Briefly Noted

• The Way Back By Bruce Davidson

• Wonderland By Valery Rizzo

• Cuba. On a Given Day By Anneke Wambaugh & Claire Garoutte

• The Hunter from Ittoqqortoomiit: Tradition and Survival in Greenland By Ragnar Axelsson

• Unyielding Floods By Peter Caton

• Flashpoint: Protest Photography in Print 1950- Present By Russet Lederman and Olga Yatskevich

• Auschwitz Birkenau By Juergen Teller

• Pastorialist Homes By Winfried Bullinger

• Baltimore By Devin Allen

• Mutiny By Merlin Daleman

• Near Dark By Chris Dorley-Brown

• The Cloud Factory By Chris Donovan

The Way Back

By Bruce Davidson

Steidl, 2025

144 pages | 48€

Consisting solely of previously unpublished photographs, The Way Back examines Bruce Davidson’s 60-year career. The book chronologically presents photos made between 1957 and 1992, showcasing Davidson’s exceptional versatility—from his earliest assignments to later seminal works including his year-long study of teenage members of a Brooklyn Gang (1959), his extensive coverage of the American Civil Rights Movement in Time of Change (1961–65), and his breakthrough portraits of the residents of a single block in Harlem in East 100th Street (1966–68). Series such as Subway (1980) and Central Park (1992) furthermore confirm Davidson as a quintessential chronicler of New York City. What emerges through this retrospective is Davidson’s sensibility and empathy, his commitment to documenting his subjects in depth over time, and capturing their beliefs, communities, and subcultures. While many photographed events that constituted history, Davidson focused on the people within these histories. Drawing near the end of his long career, Davidson offers this book as a parting look at his artistic passage, an elegiac goodbye as well as a requiem: evidence of how his vision shaped our understanding of the world.

Wonderland

By Valery Rizzo

Kehrer, 2025

128 pages | 48€

Valery Rizzo began her personal series on Brooklyn after an illness that limited her mobility, which inspired her to work with toy cameras. This simple and accessible technique allowed her to spontaneously capture unique moments and people in the city. Wonderland: Brooklyn 2007–2023 also documents the transformation of Brooklyn, where the new coexists harmoniously with the old. With photographs spanning nearly twenty years and a foreword by the award-winning photographer Claudio Edinger, the project embodies Rizzo’s deep-rooted connection to her hometown. Rizzo is a Brooklyn-based photographer. Her work has been exhibited worldwide, including at the Museum of the City of New York, Photoville, and the Powerhouse Arena. She was a finalist in the 2021 Urban Book Awards and the Urban Photo Awards in Trieste, Italy.

Cuba. On a Given Day

By Anneke Wambaugh & Claire Garoutte

Kehrer, 2025

112 pages | 45€

Claire Garoutte and Anneke Wambaugh, acclaimed documentary and street photographers living in Seattle, Washington, have worked together in Cuba since 1996 to document the daily lives of the Cuban people, their traditions, and the changes the country has undergone over the years. Candid, unadorned black-and-white images reveal humorous, enigmatic, and often surreal moments of everyday life in Cuba, opening our eyes to the many different realities of this multifaceted country. By eschewing technical gimmicks and concentrating on the essentials, the two photographers manage to authentically capture the fascinating soul of Cuba. This collection dwells in a space between familiarity and foreignness. The images, taken both during and long after an intensive research project about Afro-Cuban religion, eventually coalesced into a narrative about the people and places the photographers had come to know. Their long-term commitment allowed Garoutte and Wambaugh to build profound connections, resulting in images of unparalleled authenticity.

The Hunter from Ittoqqortoormiit:

Tradition and Survival in Greenland

By Ragnar Axelsson

Kehrer, 2025

240 pages | 80€

In his fourth publication at Kehrer Verlag, Icelandic photographer Ragnar Axelsson presents a poignant visual narrative of a vanishing way of life in one of the world’s most remote settlements. Over a span of thirty-five years, Axelsson has documented the life of Hjelmer Hammeken, a hunter from Ittoqqortoormiit, a village nestled by the vast Kangertittivaq fjord in East Greenland. Through evocative black-and-white photographs, Axelsson captures the enduring traditions of Arctic hunters, their deep connection to the land, and the stark realities they face amid changing times. The images reflect the resilience of a community where hunting is not just a livelihood but a way of life, now challenged by isolation, climate change, and socio-economic shifts. Axelsson’s work has been internationally recognized, including honors from the Leica Oskar Barnack Award and the Prix Pictet.

Unyielding Floods

By Peter Caton

Dewi Lewis, 2025

120 pages | 40€

In Unyielding Floods, Peter Caton photographs villagers protecting their homes and livelihoods against the ongoing catastrophic floods in South Sudan. Over five years, Peter captured the struggles of the villagers, their resilience, and their heartache. The rise of flooding emerged in South Sudan during a time of extreme tension as the country struggled to heal from a recent civil war. Villagers became trapped by new water borders, unable to flee outbreaks of civil unrest. Other villages were destroyed by the floods, creating massive displacement. Refugee camps became cut off by water. Crops failed as livestock perished, increasing widespread famine, but the hearts of the people remained resilient as they transformed their riverside villages into proficient canoe-commuting communities. The work also documents a new hope, capturing innovative programs such as introducing rice farming. There is sadly no sign of the water receding. The images that Peter has captured are a heartbreaking reality for the people in South Sudan, a heartbreaking reality that deserves public awareness. The work followed on from an assignment commissioned by the non-profit Action Against Hunger and has continued to raise crucial awareness and funding.

Flashpoint!:

Protest Photography in Print 1950-Present

by Russet Lederman and Olga Yatskevich

10x10 Photobooks

576 pages | 80€

The past seventy-five years have been a time of extreme social and cultural transformations. Political and social upheaval, often contentious, disorienting, and polarizing, is now a daily reality—migration crises, territorial disputes, gender inequity, class divisions, racism, war, gun violence, or environmental concerns—we live in a world rife with ideological and tribal conflicts. Since its inception, photography has captured defining historical moments, serving as a tool and a document of protest. Flashpoint! explores the diverse roles and varying aesthetics that photography in print undertakes in its support of protest and resistance. Whether outright rage or a more subtle artist-driven commentary, protest photography in print transcends rigid media definitions, as it blurs the lines between what constitutes a book, zine, journal, poster, or newspaper.

Auschwitz Birkenau

By Juergen Teller

Steidl, 2025

448 pages | 36€

Before the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, Juergen Teller, Dovile Drizyte, and Gerhard Steidl travelled there at the invitation of Christoph Heubner, writer and Executive Vice President of the International Auschwitz Committee. They spent days walking through the memorial sites. Teller photographed what he saw: barracks and tracks, gas chambers and latrines, electric fences, drawings, photos, and messages documenting the lives and deaths of the prisoners, but also mundane things like parking signs and souvenir stores, visitors and buses. Everything in these images lost its innocence, even the grass, birch trees, berries, and winter sunlight streaming through windows. Each detail captured is a trace of the world of the victims and their perpetrators, part of the horror and reality of this 190-hectare factory in which more than 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, were murdered. Teller’s photographs preserve what is there, past and present. Heubner adds memories, quotes, and impressions from his decades of encounters and conversations with survivors. 

Pastoralist Homes

By Winfried Bullinger

Steidl, 2025

232 pages | 54€

Winfried Bullinger’s extensive photographic archive of vernacular architecture from Eastern and Central Africa is a long-term project Bullinger has dedicated himself to since 2008. His portraits of African pastoralists’ diverse homes—including tents, open dwellings, and huts—preserve Indigenous architectural traditions that have been largely overlooked in the post-colonial era and are today threatened by changing ways of life. His images, made with a large-format camera and the silver-gelatin technique, are born from a dialogue with the inhabitants and reveal architecture as a direct response, refined over centuries, to a people’s specific environment and culture. Bullinger’s vision echoes Bernd and Hilla Becher’s systematic approach to photographing architectural types, yet his focus is solely on architecture as dwelling. Although barely any inhabitants are visible in his images, Bullinger records their many traces; his perspective is shaped by how they use and view their homes, and he rejects ideal lighting for the unpredictable changing light of day. The result is a valuable record of rapidly disappearing African architectural heritage.

Baltimore

By Devin Allen

Steidl, 2025

176 pages | 45€

Devin Allen rose to fame in 2015 when his photograph of the Baltimore uprising following the death of Freddie Gray at the hands of police was published on the cover of Time Magazine. Since then, Allen continued to photograph the fight for social justice in Baltimore, creating work that is not only a tribute to Black resistance but also a celebration of his community. Demonstrating his deep commitment and unwavering pride, his decade-long project confronts myths and illuminates what has been made invisible. Central to much of Allen’s work is a reconsideration of Black representation. His photographs are collaborative and serve as a call for self-realization that allows for complexity, tension, and contradiction. Conceived as a personal narrative about what Allen has called “the texture of us,” the book encompasses formal portraits, protests, and street scenes. These images include texts by Darnell L. Moore, Salamishah Tillet, and D. Watkins that provide insight into Allen’s process and situate his work within the history of Baltimore.

Mutiny

By Merlin Daleman

Gost, 2025

180 pages | $60

In 2017, photographer Merlin Daleman embarked on a journey through the economic North of the UK. Originally from the West Midlands, Daleman has lived in the Netherlands for most of his adult life. Driven by curiosity to understand the divisions in the UK made evident in the 2016 Brexit referendum, he returned to photograph. Daleman visited over 60 towns and cities from Aberdeen to Bangor, Blackpool to Belfast, and from Fife to Skegness. The images show the urban infrastructure of boarded-up shopfronts and rainy streets, canals, and bright seafront businesses. The people captured as Daleman passes through are often shown demonstrating their humor, warmth, fortitude, and community. The book’s essay by journalist Niels Posthumus draws upon an interview with Philip McCann, an economic geographer at the University of Manchester, stating that hardly any other European country experiences such a stark geographical divide between rich and poor as the UK. It is against this backdrop that the Leave [Brexit] campaign thrived and many staged a ‘mutiny’. 

Near Dark

By Chris Dorley-Brown

Dewi Lewis, 2025

96 pages | 40€

Photographed in London, Near Dark ventures into a mysterious territory, reflecting a less harmonious city mood, a fever dream of anxiety and unpredictability. London is just as alluring as ever, but now everyone is taking shelter, keeping out of sight. Photographed in the hours just before sunrise or just after sundown and shot in super high resolution composite format, the photos explore decaying modernism, post-industrial landscapes, council estates in a fugue state of sleep and serenity, monumental London landmarks wreathed in a painterly haze. The images have been made over the last ten years, during which London has experienced Olympic euphoria through the pandemic and chaotic government policies. The emphasis is on mood and an attitude amassed over 40 years of picturing London.

The Cloud Factory

By Chris DonovanGost, 2025180 pages | 75$

In 2014, photographer Chris Donovan began documenting his hometown of Saint John, New Brunswick, on Canada’s east coast. Saint John is a small, heavily industrialized city that is home to Canada’s largest oil refinery, one of the country’s wealthiest families, and one of its highest rates of child poverty. As Donovan began to photograph the city and its residents—driven to explore the proximity of extreme wealth and poverty— he became increasingly aware of the realities of environmental classism and ecological injustices in the city. The photographs in his forthcoming book show the vibrant neighborhoods and their inhabitants living in close proximity to and in the shadows of polluted industrial sites, and ‘the cloud factory’—an undefined industrial site which references both the refinery and a large pulp mill in the city.