Trapped by Ximena Echagüe
The pandemic serves as background to this story of human life and dynamics in a period of great individual and global uncertainty. From self-portraits taken at the height of the lockdown to street photography in New York, Europe and Argentina, Trapped seeks to capture human feelings during these challenging times of social disruption and personal anxiety.
Foreword by David Campany
Afterword by Ximena Echagüe
2023 Hardcover edition, Daylight Books
Featured in: Musee Magazine, Metal Magazine, and Eye of Photography.
Winner Federation European Photographers Book Award 2024 / street photography category
Not Surrendering by Mariusz Śmiejek tells a visual story specifically about the struggle of loyalists to shape a distinct identity in post-conflict Northern Ireland. Through ten years of observation and determination as well as the patient winning of trust of a very closed community, Smiejek was able to gain access to the daily lives of the local British working-class as well as members of its illegal paramilitary groups.
2023 Hardcover limited edition of 300 copies, self-published
Introduction by Malachi O’Doherty
Design by Iwona El-Tanbouli Jabłońska /F11 Studio
Winner Tokyo International Foto Awards in the book/people category
Finalist of the 2023 Lucie Book Prize in the Independent Category
The book He Threw The Last Punch Too Hard by Los Angeles based photographer Hannah Kozak tells the story of her mother Rachel Zarco, a beautiful, passionate, vivacious, and fiery Guatemalan Sophia Loren- type brunette who left Hannah and the family after she fell in love with another man. The man turned out to be violent. He beat her so badly that she suffered permanent brain damage and had to be moved into an assisted living facility at the age of forty one, where she still lives today. Since 2009, Hannah has followed her difficult journey and this book is their story. A story that could inspire other women to leave an abusive relationship, before it’s too late.
Printed in a limited edition of 700 copies, the book measures 21 x 26 cm and contains 51 black and white images and 30 archival photographs drawn from Zarco/Kozak family albums. The text includes a personal essay from Hannah Kozak and Hope Edelman and commentary by Aline Smithson.
2020 Hardcover edition, FotoEvidence Press
Selected as one of the best photo books for 2020 by Women Photograph and one of the Top 20 by Buzzfeed. Shortlisted for the 2020 Lucie Book Prize in the Independent Category
For some 70 years, Leo Goldstein’s East Harlem body of work remained mostly untouched and unseen. The silver gelatin prints were catalogued in 2016, and a selection is gathered here for the first time. The photographs were taken over a number of years, beginning in 1949 when Goldstein was a member of the Photo League.
The East Harlem corpus represents an important and unique addition to the photographic history of New York City. Because there are no negatives in existence, it was of particular importance to preserve the images in book form and make them available to the public.
“[In the 1960s we] spawned our own group of activist photographers, people like Frank Espada, Hiram Maristany, and Michael Abramson, who chronicled in their work militant and bold new images of East Harlem and of Puerto Rican life in America. But. . . we now know that there was Leo Goldstein, a solitary photo artist of the 1950s who trained his lens on this heroic but little-known community of migrants. We who lived through those years in East Harlem can assure you, his lens was truer than any of the news articles, movies, or books of the era, and we are all enriched by the work he left behind.”–Juan González, from the Preface
Texts by Juan González and A.D. Coleman
2019 Harcover edition, powerHouse Books
Nominated for the 2019 Lucie Book Prize in the Independent Category
Shortlisted for the 2019-2020 New York City Book Awards
The book Omo Change tells the story of the Omo River Valley, one of the most incredible areas on the African continent, a place where our human ancestors first emerged. The place is wild and unique, as are the people living there. The people are divided into a variety of tribes, each with their own rights, colors and customs, but all united by their dependence on the river. Their tribal rites, basic homes and animal husbandry reveal a deep balance with nature.
Fausto Podavini spent seven years documenting the changing environment in the Omo Valley following the opening of the Gibe III dam. Omo Change contains 84 photographs and commentary from the photographer, Igiaba Scego, an Italian writer of Somali origins and Marirosa Iannelli, a water rights activist and president of The Water Grabbing Observatory. The book includes a map of the Omo River Valley by geographer Riccardo Pravettonifrom the Norwegian Center for Global Analysis.
2019 Hardcover edition, FotoEvidence Press
A Light Inside by photojournalist Danielle Villasana documents the lives of trans women in Peru. Villasana spent three years in a close knit community of trans women in Lima, following them through their daily lives and the discrimination and harassment they face when looking for housing, employment and health care. Her work counters the sensationalized and stereotypical depictions of trans women rampant in popular media.
Introduction by trans activist Leyla Ariana Huerta
Afterword by anthropologist Ximena Salazar
2018 Hardcover edition, FotoEvidence Press
Standing Strong by Josué Rivas is more than a photo book. It's a tool for reflection. The work was created during the seven months Rivas spent documenting the historic gathering of Indigenous peoples and allies at Standing Rock, North Dakota. While many storytellers focused on the clash between police and Water Protectors, he turned his lens to the latent spirit embedded in the camps. The images that emerged serve as an offering to the all our relations and those protecting sacred sites, the water of life and our planet as a whole.
Standing Rock was the epicenter of an awakening, people from all four directions came to stand together and started a movement that created ripples across the globe. At the camps, there was a sacred fire going at all times serving as a space for prayers and intentions. People gathered in a circle and were with each other.
The image of sweet grass embossed on the cover of the book is a gesture for welcoming positivity into the journey of the viewer. Standing Strong is an offering with four chapters. Many tribes in Turtle Island (North America) have a deep relationship with the number 4. It refers to the four elements: water, air, fire, and land and also the four cardinal directions. Each chapter is structured with a different intention but ultimately they are doors to open into the spirit of healing and reconciliation amongst all people.
Foreword: Winona LaDuke
Art: Wakeah Jhane
2018 Hardcover edition, FotoEvidence Press
From Wounded Knee to the Edmund Pettus Bridge, and from the Upper Big Branch mine disaster to the Trail of Tears, Marked, Unmarked, Remembered presents photographs of significant sites from US history, posing unsettling questions about the contested memory of traumatic episodes from the nation’s past. Focusing especially on landscapes related to African American, Native American, and labor history, Marked, Unmarked, Remembered reveals new vistas of officially commemorated sites, sites that are neglected or obscured, and sites that serve as a gathering place for active rituals of organized memory.
These powerful photographs by award-winning photojournalist Andrew Lichtenstein are interspersed with short essays by some of the leading historians of the United States. The book is introduced with substantive meditations on meaning and landscape by Alex Lichtenstein, editor of the American Historical Review, and Edward T. Linenthal, former editor of the Journal of American History. Individually, these images convey American history in new and sometimes startling ways. Taken as a whole, the volume amounts to a starkly visual reckoning with the challenges of commemorating a violent and conflictual history of subjugation and resistance that we forget at our peril.
2017 Softcover edition. West Virginia University Press
From 1977 to just weeks before September 11, 2001, Richard Sandler regularly walked through the streets of Boston and New York, making incisive and humorous pictures that read the pulse of that time. In the 1980s crime and crack were on the rise and their effects were socially devastating. Times Square, Harlem, and the East Village were seeded with hard drugs, while in Midtown Manhattan, and on Wall Street, the rich flaunted their furs in unprecedented numbers, and “greed was good.” In the 1990s the city underwent drastic changes to lure in tourists and corporations, the result of which was rapid gentrification. Rents were raised and neighborhoods were sanitized, clearing them of both crime and character. Throughout these turbulent and creative years Sandler paced the streets with his native New Yorker’s eye for compassion, irony, and unvarnished fact. The results are presented in The Eyes of the City, many for the first time in print.
2016 Hardcover edition, powerHouse Books
Foreword by Dave Isay, Afterword by Jonathan Ames
Signs of Your Identity by Daniella Zalcman documents stories of indigenous Canadians who were placed in boarding schools run by the Church in order to force their assimilation into the dominant culture. Zalcman uses double exposure portraits to portray her subjects. These multiple exposure portraits juxtaposes survivors who are still fighting to overcome the memories of their residential school experiences, with the sites where those schools once stood, government documents that enforced strategic assimilation and places where, even today, First Nations people struggle to access services that should be available to all Canadians.
Foreword by Marlene McNab
Cree Translation by Doreen Oakes
2016 Hardcover edition, FotoEvidence Press
Selected as one of the Most Stunning Photo Books of 2016 by Mark Murrmann of Mother Jones
Selected as one of the Best Photo Books of 2016 by Sara Terri for PHOTO-EYE
This is My Country by Ingetje Tadros looks at people standing on the precipice of life: disenfranchised, neglected and now threatened with displacement. It is a permanent record of and bring attention to the plight of Aboriginal communities under threat. It will serve as a call to Australian society to support their First People and end the displacement of their communities.
Essays by Gerry Georgatos, Dr. Anne Poelina and Ken Riddiford
2016 Hardcover edition, FotoEvidence Press
On April 25th, 2015 Nepal was hit by the devastation of Mother Nature: an earthquake of magnitude 7.8 that killed almost 9,000 people and injured more than 22,000. In the aftermath of that fateful day in April, almost three million people were made homeless, as hundreds of thousands of homes and other buildings were turned to rubble. In the months following the earthquake, aftershocks continued to hit the country on an almost daily basis; a magnitude 7.2 hit the country in May adding more devastation.
The book Endurance by Omar Havana is a humble tribute to and a legacy for those who are working hard to see their nation rise again. It tells the story of Nepali people resilience, the story of a life spirit that spreads, like the smiles on their faces, over the streets filled with debris and the ruins of their homes.
Introduction by Pavaan Mathema - Foreword by Bernardo Bertolucci
Poetry by Amit Thapa, afterword by Gareth Bright
2016 Hardcover edition, FotoEvidence Press
Occupied Pleasures by Tanya Habjouqa is a testimony to Palestinian resilience as they pursue simple pleasures in the face of an endless occupation. Tanya’s lens explores how people live through the daily absurdities. Inspired by Martin Parr, Tanya documents the growing “fringe pleasures,” from the flying parkour boys of Qalqilya to the surfers and break-dancers of Gaza. She focuses on the quiet moments of release and escape. After years of documenting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for media and NGOs, the issue took an intimate turn for Tanya Habjouqa. She married a Palestinian and the subsequent birth of her children has turned this conflict into a lived and shared narration. “Now more than ever I see the importance of celebrating the humor that infuses life amidst the oppressive environment.”
Introduction by Laleh Khalili - Foreword by Nathalie Handal
Poetry by Najwan Darwish, Sousan Hammad & Hind Shoufani
2015 Hardcover edition, FotoEvidence Press
Selected as one of the Best Photo Books of 2015 by TIME and SMITHSONIAN Magazines.
One of Lensculture’s Favorite Photobooks of the Year, selected by Louise Clements.
Published as the recipient of the 2015 FotoEvidence Book Award, The Unravelling: Central African Republic by Marcus Bleasdale documents the recent breakdown of order and outbreak of violence in the Central African Republic (CAR). Working with Human Rights Watch (HRW) award-winning photojournalist Marcus Bleasdale traveled to remote areas of CAR where once friendly neighbors were in open conflict fuelled by competing political forces.
Human Rights Watch Director of Emergencies, Peter Bouckaert, who traveled with Bleasdale contributes three essays to The Unravelling exploring the roots of the conflict and describing what he and Bleasdale encountered on their journey deep into CAR.
Foreword by Nicolas Kristof
2015 Hardcover edition, FotoEvidence Press
Selected as one of the best photo books of 2015 by SMITHSONIAN Magazine and MOTHER JONES.
Romania reveals the clarity and sensitivity of Joseph Rodriguez' lens. Best known for "East Side Stories" about L.A. gangs, his work from Romania brings the same humanistic touch to both the devastation and hope that followed the fall of the Ceausescu Communist regime there. In work never before published, the viewer takes a journey into villages, through factories, farmland, institutions and homes. His stark, black and white photography draws on a long tradition of humanistic photographers. Romania confirms Rodriguez' place in that classic tradition.
Afterword by Dr. Ileana Selejan
Audio Interview by Boryana Alexandrova
2015 IPad edition, FotoEvidence Press
In Princess to Slave Anahit Hayrapetyan documents Armenian women affected by domestic violence. She follows the stories of five women who suffered domestic abuse, telling their stories and documenting the conditions they endure. The women in “Princess to Slave” range from a local woman in Hayrapetyan’s own village to a woman who brought her case to court and garnered national attention to plight of women facing abusive husbands and in-laws.
Introduction by Lara Aharonian
2015 Hardcover edition, FotoEvidence Press
Bronx Boys by Stephen Shames
A 1977 assignment for Look magazine took Stephen Shames to the Bronx, where he began photographing a group of boys coming of age in what was at the time one of the toughest and most dangerous neighborhoods in the United States. The Bronx boys lived on streets ravaged by poverty, drugs, violence, and gangs in an adolescent “family” they created for protection and companionship. Shames’s profound empathy for the boys earned their trust, and over the next two-plus decades, as the crack cocaine epidemic devastated the neighborhood, they allowed him extraordinary access into their lives on the street and in their homes and “crews.”
2014 Hardcover edition, University Of Texas at Austin
Text by Martin Dones and José "Poncho" Muñoz
Listed as one of the best photo books of 2014. Selected by Vince Aletti, photography critic at the New Yorker.
Life in War by Iranian photographer Majid Saeedi is probably the only book about Afghanistan that doesn’t show images of war. For ten years his camera photographed daily life in the context of war. Speaking the language, Majid embedded with the Afghan people rather than with an alien army. His photographs reveal the humanity of a people living through decades of war.
Introduction by Ed Kashi
2014 Hardcover edition, FotoEvidence Press
In Condemned, Hammond captures both the deplorable conditions that the mentally ill endure and the overwhelming challenge that mental health workers face with limited resources and inadequate or failed health care systems in which the mentally ill have the lowest priority. Shame and prejudice based on traditional and religious beliefs about mental illness add cultural obstacles to the effective treatment of the mentally ill in many regions of Africa.
2013 Hardcover edition, FotoEvidence Press
Bhopal Second Disaster by Alex Masi. Almost three decades have passed since the infamous 1984 gas disaster caused by Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) in Bhopal, but many local families are still living the nightmare that began on December 3, 1984. Its deadly legacy is not only affecting those who survived, but also their children, many of whom are suffering from severe neurological and physical disorders caused by the large-scale contamination of land and water that continues unabated today.
Foreword by Indra Sinha
2012 Hardcover edition, FotoEvidence Press
Bronx Boys is an intimate photo essay about the lives of young people in the Bronx during the 1970s, 80s, and 90s. Shot over two decades by photojournalist Stephen Shames, Bronx Boys takes the viewer inside the lives of young people living at the epicenter of a crack cocaine epidemic that devastated their community. The story tracks their childhood on the streets, their loves and losses. It includes a powerful first person narrative by Martin Dones, one of the young men Shames followed and who survived life on the streets.
2011 Digital monograph, FotoEvidence Press