PhotoBook Journal

Roger Ballen – Spirits and Spaces Review by Gerhard Clausing • As always, one has to take a very deep dive into people’s psyche, including one’s own, to understand the art of Roger Ballen. His latest publication, Spirits and Spaces…

Take a look at challenging new work by Roger Ballen, this time in color, in his new photobook, SPIRITS AND SPACES, featured in the PhotoBook Journal:
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Kevin Bubriski – The New Mexicans. 1981-83 Review by Gerhard Clausing • Kevin Bubriski has long been recognized for his special ability to document various groups and communities with sensitivity and respect, from Nepal to the American hear…

Take a look at a fascinating Intercultural portrait of New Mexico, Kevin Bubriski’s The New Mexicans. 1981-83, featured in the PhotoBook Journal:
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Multi-layered allegorical photographs related to folklore and customs, in Hannah Altman’s WE WILL RETURN TO YOU, published by Saint Lucy books, © 2025, and reviewed in the PhotoBook Journal:
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Fred Ritchin – The Synthetic Eye: Photography Transformed in the Age of AI Review by Gerhard Clausing • Fred Ritchin is one of the most respected critics when it comes to photography. Naturally, his views on artificial intelligence (AI) are of great interest. This latest …

A comprehensive assessment of AI-generated images and implications for photography, with examples, Fred Ritchin’s THE SYNTHETIC EYE, reviewed in the PhotoBook Journal:
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Karol Szymkowiak – 0169-8629 5223-01750 Review by Gerhard Clausing • This photobook presents a narrative of the collision of several parallel realities, both current and historical. A pristine lake, the largest in a Polish province, lies…

An intriguing project presenting the ambiguities of colliding parallel realities, Karol Szymkowiak’s 0169-8629 5223-01750, featured in the PhotoBook Journal: photobookjournal.com/2025/03/12/k...

Helen Rosemier – Zones of Possibility Review by Gerhard Clausing • This artistic photobook gives you the impression of looking through a universal family album that encompasses more than your immediate surroundings. It gives you a look…

Take a look at memories, from the past to the present and beyond, a unique photographic artist book that makes us ponder, Helen Rosemier’s ZONES OF POSSIBILITY, reviewed in the PhotoBook Journal:
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Hans Hickerson – Photobook / Journal Review by Lee Halvorsen · This photo book is delightful and fun…a trip back in time at the author’s side where we meet the author’s father, his mother and look through the eyes of a 22-year-old art…

NEW REVIEW: Inviting you to look at a creative photographic journey back in time, Hans Hickerson’s PHOTOBOOK / JOURNAL, reviewed by Lee Halvorsen:
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Helga Härenstam & Anna Strand – The Exposed Eye Review by Gerhard Clausing • When two gifted photographers bounce ideas for personal assignments off of each other in a free-floating way, the results can sizzle. This is the situation we have in t…

New review of an engrossing series of reciprocal photographic assignments, ultimately involving the audience as well, THE EXPOSED EYE by Helga Härenstam & Anna Strand, in the PhotoBook Journal:
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Anastasia Samoylova – Adaptation Review by Gerhard Clausing • The work of Anastasia Samoylova, as shown in this first photobook retrospective and also in an exhibition at the NYC Metropolitan Museum of Art (through May 11, 2025) w…

Anastasia Samoylova in her first photobook retrospective was a delightful discovery. Not only does she create landscapes & other scapes that have meaning & a certain timelessness, but the meaning that her images contain is also tied to our present moment.
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Harry Gruyaert – Homeland Review by Melanie Chapman · In this social media saturated era we live in, it seems impossible to escape the vertical visual plague that is filter-enhanced influencers posing and pouting for selfie…

Harry Gruyaert’s exquisite use of color that has earned him the awe and admiration of his peers and provided a profound influence on street photographers ever since.
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Duane Michals – A Visit With Magritte Review by Hans Hickerson ∙ No, A Visit With Magritte has not been re-released. It was last published in 2010 by Steidl and my copy is the Matrix edition from 1981. I wanted to review it because I w…

A Visit with Magritte. What Duane Michals is re-creating & sharing in the book is the experience of his visit to Surrealist painter Rene Magritte’s house in Brussels in August 1965. Magritte was one of his artistic heroes & his brief visit was a momentous event.
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Cornelia Suhan – Silent Witness Review by Steve Harp · In 1975 Martha Rosler exhibited a group of 24 diptychs titled “The Bowery in Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems.”  The work juxtaposes banal images (think of E…

Silent Witness is “about” the history of war crimes – primarily rapes – carried out in the Bosnian War of 1992-1995. Yet the book is anything but silent & the play between speech & silence, revelation & obfuscation renders this testament as complex & unsettling. photobookjournal.com/2025/01/27/c...