hailey Kuckein
Published by GÒKÈ

Press:
All About Photo
The Phoblographer
L'Œil de la Photographie
Bildersturm

Dona Ann McAdams

Black Box: A Photographic Memoir

Publication date: December 2024

Photobooks
Black Box, a memoir by award-winning American photographer Dona Ann McAdams, combines fifty years of black and white photography with the photographer’s own short lyric texts she calls “ditties.” The book brings together McAdams’ striking historical images, taken between 1974 and 2024, with personal reflections that read like prose-poems. 

McAdams is famous for her uncanny ability to be at the right place at the right time to document resistance, protest, and empowered agency across five decades of American culture. She’s captured moments of her community’s history from the Queer Liberation Movement, the Culture Wars, and the Performance Art scene of the 1980s and 1990, to artist intellectual acquaintances like Angela Davis, Meredith Monk, and Maurice Sendak, and a host of others whose paths she crossed, including Harvey Milk, David Bowie, David Wojnarowicz, and John Malkovich.

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About Black Box:


Dona Ann McAdams
ISBN ‎979-8-218-48684-6
Hardcover, 252 Pages, 10 x 9 Inches
Afterword by Joanna Howard
Design by Guenet Abraham
Published by Saint Lucy Books

Press:
Hyperallergic
The Guardian
Creative Review
All About Photo interview
All About Photo
Collector Daily
Artdoc Photography Magazine
L'Œil de la Photographie
Bay Area Reporter
Bay Area Reporter newspaper (Vol. 55 · No. 4 · Jan 23-29, 2025)
Xtra magazine’s newletter (Dec 20, 2024)
About Photography blog
Photobook Journal
GCN: 15 must-read LGBTQ+ books to dive into this spring
Bildersturm

Dana Stirling

why am i sad

Publication date: November 2024

Photobooks
Why Am I Sad by Dana Stirling is a deeply personal collection of analog photographs that examines the complexities of sadness. Shot on a Mamiya RZ 67 camera with Ektar 100 film, the book combines Stirling’s striking visual storytelling with an intimate essay about her experience with depression.

Stirling, also the editor-in-chief and co-founder of Float Photo Magazine, brings a unique voice to the conversation about mental health.

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About the book:

Dana Stirling
ISBN ‎978-3-96900-159-2
Essay by Dana Stirling
Designed by Nicole Gehlen, Kehrer Design
Published by Kehrer Verlag
Swiss brochure with silk screen and embossed, 20 x 24 cm, 112 Pages

Press:
The Guardian
De Standaard (in Dutch)
De Standaard newspaper, December 19 2024 (in Dutch)
Jewish Women’s Archive
GirlTalkHQ
Artdoc Photography Magazine
Photobook Journal
About photography blog
fotoMAGAZIN, #4/2025 (In German)
Publico (in Portuguese)
The Luminous Landscape
Pamplemousse magazine

Mar Sáez

Terza Vita

Publication date: November 2024

Photobooks
This enchanting book delves into the rebirth of interpersonal relationships among adolescents after a two-year compulsory break. Mar Sáez photographs the reappearing residents, and, above all, the yearning young lovers, in sensual, almost dancing attitudes, reflecting the classical images of sculptures and paintings offered up by the eternal city of Rome.

Set against the backdrop of the beaches of Ostia, usually bustling with life and tourism, Sáez presents a visual narrative that juxtaposes the resilience of the city's history with the transient, vulnerable nature of adolescence.

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About the book:

Mar Sáez
ISBN ‎9789053309605
Text by Elena Medel
Design by underbau, Madrid
Published by Schilt Publishing & Gallery
Softcover, sewn and stitched, 12 x 18 cm, 96 Pages

Press:

Clavoardiendo magazine
L'Œil de la Photographie
All About Photo
Bildersturm

Elliot Ross

Crows Ascending

Publication date: November 2024

Photobooks
Crows Ascending captures the haunting beauty of crows in flight, as observed by Ross from the rooftops of his apartment on Russian Hill in San Francisco during the pandemic years. This deeply contemplative series, presented in an exquisitely produced book, is a meditation on one of the world’s most intelligent bird species and reflects the quiet isolation and stillness of the moment.

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About the book:

Elliot Ross
ISBN ‎9789053309612
Design by Victor Levie, Levievandermeer, Amsterdam
Published by Schilt Publishing & Gallery
Hardcover with half cloth cover and illustrated spine, 23.5 x 26.7 cm, 48 Pages

Press:

The Phoblographer
Focus magazine
Dale Berning Sawa’s substack “Untitled, 1974 Magazine”, Nov 12 2024
Talking Animals radio show with Duncan Strauss, Dec 11 2024 (starts from 40:18)
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