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GOST BooksCulturePresentation: The Yokohama Project in Milan A special presentation of Giada Ripa's The Yokohama Project will take place at The Reading Room in Milan on November 18, from 6.30-9 pm.

GOST BooksCultureThe Lucie Awards: Simone Rosenbauer's Small Museum This season, visit House of Lucie in Los Angeles, USA, for an exhibition of the winners and finalists of the Lucie Scholarship and Lucie Photo Book Prize and browse the winning and shortlisted images…

GOST BooksCultureFair: GOST at Paris Photo GOST Books are at Paris Photo on stand L15 with a range of current and new books with us including special editions and a limited number advance copies of forthcoming titles.

GOST BooksCultureEvent: Richard Sharum Visual Lecture Join us in Austin, Texas, where Richard Sharum will give a visual lecture on his forthcoming book 'American Homicide' which will be published in February 2027.

GOST BooksCultureExhibition: Tarrafal by João Pina In 'Tarrafal' published by GOST, João Pina draws upon his family history to tell the story of the Portuguese concentration camp at Tarrafal, Cape Verde which operated between 1936 and 1974.

GOST BooksCultureExhibition: North North South by Ayda Gragossian Penumbra Foundation is pleased to present North North South , the first New York City solo exhibition by Ayda Gragossian.

GOST BooksCultureEvent: Eva Verbeeck at Savannah Center for Photography America’s Girls, On the Edge of a Dream is a striking new monograph by acclaimed Belgian photographer and filmmaker Eva Verbeeck published by GOST.

GOST BooksCultureExhibition: Chernobyl by Pierpaolo Mittica The exhibition Chernobyl: Memory of a Disaster by Italian photographer Pierpaolo Mittica is featured as part of the Siena Awards Festival this Autumn.

GOST BooksCultureEvent: Nadav Kandar tour at FOAM Join an exclusive artist tour at FOAM in Amsterdam with Nadav Kander through his exhibition The edge of things .

GOST BooksCultureEvent: Carol Allen-Storey at The Photographers Gallery Award winning photojournalist Carol Allen-Storey is presenting her new publication Defying the Myth, published by GOST, in The Photographers Gallery Cafe Bar this October.

GOST BooksCultureExhibition: Sanlé Sory at The Photographers Gallery One of West Africa’s most prolific photographers, Sanlé Sory (b.1943, Burkina Faso) took more than a million portraits, over seven decades, showing the profound social and political changes in…

GOST BooksCultureFair: GOST at BOP in Bristol Brought to you by Martin Parr Foundation, BOP – Books on Photography – is Bristol's annual photobook festival and held every October.

GOST BooksCultureFair: GOST at PhMuseum's Photobook Mania The second edition of PhMuseum’s event dedicated to visual publishing will take place at Serra Madre, Giardini Margherita on 3–4 October 2026, bringing together a curated selection of international…

GOST BooksCultureEvent: Carol Allen-Storey at The Conduit For over a decade, award winning photographer Carol Allen-Storey photographed three mothers, Annalisa, Nicola and Shoulana — each raising a child with a lifelong disability.

GOST BooksCultureEvent: Eva Verbeeck at Cultuurcentrum De Factorij America’s Girls, On the Edge of a Dream is a striking new monograph by acclaimed Belgian photographer and filmmaker Eva Verbeeck.

GOST BooksCultureLaunch: Pie Aerts in London After six years of fieldwork in the southernmost reaches of Chilean Patagonia, we are proud to present Pie Aerts debut monograph, COIRÓN.

GOST BooksCultureEvent: Claire Beckett at Photoworks Festival Presented as part of Photoworks Festival 2026, in Brighton & Hove in the UK, the Photobook Table brings together a carefully selected group of publications that connect with the festival’s themes of…

GOST BooksCultureEvent: Don McCullin at Big Brue Don McCullin, who turns 91 in Autumn 2026, presents —in what the photographer has indicated will be his ‘last ever book’—a retrospective in book form of his time in Vietnam; captured over three…

GOST BooksCultureLaunch: Eva Verbeek in Los Angeles Join us in Los Angeles for the first of several special events to launch Eva Verbeek's forthcoming book 'America’s Girls, On the Edge of a Dream' published by GOST this September.

GOST BooksCultureFair: GOST at Printed Matter GOST Books are pleased to announce we will be at Printed Matter the 2026 NY Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1 from September 25–27, 2026, with an Opening Night celebration on Thursday, September 24 from 7–10…

GOST BooksCultureExhibition: Mads Nissen at Visa pour L'Image Visit Visa pour L'Image this Autumn to see the works included in Mads Nissen's latest book Sangre Blanca.

GOST BooksCultureExhibition: Nadav Kandar at FOAM FOAM in Amsterdam presents The Edge of Things , a major solo exhibition of the internationally renowned artist Nadav Kander this Autumn.

GOST BooksCultureLaunch: Carol Allen-Storey at POST This September, POST, Brighton & Hove’s new photography centre, will host a special weekend celebrating the vital contributions of women in documentary photography from around the world.

GOST BooksCultureOpening: Valentin Goppel at Leica Gallery Join us in Stuttgart, Germany this season for an exhibition by Valentin Goppel - Bless this Couch - featuring an artist talk between Valentin Goppel and Dr.

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The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo